- 1973 in art
Events
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Alexander Calder is hired byBraniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas."
*The firstWhitney Biennial .Awards
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Archibald Prize :Janet Dawson - "Michael Boddy"Exhibitions
*Christopher Williams - centenary exhibition in
Cardiff ,Maesteg andSwansea .Works
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Barbara Hepworth - "Conversation with Magic Stones"Births
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1 February -Yuri Landman , Dutch musician,comic book creator and singer.
*8 May -Hiromu Arakawa , Japanesemangaka .
*7 July -Natsuki Takaya , Japanesemangaka .
*18 August -Jerome Lagarrigue , French painter and illustrator.Full date unknown
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Jean-Pierre Canlis , Americanglass artist .
*Oisín McGann , Irish author and illustrator.
*Bree Stark , painter.Deaths
January to June
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17 January -Tarsila do Amaral ,Brazil ian modernist artist (b.1886).
*14 March -Chic Young , Americancartoonist (b.1901).
*25 March -Edward Steichen , American photographer, painter, andart gallery andmuseum curator (b.1879).
*8 April -Pablo Picasso , Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor (b.1881).
*1 May -Asger Jorn , Danish artist and essayist (b.1914).
*16 May -Albert Paris Gütersloh ,Austria n painter and writer (b.1887).July to December
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20 July -Robert Smithson , Americanartist (b.1938).
*30 September -Peter Pitseolak ,Inuit photographer, artist and historian (b.1902).
*13 November -Elsa Schiaparelli , Italianfashion designer (b.1890).
*17 November -Adolf Wissel , German painter, an official artist ofNazism (b.1894).
*7 December -Camilo Mori Chile an painter (b.1896).Full date unknown
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