1981 in art

Events

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - "Rudy Komon"

Works

*Tony Cragg - "Britain as Seen from the North"
*John Doubleday - Statue of Charlie Chaplin (Leicester Square, London)
*Richard Serra - "Tilted Arc", Federal Plaza, New York City (dismantled 1989)

Exhibitions

Births

*15 April - Seth Wulsin, American artist.
*4 November - Paul Tucker, Canadian visual artist and graphic novel and webcomic illustrator.

Deaths

*19 June - Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (b.1899).
*29 June - Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (b.1912).
*7 September - Christy Brown, Irish author, painter and poet (b.1932).
*12 October - Enzo Plazzotta, Italian-born British sculptor (b.1921).
*22 November - Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor (b.1900).

Full date unknown

*Art Frahm, American pin-up and advertising artist (b.1907).
*Pinchus Kremegne, Belarusian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b.1890).
*Olivier Rebbot, French photographer (b.1949).
*Nano Reid, Irish painter (b.1905).