1974 in art

Events

Sir Roy Strong becomes Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Sam Fullbrook - "Jockey Norman Stephens"

Exhibitions

Works

*Enzo Plazzotta - "Crucifixion"

Births

*31 May - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist.
*16 June - Paul Lee, English artist.
*1 September - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer.
*8 November - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese mangaka.
*7 December - Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist.

Full date unknown

*Banksy, English graffiti artist.
*Amelie Chabannes, French painter and sculptor.
*Fabrice Lachant, French photographer.
*Bojan Šarčević, Bosnian-French visual artist.

Deaths

January to June

*4 March - Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (b.1903).
*9 March - Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (b.1920).
*5 April - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b.1882).
*31 May - Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter (b.1904).
*7 June - Milton Menasco, American painter and art director (b.1890).
*22 June - Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (b.1895).
*30 June - Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (b.1895).

July to December

*9 July - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (b.1884).
*11 August - Jan Tschichold, German typographer, book designer, teacher and writer (b.1902).
*August - André Edouard Marty, French artist (b.1882).
*17 September - André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (b.1884).
*28 October - David Jones, English poet and painter (b.1895).
*21 December - James Henry Govier, English painter (b.1910).
*25 December - Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (b.1900).

Full date unknown

*Émilie Charmy, French artist (b.1878).