1972 in art

Events

*16 September - Opening of A.I.R. Gallery at 97 Wooster Street, SoHo, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States.
*Costantino Nivola becomes the first non-American member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
*Friedensreich Hundertwasser publishes his manifesto, "Your window right - your tree duty".
*Portmeirion Pottery brings out its best-selling "Botanic Garden" design.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh - "The Hon E G Whitlam"

Works

*Marcelle Ferron - Untitled stained glass panel at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
*Helen Frankenthaler - "Coral Wedge"
*Barbara Hepworth - "Minoan Head" and "Assembly of Sea Forms"
*Clifton Pugh - "Death of a Wombat"
*Joan Jonas - "Vertical Roll"
*Paul McCarthy - "Black and White Tapes"

Births

*4 April - Jørgen Larsson, Norwegian musician, sound artist and curator.
*29 April - Roman Dirge, American comic book artist and magician.
*12 December - Joel Cahen, Israeli curator, photographer, filmmaker and sound artist.

Full date unknown

*Jules de Balincourt, French painter.
*Gilles Tréhin, French artist and author.

Deaths

January to June

*19 January - Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer (b.1892).
*19 February - Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist (b.1906).
*13 March - Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b.1941).
*23 March - Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (b.1895).
*27 March - M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (b.1898).
*26 April - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b.1892).

July to December

*23 December - Norman Clyde, American mountaineer, nature photographer and naturalist (b.1885).
*24 December - Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and art historian (b.1882).
*29 December - Joseph Cornell, American artist and sculptor (b.1903).

Full date unknown

*Gerald Curtis Delano, American painter (b.1890).