1983 in art

Events

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson - "Chandler Coventry"

Works

*The completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, "Surrounded Islands". It involved 11 islands being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m²) of fabric.

Exhibitions

=Births= Christopher Michael Samuels, American artist

Deaths

January to June

*24 February - Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).
*3 March - Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).
*21 May - Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903).

July to December

*18 August - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902).
*28 October - Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892).
*5 November - Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941).
*17 November - John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914).
*23 December - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910).
*25 December - Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).

Full date unknown

*Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (b.1903).
*Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (b.1910).