1984 in art

Events

*The Turner Prize is awarded for the first time. The winner is Malcolm Morley.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Keith Looby - "Max Gillies"

Works

*Felim Egan - "Battle of Hercules and Antaeus"
*John Doubleday - Statue of Dylan Thomas (Marina, Swansea)

Exhibitions

Births

*4 May - Joe Simpson, English figurative painter.

Deaths

January to June

*6 February - Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany (b.1920).
*12 February - Tom Keating, English art restorer and art faker (b.1917).
*16 March - John Hoagland, American photographer (b.1947).
*22 April - Ansel Adams, American photographer (b.1902).
*19 June - Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (b.1908).

July to December

*8 July - Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (b.1899).
*9 July - Peter Hurd, American artist (b.1904).
*2 August - Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director and cartoonist (b.1896).
*1 December - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b.1911).

Full date unknown

*Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer (b.1900).