1981 in art
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[edit] Events
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - Rudy Komon
[edit] 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)
[edit] Exhibitions
[edit] Births
- 15 April - Seth Wulsin, American artist.
- 4 November - Paul Tucker, Canadian visual artist and graphic novel and webcomic illustrator.
[edit] Deaths
- 19 June - Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (b.1899).
- 29 June - Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (b.1912).
- 8 July - Isaac Soyer Russian-born American painter, (b.1902).
- 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).
[edit] 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).
