1970 in art
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[edit] Events
- 26 October - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
- 27 November - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - Gruzman - Architect
- Prix Puvis de Chavannes - Daniel du Janerand
[edit] Works
- Barbara Hepworth - Family of Man
- Henry Moore - Reclining Figure LH608
- Kanda Nissho - Indoor Landscape
- Isamu Noguchi - Night Wind
- Robert Smithson - Spiral Jetty
[edit] Births
- 15 February - Shepard Fairey, American artist, graphic designer and illustrator.
- 12 March - Marine Delterme, French actress, painter, sculptor and former model.
- 9 May - Damian Loeb, American painter.
- 1 June - Joshua Compston - British gallerist (d.1996).
- 22 November - Aleksander Balos, Polish-born American artist and figurative painter.
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- Stéphane Ducret, Swiss contemporary artist.
- Emily Jacir, Palestinian artist.
- Vincent Paronnaud, French comics artist and filmmaker.
- David Quinn, Irish artist.
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January to June
- 27 January - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b.1908).
- 25 February - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (b.1903).
- 2 March - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (b.1888).
- 8 March - Waldo Peirce, American painter (b.1884).
- 8 March - Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (b.1892).
- 13 May - William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (b.1899).
- 29 May - Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (b.1936).
- 6 June - Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (b.1883).
[edit] July to December
- 4 July - Barnett Newman, American artist (b.1905).
- 7 July - Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (b.1877).
- 1 December - Hermine David, French painter (b.1886).
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- Robert Laurent, American sculptor (b.1890).
- Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (b.1898).
