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The year 1980 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, May 1980 through September 1980. The largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States.

Awards

Works

• Basil Blackshaw - *Green Landscape
• Georgia O'Keefe - *Llama in the Desert

Births

Deaths

• February 6 - Albert Kotin, painter of the New York School (b.1907)
• February 17 - Graham Sutherland, painter and designer (b.1903)
• February 22 - Oskar Kokoschka, expressionist painter (b.1886)
• March 5 - John Skeaping, sculptor (b.1901)
• March 18 - Tamara de Lempicka, Art Deco painter (b.1898)
• April 21 - Ľudovít Fulla, painter and designer (b.1902)
• June 7 - Philip Guston, painter of the New York School (b.1913)
• June 23 - Clyfford Still, expressionist painter (b.1904)
• September 14 - Maxwell Bates, impressionist painter and architect (b.1906)
• November 22 - Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b.1901)
• December 26 - Tony Smith, sculptor (b.1912)