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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Exhibitions 5 Births 6 Deaths 6.1 Full date unknown

Events

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - Rudy Komon

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)

Exhibitions

Births

• 15 April - Seth Wulsin, American artist.
• 4 November - Paul Tucker, Canadian visual artist and graphic novel and webcomic illustrator.

Deaths

• 19 June - Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (b.1899).
• 29 June - Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (b.1912).
• 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).

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).