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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Exhibitions 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December 5.3 Full date unknown

Events

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson - Chandler Coventry

Works

See also: Category:1983 paintings

• The completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands. It involved 11 islands being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m²) of fabric.

Exhibitions

==Births== Christopher Michael Samuels, American artist

Deaths

January to June

• 24 February - Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).
• 3 March - Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).
• 21 May - Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903).

July to December

• 18 August - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902).
• 28 October - Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892).
• 5 November - Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941).
• 17 November - John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914).
• 23 December - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910).
• 25 December - Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).

Full date unknown

• Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (b.1903).
• Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (b.1910).