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List of years in art(table)

Events from the year 1987 in art.

Events[edit]

Awards[edit]

  • Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait
  • John Moores Painting Prize - Tim Head for "Cow mutations"[1]
  • Turner Prize – Richard Deacon
Shortlisted were: Patrick Caulfield, Helen Chadwick, Richard Long, Declan McGonagle and Thérèse Oulton.

Works[edit]

See also: Category:1987 paintings and Category:1987 sculptures
  • Wayne Chabre – John von Neumann (gargoyle, Eugene, Oregon)
  • Martin Creed – Work No. 1
  • Rose Finn-Kelcey – Bureau de Change (installation)
  • Ulrich Rückriem – Untitled (granite sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago)
  • Andres Serrano – Piss Christ (photograph)
  • Frank Stella – Decanter (sculpture, Houston, Texas)
  • Werner Tübke – Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany
  • Ernest Zobole – House Interior in Landscape

Births[edit]

  • 1 August – CJ de Silva, Filipino art director, painter, graphic designer and illustrator[2]
  • Xyza Cruz Bacani, Filipina street photographer
  • Ibrahim Mahama, Ghanaian installation artist

Deaths[edit]

January to June[edit]

  • 14 February – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (b. 1899)
  • 18 February – William Coldstream, English realist painter (b. 1908)
  • 22 February – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (b. 1928)
  • 26 March – Georg Muche, German painter (b. 1895)
  • 19 April – Milt Kahl, American animator (b. 1909)

July to December[edit]

  • 30 July - Michel Tapié, French artist, critic, curator, and art collector (b. 1909)
  • 29 August – Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist (b. c1938)
  • 25 September - Harry Holtzman, American artist (b. 1912).
  • 4 October – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947).
  • 27 October – Jean Hélion, French painter (b. 1904)[3]
  • 28 October – André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)[4]
  • 4 November – Raphael Soyer Russian-born American painter, (b. 1899).
  • 15 November – Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian-born architect and furniture designer (b. 1902).
  • 2 December – Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (b. 1926)
  • 18 December - Dimitrije Bašičević, Serbian painter and sculptor (b. 1921)

Full date unknown[edit]

  • Roland Ansieau, French Art Deco graphic artist (b. 1901).
  • Huang Yao, Chinese artist (b. 1917)
  • Raymond Moore, English landscape photographer (b. 1920).
  • Myron Stout, American abstract painter (b. 1908).

See also[edit]

  • 1987 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Tim Head - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool museums". Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2018. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. ^ "CJ de Silva". CJ de Silva. Retrieved 2014-02-17. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  3. ^ Hélion, J. (2004). Jean Hélion. London: Paul Holberton Pub. ISBN 1-903470-27-7
  4. ^ McCloskey, Barbara. Artists of World War II. London: Greenwood Press, 2005, ISBN 0313321531, page 34.

External links[edit]

  • Media related to 1987 in art at Wikimedia Commons