This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2009) List of years in art (Table) … 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 • 1980 • 1981 • 1982 •    1983 • 1984 • 1985 – 1986 – 1987 • 1988 • 1989 •    1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 … Related time period or subjects … 1983 • 1984 • 1985 – 1986 – 1987 • 1988 • 1989 … … 1950s • 1960s • 1970s – 1980s – 1990s • 2000s • 2010s … … 19th century – 20th century – 21st century … Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Science more Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Births 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December Events 19 August - Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia. Opening of the Musée d'Orsay (formerly the Gare d'Orsay) in Paris. Awards Archibald Prize: Davida Allen - Dr John Arthur McKelvey Shera Sulman Prize - Wendy Sharpe - Black Sun - Morning and Night Turner Prize - Gilbert and George Shortlisted were: Art & Language, Victor Burgin, Derek Jarman, Steven McKenna and Bill Woodrow. Works John Doubleday - Royal Marines Commando Memorial (Lympstone, England) Igor Mitoraj - Heros de Lumiere Jamie Wyeth - Kalounna in Frogtown (Terra Foundation for American Art) Births

January - May 15th April Amy Louise Nettleton. British Installation and Sculpture Artist Deaths January to June 6 March - Georgia O'Keeffe American artist (b.1887). 26 April - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b.1899). 11 May - Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American, art collector, philanthropist and chairman of Philadelphia Art Museum (b.1910). 31 May - Jane Frank, American painter, sculptor, mixed media artist and textile artist (b.1918). July to December 7 April - Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter (b.1921) 22 July - Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (b.1905). 31 August - Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (b.1898) 9 September - Albert Malet, French painter (b.1912) 12 September Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (b.1894). Ernst Haas, Austrian photographer (b.1921). 11 October - Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (b.1887).