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Overview of the events of 1978 in art
Events from the year 1978 in art.
- 1 January –
Don Freeman, American author, painter and illustrator (b.
1908)
- 10 January –
Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein,
English
painter (b.
1895)
- 19 January –
Živko Stojsavljević,
Serbian painter (b.
1900).
- 24 February –
Alma Thomas, African American abstract expressionist painter (b.
1891).
- 13 April –
Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b.
1931).
- 8 May –
Duncan Grant,
Scottish painter (b.
1885).
- 31 May –
Hannah Höch,
German
Dada
photomontage artist (b.
1889).
- 13 July
- 5 August –
Victor Hasselblad, Swedish
inventor and
photographer (b.
1889).
- 14 August –
Nicolas Bentley, British author and
illustrator (b.
1907).
- 27 August –
Gordon Matta-Clark, American artist (b.
1943).
- 6 November –
Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and
designer (b.
1915).
- 8 November –
Norman Rockwell, American
painter and
illustrator (b.
1894).
- 20 November –
Giorgio de Chirico,
Greek-
Italian painter (b.
1888).
- 30 November -
Otto Kallir, Austrian -American art historian, author, publisher, and gallerist (b.
1894).