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Overview of the events of 1988 in art
Events from the year 1988 in art.
Events
Exhibitions
Awards
Works
Births
Deaths
January to June
- 19 January –
Cesare Brandi, art critic, historian, and specialist in
conservation-restoration theory (b.
1906).
- 31 January –
Nedeljko Gvozdenović, a world-renowned
Serbian painter (b.
1902).
- 3 February –
Ronald Bladen, American sculptor (b. 1918).
- 19 March –
Isabel Bishop, American painter and
graphic artist (b. 1902).
- 28 March –
Neil Williams, American painter (b. 1934).
- 31 March –
Georges Lévis, French comic artist (b. 1924).
- 2 April –
E. Chambré Hardman, Irish-born British photographer (b. 1898).
- 3 April –
Milton Caniff, American
cartoonist (b. 1907).
- 17 April
- 26 April –
Guy Boyd, Australian potter and figurative sculptor (b.
1923)
- 4 May –
Stanley Hayter, English-born printmaker (b. 1901).
- 6 May –
Constantino Nivola, Italian sculptor (b. 1911)
- 16 May –
Charles Keeping, English
illustrator, children's book author and
lithographer (b. 1924).
[3]
- 16 June –
Andrea Pazienza, Italian
comics artist (b. 1956).
July to December
- 12 July –
Julian Trevelyan,
English
printmaker (b.
1910).
- 24 July –
Mira Schendel, Swiss-born Brazilian modernist artist and poet (b.
1919).
- 12 August –
Jean-Michel Basquiat, American neo-expressionist painter, suicide (b. 1960).
- 21 August –
Ray Eames, American artist and architect (b. 1912).
- 26 September –
Marianne Appel, American mural painter and puppet designer (b.
1913).
- 29 September –
Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912).
- 28 October –
Pietro Annigoni, Italian painter (b.
1910)
[4]
- 12 November –
Primo Conti, Italian
Futurist artist (b. 1900).
- 25 November –
Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (b.
1876 [sic.])
[5]
- 2 December –
Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (b. 1904).
- 30 December –
Isamu Noguchi,
Japanese American artist and
landscape architect (b. 1904).
[6]
Date unknown
See also
References