title: 1978 in art
text: # 1978 in art
  
  Events from the year 1978 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * 27 June – Stitching the Standard by Edmund Leighton is sold at Sotheby's in Belgravia to a private collector.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Archibald Prize: Brett Whiteley – Art, Life and the other thing
  * John Moores Painting Prize - Noel Forster for "A painting in six stages with a silk triangle"
  
  ## Works
  
  * Alicia Austin – Alicia Austin's Age of Dreams
  * Zdzisław Beksiński – AA78
  * Christo and Jeanne Claude - "Wrapped Walk Ways" in Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri
  * Dan Flavin – untitled (to the real Dan Hill)
  * Helen Frankenthaler – Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
  * David Gentleman – "Eleanor cross" mural for Charing Cross tube station (London)
  * Jack Goldstein – The Jump
  * Michael Heizer – Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2) (land art, Houston, Texas)
  * Bryan Hunt – Big Twist (bronze, Houston, Texas)
  * Nabil Kanso – Hiroshima Nagasaki One-Minute
  * Liz Leyh – Concrete Cows (Milton Keynes)
  * Odd Nerdrum – The Murder of Andreas Baader
  * Dennis Oppenheim – Cobalt Vectors – An Invasion
  * Mikhail Savitsky – Partisan Madonna of Minsk
  
  ## Births
  
  * 19 September – Russell Ouellett, American artist and therapist.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 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
     * Thomas B. Hess, American art editor, writer, and curator (b. 1920)
     * Oliver Messel, English-born stage designer (b. 1904).
  * 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).
  
  ### Full date unknown
  
  * Gabriel Hayes, Irish sculptor and coin designer (b.1909).
  * Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (b.1887).
  