1977 in art

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Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".
documenta 6 takes place.
Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists Space in New York.

Retrospective of Valentine Hugo at the Centre Culturel Thibaud de Champagne, Troyes.
Retrospective of Frida Kahlo at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

Donald Judd - Untitled (Meter Box)
Marina Abramovic and Ulay - Expansion in Space
Walter De Maria - The Lightning Field (land art)
Lucian Freud - Naked Man with Rat
Gordon Matta-Clark - Jacob's Ladder
Robert Morris - Williams Mirrors
Cindy Sherman - Untitled Film Stills (through 1980)
Nabil Kanso - The Vortices of Wrath (Lebanon 1977) 1977
Jean Tinguely - Tinguely Fountain and Carnival Fountain (Fasnachtsbrunnen) (both kinetic sculptures in Basel)

27 April - Charles Alston, American artist, muralist, and teacher (b.1907).
3 July - Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter (b.1909)
21 July - Lee Miller, American photographer (b.1907).
23 August - Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890).
11 September - Augustus Dunbier, American painter (b.1888).
23 September - John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (b.1893).
20 October - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (b.1909).
5 November - René Goscinny, French comic book author, editor and humorist (b.1926).
21 December - Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (b.1889).