1989 in art

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Events

• 12 June – Corcoran Gallery of Art removes Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition.
• The Keith Haring Foundation is established.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Bryan Westwood – Portrait of Elwyn Lynn

Exhibitions

• Jim Dine Drawings 1973–1987 at Minneapolis Institute of Art
• Robert Longo retrospective at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Magiciens de la terre at Centre Georges Pompidou

Works

• Yaacov Agam – Visual Music Orchestration

Deaths

January to June

• 23 January – Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist (b.1904).
• 1 February – Elaine de Kooning, American abstract expressionist painter (b.1918).
• 9 February – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist, animator and producer (b.1928).
• 17 February – Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (b.1921).
• 9 March – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b.1946).
• 6 April – Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (b.1906).
• 4 June – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b.1917).

July to December

• 29 August – Sir Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist and wildlife painter (b.1909).
• 11 November – Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (b.1929).
• 21 November – Edward Bawden, English artist and illustrator (b.1903).
• 22 November – C. C. Beck, American cartoonist and comic book artist (b.1910).
• 31 December – Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer (b.1898).

Full date unknown

• Pierre Matisse, gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (b.1900).

See Also

• 1989 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union