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Events

Awards

• Archibald Prize - Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait as Diana of Erskineville
• Wynne Prize - William Robinson, Creation landscape – earth and sea
• Turner Prize - Douglas Gordon
• Jan Amos Comenius Medal (UNESCO) - Yaacov Agam, for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children

Exhibitions

• British Art Show 5 - various venues in Manchester
• Sol LeWitt Prints: 1970-1995 - travelling exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Vermeer - nearly complete exhibition of 25 works, The Hague and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Deaths

January to June

• 6 January - Duane Hanson, American sculptor (b.1925).
• 11 February - Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, French photographer and ethnographer (b.1902).
• 18 January - Leonor Fini, Argentine surrealist painter (b.1908).
• 28 January - Jerry Siegel, American comic book artist (b.1914).
• 20 February - Audrey Munson, American actress and artist's model (b.1891).
• 5 March - Joshua Compston - British gallerist (b.1970).
• 15 March - Helen Chadwick, British artist (b.1953).
• 14 April - Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (b.1915).
• 25 April - Saul Bass, American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker (b.1920).
• 10 June - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (b.1906).

July to December

• 28 July - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist and educator (b.1908).
• 24 October - Lin Onus, Scottish-Aboriginal Koori artist (b.1948).
• 26 November - Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b.1914).
• 29 November - Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist (b.1933).
• 3 December - Jean Tabaud, French artist (b.1914).
• 11 December - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer (b.1937).
• 16 December - Quentin Bell, English art historian and author (b.1910).
• 25 December - Gabriel Loire, French stained glass artist (b.1904).

Full date unknown

• William Copley, American artist (b.1919).
• Félix González-Torres, Cuban artist (b.1957).