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[edit] Events
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: Nigel Thomson - Chandler Coventry
[edit] Works
- See also: Category:1983 paintings
- The completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands. It involved 11 islands being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m²) of fabric.
[edit] Exhibitions
[edit] Births
- Christopher Michael Samuels, American artist
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January to June
- 24 February - Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).
- 3 March - Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).
- 21 May - Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903).
[edit] July to December
- 18 August - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902).
- 28 October - Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892).
- 5 November - Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941).
- 17 November - John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914).
- 23 December - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910).
- 25 December - Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).
[edit] Full date unknown
- Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (b.1903).
- Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (b.1910).