1983 in art

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Events from the year 1983 in art.

Events

Galería OMR commercial contemporary art gallery founded in Mexico City.
High Museum of Art, designed by Richard Meier, opened in Atlanta, Georgia.
Australian painter Sidney Nolan settles in Britain at Rodd Court in Herefordshire on the Welsh border near Presteigne.^[1]

24 February – Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).
3 March – Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).^[6]
21 May – Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903).
11 May – Ernst Thoms, German painter (b. 1896).
8 June – Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (b.1912).
28 June – Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (b. 1900)

14 July – Philip Zec, British editorial cartoonist (b. 1909).
12 August – Franz Radziwill, German painter (b. 1895).
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).
2 December – Aart van den IJssel, Dutch sculptor (b.1922).
20 December – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (b.1904).
23 December – Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910).
25 December – Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).^[7]