1975 in art

Overview of the events of 1975 in art

Events from the year 1975 in art.

10 June – Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, is opened. 14 September – Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The artists' community Kollektiv Herzogstrasse is founded by Heimrad Prem and others. The Brotherhood of Ruralists established at Wellow, Somerset, England. Mona Hatoum leaves her native Lebanon to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. Four Ronnie Landfield paintings from the collection of Philip Johnson are installed at The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City, on the wall which Mark Rothko was initially commissioned to create paintings for, and subsequently changed his mind. (In 1985 they are replaced by a mural.) Malmö Konsthall, designed by Klas Anshelm, opens in Sweden for the display of contemporary art. Center for Creative Photography archival facility created at the University of Arizona, Tucson. An album created in 1864 by Julia Margaret Cameron for John Herschel is purchased by public subscription in Britain, one of the first recognitions of the country's heritage of photography as an art form.

Brice Marden retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Samson Kambalu, Malawi born multimedia artist. Hassan khan, British multimedia artist. Paul Renaud, French illustrator and comic book artist. Alys Tomlinson, English photographer.

13 January – Leonardo Dudreville, Italian painter (b. 1885)
19 January – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and muralist (b. 1889). 23 February – Roger Hilton, English painter (b. 1911)
2 March – Madeleine Vionnet, French fashion designer (b. 1876). 9 March – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian American sculptor (b. 1888). 10 April – Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903). 30 April – Gen Paul, French painter and engraver (b. 1895). 20 May – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist (b. 1903).

18 July – Vaughn Bodē, American underground comics, graphic design and graffiti artist, of autoerotic asphyxiation (b. 1941). 21 July – George Petty, American pin up artist (b. 1894). 28 August – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907). 2 October – Seamus Murphy, Irish sculptor (b. 1907). 9 October Leon Underwood, English sculptor (b. 1890)
25 October – Padraig Marrinan, Irish painter (b. 1906). 17 November – Michael Ayrton, English sculptor, graphic artist and writer (b. 1921). 20 December – Heinz Henghes, German sculptor (b. 1906).

Erika Abels d'Albert, Austrian artist (b. 1896). Robert George Irwin, American sculptor and spree killer (b. 1907).