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The year 1981 in art involved some significant events.
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Events
Awards
- Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - Rudy Komon
Works
- Tony Cragg - Britain as Seen from the North
- John Doubleday - Statue of Charlie Chaplin (Leicester Square, London)
- Richard Serra - Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York City (dismantled 1989)
Exhibitions
Births
Deaths
- June 29 - Russell Drysdale, landscape painter
- October 12 - Enzo Plazzotta, sculptor
- November 22 - Corrado Parducci, sculptor
- date unknown - Art Frahm, pin-up artist
- date unknown - Pinchus Kremegne, painter, sculptor and lithographer
