Timeline · 1970–1979
The 1970s (1970–1979) fall within Modernism's restless succession of movements, from Fauvism to abstraction. Across these years the gallery holds 2,182 public-domain artworks, with Contemporary Abstract the decade's dominant movement (105 works) and H.G, Wetselaar among its most prolific hands.
Saint Catherine 1972 
Untitled 1975 
Gemälde 1975 
Vedere spre strada Luterană 1977 
Iarnă în Bucovina 1975 
Vedere din Muzeul Satului 1977 
Șantier metalurgic Iași 1978 
Pescar 1976 
Natură statică cu mere 1977 
Fântână cu cumpănă din Muzeul Satului 1977 
Din catedrala Brașov 1979 
1877 1976 
His, Andreas - Malerei, Palais 1970 
Flori albastre 1970 
Sfinții Gheorghe și Teodor Tiron 1977 
Culorile Săvineștilor 1972 
Natură statică cu lămâie 1977 
Sf. Mucenic Gheorghe, ucigând balaurul 1979 
Cap de țăran 1977 
Peisaj constănțean (Peisaj din Constanța) 1971 
Dellers, Helen - Malerei, Ein Nachmittag in der Stadt 1977 
Peisaj urban cu blocuri. În prim-plan, un grup de copaci verde-ocru, urmați de un bloc gri, jos, iar în spatele său se aliniază un șir de blocuri înalte. În dreapta lucrării, copaci înalți. Cerul plumburiu. Semnat și datat dreapta jos, cu negru: Craiu (19)72. 1972 
Ghiveci cu floare roșie 1977 
Case în port; pandant: Zidul unui port 1977 Looking for named art-historical periods instead? Browse periods.
The Centre Pompidou was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Commissioned under Georges Pompidou and designed by Renzo Piano, Richard…
It became a model for the late twentieth-century museum as civic infrastructure and architectural icon.
What else happened that dayOn January 10, 1973, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened Whitney Biennial 1973: Contemporary American Art, running through March 18. The museum's own archive identifies the…
The 1973 format helped make the Whitney Biennial a recurring barometer of contemporary American art.
What else happened that dayOn March 17, 1972, the original meeting to form A.I.R. Gallery took place, with artists organizing what became the first not-for-profit, artist-directed and maintained gallery for…
A.I.R. provided an influential cooperative model for feminist art spaces and artist-run alternatives to commercial galleries.
What else happened that dayOn February 12, 1970, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened The Year 1200 as one of the central exhibitions of its centennial program. The exhibition, documented in two Met…
The exhibition strengthened the Met's model of research-heavy, publication-led blockbuster scholarship.
What else happened that dayOn January 31, 1976, thieves stole 118 paintings, drawings, and other works by Pablo Picasso from an exhibition at the Palais des Papes in Avignon. Contemporary reports valued the…
The Avignon theft underscored the security risks of traveling exhibitions of modern masterworks.
What else happened that dayThe Whitney Museum of American Art opened 22 Realists on February 10, 1970, with the exhibition continuing to March 29. Curated by James K. Monte, it assembled painters associated…
It gave museum visibility to several artists who shaped later debates around Photorealism and postwar figuration.
What else happened that dayTom Marioni's Museum of Conceptual Art moved into its second San Francisco location on January 3, 1973, at 75 Third Street above Breen's Bar. Founded in 1970, MOCA treated…
MOCA modeled the artist-run institution as both exhibition site and social practice.
What else happened that dayOn January 6, 1973, Light Gallery in New York opened Robert Mapplethorpe's early Polaroid exhibition, documented by the surviving invitation image titled Self Portrait with…
The exhibition helped launch Mapplethorpe's photographic career within a gallery system newly receptive to contemporary photography.
What else happened that daySan Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened a Clyfford Still exhibition at a moment when Still's reputation was already tied closely to the Bay Area. SFMOMA's artist history…
The exhibition reinforced San Francisco's claim as a crucial site in Still's development and reception.
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