1970s
- 1979 in art - Death of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Peggy Guggenheim, Sonia Delaunay
- 1978 in art - Death of Norman Rockwell
- 1977 in art - Death of Charles Alston, Lee Miller, Naum Gabo. Centre Pompidou opens
- 1976 in art - Death of Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Paul Strand, Mark Tobey, Josef Albers, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham
- 1975 in art - Death of Thomas Hart Benton
- 1974 in art - Death of Adolph Gottlieb
- 1973 in art - Death of Pablo Picasso, Edward Steichen, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, the first Whitney Biennial
- 1972 in art - Death of Joseph Cornell
- 1971 in art - Death of I. Rice Pereira
- 1970 in art - Birth of Jenny Saville, Death of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Eva Hesse
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