January to March •
9 January –
Constantin Kluge, Russian and French painter (b.
1912). •
20 January –
Al Hirschfeld, American
caricaturist (b.
1903). •
21 January –
Tony O'Malley, Irish painter (b.
1913). •
27 January –
Louis Archambault, Canadian
sculptor (b.
1915). •
2 February –
Emerson Woelffer, American painter (b.
1914). •
10 February –
Edgar de Evia, Mexican-born American photographer (b.
1910). •
15 February –
Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor (b.
1909) •
14 March –
Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born American
performance and
conceptual artist turned painter (b.
1945).
April to June •
9 April –
Jorge Oteiza, Spanish
sculptor, painter, designer and writer (b.
1908). •
16 April –
Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer (b.
1909). •
23 April –
Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b.
1910). •
25 April –
Lynn Chadwick, 88, English sculptor •
29 May –
Pierre Restany, French
art critic and cultural philosopher (b.
1930). •
7 June –
Georges Pichard, French
comics artist (b.
1920). •
13 June –
Lajos Tscheligi, Hungarian painter (b.
1913).
July to September •
11 July -
Dorothy Miller, 99, American curator (b.
1904). •
15 August –
Kirk Varnedoe, American
art historian, writer and curator (b.
1946). •
21 August –
Wesley Willis, American artist and musician (b.
1963). •
29 August –
Vladimír Vašíček,
Czech painter (b.
1919). •
1 September –
Terry Frost, English artist noted for his
abstracts (b.
1915).
October to December •
3 October –
William Steig, American
cartoonist, sculptor and author (b.
1907). •
16 October –
Avni Arbaş,
Turkish artist (b.
1919). •
9 November –
Mario Merz, Italian artist (b.
1925). •
4 December –
David Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (b.
1944). •
15 December –
George Fisher, American political
cartoonist (b.
1923). •
17 December –
Wally Hedrick, American artist (b.
1928). ==References==