art collector (died 2018) April 17 – Sherrie Levine, American appropriation artist April 20 – Vladimír Novák, Czech painter June 1 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist and theatre and film director June 5 – Laurie Anderson, American experimental performance artist and musician June 15 – John Hoagland, American photographer (died 1984) July 27 - Shalom Tomáš Neuman , Czech born American sculptor and painter December – Richard Amsel, American illustrator and graphic designer (died 1985) date unknown Keith Christiansen, American art historian and curator Louise Lawler, American photographer Dona Nelson, American abstract painter Deaths January 14 – MacDonald Gill, English designer (born 1884) January 23 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter and printmaker (born 1867) March 2 – Stanhope Forbes, English painter of the Newlyn school (born 1857) March 19 – Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (born 1896) March 25 – Chen Cheng-po, Taiwanese painter (born 1895) (shot) April 21 – Gustave Van de Woestijne, Belgian Expressionist painter (born 1881) May 25 – Rupert Bunny, Australian painter (born 1864) June 9 – Augusto Giacometti, Swiss painter (born 1877) June 14 – Albert Marquet, French Fauvist painter (born 1875) July 25 – Kathleen Scott (Lady Scott), British sculptor (born 1878) August 9 – Seraphima Blonskaya, Russian painter and art teacher (born 1870) September 20 – Edward McCartan, American sculptor (born 1879) November 3 – Robert Borlase Smart, English painter and critic (born 1881) November 8 – Mariano Benlliure, Spanish sculptor (born 1862) November 13 – Julian Smith Australian surgeon and photographer (born 1873) November 20 – Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (born 1877) December 1 – Samuel Courtauld, English art collector (born 1876) December 30 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and art forger (born 1889) See also 1947 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Years of the 20th century in art 1940s in art