22 July – Aleksandr Tatarskiy, Russian animator, artist, and film director (b.1950). 9 August – Joe O'Donnell, American photographer (b.1922). 11 August – Maurice Boitel, French painter (b.1919). 12 August Elizabeth Murray, American painter, printmaker, and draughtsman (b.1940). Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b.1963). 17 August – Edward Avedisian, American abstract painter (b.1936). 24 September – Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist (b.1907). 25 September – André Emmerich, American gallerist. October to December 5 October – Alexandra Boulat, French photographer (b.1962). 8 October – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b.1917). 21 October R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (b.1932). Ileana Sonnabend, art dealer and gallerist. 30 October – Norbert Lynton, British art historian and Professor of the History of Art (b.1927). 16 November – Paul Brach, American abstract painter, lecturer and educator (b.1924). 4 December Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (b.1932). Herman Rose 98, painter (b.1909). 7 December - Noel Forster, British painter (b.1932) 14 December – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (b.1926). 31 December Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (b. 1924). Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (b. 1917) References 2000s in art Years of the 21st century in art