and artist (b.1953) 12 March – Milton Resnick, American painter (b.1917) 13 March – René Laloux, French animator and film director (b.1929) April to June 1 April – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (b.1920) 7 April – Wolfgang Mattheuer, German painter and sculptor (b.1927) 13 April – Muriel Berman, American art collector and philanthropist, co-founder of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania 25 April – Jacques Rouxel, French animator (b.1931) 12 May – Syd Hoff, American children’s book author and cartoonist (b.1912) 28 May – Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (b.1921) 5 June – Fiore de Henriquez, Italian-born British sculptor (b.1921) 11 June – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b.1946) 15 June – Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (b.1933) July to September 2 July – John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (b.1919) 19 July – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b.1902) 3 August – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b.1908) 4 August – Cécile Guillame, first woman to engrave a French postal stamps (b.1933). 8 August – Leon Golub, American painter (b.1922). 9 August – Liisi Beckmann, Finnish artist and designer (b.1924). 8 September – Frank Thomas, American animator (b.1912) 19 September – Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1933) October to December 1 October – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b.1923). 13 October – Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (b.1932). 15 October – Irv Novick, American comic book artist (b.1916). 13 November – Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (b.1916). 19 November Trina Schart Hyman, American illustrator of children's books (b.1939). Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b.1914). 22 November – Leo Dee, American silverpoint artist (b.1931). 25 November – Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter (b.1939). 9 December – Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (b.1955). 16 December – Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (b.1912). 17 December – Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (b.1931). December – Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1918). See also List of years in art References 2000s in art Years of the 21st century in art