fashion photographer (b. 1913) 16 February – Keith Haring, American artist and social activist (b. 1958) 15 March – Jim Ede, English art collector (b. 1895) 21 April – Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (b. 1892) May – Fuller Potter, American Abstract expressionist artist (b. 1910) 30 June – Jacques Lob, French comic book creator (b. 1932) July–December 18 July – Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (b. 1957) 23 July – Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (b. 1899) 25 July – Leonard Bahr, American portrait and mural painter (b. 1905) 14 October – Clifton Pugh, Australian artist (b. 1924) 26 October – Joan Brown, American figurative painter (b. 1938) 7 December – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian-American painter (b. 1904) 8 December – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director (b. 1915) 23 December – Serge Danot, French animator (b. 1931) 28 December – Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (b. 1925) 29 December – David Piper, English curator and novelist (b. 1918) See also 1990 in fine arts of the Soviet Union References Years of the 20th century in art 1990s in art