Famous Dead Artists: Recent Artist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 4,000 obituaries of famous dead artists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
Romilly Squire of Rubislaw
Scottish heraldic artist
Died on Wednesday December 21st 2016
Howard Bingham
American photographer
Died on Friday December 16th 2016
Fernando Vignoli
Brazilian painter and sculptor
Died on Thursday December 15th 2016
Mico Kaufman
Romanian-born American sculptor
Died on Thursday December 15th 2016
Peter van Straaten
Dutch comics artist and political cartoonist (Vader & Zoon).
Died on Friday December 9th 2016
Rodney Smith
American photographer
Died on Thursday December 8th 2016
Byron Birdsall
American watercolor painter
Died on Monday December 5th 2016
Ousmane Sow
Senegalese sculptor
Died on Thursday December 1st 2016
William Christenberry
American artist
Died on Wednesday November 30th 2016
David Hamilton
British photographer
Died on Friday November 25th 2016
Venancio Shinki
Peruvian painter
Died on Wednesday November 23rd 2016
Houston Conwill
American sculptor
Died on Monday November 21st 2016
Gino Gavioli
Italian comics artist and animator
Died on Monday November 21st 2016
Jerry Dumas
American cartoonist (Sam and Silo)
Died on Tuesday November 15th 2016
Marti Friedlander
New Zealand photographer
Died on Sunday November 13th 2016
Jiří Všetečka
Czech photographer and academic
Died on Saturday November 12th 2016
May Claerhout
Belgian artist
Died on Thursday November 10th 2016
Arnold Mesches
American artist
Died on Thursday November 10th 2016
Marc Sleen
Belgian cartoonist (The Adventures of Nero)
Died on Monday November 7th 2016
Misha Brusilovsky
Russian artist
Died on Friday November 4th 2016
Avis Higgs
New Zealand artist
Died on Friday November 4th 2016
Beata Bergström
Swedish photographer
Died on Tuesday November 1st 2016
Natalie Babbitt
American children's author and illustrator (Tuck Everlasting)
Died on Tuesday November 1st 2016
Silvio Gazzaniga
Italian sculptor
Died on Monday October 31st 2016
Pietro Diana
Italian artist
Died on Sunday October 30th 2016
Benjamin Creme
Scottish artist
Died on Friday October 28th 2016
Martin Aitchison
British illustrator
Died on Thursday October 27th 2016
Alan Collins
English sculptor
Died on Wednesday October 26th 2016
Jack Chick
American cartoonist (Chick tracts) and fundamentalist Christian publisher
Died on Tuesday October 25th 2016
Steve Dillon
English comic book artist (Preacher)
Died on Saturday October 22nd 2016
Jacques Picoux
French artist
Died on Monday October 17th 2016
Louis Stettner
American photographer
Died on Thursday October 13th 2016
John Vulich
American makeup artist and special effects technician (Babylon 5
Died on Wednesday October 12th 2016
Elaine Lustig Cohen
American graphic designer
Died on Tuesday October 4th 2016
Wolfgang Suschitzky
Austrian-born British photographer and cinematographer (Get Carter)
Died on Friday October 7th 2016
Josh Samman
American mixed martial artist
Died on Wednesday October 5th 2016
Walter Darby Bannard
American abstract painter
Died on Sunday October 2nd 2016
Yusuf Arakkal
Indian painter
Died on Tuesday October 4th 2016
Lindsay Walker
Australian comic book artist
Died on Tuesday September 27th 2016
Andrew Vicari
British painter
Died on Monday October 3rd 2016
Jeff Mackintosh
Canadian graphic artist and game designer
Died on Friday September 23rd 2016
Daphne Odjig
Canadian First Nations artist
Died on Saturday October 1st 2016
Ted Benoit
French comics artist
Died on Friday September 30th 2016
Shirley Jaffe
American abstract painter and sculptor
Died on Thursday September 29th 2016
Max Mannheimer
Czech painter
Died on Friday September 23rd 2016
Klaus Moje
German-born Australian artist
Died on Saturday September 24th 2016
Tara Singh
Indian sculptor
Died on Sunday September 18th 2016
Annie Pootoogook
Canadian Inuit artist
Died on Monday September 19th 2016
Wilf Roberts
British landscape artist
Died on Tuesday September 20th 2016
Hassan Sharif
Emirati artist
Died on Sunday September 18th 2016
Giancarlo Iliprandi
Italian graphic designer
Died on Friday September 16th 2016
Gérard Rondeau
French photographer
Died on Tuesday September 13th 2016
Eduard Nazarov
Russian and Soviet cartoonist (Once Upon a Dog)
Died on Sunday September 11th 2016
Koos van Ellinckhuijzen
Namibian artist
Died on Tuesday September 6th 2016
Wynona Mulcaster
Canadian painter and teacher
Died on Thursday August 25th 2016
Anna Dewdney
American children's author and illustrator
Died on Saturday September 3rd 2016
Brian Wildsmith
English painter and children's book illustrator
Died on Wednesday August 31st 2016
Emilio Prini
Italian artist
Died on Thursday September 1st 2016
Nathan Lyons
American photographer
Died on Wednesday August 31st 2016
Marc Riboud
French photographer
Died on Tuesday August 30th 2016
Dinanath Pathy
Indian painter and art historian
Died on Monday August 29th 2016
Volodymyr Patyk
Ukrainian artist
Died on Sunday August 28th 2016
Colin O’Brien
British photographer
Died on Friday August 19th 2016
Shūgorō Nakazato
Japanese martial artist
Died on Thursday August 25th 2016
Eugeniusz Geno Małkowski
Polish artist
Died on Sunday August 21st 2016
Benet Rosell
Catalan artist
Died on Sunday August 21st 2016
Luis Rodolfo Peñaherrera Bermeo
Ecuadorian artist
Died on Saturday August 20th 2016
Samuel Robin Spark
Scottish artist
Died on Saturday August 6th 2016
Oliver Rath
German photographer
Died on Thursday August 18th 2016
Len Steckler
American photographer
Died on Thursday August 18th 2016
David Hallett
New Zealand wildlife photographer
Died on Wednesday August 17th 2016
Ljubomir Popović
Serbian-French surrealist painter
Died on Friday August 12th 2016
Thomas Steinbeck
American writer and war photographer
Died on Thursday August 11th 2016
Elliot Tiber
American artist and writer (Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot
Died on Wednesday August 3rd 2016
Richard Thompson
American cartoonist (Cul de Sac)
Died on Wednesday July 27th 2016
Evin Nolan
Irish painter
Died on Friday July 22nd 2016
Bernard Dufour
French painter
Died on Friday July 22nd 2016
Bobby Ramirez
American rap artist (Lighter Shade of Brown)
Died on Monday July 18th 2016
S. H. Raza
Indian artist
Died on Saturday July 23rd 2016
Viktor Kryzhanivskyi
Ukrainian painter and artist
Died on Friday July 22nd 2016
Geoffrey Shovelton
English opera singer and illustrator
Died on Monday July 4th 2016
Robert Foster
Australian artist and industrial designer
Died on Wednesday July 13th 2016
Janez Bernik
Slovenian painter
Died on Friday July 15th 2016
Robert-Ralph Carmichael
Canadian artist and designer (Loonie)
Died on Saturday July 16th 2016
Mladen Stilinović
Croatian artist
Died on Monday July 18th 2016
Billy Name
American photographer (Andy Warhol)
Died on Monday July 18th 2016
Medi Wechsler Dinu
Romanian painter
Died on Monday July 18th 2016
Nine Culliford
Belgian cartoonist (The Smurfs)
Died on Tuesday July 5th 2016
Frank Dickens
British cartoonist
Died on Friday July 8th 2016
Geneviève Castrée
Canadian musician and comic book artist
Died on Saturday July 9th 2016
Baldev Duggal
Indian-born American photographer and film processor
Died on Wednesday June 29th 2016