Ove Pihl has died at age 87
Ove Pihl, a Swedish painter and art director, died on March 17, 2026. He was also a Swedish art director, book publisher and graphic designer, and was best known as…
Famous Dead Artists: Recent Artist Deaths and Obituaries
Over 4,000 obituaries of famous dead artists. Notable deaths, news, info, and memorial pages.
John Coley has died at age 91
John Coley, a New Zealand painter and art critic, died on March 17, 2026, aged 91. John William Coley MBE was born in Palmerston North on 28 January 1935. He…
Elza Goeva, died aged 97
Bulgarian painter Died on Tuesday March 17th 2026
Sam Kieth died at age 63
Sam Kieth, an American comic book artist and writer best known for The Maxx and Zero Girl, died on March 15, 2026, at age 63 of complications from Lewy body…
Len Deighton died at age 97
Len Deighton, the British author best known for his spy novels, died on March 15, 2026, at the age of 97. Born Leonard Cyril Deighton in Marylebone, London, on February…
Wayne Perkins passes away at age 74
Wayne Perkins, an American guitarist, died on March 15, 2026. Perkins, whose full name was David Wayne Perkins, was a rock and R&B guitarist, singer, songwriter and session musician born…
Lyudmila Arinina, died aged 99
Lyudmila Arinina, the Russian actress, died on March 14, 2026, at the age of 99. Born Lyudmila Mikhailovna Arinina on November 8, 1926, in Sinodskoye Village, Saratov Oblast, she graduated…
Patrice Jeener dies at 81
Patrice Jeener, a French artist and copper engraver who specialised in work of a mathematical nature, died on March 13, 2026. Born on July 31, 1944, he studied at the…
Lloyd Jones, died aged 74
Lloyd Jones, the Welsh novelist, died on March 13, 2026, at the age of 74. He was also a poet and photographer. Born at Bryn Clochydd, Gwytherin, near Llanrwst, he…
Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson dead at age 73
Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson, an Icelandic composer, died on March 13, 2026, at the age of 73. He was also a music theorist, rector and pianist, and was considered among the…
Obituary: Margareta Magnusson, dead at age 91
Margareta Magnusson, a Swedish painter and essayist, died on March 12, 2026, in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the age of 91. Born Margareta Elisabeth Bothén in Gothenburg on December 31, 1934,…
Holograf died at age 70
Holograf, the Romanian pop rock band from Bucharest, died on March 12, 2026. Formed in 1978, the band released 18 albums and became known for songs including "Banii vorbesc," "Dincolo…
Jean-François Boclé death at age 54
Jean-François Boclé, a French artist and Martinican artist, died on March 11, 2026, at the age of 54. Born in 1971 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, he spent his childhood years in…
Michael Hague, died aged 77
Michael Hague, an American illustrator known for his work on children's fantasy books, died on March 10, 2026, at age 77. Born in Los Angeles on September 8, 1948, he…
Luc Giard dies at 69
Luc Giard, a Canadian cartoonist and artist, died on March 9, 2026. Born in 1956 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, he was an underground cartoonist and artist known for his bold,…
Ernie Mills has died at age 91
Ernie Mills, an American decoy maker, died on March 8, 2026. Ernest Leon Mills Jr. was a third-generation duck decoy maker who made Lower Chesapeake-style decoys. Nationally recognized as a…
Mantana Morakul, died aged 102
Mantana Morakul, the Thai singer and actress known as Mantana Keartiwongs, died on March 8, 2026, at the age of 102. Born on March 30, 1923, she was the first…
Jamie Dunn passed away at age 75
Jamie Dunn, the Australian puppeteer, television and radio personality, and voice artist known for performing Agro, died on March 7, 2026. He began his entertainment career as a drummer and…
Ninel Petrova dies at 101
Ninel Petrova, a Russian ballet dancer and ballerina, died on March 7, 2026, at the age of 101. Born on March 15, 1924, she performed in Leonid Yakobson’s ballets "Spartacus"…
Thaddeus Mosley passes away at age 99
Thaddeus Mosley, an American sculptor known for working mostly in wood, died on March 6, 2026, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the age of 99. Thaddeus Gilmore Mosley was born on…
Jānis Streičs dies at age 89
Jānis Streičs, a Latvian film director and screenwriter, died on March 5, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Preiļi, Latvia, he was also an artist. His 1991 comedy…
Obituary: Pedro Friedeberg, dead at age 90
Pedro Friedeberg, the Italian-born Mexican artist and designer known for his surrealist work, died on March 5, 2026. He was best known for the “Hand-Chair,” a sculpture-chair designed for people…
Eddie Germano dies at 101
Eddie Germano, an American cartoonist best known for his sports cartoons, died on March 5, 2026. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 15, 1924, he began working at an office…
Philip Trusttum passed away at age 85
Philip Trusttum, the New Zealand figurative expressionist artist, died on March 4, 2026, aged 85. Born in Raetihi on June 9, 1940, he moved with his family to Christchurch in…
Victoria MacKenzie-Childs has died at age 77
Victoria MacKenzie-Childs, an American ceramic artist and co-founder of the luxury home goods firm MacKenzie-Childs, died on March 4, 2026, at age 77. Born in San Francisco on August 26,…
Sheik Mahaboob Subhani dies at 71
Sheik Mahaboob Subhani, an Indian classical nadaswaram artist, died on March 4, 2026. He was born in Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh, in 1954 or 1955. Subhani performed with his wife,…
Clive Byers dies at 68
Clive Byers, a British bird watcher and professional bird artist, died on March 3, 2026. He was also described as an early “twitcher.” His illustrations appeared in well-known bird identification…
Yoshiharu Tsuge death at age 88
Yoshiharu Tsuge, the Japanese manga artist and essayist known for "Nejishiki," died on March 3, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan, of aspiration pneumonia. Born in Katsushika, Tokyo, on October 30, 1937,…
Unni-Lise Jonsmoen passes away at age 89
Unni-Lise Jonsmoen, a Norwegian illustrator and children's writer, died on March 3, 2026, at the age of 89. She was born in Oslo on April 21, 1936, to Margit Schulze…
Carol Kitman passes away at age 96
Carol Kitman was an American photographer who died on March 2, 2026. She followed the lives of twin brothers Alexander and Eugene Vindman in a decades-long documentary project. Kitman, whose…
Rainbow Brite died at age 82
Rainbow Brite, a Latvian-born American artist, died on March 2, 2026. Rainbow Brite was introduced by Hallmark Cards in 1984 as an American media franchise and became the subject of…
Kazumasa Nagai death at age 96
Kazumasa Nagai, a Japanese printmaker and graphic designer, died on March 2, 2026. Born in Osaka on April 20, 1929, he attended the Tokyo University of the Arts to study…
Umar Dzhabrailov has died at age 67
Umar Dzhabrailov, a Russian businessman and politician, died on March 2, 2026, at the age of 67. Of Chechen descent, he served as the representative to the Federation Council of…
Jacopo Camagni obituary: died at age 48
Jacopo Camagni, an Italian illustrator and comics artist, died on March 2, 2026. He was born in Bologna on December 21, 1977, and began working in the comic book industry…
Mike Vernon died at age 81
Mike Vernon, the English music executive, studio owner and record producer known for his work on British blues recordings, died on March 2, 2026, aged 81. Born Michael William Hugh…
Pockets Warhol obituary: died at age 33
Pockets Warhol, a Canadian capuchin monkey artist, died on March 2, 2026, at age 33. He lived at Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary near Sunderland, Ontario, Canada, and first came…
Death of Eugènia Balcells at age 82
Eugènia Balcells, a Spanish-Catalan visual artist, died on March 1, 2026, in Barcelona at the age of 82. Born in Barcelona on May 12, 1943, she graduated in technical architecture…
Wong Kiew-kit, died aged 81
Wong Kiew-kit, a Malaysian martial artist, died on March 1, 2026, aged 81. Born in 1944, he was the grandmaster in the tradition of the mythical Southern Shaolin Monastery in…
Clément Oubrerie dies at age 59
Clément Oubrerie, a French comics artist and illustrator best known for Aya de Yopougon, died on March 1, 2026, at the age of 59. Born in Paris on December 23,…
Neville Peat passed away at age 78
Neville Peat, New Zealand natural history writer and photographer, died on March 1, 2026, aged 78. Born in Dunedin in 1947, he was based at Broad Bay on the Otago…
Death of Gustav Kraitz at age 99
Swedish ceramicist and sculptor Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Koichiro Iida obituary: died at age 74
Japanese manga artist and critic Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Frits van, died aged 86
Dutch photographer Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Yukkie B passes away at age 56
Yukkie B, the Dutch rapper known as Yüksel Özince, died on February 28, 2026. Born in Amsterdam on October 30, 1969, he discovered hip-hop culture and breakdancing in 1984. In…
Paul Conroy passes away at age 61
Paul Conroy, a British photojournalist and freelance photographer and filmmaker, died on February 28, 2026, aged 61. He worked in the British media and reported from combat zones in the…
Tatjana Wood dies at 99
Tatjana Wood, a German-born American comic book colorist and artist, died on February 27, 2026. Born Tatjana Amalie Weintraub in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, on March 2, 1926, she worked in…
Neil Sedaka death at age 86
Neil Sedaka, the American singer, songwriter and pianist known for “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” died on February 27, 2026. He began his music career in 1957 and sold…
Karl Dempwolf dead at age 86
Karl Dempwolf, a Dutch-American painter known for his California landscape works, died on February 26, 2026, at age 86. Born in Delmenhorst, Germany, on December 17, 1939, he spent the…
Nina Gabrielyan dead at age 74
Nina Gabrielyan, a Russian-Armenian writer and artist, died on February 24, 2026. Born in Moscow on October 16, 1953, she studied at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.…
Death of Roman Kofman at age 89
Roman Kofman, the Ukrainian conductor, violinist and composer, died on February 24, 2026, at age 89. Born in Kyiv in 1936, he was a music educator and was named a…
Nikolay Blagodatov, died aged 88
Nikolay Blagodatov, a Russian collector of Soviet nonconformist art and member of the Section of Criticism and Art Criticism of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, died on February 23,…
Ulysses Jenkins dead at age 79
Ulysses Jenkins, an American visual artist known for video art, died on February 23, 2026. Born in Los Angeles on September 19, 1946, he developed an interest in art during…
Miervaldis Polis passes away at age 77
Miervaldis Polis, a Latvian painter and performance artist, died on February 22, 2026. He was 77. In the early 1970s, he and Līga Purmale, his wife at the time, helped…
Mark Kennedy dead at age 74
Mark Kennedy, an Australian musician and record producer who played drums for Spectrum, Ayers Rock and Marcia Hines, died on February 21, 2026, aged 74. Born in Melbourne on August…
Obituary: Willie Colón, dead at age 75
Willie Colón, an American salsa musician and actor, died on February 21, 2026. Born William Anthony Colón Román on April 28, 1950, he began his career as a trombonist and…
Liliana Angulo Cortés dies at age 52
Liliana Angulo Cortés, a Colombian visual artist, died on February 21, 2026. Born in Bogotá in 1974, she held a degree in sculpture from the National University of Colombia, an…
David Harding passes away at age 88
David Harding, a Scottish artist and teacher, died on February 21, 2026, aged 88. He was best known for his residency as a town artist in the new town of…
Death of Philip Castle at age 83
Philip Castle, a British airbrush artist, died on February 20, 2026, of pneumonia. Born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, on October 20, 1942, he was best known for designing posters…
Obituary: Peter Stämpfli, dead at age 88
Peter Stämpfli, a Swiss painter associated with Pop art, died on February 20, 2026, in Paris, France, at the age of 88. Born in Deisswil bei Münchenbuchsee, Bern, in 1937,…
Swietlan Kraczyna obituary: died at age 85
Swietlan Kraczyna, an American painter, died on February 19, 2026. He was known as a painter and printmaker in Florence and Barga, Italy, and his work was held in private…
Isaiah Zagar dead at age 86
Isaiah Zagar, an American mosaic artist based in Philadelphia, died on February 19, 2026, at age 86. He completed more than 200 murals, mainly in mixed media and primarily in…
Roger von Gunten passed away at age 92
Roger von Gunten, a Swiss-born Mexican painter and artist, died on February 18, 2026, at age 92. Born in Zurich in 1933, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule under Johannes Itten…
Karen Glaser obituary: died at age 71
Karen Glaser, an American underwater photographer, died on February 18, 2026, of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Born on June 12, 1954, she began her career as a printer before turning…
Billy Steinberg dies at 74
Billy Steinberg, an American songwriter known for "Like a Virgin," died on February 16, 2026, at age 75. Born William Endfield Steinberg in Fresno, California, he achieved his greatest success…
Obituary: Abdallah Sadouk, dead at age 75
Abdallah Sadouk, a Moroccan painter and engraver, died on February 15, 2026, in Paris, France, at the age of 75. Born in Casablanca on December 25, 1950, he studied at…
Richard de Prémare death at age 89
Richard de Prémare, a French painter who specialised in figurative art, died on February 14, 2026, at the age of 89. Born Richard Dumouchel de Prémare in Casablanca, in the…
Dóra Maurer, died aged 89
Dóra Maurer, the Hungarian visual artist associated with conceptual art and geometric abstraction, died on February 14, 2026. Born in Budapest in 1937, she worked across drawing, printmaking, photography, film,…
Henrike Naumann passes away at age 41
Henrike Naumann, a German installation artist, died on February 14, 2026, at the age of 41. Born in Zwickau, East Germany, in 1984, she became known for her furniture installations,…
Christian Astuguevieille dead at age 79
Christian Astuguevieille, a French artist, designer and perfumer, died on February 13, 2026. He served as artistic director of perfume at Comme des Garçons Parfums, where he worked with Rei…
Josefina Aguilar dead at age 80
Josefina Aguilar, a Mexican folk artist known for her small clay figurines called muñecas, died on February 13, 2026. Born Margarita Josefina Aguilar Alcántara in Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, on…
Jerry McMillan died at age 89
American photographer Died on Thursday February 12th 2026
Vasco Ascolini death at age 88
Vasco Ascolini, an Italian photographer, died on February 10, 2026, in Reggio Emilia, Italy, at the age of 88. Born in Reggio Emilia on May 10, 1937, he worked as…
Jon Kudelka death at age 53
Jon Kudelka, an Australian cartoonist, died on February 8, 2026, in Hobart, Tasmania, at the age of 53. Born in Burnie, Tasmania, on February 22, 1972, he was an editorial…
Obituary: Tadao Yasuda, dead at age 62
Tadao Yasuda, a Japanese rikishi and professional wrestler who competed in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, died on February 8, 2026, at age 62. Born in Tokyo on October 9, 1963, he…
Valerie Volontir death at age 73
Moldovan photographer and journalist Died on Saturday February 7th 2026
Milon Kanti Dey dies at age 78
Milon Kanti Dey, a Bangladeshi Jatra actor, director, writer and cultural activist, died on February 7, 2026, at the age of 78. Born on July 15, 1947, in Chhanhara, Bengal…
Death of Eva Keleti at age 94
Hungarian photographer Died on Friday February 6th 2026
Éva Keleti passed away at age 94
Éva Keleti, a Hungarian photographer, died on February 6, 2026. Born in Budapest on August 18, 1931, she worked throughout her career as a photo journalist and as a photographer…
Gisela Engeln-Müllges has died at age 85
Gisela Engeln-Müllges, a German mathematician and professor of numerical mathematics at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, died on February 4, 2026. Born in Leipzig in 1940, she studied mathematics…
Ted Berger died at age 85
Ted Berger, an American arts activist, died on February 4, 2026. He was based in New York City and was one of the creators of the Cultural Council Foundation's Artists…
Death of Wojciech Gryniewicz at age 79
Wojciech Gryniewicz, a Polish sculptor, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Bydgoszcz on April 5, 1946, he graduated from the State High School of…
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi dies at age 53
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a Libyan politician, died on February 3, 2026, at age 53. The second son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Safia Farkash, he was part of his…
Lamonte McLemore died at age 86
Lamonte McLemore, an American singer, actor, composer and photographer who was a founding member of The 5th Dimension, died on February 3, 2026, at age 90. Born Herman Lamonte McLemore…
Svetlana Zhiltsova death at age 89
Svetlana Zhiltsova, a Russian television presenter, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Moscow on November 30, 1936, she was a Soviet television presenter who…
Jean Widmer has died at age 96
Jean Widmer, a Swiss graphic designer, died on February 2, 2026, at the age of 96 in Paris. Born Hans Ulrich Widmer on March 31, 1929, in Frauenfeld, Thurgau, Switzerland,…
Robert Tinney death at age 78
Robert Tinney, an American illustrator known for his work on Byte magazine, died on February 1, 2026. He was known for his monthly cover illustrations for the microcomputer publication over…
Carole Sabiston dies at age 86
English-born Canadian textile artist Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
Obituary: Fenwick Lawson, dead at age 93
English sculptor Died on Saturday January 31st 2026
Obituary: Normana Wight, dead at age 89
Normana Wight, an Australian artist best known as a painter and printmaker, died on January 31, 2026, aged 89. Born on March 9, 1936, she studied painting at the Royal…
Gillian White death at age 86
Gillian White, the British-born Swiss sculptor, died on January 31, 2026. Born in Orpington, Kent, on June 20, 1939, she lived and worked in Leibstadt, Switzerland. She studied at Saint…
Raghunatha Reddy died at age 82
Raghunatha Reddy, an Indian actor known for his work in Telugu-language films as a character artist, died on January 31, 2026. He was 82. Active from 1991 to 2026, Reddy…
Raimonds Staprans has died at age 99
Latvian-American artist and playwright Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Death of Paul Sample at age 78
British cartoonist and illustrator Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Praski Vitti dies at age 89
Russian Chuvash artist Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Larry Reed, died aged 81
Larry Reed, an American shadow puppeteer, died on January 30, 2026, in San Francisco, California, at the age of 81. Born Charles Lawson Reed III in Los Angeles on June…
Sentoryū Henri has died at age 56
American martial artist and sumo wrestler Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Ji Han-jae dies at 89
South Korean hapkido martial artist Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Eric Cameron dies at 90
Eric Cameron, a Canadian artist known for his conceptual art work, died on January 29, 2026. He lived in Calgary, Alberta, and was also a writer and educator. Born in…
Hardy Hepp passes away at age 81
Swiss musician and painter Died on Thursday January 29th 2026