2009 in Art - Deaths

Deaths

• January 10 – Coosje van Bruggen, 66, wife and collaborator of sculptor Claes Oldenburg
• January 16 – Andrew Wyeth, 91, American painter
• February 2 – Howard Kanovitz, 79, American painter
• March 8 – Ernest Trova, 82, American sculptor
• April 22 – Jack Cardiff, 94, English cinematographer
• May 31 – Frederick Hammersley, 90, American painter
• June 4 – Robert Colescott, 83, American painter
• June 16 – Frank Mason, 88, American painter and teacher
• July 13 – Dash Snow, 27, American artist
• July 26 – Merce Cunningham, 90, American dancer, choreographer who worked closely with Robert Rauschenberg and other visual artists.
• July 28 – Tony Rosenthal, 94, American sculptor
• August 26 – Hyman Bloom, 96, American painter
• August 31 – Barry Flanagan, 68, English sculptor
• September 5 – Richard Merkin, 70, American painter, illustrator
• October 1 – Charles Seliger, 83, American painter
• October 18 – Nancy Spero, 83, American artist
• October 27 – Roy DeCarava, 90, American artist, photographer
• November 11 – Irving Kriesberg, 90, American painter
• November 18 – Jeanne-Claude, 74, French artist
• November 21 - Kossa Bokchan, 66, Serbian artist
• November 26 – Peter Forakis, 82 American sculptor
• December 10 – Thomas Hoving, 78, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Undated – Olja Ivanjicki, Serbian painter (b. 1931)