[edit] Events [edit] Awards [edit] Births [edit] January to June - 3 February - Gillian Ayres, painter
- 13 February - Ernst Fuchs, artist
- 18 February - Gahan Wilson, cartoonist
- 21 February - Enrique Tabara, painter
- 12 April - Manuel Neri, sculptor, painter and printmaker
- 14 May - James Beck, American art historian (d.2007)
- 15 May - Jasper Johns, painter, sculptor and printmaker
- 22 May - Marisol Escobar, sculptor and printmaker
- 23 May - Aslan, pin-up artist
- 23 May - Richard Anuszkiewicz, painter, sculptor and printmaker
- 30 May - Robert Ryman, painter
- 16 June - Alan D'Arcangelo, painter and graphic artist (d.1998)
- 20 June - Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor
- 24 June - Pierre Restany, French art critic and cultural philosopher (d.2003)
[edit] July to December [edit] Deaths - April 17 - Aleksandr Golovin, stage designer (b. 1863)
- May 28 - George Lambert, portrait painter and war artist (b. 1873)
- June 3 - Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter, known artist and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (b. 1880)
- June 5 - Jules Pascin, painter and draftsman (b. 1885)
- July 22 - Wacław Szymanowski, sculptor and painter (b. 1859)
- August 21 - Christopher Wood, English painter (b. 1901)
- September 24 - Otto Mueller, painter (b. 1874)
- September 29 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, painter and sculptor (b. 1844)
- December 9 - Laura Muntz Lyall, Impressionist painter (b. 1860)
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