The year 2001 in art involved various significant events.
Events
Undated
Exhibitions
Awards
Works
Deaths
January to June
- 14 January - Fred Hughes, American art executive (Founder of the Warhol Foundation) (b. 1943)
- 30 January â O. Winston Link, American photographer. (b. 1914)
- 12 February â Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer (b. 1912)
- 17 February â Barry Burman, English painter and educator (b. 1943)
- 18 February â Balthus, French modern artist (b. 1908)
- 4 March
- Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass window designer and writer (b. 1904)
- Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
- 1 June â Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
- 19 June â David Sylvester, English art critic and curator (b. 1924)
- 27 June â Tove Jansson, Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author (b. 1914)
July to December
- 1 July â Hélène de Beauvoir, French painter (b. 1910)
- 4 July â Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (b. 1919)
- 11 July â Herman Brood, Dutch musician, painter and media personality (b. 1946)
- 28 August â Juan Muñoz, Spanish sculptor (b. 1953)
- 23 October
- Josh Kirby, English commercial artist (b. 1928)
- Daniel Wildenstein, French international art dealer and scholar (b. 1917)
- 3 November â Sir Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born art historian (b. 1909)
- 19 November â Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
- 25 November â Harry Devlin, American painter and illustrator (b. 1918)
- December â Mercedes Matter, American painter (b. 1913)
- 29 December â György Kepes, Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist (b. 1906)
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