Editing Timeline of art (section)

== 2000s ==
* '''[[2009 in art]]''' – Death of [[Coosje van Bruggen]], [[Andrew Wyeth]], [[Howard Kanovitz]], [[Max Neuhaus]], [[Ernest Trova]], [[Hanne Darboven]], [[Frederick Hammersley]], [[Robert Colescott]], [[Dash Snow]], [[Merce Cunningham]], [[Tony Rosenthal]], [[Hyman Bloom]], [[Barry Flanagan]], [[Richard Merkin]], [[Charles Seliger]], [[Nancy Spero]], [[Roy DeCarava]], [[Robert Borgatta]], [[Irving Kriesberg]], [[Jeanne-Claude]], [[Peter Forakis]], [[Thomas Hoving]] 
* '''[[2008 in art]]''' – Death of [[William Brice]], [[Kahlil Gibran (sculptor)|Kahlil Gibran]], [[Dorothy Podber]], [[Enrico Donati]], [[Paul Wonner]], [[Robert Rauschenberg]], [[Will Elder]], [[Cornell Capa]], [[John Plumb]], [[Bruce Conner]], [[Manny Farber]], [[John Russell (art critic)|John Russell]], [[Alain Jacquet]], [[Grace Hartigan]], [[Jan Krugier]], [[Guy Peellaert]], [[Willoughby Sharp]], [[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]]
* '''[[2007 in art]]''' – Death of [[Dan Christensen]], [[Jules Olitski]], [[Sol LeWitt]], [[Jörg Immendorff]], [[Salvatore Scarpitta]], [[Elizabeth Murray (artist)|Elizabeth Murray]], [[Edward Avedisian]], [[André Emmerich]], [[Lenore Tawney]], [[R. B. Kitaj]], [[Ileana Sonnabend]], [[Paul Brach]], [[Robert Kulicke]], [[Michael Goldberg (painter)|Michael Goldberg]], [[Ismail Gulgee]], [[Herman Rose]]
* '''[[2006 in art]]''' – Death of [[William Rubin]], [[Mimmo Rotella]], [[Nam June Paik]], [[Allan Kaprow]], [[Isaac Witkin]], [[Karel Appel]], [[Richard Mock]], [[Jason Rhoades]], [[Julio Galán]], [[Marcia Tucker]], [[Emilio Vedova]], [[Robert Rosenblum]],  [[Larry Zox]], [[Ruth Bernhard]], 
* '''[[2005 in art]]''' – Death of [[Philip Johnson]], [[David Whitney]], [[Al Held]], [[Eugene J. Martin]], [[Walter Hopps]], [[Philip Pavia]], [[Neil Welliver]], [[R. C. Gorman]], [[Fritz Scholder]], [[Clement Meadmore]], and [[Arman]]; [[Christo]] and wife [[Jeanne-Claude]] create ''[[The Gates]]'' in New York's [[Central Park]];
* '''[[2004 in art]]''' – Death of [[Gerome Kamrowski]], [[Ward Jackson]], [[Leon Golub]], [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]], [[Cleve Gray]], [[Agnes Martin]], [[Philip and Muriel Berman|Muriel Berman]], [[Tom Wesselmann]] 
* '''[[2003 in art]]''' – Death of [[Al Hirschfeld]],  [[Emerson Woelffer]], [[Lynn Chadwick]],  [[Pierre Restany]], [[Dorothy Miller]],  [[Kirk Varnedoe]], [[Wally Hedrick]]
* '''[[2002 in art]]''' – Death of [[Inge Morath]], [[Peter Voulkos]], [[Jean-Paul Riopelle]], [[Niki de Saint Phalle]], [[George Rickey]], [[Richard Lippold]], [[Stan Rice]]
* '''[[2001 in art]]''' – Death of [[Frederick W. Hughes|Fred Hughes]], [[Balthus]], [[David Sylvester]], [[Mercedes Matter]], [[O. Winston Link]], [[Hollis Sigler]]
* '''[[2000 in art]]''' – Death of [[Louisa Matthíasdóttir]], [[Edward Gorey]], [[Jacob Lawrence]], [[Stanley Boxer]], [[Leonard Baskin]], [[Gregory Gillespie]]; [[Hans Moller (painter)|Hans Moller]]