Editing 1989 in art (section)

===January to June===
*23 January – [[Salvador Dalí]], Spanish [[surrealist]] artist (b. 1904)
*1 February – [[Elaine de Kooning]], American [[Abstract Expressionism|abstract expressionist]] painter (b. 1918)
*9 February – [[Osamu Tezuka]], Japanese [[Mangaka|manga artist]], [[animator]] and [[movie producer|producer]] (b. 1928)
*17 February – [[Guy Laroche]], French fashion designer (b. 1921)
*24 February – [[Mallica Reynolds]] ("Kapo"), Jamaican painter, sculptor and religious leader (b. 1911)
*9 March – [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], American photographer (b. 1946)
*31 March – [[Piotr Belousov]], Russian painter and graphic artist (b. 1912)
*6 April – [[Henri Cadiou]], French realist painter and lithographer (b. 1906)
*4 June
**[[Dik Browne]], American [[cartoonist]] (b. 1917)
**[[Cecil Collins (artist)|Cecil Collins]], English painter and printmaker (b. 1908)
*9 June – [[Piotr Vasiliev]], Russian painter (b. 1909)