Editing 1996 in art (section)

===January to June===
*3 January – [[Terence Cuneo]], English railway and military painter (b. [[1907 in art|1907]]).
*6 January – [[Duane Hanson]], American sculptor (b. [[1925 in art|1925]]).
*9 January – [[Félix González-Torres]], Cuban artist (b. [[1957 in art|1957]]).
*11 January – [[Eric Hebborn]], English-born [[art forger]] (b. [[1934 in art|1934]]).
*11 February – [[Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger]], French photographer and [[ethnography|ethnographer]] (b. [[1902 in art|1902]]).
*18 January – [[Leonor Fini]], [[Argentina|Argentine]]-born surrealist painter (b. [[1908 in art|1908]]).
*28 January – [[Jerry Siegel]], American comic book artist (b. [[1914 in art|1914]]).
*20 February – [[Audrey Munson]], American actress and artist's model (b. [[1891 in art|1891]]).
*5 March – [[Joshua Compston]], British gallerist (b. [[1970 in art|1970]]).
*15 March – [[Helen Chadwick]], British artist (b. [[1953 in art|1953]]).
*14 April – [[Mervyn Levy]], Welsh-born art critic and artist (b. [[1914 in art|1914]]).
*25 April – [[Saul Bass]], American [[graphic designer]] and [[Academy Award]]-winning filmmaker (b. [[1920 in art|1920]]).
*7 May – [[William Copley (artist)|William Copley]], American artist (b. [[1919 in art|1919]]).
*10 June – [[Marie-Louise von Motesiczky]], Austrian painter (b. [[1906 in art|1906]]).