Editing 2001 in art (section)

===July to December===
*1 July – [[Hélène de Beauvoir]], French painter (b. 1910)
*4 July – [[Anne Yeats]], Irish painter and stage designer (b. 1919)
*11 July – [[Herman Brood]], Dutch musician, painter and media personality (b. 1946)
*28 August – [[Juan Muñoz (sculptor)|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 – Sir [[Ernst Gombrich]], Austrian-born art historian (b. 1909)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1361589/Sir-Ernst-Gombrich-OM.html |title=Sir Ernst Gombrich OM |date=6 November 2001 |access-date=6 May 2012 |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> 
*19 November – [[Marcelle Ferron]], Canadian painter and [[stained glass]] artist (b. 1924)
*25 November – [[Harry Devlin]], American painter and illustrator (b. 1918) 
*December – [[Mercedes Matter]], American painter (b. 1913)
*29 December – [[György Kepes]], Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist (b. 1906)