Editing 1940 in art (section)

==Deaths==
* [[January 18]] – [[Jonas Lie (painter)|Jonas Lie]], Norwegian American landscape painter (b. [[1880 in art|1880]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Ellen Day Hale]], American painter and printmaker (b. [[1855 in art|1855]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Nicolae Tonitza]], Romanian painter and etcher (b. [[1886 in art|1886]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Iso Rae]], Australian Impressionist painter (b. [[1860 in art|1860]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Alexandru Plămădeală]], Moldovan sculptor (b. [[1888 in art|1888]])
* [[May 13]] - [[Henry Charles Fehr]], British sculptor (b. [[1867 in art|1867]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Édouard Vuillard]], French painter (b. [[1868 in art|1868]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Paul Klee]], Swiss painter [[expressionism]], [[cubism]], and [[surrealism]] (b. [[1879 in art|1879]])
* [[July 4]] – [[Józef Pankiewicz]], Polish painter, graphic artist and teacher (b. [[1866 in art|1866]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Gerda Wegener]], Danish artist (b. 1886)
* [[July 31]] – [[Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler]], German avant-garde painter, by [[involuntary euthanasia]] (b. [[1899 in art|1899]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Paul Gösch]], German artist and architect (b. [[1885 in art|1885]])
* [[September 5]] – [[Frances Darlington]], English relief sculpture (b. 1880)
* [[September 15]] – [[Dick Ket]], Dutch painter (b. [[1902 in art|1902]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Walter Benjamin]], German philosopher, "[[Comparative literature|comparatist]]" and art critic (b. [[1892 in art|1892]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Karl Uchermann]], Norwegian canine painter (b. 1855)
* [[November 16]] – [[Colin Gill]], [[English people|English]] war artist, muralist and portrait painter (b. 1892).
* [[November 17]] – [[Eric Gill]], English sculptor and engraver (b. [[1882 in art|1882]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Francesco Stella]], Italian painter and set designer (b. [[1862 in art|1862]])