1960 in art

February 21 – Isaac Julien, Black British installation artist and filmmaker
March 13 – Joe Ranft, American magician, animation storyboard artist and voice actor (d. 2005)
March – Philip Mould, English art dealer and historian
July 28 – Jon J Muth, American author and illustrator
August 13 – Lorna Simpson, African American photographic and video artist
September – Shaun Greenhalgh, English art forger
September 21 – Maurizio Cattelan, Italian satirical sculptor
October 2 – Joe Sacco, Maltese-born comics journalist
December 22 – Jean-Michel Basquiat, American neo-expressionist painter (suicide 1988)
December 26 – Andrew Graham Dixon, British art historian and broadcaster
date unknown – Ken Currie, British figurative painter

January 12 – William Adams Delano, American architect (b. 1874)
January 16 – Rudulph Evans, American sculptor (b. 1878)
February 8 – Hakuyō Fuchikami, Japanese photographer (b. 1889)
February 22 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian painter (b. 1905)
March 3 – Nina Veselova, Russian painter (b. 1922)
March 18 – Alexander V. Kuprin, Russian painter (b. 1880)
March 26 – Francisco Goitia, Mexican realist painter (b. 1882)
April 13 – Eric Kennington, English sculptor and war artist (b. 1888)
May 8 – Hugo Alfvén, Swedish musician and painter (b. 1872)
May 16 – Igor Grabar, Russian painter, publisher, and art historian (b. 1871)
May 27 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator, poster artist (b. 1877)
June 6 – Ernest L. Blumenschein, American painter, member of the Taos art colony (b. 1874)
August 8 – Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-British graphic artist (b. 1897)
September 20 – David Park, American painter (b. 1911)
October 22
- Morgan Dennis, American painter and illustrator (b. 1892)
- Alexander Matveyev, Russian sculptor (b. 1878)
- Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor (b. 1898)
November 14 – Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (b. 1908)
November 17 – Gene Ahern, American comic-strip artist (b. 1895)
November 29 – Fortunato Depero, Italian futurist painter, sculptor, and designer b. 1892)
December 4 - Dean Cornwell - American illustrator, muralist, and painter (b. 1892)
date unknown – Charles Pillet, French sculptor and engraver (b. 1869)

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