1970 in art

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26 October - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
27 November - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit to Manila.
Tom Keating admits to forgery of paintings in the style of Samuel Palmer and others.

17 January - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator.
22 January - Alex Ross, American comic book painter and illustrator
10 February - Peter Richards, artist and curator
15 February - Shepard Fairey, American artist, graphic designer and illustrator.
27 February - Matthias Lechner, German set designer and art director.
12 March - Marine Delterme, French actress, painter, sculptor and former model.
3 May - Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer.
9 May - Damian Loeb, American painter.
26 May - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese manga artist.
1 June - Joshua Compston - British gallerist (d.1996).

6 July - Grant Bond, American comic book artist and writer.
9 July - Benoit Pierre Emery, French art director and fashion designer.
4 August - Pete Abrams, American webcomic writer and illustrator.
22 November - Aleksander Balos, Polish-born American artist and figurative painter.
date unknown
- Stéphane Ducret, Swiss contemporary artist.
- Emily Jacir, Palestinian artist.
- Tomoki Kyoda, Japanese animation director and animator.
- Vincent Paronnaud, French comics artist and filmmaker.
- David Quinn, Irish artist.

27 January - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b.1908).
25 February - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (b.1903).
2 March - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (b.1888).
8 March
- Waldo Peirce, American painter (b.1884).
- Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (b.1892).
13 May - William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (b.1899).
29 May - Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (b.1936).
6 June - Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (b.1883).

4 July - Barnett Newman, American artist (b.1905).
7 July - Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (b.1877).
29 November - Walter Stuempfig, American painter (b.1914)
1 December - Hermine David, French painter (b.1886).
date unknown
- Robert Laurent, American sculptor (b.1890).
- Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (b.1898).
- Ze'ev Raban, Israeli painter (b.1890).