1900 in art

List of years in Art

Events

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Works

*Thomas Eakins - "The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
*Vilhelm Hammershøi - "Sunbeams"
*Edvard Munch - "Red Virginia Creeper"

Births

*5 January - Yves Tanguy, painter.
*8 January - Serge Poliakoff, painter (d.1969).
*10 January - Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (d.1974).
*28 January - Alice Neel, painter (d.1984).
*10 March - Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor (d.1981).
*13 April - Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d.1976).
*19 July - Arno Breker, German sculptor (d.1991).
*16 October - Edward Ardizzone, British writer and illustrator (d.1979).
*16 October - Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (d.1988).
*20 November - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d.1985).

Full date unknown

*Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer (d.1984).
*Tone Kralj, painter
*Pierre Matisse, gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (d.1989).
*Antonio Mattei, painter.
*Fannie Nampeyo, potter and ceramic artist (d.1987).
*Betty Parsons, painter and gallerist (d.1982).
*Jack Tworkov, painter (d.1982).

Deaths

*January 20 - John Ruskin, art critic
*April 7 - Frederic Edwin Church, landscape painter (b. 1826)
*May 5 - Ivan Aivazovsky, seascape painter
*August 4 - Isaac Levitan, landscape painter
*August 17 - Thomas Faed, painter
* Alexandre Falguière, painter and sculptor
* William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (b. 1842)