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Overview of the events of 1900 in art
Overview of the events of 1900 in art
The year 1900 in art involved some significant events and new works.
- January 5 – Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter (d. 1955)
- January 8 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-born painter (d. 1969)
- January 10 – Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (d. 1974)
- January 28 – Alice Neel, American portrait painter (d.1984)
- January 31 – Betty Parsons, American painter and gallerist (d. 1982)
- March 1 – Nano Reid, Irish painter (d. 1981)
- March 10 – Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor (d. 1981)
- April 13 – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
- April 20 – Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer (d. 1984)
- June 13 – Pierre Matisse, French-born gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (d. 1989)
- June 22 – Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract animator, filmmaker and painter (d. 1967)
- June 26 – František Muzika, Czech avant-garde painter (d. 1974)
- July 19 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (d. 1991)
- August 12 – Ronald Moody, Jamaican-born woodcarver (d. 1984)
- August 15 – Jack Tworkov, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1982)
- August 23 – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (d. 1988)
- September 19 – Ong Schan Tchow, Chinese artist (d. 1945)
- October 1 – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter (d. 1978)
- October 14 – Roland Penrose, English surrealist painter and art collector (d. 1984)
- October 16
- October 17 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
- November 20 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
- date unknown
- January 20 – John Ruskin, English art critic (b. 1819)
- April 7 – Frederic Edwin Church, American landscape painter (b. 1826)
- April 15 – Jules Dalou, French sculptor (b. 1838)
- April 20 – Alexandre Falguière, French painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
- May 5 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian seascape painter (b. 1817)
- June 11 – Otto Eckmann, German painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
- July 2 – Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor (b. 1827)
- July 28 – Jehan Georges Vibert, French academic painter (b. 1840)
- August 4 – Isaac Levitan, Russian landscape painter (b. 1860)
- August 17 – Thomas Faed, Scottish genre painter (b. 1826)
- October 27 – William Anderson, English collector of Japanese art (b. 1842)
- November 29 – Méry Laurent, French muse and model to Édouard Manet (b. 1849)
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