1900 in art

The year 1900 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

 * April 14–November 12 – Exposition Universelle in Paris helps popularize Art Nouveau style. Alphonse Mucha decorates the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborates on the Austria-Hungary one.
 * F. Holland Day organizes an exhibition of the New School of American Photography at the Royal Photographic Society in London.
 * The Wallace Collection in London opens to the public.
 * The Zachęta art gallery in Warsaw is completed.
 * Claude Monet stays in London and begins his Houses of Parliament series of paintings.
 * Wilhelm von Debschitz and Hermann Obrist found the Lehr- und Versuchsatelier für angewandte und freikunst, an influential art school in Munich.

Works



 * Mary Cassatt
 * Jules Being Dried by His Mother
 * Young Mother Sewing
 * Frank Cadogan Cowper – Rapunzel
 * Aurélia de Souza – Self-portrait
 * Maurice de Vlaminck
 * Sur le zinc ("At the Bar")
 * L'homme a la pipe ("Man Smoking a Pipe")
 * Adolphe Demange
 * La Duchesse d'Uzès travaillant à la statue monumentale de Jeanne d'Arc, dans l'atelier de Falguière
 * Place de la Concorde
 * Maurice Denis – Homage to Cézanne
 * Frank Dicksee – The Two Crowns
 * Thomas Eakins
 * Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (second version, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
 * The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
 * Florence Fuller – Inseparables
 * J. W. Godward
 * Idleness
 * The Jewel Casket
 * The Toilet
 * Vilhelm Hammershøi – Sunbeams
 * Holman Hunt – The Light of the World (replica)
 * Paja Jovanović – The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex
 * Gustav Klimt - Attersee
 * Henry Herbert La Thangue – The Watersplash
 * Edmund Leighton – God Speed
 * Maximilien Luce – Notre Dame de Paris
 * Ambrose McEvoy – Bessborough Street, Pimlico (Tate)
 * Henri Matisse
 * Notre-Dame (Tate)
 * Two self-portraits
 * Edvard Munch
 * Golgotha
 * Red Virginia Creeper
 * Emil Nolde – Wheat Field (approximate dat)
 * William Orpen – Herbert Everett (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
 * Roland Hinton Perry – Thompson Elk Fountain (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
 * Pablo Picasso
 * Le Blouse Romaine
 * Le Moulin de la Galette
 * Fritz von Uhde – Woman, why weepest thou?
 * Edouard Vuillard - Sans le Portique (completed)
 * J. W. Waterhouse
 * Destiny
 * The Siren

Births

 * 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
 * Edward Ardizzone, British writer and illustrator (d. 1979)
 * Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (d. 1988)
 * October 17 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
 * November 20 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
 * date unknown
 * Francesco Di Cocco, Italian painter (d. 1989)
 * Guan Liang, Chinese painter (d. 1986)
 * Grace Morley, American curator (d. 1985)
 * Fannie Nampeyo, American Hopi potter and ceramic artist (d. 1987)
 * Tanasko Milovich, Serbian painter (d. 1964)

Deaths

 * 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)