1900 in art

Events

• Exposition Universelle in Paris helps popularize Art Nouveau style. Alphonse Mucha decorates the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborates on the Austria-Hungary one.
• Claude Monet stays in London and begins his Houses of Parliament series of paintings.

Works

Eakins' The Thinker

• Frank Cadogan Cowper - Rapunzel
• Aurélia de Souza - Self-portrait
• Maurice de Vlaminck^[1]
  • Sur le zinc ("At the Bar")
  • L'homme a la pipe ("Man Smoking a Pipe")
• Maurice Denis - Hommage à Cézanne
• 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)
• Vilhelm Hammershøi - Sunbeams
• Holman Hunt - The Light of the World (replica)
• Edmund Leighton - God Speed
• Ambrose McEvoy - Bessborough Street, Pimlico (Tate)
• Henri Matisse
  • Notre-Dame (Tate)
  • Two self-portraits
• Edvard Munch - Red Virginia Creeper
• Emil Nolde - Wheat Field (approximate date)
• Pablo Picasso - Le Blouse Romaine
• J. W. Waterhouse
  • Destiny
  • The Siren

Births

• January 5 - Yves Tanguy, painter. (d.1955)
• January 8 - Serge Poliakoff, painter (d.1969).
• January 10 - Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (d.1974).
• January 28 - Alice Neel, painter (d.1984)
• January 31 - Betty Parsons, painter and gallerist (d.1982)
• 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, gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (d.1989)
• July 19 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (d.1991)
• August 15 - Jack Tworkov, painter (d. 1982)
• August 23 - Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (d.1988).
• October 16
  • Edward Ardizzone, British writer and illustrator (d.1979).
  • Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (d.1988).
• November 20 - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d.1985).
• date unknown - Fannie Nampeyo, potter and ceramic artist (d. 1987)

Deaths

• January 20 - John Ruskin, art critic (b. 1819)
• April 7 - Frederic Edwin Church, landscape painter (b. 1826)
• April 15 - Jules Dalou, sculptor (b. 1838)
• April 20 - Alexandre Falguière, painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
• May 5 - Ivan Aivazovsky, seascape painter (b. 1817)
• June 11 - Otto Eckmann, painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
• July 28 - Jehan Georges Vibert, French academic painter (b. 1840)
• August 4 - Isaac Levitan, landscape painter (b. 1860)
• August 17 - Thomas Faed, painter (b. 1826)
• October 27 - William Anderson, collector of Japanese art (b. 1842)

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