1900 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

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

• January 5 - Yves Tanguy, painter. (d.1955)
• January 8 - Serge Poliakoff, painter (d.1969).
• January 10 - Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (d.1974).
• 28 January - 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)
• 19 July - Arno Breker, German sculptor (d.1991).
• October 16
  • Edward Ardizzone, British writer and illustrator (d.1979).
  • Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (d.1988).
• 20 November - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d.1985).

Full date unknown

• Fannie Nampeyo, potter and ceramic artist (d.1987).
• Jack Tworkov, painter (d.1982).

Deaths

• January 20 - John Ruskin, art critic (b. 1819)
• April 7 - Frederic Edwin Church, landscape painter (b. 1826)
• April 20 - Alexandre Falguière, painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
• May 5 - Ivan Aivazovsky, seascape painter (b. 1817)
• 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)