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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.
  • 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
  • Henry Herbert La Thangue – The Watersplash
  • Edmund Leighton – God Speed
  • 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 date)
  • William Orpen – Herbert Everett (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
  • Roland Hinton Perry – Elk (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Le Blouse Romaine
  • Le Moulin de la Galette
  • Fritz von Uhde – Woman, why weepest thou?
  • 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 12 – Ronald Moody, Jamaican-born woodcarver (d. 1984)
  • August 15 – Jack Tworkov, 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 16
  • Edward Ardizzone, British writer and illustrator (d. 1979)
  • Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (d. 1988)
  • November 20 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
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  • Guan Liang, Chinese painter (d. 1986)
  • Fannie Nampeyo, American Hopi potter and ceramic artist (d. 1987)
  • Tanasko Milovich, Serbian painter (d. 1964)
  • Nano Reid, Irish painter (d. 1981)
  • 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 painter (b. 1826)
  • October 27 – William Anderson, English collector of Japanese art (b. 1842)
  • References

    1900 in art Wikipedia