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.
Mary Cassatt
Jules Being Dried by His Mother
Young Mother Sewing
Frank Cadogan Cowper – Rapunzel
Aurélia de Souza – Self-portrait
Maurice de VlaminckSur 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
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)
date unknown
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)
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)
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