1900 in art

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
• * :File:Cassatt Mary Jules Being Dried by His Mother 1900.jpg|Jules Being Dried by His Mother
• * Young Mother Sewing
• Frank Cadogan Cowper – Rapunzel
• Aurélia de Souza – :File:Self-portrait.jpg|Self-portrait
• Maurice de Vlaminck
• * Sur le zinc
• * L'homme a la pipe
• Adolphe Demange
• * :File:Duchesse Anne D’Uzes working on a sculpture of Jeanne D’Arc 1900.jpg|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 – '
• Thomas Eakins
• * Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams
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• Florence Fuller – '
• J. W. Godward
• * :File:Godward Idleness 1900.jpg|Idleness
• * The Jewel Casket
• * The Toilet
• Vilhelm Hammershøi – Sunbeams
• Holman Hunt – The Light of the World
• Paja Jovanović – The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex
• Henry Herbert La Thangue – '
• Edmund Leighton – God Speed
• Maximilien Luce – :File:Maximilien Luce Notre-Dame de Paris 1900.jpg|Notre Dame de Paris
• Ambrose McEvoy – '
• Henri Matisse
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• * Two self-portraits
• Edvard Munch
• * Golgotha
• * Red Virginia Creeper
• Emil Nolde – Wheat Field '
• William Orpen – '
• Roland Hinton Perry – Elk
• Pablo Picasso
• * Le Blouse Romaine
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• Fritz von Uhde – Woman, why weepest thou?
• J. W. Waterhouse
• * :File:Destiny - John William Waterhouse.jpg|Destiny
• * The Siren

  Births

• January 5 – Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter
• January 8 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-born painter
• January 10 – Harry Kernoff, Irish painter
• January 28 – Alice Neel, American portrait painter
• January 31 – Betty Parsons, American painter and gallerist
• March 1 – Nano Reid, Irish painter
• March 10 – Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor
• April 13 – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer
• April 20 – Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer
• June 13 – Pierre Matisse, French-born gallerist, son of Henri Matisse
• June 22 – Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract animator, filmmaker and painter
• July 19 – Arno Breker, German sculptor
• August 12 – Ronald Moody, Jamaican-born woodcarver
• August 15 – Jack Tworkov, American abstract expressionist painter
• August 23 – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist
• September 19 – Ong Schan Tchow, Chinese artist
• October 1 – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter
• October 14 – Roland Penrose, English surrealist painter and art collector
• October 16
• * Edward Ardizzone, British writer and illustrator
• * Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist
• November 20 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist
• date unknown
• * Guan Liang, Chinese painter
• * Grace Morley, American curator
• * Fannie Nampeyo, American Hopi potter and ceramic artist
• * Tanasko Milovich, Serbian painter

  Deaths

• January 20 – John Ruskin, English art critic
• April 7 – Frederic Edwin Church, American landscape painter
• April 15 – Jules Dalou, French sculptor
• April 20 – Alexandre Falguière, French painter and sculptor
• May 5 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian seascape painter
• June 11 – Otto Eckmann, German painter and graphic artist
• July 2 – Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor
• July 28 – Jehan Georges Vibert, French academic painter
• August 4 – Isaac Levitan, Russian landscape painter
• August 17 – Thomas Faed, Scottish genre painter
• October 27 – William Anderson, English collector of Japanese art
• November 29 – Méry Laurent, French muse and model to Edouard Manet