1900 in art
The year 1900 in art involved some significant events and new works.
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
- * Jules Being Dried by His Mother
- * Young Mother Sewing
- Frank Cadogan Cowper – Rapunzel
- Aurélia de Souza – Self-portrait
- Maurice de Vlaminck
- * Sur le zinc
- * L'homme a la 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 – '
- Thomas Eakins
- * Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams
- * The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton
- Florence Fuller – '
- J. W. Godward
- * 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
- Gustav Klimt - Attersee
- Henry Herbert La Thangue – '
- Edmund Leighton – God Speed
- Maximilien Luce – Notre Dame de Paris
- Ambrose McEvoy – '
- Henri Matisse
- * '
- * Two self-portraits
- Edvard Munch
- * Golgotha
- * '
- Emil Nolde – Wheat Field
- William Orpen – '
- Roland Hinton Perry – Thompson Elk Fountain
- Pablo Picasso
- * Le Blouse Romaine
- * '
- Edward Poynter – Water Babies
- Philip Wilson Steer – Seated Nude, The Black Hat
- Fritz von Uhde – Woman, why weepest thou?
- Édouard Vuillard - Sans le Portique
- John William Waterhouse
- * Destiny
- * A Mermaid
- * ''The Siren''
Births
- January 5 – Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter
- January 8 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-born painter
- January 10 – Harry Kernoff, Irish painter
- January 20 – Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist
- 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
- March 13 – Andrée Bosquet, Belgian painter
- 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
- June 26
- * František Muzika, Czech avant-garde painter
- * Jo Spier, Dutch artist and illustrator
- 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
- October 17 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor
- November 20 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist date unknown
- * Francesco Di Cocco, Italian painter
- * 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 20 – Alexandre Falguière, French painter and sculptor
- May 5 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian seascape painter
- July 2 – Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor
- 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 Édouard Manet