This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American

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ists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily

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in nature, including traditional media such as

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sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...

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, and printmaking.

Born before 1800

* John White (c. 1540–c. 1606), artist-illustrator, surveyor * Jacob Gerritse Strycker (1615–1687), artist, possibly of the Rembrandt studios * Thomas Smith (died c. 1691), painter *

John Smybert John Smibert (rarely spelled Smybert; ; 24 March 1688 – 2 April 1751) was a Scottish-born painter, regarded as the first academically trained artist to live and work regularly in British America. Career Born in Edinburgh on 24 March 1688, Smi ...

(1688–1751), painter *

Robert Feke Robert Feke ( 1705 or 1707 1752) was an American portrait painter born in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. According to art historian Richard Saunders, "Feke’s impact on the development of Colonial painting was substantial, and his pictures ...

(ca. 1705/1707–1750), painter *

Joseph Badger Joseph Badger (c. 1707–1765) was a portrait artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, to tailor Stephen Badger and Mercy Kettell. He "began his career as a house-painter and glazier, and ... ...

(c. 1707/8–1765), painter *

Jeremiah Theus Jeremiah Theus (sometimes Jeremiah Theüs) (April 5, 1716 – May 17, 1774) was a Switzerland, Swiss-born United States, American painter, primarily of portraits. He was active mainly around Charleston, South Carolina, in which city he remained a ...

(1716–1774), painter *

Patience Wright Patience Lovell Wright (1725 – March 23, 1786) was a sculptor of wax figures, and the first recognized American-born sculptor. Biography Early life Patience Lovell was born at Oyster Bay, New York, into a Quaker farm family with a vegetaria ...

(1725–1786), sculptor *

John Hesselius John Hesselius (1728–1778) was an American portrait painter who worked mostly in Virginia and Maryland. He was the son of the Swedish-born portraitist Gustavus Hesselius. He painted the portraits of many wealthy politicians and planters in Col ...

(1728–1778), painter * John Singleton Copley (c. 1738–1815), painter *

Benjamin West Benjamin West, (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was a British-American artist who painted famous historical scenes such as '' The Death of Nelson'', ''The Death of General Wolfe'', the '' Treaty of Paris'', and '' Benjamin Franklin Drawin ...

(1738–1820), painter *

Charles Willson Peale Charles Willson Peale (April 15, 1741 – February 22, 1827) was an American Painting, painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist. He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolu ...

(1741–1827), painter *

Henry Benbridge Henry Benbridge (October 1743 – February 1812) was an early United States, American portrait painter. Early life and education He was born in Philadelphia, the only child of James and Mary (Clark) Benbridge. When he was seven years old, hi ...

(1743–1812), painter * James Peale (1749–1831), painter *

Ralph Earl Ralph Earl (May 11, 1751 – August 16, 1801) was an American painter known for his portraits, of which at least 183 can be documented. He also painted six landscapes, including a panorama display of Niagara Falls. Early life Ralph Ea ...

(1751–1801), painter *

Gilbert Charles Stuart Gilbert Charles Stuart ( Stewart; December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island Colony who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists. His best-known work is an unfinished portrait of George Washi ...

(1755–1828), painter * William Rush (1756–1833), sculptor * John Trumbull (1756–1843), painter *

Mather Brown Mather Brown (baptized October 11, 1761 – May 25, 1831) was an American painter who was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was active in England. Early life Brown was the son of Gawen and Elizabeth (Byles) Brown, and descended from the Rev. ...

(1761–1831), painter *

James Earl James Earl (May 1, 1761 – August 18, 1796) was an American painter and younger brother of fellow portrait painter Ralph Earl. He was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, and died of yellow fever in Charleston, South Carolina. He lived and worke ...

(1761–1796), painter * Edward Savage (1761–1817), painter * John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854), painter *

Ruth Henshaw Bascom Ruth Henshaw Bascom, also known as Aunt Ruth (December 15, 1772 – February 16, 1848), was an American folk artist who produced over 1,400 portraits. She was the daughter of Colonel William Henshaw and Phebe Swan of Leicester, Massachusetts, and ...

(1772–1848), folk art portraitist *

William Jennys William Jennys (1774–1859), also known as J. William Jennys, was an American primitive portrait painter who was active from about 1790 to 1810. He traveled throughout New England seeking commissions in rural areas and small towns. He was t ...

(1774–1859), primitive portrait painter *

Raphaelle Peale Raphaelle Peale (sometimes spelled Raphael Peale) (February 17, 1774 – March 4, 1825) is considered the first professional American painter of still-life. Biography Peale was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the fifth child, though eldest survivin ...

(1774–1825), painter *

Cephas Thompson Cephas Thompson (July 1, 1775 – November 6, 1856) was a successful, largely self-taught, early nineteenth-century itinerant portrait painter in the United States. He was born, died, and lived most of his life in Middleborough, Massachusetts, b ...

(1775–1856), portrait painter *

Jacob Eichholtz Jacob Eichholtz (1776–1842) was an early American painter, known primarily for his portraits in the Romantic Victorian tradition. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in a family of prosperous Pennsylvania Germans, he spent most of his professional l ...

(1776–1842), portrait painter *

John Vanderlyn John Vanderlyn (October 18, 1775September 23, 1852) was an American neoclassicist painter. Biography Vanderlyn was born at Kingston, New York, and was the grandson of colonial portrait painter Pieter Vanderlyn. He was employed by a print-sell ...

(1776–1852), painter *

Rembrandt Peale Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style w ...

(1778–1860), painter *

Washington Allston Washington Allston (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime for ...

(1779–1843), painter *

Edward Hicks Edward Hicks (April 4, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter and distinguished religious minister of the Society of Friends (aka "Quakers"). He became a Quaker icon because of his paintings. Biography Early life Edward ...

(1780–1849), painter *

John Wesley Jarvis John Wesley Jarvis (1780 or 1781 – January 14, 1839) was an American painter. Biography John Wesley Jarvis (great, great nephew of Methodist leader John Wesley), was born at South Shields, England. His father was an English mariner, who m ...

(c. 1781–1839), painter *

Thomas Sully Thomas Sully (June 19, 1783November 5, 1872) was a portrait painter in the United States. Born in Great Britain, he lived most of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He painted in the style of Thomas Lawrence. His subjects included nation ...

(1783–1872), painter *

Solomon Willard Solomon Willard (June 26, 1783 – February 27, 1861) was a carver and builder in Massachusetts who is remembered primarily for designing and overseeing the Bunker Hill Monument, the first monumental obelisk erected in the United States. Backgr ...

(1783–1861), stone carver * Bass Otis (1784–1861), painter *

Rubens Peale Rubens Peale (May 4, 1784 – July 17, 1865) was an American museum administrator and artist. Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of artist-naturalist Charles Willson Peale. Due to his weak eyesight, he did not practice painting seriously until ...

(1784–1865), painter * John James Audubon (1785–1851), painter of birds and nature *

Charles Bird King Charles Bird King (September 26, 1785 – March 18, 1862) was an American portrait artist, best known for his portrayals of significant Native American leaders and tribesmen. His style incorporated Dutch influences, which can be seen most promi ...

(1785–1862), portrait painter * James Frothingham (1786–1864), painter *

John Lewis Krimmel John Lewis Krimmel (May 30, 1786July 15, 1821), sometimes called "the American Hogarth," was America's first painter of genre scenes. Born in Germany, he immigrated to Philadelphia in 1809 and soon became a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of ...

(1786–1821), America's first genre painter *

Hannah Cohoon Hannah Cohoon (February 1, 1788 – January 7, 1864) was an American painter born in Williamstown, Massachusetts and a member of Hancock Shaker Village. She joined that community in 1817 at the age 29. During a time of revival known as the Era of ...

(1788–1864), painter *

Sarah Goodridge Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 – December 28, 1853; also referred to as Sarah Goodrich) was an American painter who specialized in portrait miniatures. She was the older sister of Elizabeth Goodridge, also an American miniaturist. Life Goo ...

(1788–1853), painter of miniatures * Matthew Harris Jouett (1788–1827), portrait artist * William Edward West (1788–1859), portrait painter * Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), sculptor and inventor *

Samuel F. B. Morse Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph ...

(1791–1872), painter, inventor *

Alvan Fisher Alvan Fisher (August 9, 1792February 13, 1863) was one of the United States's pioneers in landscape painting and genre works. Early years He was born in Needham, Massachusetts, the fourth of Aaron and Lucy (Stedman) Fisher's six sons. He mov ...

(1792–1863), painter * Susanna Paine (1792–1862), portrait artist * James Bowman (c. 1793–1842), painter * Thomas Doughty (1793–1856), painter * Amasa Hewins (1795–1855), painter *

George Catlin George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Traveling to the American West five times during the 183 ...

(1796–1872), painter * Asher Durand (1796–1886), painter *

John Neagle John Neagle (November 4, 1796 – September 17, 1865) was a fashionable American painter, primarily of portraits, during the first half of the 19th century in Philadelphia. Biography Neagle was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His training in ...

(1796–1865), painter * Elizabeth Goodridge (1798–1882), painter of miniatures *

Titian Peale Titian Ramsay Peale (November 2, 1799 – March 13, 1885) was an American artist, naturalist, and explorer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a scientific illustrator whose paintings and drawings of wildlife are known for their beauty an ...

(1799–1885), painter

Born 1800–1809

1800 *

Francis Alexander Francis Alexander (February 3, 1800 – March 27, 1880) was an American portrait-painter. Biography Alexander was born in Windham county Connecticut in February 1800. Brought up on a farm, he taught himself the use of colors, and in 1820 we ...

(1800–1881), painter 1801 *

Thomas Cole Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history painti ...

(1801–1848), painter * Henry Inman (1801–1846), painter *

John Quidor John Quidor (January 26, 1801 – December 13, 1881) was an American painter of historical and literary subjects. He has about 35 known canvases, most of which are based on Washington Irving's stories about Dutch New York, drawing inspiration fro ...

(1801–1881), painter 1803 *

Robert Walter Weir Robert Walter Weir (June 18, 1803 – May 1, 1889) was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School. Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the United States M ...

(1803–1889), painter 1804 *

Fitz Hugh Lane Fitz Henry Lane (born Nathaniel Rogers Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane) (December 19, 1804 – August 14, 1865) was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light. Biography ...

(1804–1865), painter 1805 *

Horatio Greenough Horatio Greenough (September 6, 1805 – December 18, 1852) was an American sculptor best known for his United States government commissions '' The Rescue'' (1837–50), ''George Washington'' (1840), and '' The Discovery of America'' (1840– ...

(1805–1852), sculptor *

Hiram Powers Hiram Powers (July 29, 1805 – June 27, 1873) was an American neoclassical sculptor. He was one of the first 19th-century American artists to gain an international reputation, largely based on his famous marble sculpture ''The Greek Slave''. ...

(1805–1873), sculptor 1806 * Peter Rindisbacher (1806–1834), watercolorist, illustrator 1807 *

William Sidney Mount William Sidney Mount (November 26, 1807 – November 19, 1868) was a 19th-century American genre painter. Born in Setauket in 1807, Mount spent much of his life in his hometown and the adjacent village of Stony Brook, where he painted portraits, ...

(1807–1868), painter 1808 *

Seth Eastman Seth Eastman (January 24, 1808– August 31, 1875) was an artist and West Point graduate who served in the US Army, first as a mapmaker and illustrator. He had two tours at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory; during the second, extended tour he ...

(1808–1875), painter, illustrator 1809 * Moses Billings (1809–1884), portrait painter *

James Guy Evans James Guy Evans (1809 or 1810 – 1859) was an American naval mariner and artist. Self-taught as an artist, Evans is known for his paintings of 19th century sailing ships, which are held in numerous museum collections. Early life He was born ...

(1809/1810–1859), painter * George Winter, English-born portrait painter noted for his pictures of Potawatomi and

Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at ...

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Born 1810–1819

1811 *

George Caleb Bingham George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist, soldier and politician known in his lifetime as "the Missouri Artist". Initially a Whig, he was elected as a delegate to the Missouri legislature before the American C ...

(1811–1879), painter * John William Casilear (1811–1893), painter * William Page (1811–1885), painter 1812 *

Jane Stuart Jane Stuart (1812 – April 27, 1888) was an American painter, best known for her miniature paintings and portraits, particularly those made of George Washington. She worked on and later copied portraits made by her father, Gilbert Stuart, and ...

(1812–1888), portrait painter 1813 * Joseph Goodhue Chandler (1813–1884), portrait painter *

Nathaniel Currier Nathaniel Currier (March 27, 1813 – November 20, 1888) was an American lithographer. He headed the company Currier & Ives with James Ives. Early years Currier was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier. He attended ...

(1813–1888), lithographer *

George Peter Alexander Healy George Peter Alexander Healy (July 15, 1813 – June 24, 1894) was an American portrait painter. He was one of the most prolific and popular painters of his day, and his sitters included many of the eminent personages of his time. Born in Boston ...

(1813–1894), portrait painter * Asahel Lynde Powers (1813–1843), portrait painter *

William Ranney William Tylee Ranney (May 9, 1813 – November 18, 1857) was a 19th-century American painter, known for his depictions of Western life, sporting scenery, historical subjects and portraiture. In his 20-year career, he made 150 paintings and 80 draw ...

(1813–1857), painter 1814 * Edward Bailey (1814–1903), American/Hawaiian painter 1815 * Joseph Horace Eaton (1815–1896), New Mexico landscapes 1816 * Daniel DeWitt Tompkins Davie (1816–1877), photographer *

George Whiting Flagg George Whiting Flagg (June 26, 1816 – January 5, 1897) was an American painter of historical scenes and genre pictures. He was from a family of artists including his brother, Jared Bradley Flagg, and uncle Washington Allston, with whom both br ...

(1816–1898), painter *

John Frederick Kensett John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists. Kensett's signature works ...

(1816–1872), painter *

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816July 18, 1868) was a German-American history painter best known for his 1851 painting '' Washington Crossing the Delaware''. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biography Leutze was born ...

(1816–1868), painter 1817 *

Benjamin Champney Benjamin Champney (November 20, 1817Champney (1900) – December 11, 1907) was a painter known for his role in White Mountain art of the 19th century. He began his training as a lithographer under celebrated marine artist Fitz Henry Lane at ...

(1817–1907), painter * Peter F. Rothermel (1817–1895), painter 1819 *

Richard Saltonstall Greenough Richard Saltonstall Greenough (April 19, 1819 – 1904) was an American sculptor and younger brother to Neoclassical sculptor Horatio Greenough. Greenough was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest child of Elizabeth (Bender) and David Gre ...

(1819–1904), sculptor * Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904), painter * James Augustus Suydam (1819–1865), painter

Born 1820–1829

1820 * Aramenta Dianthe Vail (1820–1888), painter * John E. Weyss (1820–1903), artist and cartographer *

Worthington Whittredge Thomas Worthington Whittredge (May 22, 1820 – February 25, 1910) was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists includin ...

(1820–1910), painter 1821 * Robert Duncanson (c. 1821–1872), painter, muralist * Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906), Hawaiian-born painter and sketch artist 1822 * Mathew Brady (1822–1896), photographer 1823 * Daniel Folger Bigelow (1823–1910), painter *

Jasper Francis Cropsey Jasper Francis Cropsey (February 18, 1823 – June 22, 1900) was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School. Early years Cropsey was born on his father Jacob Rezeau Cropsey's farm in Rossville on Staten Island, New Yor ...

(1823–1900), painter *

Sanford Robinson Gifford Sanford Robinson Gifford (July 10, 1823 – August 29, 1880) was an American landscape painter and a leading member of the second generation of Hudson River School artists. A highly-regarded practitioner of Luminism, his work was noted for its ...

(1823–1880), painter * William Hart (1823–1894), painter *

Thomas Waterman Wood Thomas Waterman Wood (November 12, 1823 – April 14, 1903) was an American painter born in Montpelier, Vermont. Early life and education Thomas Waterman Wood's father, John Wood, came to Montpelier from Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1814. The Wo ...

(1823–1903), painter 1824 *

William Morris Hunt William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824September 8, 1879) was an American painter. Born into the political Hunt family of Vermont, he trained in Paris with the realist Jean-François Millet and studied under him at the Barbizon artists’ colony, be ...

(1824–1879), painter *

James Merritt Ives James Merritt Ives (March 5, 1824 – January 3, 1895) was an American lithographer, bookkeeper, and businessman. He oversaw the business and financial side of the firm, Currier and Ives, which he co-managed with his business partner, Natha ...

(1824–1895), lithographer *

Eastman Johnson Jonathan Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824 – April 5, 1906) was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of ...

(1824–1906), painter 1825 *

Benjamin Paul Akers Benjamin Paul Akers (July 10, 1825 – May 21, 1861) was an American sculptor from Maine. Early life He was born in 1825 in rural Saccarappa, Maine, into a large and indigent family. When his father, Deacon Akers, moved the family from Saccara ...

(1825–1861), sculptor * Vincent Colyer (1825–1888), painter *

Jacob Guptil Fletcher Jacob Guptil Fletcher (November 22, 1825 – December 3, 1889) was an American artist and art conservator. Born in Maine, Fletcher was a clerk in Boston in the 1850s and identified himself as an artist after 1860. He lived in Boston, Portland, Ma ...

(1825–1889), painter *

George Inness George Inness (May 1, 1825 – August 3, 1894) was a prominent American landscape painter. Now recognized as one of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced by the Hudson River School at the s ...

(1825–1894), painter *

William Henry Rinehart William Henry Rinehart (September 13, 1825 – October 28, 1874) was a noted American sculptor. He is considered "the last important American sculptor to work in the classical style." Biography The son of Israel Rinehart (1792–1871) and Mary ...

(1825–1874), sculptor 1826 * Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), painter 1827 * David Johnson (1827–1908), painter *

Francis Blackwell Mayer Francis Blackwell Mayer (December 27, 1827 – December 5, 1899) was a prominent 19th-century American genre painter from Maryland. While he spent most of his life in that state, he took a trip to the western frontier in the mid-nineteenth ...

(1827–1899), painter * Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), interior and textile design 1828 * Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828–1901), painter * James McDougal Hart (1828–1901), painter *

Jervis McEntee Jervis McEntee (July 14, 1828 – January 27, 1891) was an American painter of the Hudson River School. He is a somewhat lesser-known figure of the 19th-century American art world, but was the close friend and traveling companion of several of ...

(1828–1891), painter 1829 * Albert Fitch Bellows (1829–1883), painter * Thomas Hill (1829–1908) *

Edward Moran Edward Moran (August 19, 1829June 8, 1901) was an English-born American artist of maritime paintings. He is arguably most famous for his series of 13 historical paintings of United States marine history. Early life Moran was born to Thomas and M ...

(1829–1901), painter

Born 1830–1839

1830 *

Albert Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not ...

(1830–1902), painter * Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon (1830–1906), painter *

Eadweard Muybridge Eadweard Muybridge (; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first ...

(1830–1904), photographer *

Granville Perkins Granville Perkins (1830–1895) was an American illustrator and painter, best known for landscape and marine subjects. He contributed illustrations to numerous journals and books of the 1870s and 1880s. He also painted in oils and watercolors ...

(1830–1895), painter, engraver *

John Quincy Adams Ward John Quincy Adams Ward (June 29, 1830 – May 1, 1910) was an American sculptor, whose most familiar work is his larger than life-size standing statue of George Washington on the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial in New York City. Early ye ...

(1830–1910), sculptor 1831 * Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (1831–1898), political portrait painter * Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1831–1932), painter 1832 *

Samuel Colman Samuel Colman (March 4, 1832 – March 26, 1920) was an American painter, interior designer, and writer, probably best remembered for his paintings of the Hudson River. Life and career Born in Portland, Maine, Colman moved to New York City ...

(1832–1920), painter, interior designer *

Daniel Charles Grose Daniel Charles Grose (1832 – 1900) was a prolific Canadian-American painter of the Hudson River School who was active between 1864 and 1900. Primarily known for his pastoral landscapes, on occasion he also created marine views. Somewhat at vari ...

(1832–1900), painter *

William Savage William Savage (1720 – 27 July 1789) was an English composer, organist, and singer of the 18th century. He sang as a boy treble and alto, a countertenor, and as a bass. He is best remembered for his association with the composer George ...

(1832–1908), painter 1833 * Margarete Garvin Gillin (1833–1915), painter *

Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl Arthur Nahl (1 September 1833 – 1 April 1889) was a German-born artist, daguerreotyper, engraving, engraver, portraitist, and landscape painting, landscape painter. Nahl was a painter known for his American Old West paintings of California. ...

(1833–1889), painter, daguerreotyper, engraver, portraitist *

William Trost Richards William Trost Richards (November 14, 1833 – November 8, 1905) was an American landscape artist. He was associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement. Biography William Trost Richards was born on Novembe ...

(1833–1905), painter 1834 * Dwight Benton (1834–1903), painter *

Caspar Buberl Caspar Buberl (1834 – August 22, 1899) was an American sculptor. He is best known for his Civil War monuments, for the terra cotta relief panels on the Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio (depicting the various stages of James Garfield' ...

(1834–1899), sculptor * James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), painter, printmaker 1835 *

William Stanley Haseltine William Stanley Haseltine (June 11, 1835 – February 3, 1900) was an American painter and draftsman who was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting, the Hudson River School and Luminism. Early life and education Born in Philadelph ...

(1835–1900), painter *

John LaFarge John La Farge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was an American artist whose career spanned illustration, murals, interior design, painting, and popular books on his Asian travels and other art-related topics. La Farge is best known for ...

(1835–1910), painter, stained-glass window designer *

Edmund Darch Lewis Edmund Darch Lewis (October 17, 1835 – August 12, 1910) was an American landscape painter known for his prolific style and marine oils and watercolors. Lewis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a well-to-do family. He started training at ...

(1835–1910), painter *

Adah Isaacs Menken Adah Isaacs Menken (June 15, 1835August 10, 1868) was an American actress, painter and poet, and was the highest earning actress of her time.Palmer, Pamela Lynn"Adah Isaacs Menken" ''Handbook of Texas Online,'' published by the Texas State Histor ...

(1835–1868),

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, painter and

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

1836 *

Winslow Homer Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in ...

(1836–1910), painter, illustrator, printmaker *

Alexander Helwig Wyant Alexander Helwig Wyant (January 11, 1836November 29, 1892) was an American landscape painter. His early works belonged to the Hudson River School, with its direct pastoral narrative, but evolved into the more moody and shadowy Tonalism. After a s ...

(1836–1892), painter 1837 * Robert Wilson Andrews (1837–1922) *

Alfred Thompson Bricher Alfred Thompson Bricher (April 10, 1837 – September 30, 1908) was a painter associated with White Mountain art and the Hudson River School. Life and work Bricher was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was educated in an academy at Newbur ...

(1837–1908), painter *

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau (October 4, 1837 – January 28, 1922) was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life. ...

(1837–1922), salon painter *

Thomas Moran Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth too ...

(1837–1926), painter 1838 * Caroline Morgan Clowes (1838–1904), painter 1839 * Robert Crannell Minor (1839–1904), painter *

Henry Bacon Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who is best remembered for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (built 1915–1922), which was his final project. Education and early career Henr ...

(1839–1912), painter * Arthur Quartley (1839–1886), painter * Robert Wylie (1839–1877), painter

Born 1840–1849

1840 *

Abigail May Alcott Nieriker Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (July 26, 1840 – December 29, 1879) was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character AmyDinitia SmithFrom Alcott, a Parable for a Spirited Niece."The New York ...

(1840–1879), artist * Caroline Shawk Brooks (1840–1913), sculptor * Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905), painter * Thomas Hovenden (1840–1895), painter *

Thomas Nast Thomas Nast (; ; September 26, 1840December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was a critic of Democratic Representative "Boss" Tweed and ...

(1840–1902), caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator *

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Durin ...

(1840–1926), painter 1841 * John Joseph Enneking (1841–1916), painter * Edward Lamson Henry (1841–1919), painter * Theodore Otto Langerfeldt (1841–1906), painter * John Ferguson Weir (1841–1926), painter, sculptor 1842 *

Willis Seaver Adams Willis Seaver Adams (1844–1921) was a landscape painter who studied under James Abbott McNeill Whistler. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium and was part of the Tonalism movement, which took place in the late 19t ...

(1842–1921), painter *

Conrad Wise Chapman Conrad Wise Chapman (February 14, 1842 – December 10, 1910) was an American painter who served in the Confederate States Army from 1861 to 1865. Early life Conrad Wise Chapman was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Europe where h ...

(1842–1910), war painter *

Preston Powers Preston Powers (1843 – 1931) was an American sculptor, painter, and teacher, born in Florence, Italy. He is also known as William Preston Powers. Biography Powers studied with his father, Hiram Powers, a well known Neo-classical sculpto ...

(1842–1904), sculptor 1843 *

Alexander Wilson Drake Alexander Wilson Drake (1843–1916) was an American artist, collector and critic. Biography Drake was born near Westfield, New Jersey, Westfield, New Jersey., the son of Isaac Payne Drake (1818–1900) and Charlotte Osborne Drake (1817–190 ...

(1843–1916), painter, wood engraver * George Albert Frost (1843–1907), painter *

William Henry Jackson William Henry Jackson (April 4, 1843 – June 30, 1942) was an American photographer, Civil War veteran, painter, and an explorer famous for his images of the American West. He was a great-great nephew of Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of Am ...

(1843–1942), painter, photographer 1844 *

Mary Cassatt Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar De ...

(1844–1926), painter, printmaker *

Thomas Eakins Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (; July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists. For the length ...

(1844–1916), painter, photographer, sculptor *

Moses Jacob Ezekiel Moses Jacob Ezekiel, also known as Moses "Ritter von" Ezekiel (October 28, 1844 – March 27, 1917), was an American sculptor who lived and worked in Rome for the majority of his career. Ezekiel was "the first American-born Jewish artist to r ...

(1844–1917), sculptor *

Henry Farrer Henry Farrer (March 23, 1844 – February 24, 1903) was an English-born American artist known for his tonalist watercolor landscapes and etchings. Life Farrer was born in London, the younger brother of artist Thomas Charles Farrer. Thomas ...

(1844–1903), painter, printmaker *

Carl Gutherz Carl Gutherz (January 28, 1844 in Switzerland – February 7, 1907 in Washington, D.C.) was a painter, part of the Symbolist movement in the United States during the 19th century. Biography He came to the United States with his parents in 185 ...

(1844–1907), symbolist *

Olin Levi Warner Olin Levi Warner (April 9, 1844August 14, 1896) was an American sculptor and artist noted for the striking bas relief portrait medallions and busts he created in the late 19th century. Life Warner was born in Suffield, Connecticut. Warner's gre ...

(1844–1896), sculptor 1845 *

Edmonia Lewis Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as "Wildfire" (c. July 4, 1844 – September 17, 1907), was an American sculptor, of mixed African-American and Native American ( Mississauga Ojibwe) heritage. Born free in Upstate New York, she worked for most of ...

(1845–1911), sculptor 1846 *

Alexander Milne Calder Alexander Milne Calder (August 23, 1846 – June 4, 1923) (MILL-nee) was a Scottish American sculptor best known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. Both his son, Alexander Stirling Calder, and grandson, Alexander "San ...

(1846–1923), sculptor *

Francis Davis Millet Francis Davis Millet (November 3, 1848. – April 15, 1912) was an American academic classical painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' on April 15, 1912. Early life Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapo ...

(1846–1912), painter * Julian Scott (1846–1901), painter and Civil War artist 1847 *

Ralph Albert Blakelock Ralph Albert Blakelock (October 15, 1847 – August 9, 1919) was a romanticist American painter known primarily for his landscape paintings related to the Tonalism movement. Biography Ralph Blakelock was born in New York City on October 15, 18 ...

(1847–1919), painter *

Frederick Arthur Bridgman Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – January 13, 1928) was an American artist known for his paintings of " Orientalist" subjects. Life and career Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Bridgman was the son of a physician. He began as a d ...

(1847–1928), painter * Frederick Dielman (1847–1935), painter * Irene E. Parmelee (1847–1934), portrait artist *

Vinnie Ream Lavinia Ellen "Vinnie" Ream Hoxie (September 25, 1847 – November 20, 1914) was an American sculptor. Her most famous work is the statue of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the United States Capitol rotunda. Ream's '' Statue of Sequoyah' ...

(1847–1914), sculptor *

Albert Pinkham Ryder Albert Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of ...

(1847–1917), painter * T C Steele (1847–1926), painter 1848 *

Frank Duveneck Frank Duveneck (né Decker; October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and portrait painter. Early life Duveneck was born in Covington, Kentucky, the son of German immigrant Bernhard Decker. Decker died in a cholera epidemic whe ...

(1848–1919), painter *

William Harnett William Michael Harnett (August 10, 1848 – October 29, 1892) was an Irish-American painter known for his trompe-l'œil still lifes of ordinary objects. Early life Harnett was born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland during the time of the Gr ...

(1848–1892), painter *

Lilla Cabot Perry Lilla Cabot Perry (born Lydia Cabot; January 13, 1848 – February 28, 1933) was an American artist who worked in the American Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was ...

(1848–1933), painter *

Augustus Saint-Gaudens Augustus Saint-Gaudens (; March 1, 1848 – August 3, 1907) was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. From a French-Irish family, Saint-Gaudens was raised in New York City, he trav ...

(1848–1907), sculptor *

Louis Comfort Tiffany Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art NouveauL ...

(1848–1933), artist and designer * Charles Henry Francis Turner (1848–1908), painter 1849 *

George Newell Bowers George Newell Bowers (1849 – 1909, active 1872–1906) was an American painter in Springfield, Massachusetts. Few details are known of Bowers' life. He worked as a druggist's clerk in Springfield, Massachusetts before leaving to study ar ...

(1849–1909), painter *

William Merritt Chase William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849October 25, 1916) was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons School of Design. ...

(1849–1916), painter *

Frank C. Penfold Frank (Francis) Crawford Penfold (1849–1921) was an American artist and teacher, remembered for his genre, landscape and portrait paintings, many of which he completed while living in Pont-Aven in Brittany.Jacob Riis Jacob August Riis ( ; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twen ...

(1849–1914), photographer *

Abbott Handerson Thayer Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, and his paintings are represen ...

(1849–1921), painter *

Dwight William Tryon Dwight William Tryon (August 13, 1849 – July 1, 1925) was an American landscape painter in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work was influenced by James McNeill Whistler, and he is best known for his landscapes and seascapes pai ...

(1849–1925), painter *

Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum (August 28, 1849 — October 22, 1925) was an American illustrator, journalist, and writer. He is primarily known as an illustrator for late 19th century news magazines. His works were regularly featured in ''Harper’s ...

(1849–1925), illustrator, painter

Born 1850–1859

1850 * Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), sculptor * Paul E. Harney (1850–1915), artist * George Hitchcock (1850–1913), painter *

Robert Koehler Robert Koehler (November 28, 1850 – April 23, 1917) was a German-born Painting, painter and art teacher who spent most of his career in the United States. Biography Koehler was born in Hamburg; his family spelled their name Köhler until ...

(1850–1917), painter * Alfred Lambourne (1850–1926), painter 1851 *

J. Ottis Adams John Ottis Adams (July 8, 1851 – January 28, 1927) was an American Impressionism, American impressionist Painting, painter and art educator who is best known as a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana landscape painters, along with William For ...

(1851–1927), painter *

Thomas Pollock Anshutz Thomas Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16, 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Known for his portraiture and genre scenes, Anshutz was a co-founder of The Darby School. One of Thomas Eakins's most prominent students, he succeede ...

(1851–1912), painter *

Thomas Dewing Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten America ...

(1851–1938), painter *

Arthur Burdett Frost Arthur Burdett Frost (January 17, 1851 – June 22, 1928), usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Brer Rabbit and other characters i ...

(1851–1928), illustrator, graphic artist, comics writer, painter 1852 * Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), illustrator, painter *

James Carroll Beckwith James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Naturalist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth and very early twentieth century as a respected figure i ...

(1852–1917), painter * Charles Graham (1852–1911), illustrator, painter * Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr. (1852–1944), landscape painter * Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photographer *

Theodore Robinson Theodore Robinson (June 3, 1852April 2, 1896) was an American painter best known for his Impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up Impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close frien ...

(1852–1896), painter * J. Alden Weir (1852–1919), painter 1853 *

William Turner Dannat William Turner Dannat (July 9, 1853March 12, 1929) was an American artist known especially for paintings of Spanish subject matter. Biography William T. Dannat was born in 1853 at Hempstead (village), New York, Hempstead, New York the younger ...

(1853–1929), painter *

T. Alexander Harrison Thomas Alexander Harrison (January 17, 1853 in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaOctober 13, 1930 in Paris, France), was an American marine painter who spent most of his career in France. Career He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Ph ...

(1853–1930), painter *

John Francis Murphy John Francis Murphy (December 11, 1853 – January 30, 1921) was an American Irish landscape painter. His style moved from poetic Tonalism to the innovative application of multiple layers of pigment, in order to create a sparse, brooding lands ...

(1853–1921), painter *

Howard Pyle Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894, he began ...

(1853–1911), illustrator *

Henry Fitch Taylor ] Henry Fitch Taylor (1853–1925) was an American painter who was to become the oldest among the generation of American artists who responded to and explored Cubism. Taylor served as the first president of the American Association of Artists a ...

(1853–1925), painter *

John Henry Twachtman John Henry Twachtman (August 4, 1853 – August 8, 1902) was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impr ...

(1853–1902), painter 1854 * William Henry Chandler (1854–1928), painter in pastels * Hugo Anton Fisher (1854–1916), painter * William Forsyth (1854–1935), painter * Herbjørn Gausta (1854–1924), landscape artist *

L. Birge Harrison Lovell Birge Harrison (October 28, 1854, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 1929) was an American genre and landscape painter, teacher, and writer. He was a prominent practitioner and advocate of Tonalism. Life Born in Philadelphia, Birge Harrison w ...

(1854–1929), painter *

George Inness, Jr. George Inness Jr. (January 5, 1854 – July 27, 1926), was one of America's foremost figure and landscape artists and the son of George Inness, an important American landscape painter. Biography He studied with his father and Léon Bonnat i ...

(1854–1926), painter *

Leonard Ochtman Leonard Ochtman (October 21, 1854 – October 27, 1934) was a Dutch- American Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes. He was a founding member of the Cos Cob Art Colony and the Greenwich Society of Artists. Biography and ca ...

(1854–1935), painter *

John Frederick Peto John Frederick Peto (May 21, 1854 – November 23, 1907) was an American ''trompe-l'œil'' ("fool the eye") painter who was long forgotten until his paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow ''trompe-l'œil'' artist William Harnett. ...

(1854–1907), painter 1855 *

Cecilia Beaux Eliza Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American society portraitist, whose subjects included First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau. Trained in Philadelphia, she went on to study ...

(1855–1942), painter * Jacob Fjelde (1855–1896), Norwegian-born American sculptor * Claudine Raguet Hirst (1855–1942), still life painter * James Edward Kelly (1855–1933), sculptor, illustrator *

Charles Henry Niehaus Charles Henry Niehaus (January 24, 1855 — June 19, 1935), was an American sculptor. Education Niehaus was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German parents. He began working as a marble and wood carver, and then gained entrance to the McMicken ...

(1855–1935), sculptor * Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855–1919), painter 1856 * Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893), painter *

Colin Campbell Cooper Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. (March 8, 1856 – November 6, 1937) was an American Impressionist painter, perhaps most renowned for his architectural paintings, especially of skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. An avid traveler, ...

(1856–1937), painter *

Kenyon Cox Kenyon Cox (October 27, 1856 – March 17, 1919) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, writer, and teacher. Cox was an influential and important early instructor at the Art Students League of New York. He was the designer of the League ...

(1856–1919), painter * Charles Harold Davis (1856–1933), painter *

John Haberle John Haberle (1856–1933) was an American painter in the ''trompe-l'œil'' (literally, "fool the eye") style. His still lifes of ordinary objects are painted in such a way that the painting can be mistaken for the objects themselves. He is consid ...

(1856–1933), painter *

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (October 28, 1856 – February 9, 1942) was an American portrait and Genre works, genre painter born in San Francisco, California, United States. She is perhaps best known for her portraits of famous women including Elizab ...

(1856–1942), painter * John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), portrait artist 1857 * Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter *

Alice Pike Barney Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike; 1857–1931) was an American painter. She was active in Washington, D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts. Her two daughters were the writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney and ...

(1857–1931), painter *

Bruce Crane Robert Bruce Crane (1857 – October 30, 1937) was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 1900s. His most active period, though, came after 1920, when for more than a decade he did oil sketches of woods, meadows, ...

(1857–1937), painter * Edward Wilson Currier (1857–1918), painter *

Arthur Wesley Dow Arthur Wesley Dow (1857 – December 13, 1922) was an American painter, printmaker, photographer and an arts educator. Early life Arthur Wesley Dow was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1857. Dow received his first art training in 1880 from An ...

(1857–1922), painter, printmaker * Charles Warren Eaton (1857–1937), painter * Emma B. King (1857–1933), impressionist *

Florence MacKubin Florence MacKubin (or Mackubin) (May 19, 1857 in Florence – February 2, 1918 in Baltimore) was an American portrait painter in miniature, pastel, and oil colors. She painted portraits of prominent people in the United States and the United King ...

(1857–1918), portrait painter * George E. Ohr (1857–1918), ceramic potter *

Edward Clark Potter Edward Clark Potter (November 26, 1857 – June 21, 1923) was an American sculptor best known for his equestrian and animal statues. His most famous works are the marble lions, nicknamed ''Patience'' and ''Fortitude'', in front of the New Yor ...

(1857–1923), sculptor * Frank Raubicheck (1857–1952), painter *

John Vanderpoel John Henry Vanderpoel (November 15, 1857 – May 2, 1911), born Johannes (Jan) van der Poel, was a Dutch-American artist and teacher, best known as an instructor of figure drawing. His book ''The Human Figure'', a standard art school resource fea ...

(1857–1911), painter, graphics *

Mary Rogers Williams Mary Rogers Williams (September 30, 1857 – September 17, 1907) was an American tonalist and Impressionist artist known for pastel and oil portraits and landscapes. She was second in command of Smith College's art department from 1888 to 1906 un ...

(1857–1907), painter 1858 * Herbert Adams (1858–1945), sculptor *

Joseph DeCamp Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (November 5, 1858February 11, 1923) was an American painter and educator. Biography Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he studied with Frank Duveneck. In the second half of the 1870s he went with Duveneck and fellow students ...

(1858–1923), painter *

Francis Edwin Elwell Francis Edwin Elwell (also cited as Frank Edwin Elwell) (June 15, 1858, Concord, Massachusetts – January 23, 1922, Darien, Connecticut) was an American sculptor, teacher, and author. He lectured on art at Harvard University, and taught modelin ...

(1858–1922), sculptor * Frederick Gottwald (1858–1941), painter * Charles S. Kaelin (1858–1929, painter *

Willard Metcalf Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1, 1858March 9, 1925) was an American painter born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and ill ...

(1858–1925), painter *

Henry Siddons Mowbray Harry Siddons Mowbray (August 5, 1858 – 1928) was an American artist. He executed various painting commissions for J.P. Morgan, F.W. Vanderbilt, and other clients. He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 1902–1904. Bio ...

(1858–1928), painter *

Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II (November 9, 1858 – April 4, 1923) was a United States Army Major who served with the 22nd Infantry Regiment during the Indian Wars, the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War. He helped direct ...

(1858–1923), painter and poet *

Maurice Prendergast Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American artist who painted in oil and watercolor, and created monotypes. His delicate landscapes and scenes of modern life, characterized by mosaic-like color, are ...

(1858–1924), painter *

Henry Ward Ranger Henry Ward Ranger (January 29, 1858 – November 7, 1916) was an American artist. Born in western New York State, he was a prominent landscape and marine painter, an important Tonalist, and the leader of the Old Lyme Art Colony. Ranger became a ...

(1858–1916), painter *

William B. T. Trego William Brooke Thomas Trego (September 15, 1858 – June 24, 1909) was an American painter best known for his historical military subjects, in particular scenes of the American Revolution and Civil War. Biography William B. T. Trego was b ...

(1858–1909), painter 1859 *

William Bliss Baker William Bliss Baker (November 27, 1859 – November 20, 1886) was an American artist who began painting just as the Hudson River School was winding down. Baker began his studies in 1876 at the National Academy of Design, where he studied with ...

(1859–1886), painter * George Elbert Burr (1859–1939), painter, printmaker *

Walter Leighton Clark Walter Leighton Clark (1859–1935) was an American businessman, inventor, and artist based in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and New York City. Biography Among other achievements, in 1923 he founded with John Singer Sargent the Grand Central Art ...

(1859–1935), painter, sculptor *

Childe Hassam Frederick Childe Hassam (; October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressioni ...

(1859–1935), painter, printmaker *

Joseph Henry Sharp Joseph Henry Sharp (September 27, 1859 – August 29, 1953) was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, of which he is considered the "Spiritual Father". Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists t ...

(1859–1953), painter *

Henry Ossawa Tanner Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in Fren ...

(1859–1937), painter

Born 1860–1869

1860 *

William Jacob Baer William Jacob Baer (January 29, 1860 – September 21, 1941) was an American artist, considered the foremost American miniature painter. Biography William Jacob Baer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on January 29, 1860. He was a lithographer' ...

(1860–1941), painter *

Carl Eytel Carl Eytel (September 12, 1862 – September 17, 1925) was a German American artist who built his reputation for paintings and drawings of desert subjects in the American Southwest. Immigrating to the United States in 1885, he settled in Palm Sp ...

(1862–1925), landscape painter, illustrator * John Kane (1860–1934), painter *

Dodge MacKnight Dodge Macknight (''né'' William Dodge MacKnight; 1 October 1860 Providence, Rhode Island – 23 May 1950 East Sandwich, Massachusetts) was an American painter. Career MacKnight's work falls under the post-Impressionism, an art movement that ...

(1860–1950), painter *

Arthur Frank Mathews Arthur F. Mathews (October 1, 1860 – February 19, 1945) was an American Tonalist painter who was one of the founders of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Trained as an architect and artist, he and his wife Lucia Kleinhans Mathews had a s ...

(1860–1945), painter *

Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. H ...

(1860–1961), painter * Iris Nampeyo (c. 1860–1942), potter, ceramic artist * Anna M. Sands (1860–1927/1940), painter *

Lorado Taft Lorado Zadok Taft (April 29, 1860, in Elmwood, Illinois – October 30, 1936, in Chicago) was an American sculptor, writer and educator. His 1903 book, ''The History of American Sculpture,'' was the first survey of the subject and stood for deca ...

(1860–1936), sculptor 1861 *

Dennis Miller Bunker Dennis Miller Bunker (November 6, 1861 – December 28, 1890) was an American painter and innovator of American Impressionism. His mature works include both brightly colored landscape paintings and dark, finely drawn portraits and figures. One ...

(1861–1890), painter *

Theodore Earl Butler Theodore Earl Butler, (1861–1936) was an American impressionist painter. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Paris to study art. He befriended Claude Monet in Giverny, and married his stepdaughter, Suzanne Hoschedé. After her death he ...

(1861–1936), painter *

Charles Courtney Curran Charles Courtney Curran (13 February 1861 – 9 November 1942) was an American painter. He is best known for his canvases depicting women in various settings. Biography Curran was born in Hartford, Kentucky in February, 1861, where his father ...

(1861–1942), painter *

D. Howard Hitchcock David Howard Hitchcock (May 15, 1861 – January 1, 1943) was an American painter of the Volcano School, known for his depictions of Hawaii. Life David Howard Hitchcock was born May 15, 1861, in Hilo, Hawaii. Since his father was also named Da ...

(1861–1943), painter * Florence Koehler (1861–1944) * Wilton Lockwood (1861–1914), artist * Clara Weaver Parrish (1861–1925), painter, printmaker, stained glass designer *

Frederic Remington Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of Western American Art. His works are known for depicting the Western United Stat ...

(1861–1909), painter, sculptor, illustrator *

Frank Rinehart Frank Albert Rinehart (February 12, 1861 – December 17, 1928) was an American photographer who captured Native American personalities and scenes, especially portrait settings of leaders and members of the delegations who attended the 1898 Indi ...

(1861–1928), photographer, illustrator *

Douglas Tilden Douglas Tilden (May 1, 1860 to August 5, 1935) was an American sculptor. He was deaf from a bout of scarlet fever at the age of four and attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, California (now in Fremont, California). He ...

(1861–1935), sculptor 1862 *

Adam Emory Albright Adam Emory Albright (August 15, 1862 – September 13, 1957) was a painter of figures in landscapes. He was born in Monroe, Wisconsin and spent his working life in Warrenville and the Chicago area. Early years Albright studied at the Chicago ...

(1862–1957), painter of figures in

landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the p ...

* Frank Weston Benson (1862–1951), painter, printmaker *

Charles Grafly Charles Allan Grafly, Jr. (December 3, 1862May 5, 1929) was an American sculptor, and teacher. Instructor of Sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for 37 years, his students included Paul Manship, Albin Polasek, and Walker Hanc ...

(1862–1929), sculptor * Alice De Wolf Kellogg (1862–1900), painter * Hudson Mindell Kitchell (1862–1944), luminescent and tonalist landscapes * Albert Pike Lucas (1862–1945), landscape, figure, and portrait *

Adolfo Müller-Ury Adolfo Müller-Ury, KSG (March 29, 1862 – July 6, 1947) was a Swiss-born American portrait painter and impressionistic painter of roses and still life. Heritage and early life in Switzerland He was born Felice Adolfo Müller on 29 March ...

(1862–1947), painter * Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862–1924), painter * Robert Reid (1862–1929), painter and muralist * Edmund C. Tarbell (1862–1938), painter 1863 *

George Gray Barnard George Grey Barnard (May 24, 1863 – April 24, 1938), often written George Gray Barnard, was an American sculptor who trained in Paris. He is especially noted for his heroic sized '' Struggle of the Two Natures in Man'' at the Metropolitan Museu ...

(1863–1938), sculptor *

Arthur B. Davies Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1862 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist and influential advocate of modern art in the United States c. 1910–1928. Biography Davies was born in Utica, New York, the son of David and Phoeb ...

(1863–1928), painter, printmaker *

Frederick William MacMonnies Frederick William MacMonnies (September 28, 1863 – March 22, 1937) was the best known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States. He was also a highly accomplishe ...

(1863–1937), sculptor * Verner Moore White (1863–1923), painter *

Jessie Willcox Smith Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the lat ...

(1863–1935), Illustrator 1864 * Charles Basing (1864–1933), artist * George Henry Bogert (1864–1944), painter *

Henry Golden Dearth Henry Golden Dearth (22 April 1864 – 27 March 1918) was a distinguished American painter who studied in Paris, France, Paris and continued to spend his summers in France painting in the Normandy region. He would return to New York in winter, an ...

(1864–1918), painter *

Louis Eilshemius Louis Michel Eilshemius (February 4, 1864 – December 29, 1941) was an American painter, primarily of landscapes and nudes. He also wrote musical compositions, verse, novels, short stories, and published periodicals.

(1864–1941), painter *

William Frederic Ritschel William Frederic Ritschel, also known as Wilhelm Frederick Ritschel (1864–1949), was a California impressionist painter who was born in Nuremberg, Germany on July 11, 1864. Germany and New York After completing his education at a regional Gy ...

(1864–1949), German American painter *

Charles Marion Russell Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West. He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, an ...

(1864–1926), painter, sculptor * Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), photographer *

Svend Rasmussen Svendsen Svend Rasmussen Svendsen (March 21, 1864 – September 6, 1945) was a Norwegian American impressionist artist. Svendsen is most known for his rural scenes, marine views, and snowy landscapes of Norway. Background Svend Rasmussen Svendsen wa ...

(1864–1945),

Norwegian American Norwegian Americans ( nb, Norskamerikanere, nn, Norskamerikanarar) are Americans with ancestral roots in Norway. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the ...

impressionist artist *

Charles Herbert Woodbury Charles Herbert Woodbury (July 14, 1864 – January 21, 1940), was an American marine painter. Biography Charles H. Woodbury was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, where his earliest work was part of the oeuvre of the group later known as the ...

(1864–1940), painter 1865 *

George Bridgman George Brant Bridgman (November 5, 1864 – December 16, 1943) was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at the Art Students League of New York for some ...

(1865–1943), painter * Herbert A. Collins (1865–1937), landscape and portrait painter * Thomas Cromwell Corner (1865–1938), portrait painter *

Leon Dabo Leon Dabo (July 9, 1864 – November 7, 1960) was an American tonalist landscape artist best known for his paintings of New York, particularly the Hudson Valley. His paintings were known for their feeling of spaciousness, with large areas of the ...

(1865–1960), painter *

Frank Vincent DuMond Frank Vincent DuMond (August 20, 1865 – February 6, 1951) was one of the most influential teacher-painters in 20th-century America. He was an illustrator and American Impressionist painter of portraits and landscapes, and a prominent teach ...

(1865–1951), painter *

Robert Henri Robert Henri (; June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. As a young man, he studied in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists, and determined to lead an even more dramatic revolt against A ...

(1865–1929), painter * Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865–1929), painter and

potter A potter is someone who makes pottery. Potter may also refer to: Places United States *Potter, originally a section on the Alaska Railroad, currently a neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska, US * Potter, Arkansas *Potter, Nebraska * Potters, New Je ...

1866 *

Karl Albert Buehr Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a painter born in Germany. Buehr was born in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He was the son of Frederick Buehr and Henrietta Doh (Dohna?). He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chic ...

(1866–1952), painter * E. Irving Couse (1866–1935), painter, illustrator *

Helen Thomas Dranga Helen Thomas Dranga (1866–1927), who is also known as Carrie Helen Dranga, was a British/American painter who made paintings of Hawaii. Personal life Born Caroline Helen Thomas in Oxford, England on December 28, 1866. The daughter of Mary A ...

(1866–1940), painter *

Jenny Eakin Delony Jenny Eakin Delony, also known as Jenny Eakin Delony Rice and Jenny Meyrowitz, (1866–1949) was an American painter and educator. She specialized in portraits of notable and historic figures in the United States, but also made miniature, land ...

(1866–1949), painter * Emil Fuchs (1866–1929), Austrian-born painter, emigrated to US in 1915 *

Arvid Nyholm Arvid Frederick Nyholm (July 12, 1866 – November 14, 1927) was a Swedish-American artist, known primarily as a portrait and landscape painter. Background Arvid Frederick Nyholm was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father, Karl Fredrik Nyholm, was ...

(1866–1927),

Swedish-American Swedish Americans ( sv, svenskamerikaner) are Americans of Swedish ancestry. They include the 1.2 million Swedish immigrants during 1865–1915, who formed tight-knit communities, as well as their descendants and more recent immigrants. Today, ...

portrait and landscape artist * Theodore Scott-Dabo (1866–1928), painter * Henry Otto Wix (1866–1922), German-born American painter *

Art Young Arthur Henry Young (January 14, 1866 – December 29, 1943) was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left-wing political magazine ''The Masses'' between 1911 and 1917. B ...

(1866–1943), cartoonist 1867 *

Reynolds Beal Reynolds Beal (October 11, 1866 – December 18, 1951) was an American Impressionist and Modernist artist. Early life and career The elder brother of painter Gifford Beal, Reynolds was born in New York City. He and his brother Gifford spent thei ...

(1867–1951), painter * Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867–1938), painter *

Gutzon Borglum John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Mountain in Geo ...

(1867–1941), sculptor * Harry Buckwalter (1867–1930), photographer, filmmaker * Wickliffe Covington (1867–1938), painter * Henry Brown Fuller (1867–1934), painter *

Charles Dana Gibson Charles Dana Gibson (September 14, 1867 – December 23, 1944) was an American illustrator. He was best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent Euro-American woman at the turn of the ...

(1867–1944), graphic artist *

George Luks George Benjamin Luks (August 13, 1867 – October 29, 1933) was an American artist, identified with the aggressively realistic Ashcan School of American painting. After travelling and studying in Europe, Luks worked as a newspaper illustrator a ...

(1867–1933), painter *

Jerome Myers Jerome Myers (March 20, 1867 – June 19, 1940) was an American artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape and its people. He was one of the main organizers of the ...

(1867–1940), painter *

Bela Lyon Pratt Bela Lyon Pratt (December 11, 1867 – May 18, 1917) was an American sculptor from Connecticut. Life Pratt was born in Norwich, Connecticut, to Sarah (Whittlesey) and George Pratt, a Yale-educated lawyer. His maternal grandfather, Oramel Whittle ...

(1867–1917), sculptor * William Sommer (1867–1949), painter *

Allen Butler Talcott Allen Butler Talcott (April 8, 1867 – June 1, 1908) was an American landscape painter. After studying art in Paris for three years at Académie Julian, he returned to the United States, becoming one of the first members of the Old Lyme ...

(1867–1908), painter *

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements o ...

(1867–1959), architect, innovator 1868 *

Solon Borglum Solon Hannibal de la Mothe Borglum (December 22, 1868 – January 31, 1922) was an American sculptor. He is most noted for his depiction of frontier life, and especially his experience with cowboys and native Americans. He was awarded the Croix ...

(1868–1922), sculptor * Merton Clivette (1868–1931), painter *

Edward S. Curtis Edward Sherriff Curtis (February 19, 1868 – October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people. Sometimes referred to as the "Shadow Catcher", Curtis travele ...

(1868–1952), photographer * Nellie Huntington Gere (1868–1949), painter and illustrator *

Alfred Henry Maurer Alfred Henry Maurer (April 21, 1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century. Highly respected today, his wor ...

(1868–1932), painter *

Bert Geer Phillips Bert Geer Phillips (July 15, 1868 – June 16, 1956) was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He settled in Taos, New Mexico (1898) and was a founder of the Taos art colony. He is known for his paintings of Na ...

(1868–1956), painter * Anne Louise Gregory Ritter (1868–1929), painter and ceramicist * Anna Woodward (1868–1935), painter 1869 *

Kate Carew Mary Williams (June 27, 1869 – February 11, 1961), who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was an American caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the ''New York World'', providing illustrated celebrity int ...

(1869–1961), caricaturist *

Percy Gray Henry Percy Gray (1869–1952) was an American painter. Gray was born on October 3, 1869 into a San Francisco family with broad literary and artistic tastes. He studied at the San Francisco School of Design and later under William Merritt Chase ...

(1869–1952), painter * Mary Sheppard Greene (1869–1958), painter and illustrator *

Charles Hopkinson Charles Sydney Hopkinson (July 27, 1869 – October 16, 1962) was an American portrait painter and landscape watercolorist. He maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in ...

(1869–1962), painter *

Wilson Irvine Wilson Henry Irvine (28 February 1869 – 1936) was a master American Impressionist landscape painter. Although most closely associated with the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony headed by Florence Griswold, Irvine spent his early career near C ...

(1869–1936), painter * Xavier Timoteo Martinez (1869–1943), painter *

William McGregor Paxton William McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American painter and instructor who embraced the Boston School paradigm and was a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists. He taught briefly while a student at Cowles Art School, wher ...

(1869–1941), painter * Edward Willis Redfield (1869–1965), painter *

Janet Scudder Janet Scudder (October 27, 1869 – June 9, 1940), born Netta Deweze Frazee Scudder, was an American sculptor and painter from Terre Haute, Indiana, who is best known for her memorial sculptures, bas-relief portraiture, and portrait medallions, ...

(1869–1940), sculptor * Harriet "Hattie" Elizabeth Wilcox (1869–1943), ceramics artist

Born 1870–1879

1870 * Thomas P. Barnett (1870–1929), painter * Anna Richards Brewster (1870–1952), painter *

Alexander Stirling Calder Alexander Stirling Calder (January 11, 1870 – January 7, 1945) was an American sculptor and teacher. He was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander (Sandy) Calder. His best-known works are ''George Washi ...

(1870–1945), sculptor *

William Glackens William James Glackens (March 13, 1870 – May 22, 1938) was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School, which rejected the formal boundaries of artistic beauty laid-down by the conservative National Academy of De ...

(1870–1938), painter * John Marin (1870–1953), painter, printmaker * John T. McCutcheon (1870–1949), political cartoonist *

Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. His career spann ...

(1870–1966), painter, illustrator *

Augustus Vincent Tack Augustus Vincent Tack (1870–1949) was an American painter of portraits, landscapes and abstractions. Early years Tack was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved with his family to New York in 1883. After graduating from St. Francis Xavier ...

(1870–1949), painter * Frederick Weygold (1870–1941), painter and photographer *

Adolph Alexander Weinman Adolph Alexander Weinman (December 11, 1870 – August 8, 1952) was a Germany-born American sculptor and architectural sculptor. Early life and education Adolph Alexander Weinman was born December 11, 1870 at Durmersheim, near Karlsruhe, Germ ...

(1870–1952), sculptor *

Samuel Washington Weis Samuel Washington Weis (1870–1956) was an American cotton broker, painter and sketch artist. Early life and education Samuel Weis was born in Natchez, Mississippi to Caroline (née Mayer) (1841–1885) and Julius Weis (1826–1909). His fathe ...

(1870–1956), painter *

Enid Yandell Enid Yandell (October 6, 1869 – June 12, 1934) was an American sculptor from Louisville, Kentucky who studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris, Philip Martiny in New York City, and Frederick William MacMonnies. Yandell specialized in portrait bus ...

(1870–1934), sculptor 1871 *

Edith Woodman Burroughs Edith Woodman Burroughs (1871 in Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York – 1916 in Flushing, Queens) was an American sculptor. Her work was included in the 1913 Armory Show. Biography Born in Riverdale, New York, Woodman began studying with master ...

(1871–1916), sculptor *

Angel De Cora Angel De Cora Dietz (1871–1919) was a Winnebago painter, illustrator, Native American rights advocate, and teacher at Carlisle Indian School. She was a well-known Native American artist before World War I. Background Angel De Cora Dietz or H ...

(1871–1919), painter, illustrator * Margaret Fernie Eaton (1871–1953), artist, book plate illustrator *

Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germa ...

(1871–1956), printmaker * Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871–1954), illustrator *

Albert Herter Albert Herter (March 2, 1871 – February 15, 1950) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, and interior designer. He was born in New York City, studied at the Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith, then in Paris with Jean ...

(1871–1950), artist and painter *

Granville Redmond Granville Richard Seymour Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter and exponent of Tonalism and California Impressionism. He was also an occasional actor for his friend Charlie Chaplin. Early years Re ...

(1871–1935), painter *

John French Sloan John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 – September 7, 1951) was an American painter and etcher. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. He was also a member of the group known as The Eight. He is best known ...

(1871–1951), painter *

Edward Charles Volkert Edward Charles Volkert (1871–1935) was an American Impressionist artist best known for his colorful and richly painted impressionist landscapes. His trademark subject was that of cattle and plowmen. His style is noted for its impressionist u ...

(1871–1935), painter *

Clark Voorhees Clark Greenwood Voorhees (1871 – 1933) was an American Impressionist and Tonalist landscape painter and one of the founders of the Old Lyme Art Colony. Biography The son of a stockbroker, Voorhees was born on May 29, 1871, in New York Cit ...

(1871–1933), painter 1872 * Charles Avery Aiken (1872–1965), painter, watercolorist *

Robert Winthrop Chanler Robert Winthrop Chanler (February 22, 1872 – October 24, 1930) was an American artist and member of the Astor and Dudley–Winthrop families. A designer and muralist, Chanler received much of his art training in France at the École des Beaux- ...

(1872–1930), muralist *

Charles Webster Hawthorne Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899. He was born in Lodi, Illinois, and his parents returned to Maine ...

(1872–1930), painter *

Edna Boies Hopkins Edna Boies Hopkins (October 13, 1872 – March 24, 1937) was an American artist who made woodblock prints, based upon Japanese ukiyo-e art and Arthur Wesley Dow's formula of three main elements: '' notan'', a balance of light and dark, line and c ...

(1872–1937), woodblock print artist *

Frederick Dana Marsh Frederick Dana Marsh (1872 – December 20, 1961) was an Americans, American illustrator. Born in 1872 to a prosperous Chicago stockyard merchant, Marsh attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he worked with artists preparin ...

(1872–1961), illustrator * George L. Viavant (1872–1925), acquascape artist *

Bessie Potter Vonnoh Bessie Potter Vonnoh (August 17, 1872 – March 8, 1955) was an American sculptor best known for her small bronzes, mostly of domestic scenes, and for her garden fountains. Her stated artistic objective, as she told an interviewer in 1925, was to ...

(1872–1955), sculptor 1873 *

Jane Emmet de Glehn Jane Erin Emmet de Glehn (born Jane Erin Emmet in 1873; died 20 February 1961) was an American figure and portrait painter. Early life Born in New Rochelle, New York, she was the youngest daughter of ten siblings. Her great-great-uncle Rober ...

(1873–1961) * Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873–1945), painter, muralist *

Ernest Lawson Ernest Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American painter and exhibited his work at the Canadian Art Club and as a member of the American group The Eight, artists who formed a loose association in 1908 to protes ...

(1873–1939), painter * Paul Mersereau (born 1873), painter *

Arthur Putnam Arthur Putnam (September 6, 1873 – May 27, 1930) was an American sculptor and animalier who was recognized for his bronze sculptures of wild animals. Some of his artworks are public monuments. He was a well-known figure, both statewide and n ...

(1873–1930), sculptor *

Juliet Thompson Juliet Thompson (1873–1956) was an American painter, and disciple of Baháʼí Faith leader ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. She is perhaps best remembered for her book ''The Diary of Juliet Thompson'' though she also painted a life-sized portrait of ʻAbdu'l-Ba ...

(1873–1956), painter * Cordelia Wilson (1873–1953), painter 1874 * John Wolcott Adams (1874–1925), drawing * Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874–1960), painter *

Franklin Booth Franklin Booth (July 8, 1874 – August 25, 1948) was an American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. He had a unique illustration style based upon his early recreation of wood engraving illustrations with pen and ink. His skil ...

(1874–1948), illustrator *

Romaine Brooks Romaine Brooks (born Beatrice Romaine Goddard; May 1, 1874 – December 7, 1970) was an American painter who worked mostly in Paris and Capri. She specialized in portrait painting, portraiture and used a subdued tonal Palette (painting), palette ...

(1874–1970), painter * Ira J. Deen (1874–1952), artist *

Harold Heartt Foley Harold Heartt Foley (1874 – 1923) was an early twentieth-century American painter, collagist and illustrator. Youth and education Born in New York City in 1874, the young Harold Leroy Livingston grew up in an honorable and wealthy family. ...

(1874–1923), painter, collagist, and illustrator *

Arnold Friedman Arnold Friedman (February 23, 1879 – December 29, 1946) was an American Modernist painter. Life He was born in Corona, Queens, worked for the Federal Art Project and studied at the Art Students League of New York under the tutelage o ...

(1874–1946), painter *

Frederick Carl Frieseke Frederick Carl Frieseke (April 7, 1874 – August 24, 1939) was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various ...

(1874–1939), painter *

Charles R. Knight Charles Robert Knight (October 21, 1874 – April 15, 1953) was an American wildlife and paleoartist best known for his detailed paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are currently ...

(1874–1953), dinosaur artist *

Violet Oakley Violet Oakley (June 10, 1874 – February 25, 1961) was an American artist. She was the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural dec ...

(1874–1961), muralist *

Rose O'Neill Rose Cecil O'Neill (June 25, 1874 – April 6, 1944) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She rose to fame for her creation of the popular comic strip characters, Kewpies, in 1909, and was also the first published fema ...

(1874–1944), first comic strip artist * Hans K. Schuler (1874–1951), sculptor 1875 * Ethel Blanchard Collver (1875–1955), Impressionist artist and teacher *

Alice Cooper Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer whose career spans over five decades. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guillot ...

(1875–1937), sculptor *

Maynard Dixon Maynard Dixon (January 24, 1875 – November 11, 1946) was an American artist. He was known for his paintings, and his body of work focused on the American West. Dixon is considered one of the finest artists having dedicated most of their art o ...

(1875–1946), painter *

Dulah Marie Evans Dulah Marie Evans, later Dulah Marie Evans Krehbiel (17 February 1875 – 24 July 1951) was an American painter, photographer, printmaker, illustrator, and etcher. Evans received commissions from the Armour Food Company and Santa Fe Railroad ...

(1875–1951), painter, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, etcher *

Charles Keck Charles Keck (September 9, 1875 – April 23, 1951) was an American sculptor from New York City, New York. Early life and education Keck studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York with Philip Martiny ...

(1875–1951), sculptor *

Marion Wachtel Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel (June 10, 1873/77 – May 22, 1954) was an American plein air painter in watercolors and Oil painting, oils. She lived and worked with her artist husband Elmer Wachtel in the Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County), Arroyo ...

(1875–1951), painter *

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, ...

(1875–1942), sculptor 1876 *

Alson S. Clark Alson Skinner Clark (March 25, 1876 – March 23, 1949) was an American Impressionist painter best remembered for his landscapes. He was also a photographer, '' plein aire'' painter, art educator and muralist. Early life and education On ...

(1876–1949), painter *

Edith Dimock Edith Dimock (February 16, 1876 – October 28, 1955) was an American painter. Her work was exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. She married fellow artist, William Glackens, but continued to use her maiden name professionally after the ...

(1876–1955), painter * Eulabee Dix (1878–1961), water colour portrait miniatures * James Earle Fraser (1876–1953), sculptor * Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt (1876–1962), painter of miniatures *

Anna Hyatt Huntington Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (March 10, 1876 – October 4, 1973) was an American sculptor who was among New York City's most prominent sculptors in the early 20th century. At a time when very few women were successful artists, she had a thrivi ...

(1876–1973), sculptor *

Kenneth Hayes Miller Kenneth Hayes Miller (March 11, 1876 – January 1, 1952) was an American painter, printmaker, and teacher. Career Born in Oneida, New York, he studied at the Art Students League of New York with Kenyon Cox, Henry Siddons Mowbray and with Willi ...

(1876–1952), painter * Frederick Pawla (1876–1964), painter and muralist *

Boardman Robinson Boardman Michael Robinson (1876–1952) was a Canadian-American painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Biography Early years Boardman Robinson was born September 6, 1876 in Nova Scotia. He spent his childhood in England and Canada, before mov ...

(1876–1952),

Canadian American Canadian Americans is a term that can be applied to American citizens whose ancestry is wholly or partly Canadian, or citizens of either country that hold dual citizenship. The term ''Canadian'' can mean a nationality or an ethnicity. Canadia ...

painter * Paul R. Schumann (1876–1946), impressionist seascapes *

Everett Shinn Everett Shinn (November 6, 1876 – May 1, 1953) was an American painter and member of the urban realist Ashcan School. Shinn started as a newspaper illustrator in Philadelphia, demonstrating a rare facility for depicting animated movement, a ...

(1876–1953), painter and illustrator * Walter Ufer (1876–1936), printer, illustrator *

Bessie Wheeler Bessie Wheeler (1876–?), was an American painter about whom little is known. She painted portraits of people encountered on the streets of Honolulu around 1900. She contributed illustrations to Thrum's Hawaiian Annual ''Thrum's Hawaii ...

(born 1876), painter 1877 * Eda Nemoede Casterton (1877–1969), painter * Rinaldo Cuneo (1877–1939), painter * Rudolph Dirks (1877–1968), cartoonist *

Paul Dougherty Paul Dougherty (born 12 May 1966) is an English former professional soccer player and soccer coach who began his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers in England. He then moved to the United States where he became a journeyman player, bouncing ...

(1877–1947), painter * Katherine S. Dreier (1877–1952), painter *

James Montgomery Flagg James Montgomery Flagg (June 18, 1877 – May 27, 1960) was an American artist, comics artist and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters, particularly his 1 ...

(1877–1960), illustrator, painter *

Edmund Greacen Edmund William Greacen (1876–1949) was an American Impressionist painter. His active career extended from 1905 to 1935, during which he created many colorful works in oil on canvas and board. One of his works, a reproduction of which is at the ...

(1877–1949), painter *

Marsden Hartley Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 – September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin. Early life and education Hartley was born ...

(1877–1943), painter * William Penhallow Henderson (1877–1943), painter and architect *

Walt Kuhn Walter Francis Kuhn (October 27, 1877 – July 13, 1949) was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. Biography Kuhn was born in New York ...

(1877–1949), painter * Mary Elizabeth Price (1877–1965) *

Joseph Stella Joseph Stella (born Giuseppe Michele Stella, June 13, 1877 – November 5, 1946) was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also ...

(1877–1946), painter *

Maurice Sterne Maurice Sterne ( lv, Moriss Šterns, 1877 or 1878 – July 23, 1957), was an American sculptor and painter remembered today for his association with philanthropist Mabel Dodge Luhan, to whom he was married from 1916 to 1923. Biography Ster ...

(1877/78–1957), sculptor *

Mahonri Young Mahonri Mackintosh Young (August 9, 1877 – November 2, 1957) was an American social-realist sculptor and artist. During his lengthy career, he created more than 320 sculptures, 590 oil paintings, 5,500 watercolors, 2,600 prints, and thousand ...

(1877–1957), sculptor 1878 * Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878–1949), sculptor *

Abastenia St. Leger Eberle Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (April 6, 1878 – February 26, 1942) was an American sculptor known for her energetic, small bronze sculptures depicting poor immigrants on New York's City's Lower East Side. As an artist, Eberle had strong beliefs an ...

(1878–1942), sculptor *

Wilhelmina Weber Furlong Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878–1962) was a German American artist and teacher.The Biography of Wilhelmina Weber Furlong: The Treasured Collection of Golden Heart Farm by Clint B. Weber, Among America's earliest avant-garde elite modernist p ...

(1878–1962), still life painter *

E. William Gollings Elling William Gollings (17 March 1878 – 16 April 1932) was an American painter who was born in Pierce City, Idaho. His works are displayed in American institutions such as the Gilcrease Museum in Oklahoma, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in C ...

(1878–1932), western painter * Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939), sculptor *

Gus Mager Charles Augustus Mager (1878–1956), better known as Gus Mager, was an American painter, illustrator and cartoonist during the first half of the 20th century. He was the creator of several comic strips, notably ''Hawkshaw the Detective'' and '' S ...

(1878–1956), cartoonist, illustrator, painter *

Abraham Walkowitz Abraham Walkowitz (March 28, 1878, Tyumen, Russia - January 27, 1965, New York City, EUA) was a Russian-American painter grouped in with early American Modernists working in the Modernist style. While never attaining the same level of fame as h ...

(1878–1965), painter 1879 *

Gifford Beal Gifford Beal (January 24, 1879 – February 5, 1956) was an American painter, watercolorist, printmaker and muralist. Early life Born in New York City, Gifford Beal was the youngest son in a family of six surviving children. His oldest brother R ...

(1879–1956), painter * Helena Smith Dayton (1879–1960), painter and sculptor *

Julian Martinez Julián Martínez, also known as Pocano (1879–1943), was a San Ildefonso Pueblo potter,"Julia ...

(1879–1943), potter, ceramist *

Charles Cary Rumsey Charles Cary Rumsey (August 29, 1879 – September 21, 1922) was an American sculptor and an eight-goal polo player. Early life Rumsey was born on August 29, 1879 in Buffalo, New York. He was the son of Laurence Dana Rumsey, a successful local ...

(1879–1922), sculptor * George Demont Otis (1879–1962), landscape artist * Arthur Prince Spear (born 1879), imaginary and fantasy painter *

William Starkweather William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather (1879 - 1969) was a painter, teacher, and writer, known for impressionist landscape paintings and book illustrations. He is also known for his research and writings on other painters, and was at one time cons ...

(1879–1969), impressionist painter *

Edward Steichen Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography. Steichen was credited with tr ...

(1879–1973), photographer, painter *

Gunnar Widforss Gunnar Mauritz Widforss (October 21, 1879 – November 30, 1934) was a Swedish American artist who specialized in painting subjects from the wilderness in watercolor. Widforss is most frequently associated with landscapes from American Nati ...

(1879–1934), painter specializing in National Park landscapes

Born 1880–1889

1880 * Wilford Conrow (1880–1957), portrait painting *

Arthur Dove Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter.. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinati ...

(1880–1946), painter * Sir Jacob Epstein (1880–1959), sculptor *

George Herriman George Joseph Herriman III (August 22, 1880 – April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip '' Krazy Kat'' (1913–1944). More influential than popular, ''Krazy Kat'' had an appreciative audience ...

(1880–1944), cartoonist * Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), painter * Jonas Lie (1880–1940), painter 1881 *

Gustave Baumann Gustave Baumann (June 27, 1881 – October 8, 1971) was an American printmaker and painter, and one of the leading figures of the color woodcut revival in America. His works have been shown at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, The C ...

(1881–1971), printmaker, painter *

Chester Beach Chester A. Beach (May 23, 1881 – August 6, 1956) was an American sculptor who was known for his busts and medallic art. Early life Beach was born in San Francisco, California. He studied initially at the California School of Mechanical Arts ...

(1881–1956), sculptor *

Patrick Henry Bruce Artist Patrick Henry Bruce (3rd from left) & friends/associates in front of the entrance to a 300px Patrick Henry Bruce (March 25, 1881 – November 12, 1936) was an American cubist painter. Biography A descendant of Patrick Henry, Bruce wa ...

(1881–1936), painter *

Agnes Lawrence Pelton Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) was a modernist painter who was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Native Americans, desert landscapes and s ...

(1881–1961), modernist painter *

Allen Tupper True Allen Tupper True (May 30, 1881 – November 1, 1955) was an American illustrator, easel painter and muralist who specialized in depicting the American West. Biography Allen Tupper True was born May 30, 1881, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the ...

(1881–1955), painter, illustrator, muralist * Max Weber (1881–1961), painter 1882 * George Bellows (1882–1925), painter, illustrator, printmaker *

Albert Bloch Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists. Biography Bloch was born on ...

(1882–1961), painter * Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952), painter * John Covert (1882–1960), painter *

Edward Hopper Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Hopper created subdued drama ...

(1882–1967), painter, printmaker *

Rockwell Kent Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882 – March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. Biography Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York. Kent was of English descent. He lived much of ...

(1882–1971), painter, illustrator *

Gaston Lachaise Gaston Lachaise (March 19, 1882 – October 18, 1935) was a French-born sculptor, active in the early 20th century. A native of Paris, he was most noted for his female nudes such as '' Standing Woman''. Gaston Lachaise was taught the refinement o ...

(1882–1935), sculptor * Harry Mathes (1882–1969), painter *

Elie Nadelman Elie Nadelman (born Eliasz Nadelman; February 20, 1882 – December 28, 1946) was a Polish-American sculptor, draughtsman and collector of folk art. Early years Nadelman was born and studied briefly in Warsaw and then visited Munich in 1902 ...

(1882–1946), sculptor * Julian Onderdonk (1882–1922), painter * James Sessions (born 9/20/1882), artist * Walter Pach (1883–1958), painter *

N.C. Wyeth Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and illustrator. He was the pupil of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators. Wyeth created more than 3,000 ...

(1882–1945), illustrator 1883 *

Johann Berthelsen Johann Henrik Carl Berthelsen (July 25, 1883 – April 3, 1972) was an American Impressionist painter, as well as having a career as a professional singer and voice teacher. Essentially self-taught as an artist, he is best known for his poe ...

(1883–1972), painter * Edward William Carlson (1883–1932), miniature portraitist * Henry B. Christian (1883–1953), painter *

Imogen Cunningham Imogen Cunningham (; April 12, 1883 – June 23, 1976) was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to t ...

(1883–1976), photographer *

Jo Davidson Jo Davidson (March 30, 1883 – January 2, 1952) was an American sculptor. Although he specialized in realistic, intense portrait busts, Davidson did not require his subjects to formally pose for him; rather, he observed and spoke with them. H ...

(1883–1952), sculptor *

Charles Demuth Charles Henry Buckius Demuth (November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935) was an American painter who specialized in watercolors and turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism. "Search the history of Ame ...

(1883–1935), painter * Rube Goldberg (1883–1970), cartoonist, inventor * Donna N. Schuster (1883–1953), painter * Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), painter *

Eugene Speicher Eugene (Edward) Speicher NA (April 5, 1883 – May 11, 1962) was an American portrait, landscape, and figurative painter. He was one of the foremost realists of his generation who closely upheld the mantle of his mentor, Robert Henri. Biography ...

(1883–1962), painter 1884 *

Walter Emerson Baum Walter Emerson Baum (December 14, 1884 – July 12, 1956) was an American artist and educator active in the Bucks and Lehigh County areas of Pennsylvania in the United States. In addition to being a prolific painter, Baum was also responsible fo ...

(1884–1956), painter and art school founder *

Bessie Marsh Brewer Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952) was a Canadian-American printmaker, painter, sculptor and teacher. She studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and at the Art Students League with Robert Henri and John Sloan. She illustrated ...

(1884–1952), painter, printmaker *

Jose de Creeft José Mariano de Creeft (November 27, 1884 - September 11, 1982) was a Spanish-born American artist, sculptor, and teacher known for modern sculpture in stone, metal, and wood, particularly figural works of women. His 16 ft bronze ''Alice i ...

(1884–1982), sculptor *

Guy Pène du Bois Guy Pène du Bois (January 4, 1884 – July 18, 1958) was a 20th-century American painter, art critic, and educator. Born in the U.S. to a French family, his work depicted the culture and society around him: cafes, theatres, and in the twenties, f ...

(1884–1958), painter *

Harvey Dunn Harvey Thomas Dunn NA (March 8, 1884 – October 29, 1952) was an American painter and teacher. He is best known for his prairie-intimate masterpiece, ''The Prairie is My Garden'' (1950). In this painting, a mother and her two children ar ...

(1884–1952), painter *

Samuel Halpert Samuel Halpert (1884 in Białystok, Russia – 1930 in Detroit, Michigan) was an American painter. Early days Halpert's family migrated to New York City in 1890. His father's preoccupation with religious devotion necessitated that Halpert s ...

(1884–1930), painter *

William Victor Higgins William Victor Higgins (June 28, 1884 – August 23, 1949) was an American painter and teacher, born in Shelbyville, Indiana. At the age of fifteen, he moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Chicago Acade ...

(1884–1949), painter *

Leon Kroll Leon Kroll (December 6, 1884 – October 25, 1974) was an American painter and lithographer. A figurative artist described by ''Life'' magazine as "the dean of U.S. nude painters", he was also a landscape painter and also produced an exceptional ...

(1884–1974), painter *

Robert Minor Robert Berkeley "Bob" Minor (15 July 1884 – 26 January 1952), alternatively known as "Fighting Bob," was a political cartoonist, a radical journalist, and, beginning in 1920, a leading member of the American Communist Party. Background Robe ...

(1884–1952), political cartoonist *

Horatio Nelson Poole Horatio Nelson Poole (1884–1949) was an American painter, printmaker, muralist and teacher. Poole is known for both his intaglio prints (such as ''Fruit and Grain'') and paintings (such as ''A View of Honolulu near Old Plantation''). The Fine ...

(1884–1949), painter and printmaker 1885 *

Milton Avery Milton Clark Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965Haskell, B. (2003). "Avery, Milton". Grove Art Online.) was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He was the husband ...

(1885–1965), painter, printmaker *

Oscar Cesare Oscar Edward Cesare (October 7, 1883 – July 25, 1948) was a Swedish-born American caricaturist, painter, draftsman and editorial cartoonist. Biography Cesare was born on 7 October 1883 in Linköping, Sweden. At eighteen he moved to Paris t ...

(1885–1948), illustrator, cartoonist, painter * Fred Ellis (1885–1965), political cartoonist * E. Charlton Fortune (1885–1969), impressionist painter *

Paul Manship Paul Howard Manship (December 24, 1885 – January 28, 1966) was an American sculptor. He consistently created mythological pieces in a classical style, and was a major force in the Art Deco movement. He is well known for his large public com ...

(1885–1966), sculptor * Josephine Paddock (1885–1964) *

Jules Pascin Julius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930), known as Pascin (; erroneously or ), Jules Pascin, or the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist known for his paintings and drawings. He later became an American citizen ...

(born Bulgaria 1885–1930), painter * Sophy Regensburg (1885–1974), naïve painter *

Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones (born Elizabeth Huntingdon Jones; November 8, 1885 – December 26, 1968) was an American painter who lived in New York City, Philadelphia, and Paris, France. She had a successful career as a painter at the turn of the cen ...

(1885–1968), painter * Ralph Ward Stackpole (1885–1973), sculptor * John Storrs (1885–1956), sculptor * E. Oscar Thalinger (1885-1965), painter * Nina B. Ward (1885–1944), painter 1886 * Pauline Boumphrey (1886–1959), sculptor *

Paul Burlin Paul Burlin (September 10, 1886 – March 13, 1969) was an American modern and abstract expressionist painter. Childhood Paul Burlin was born Isadore Berlin to Jacob and Julia Berlin in 1886 in New York. The family name was originally Berlins ...

(1886–1969), painter * Elias Goldberg (1886–1978), painter * John R. Grabach (1886–1981), painter *

John D. Graham John D. Graham (December 27, 1886, Kyiv, Ukraine – June 27, 1961, London, England) was a Ukrainian–born American modernist and figurative painter, art collector, and a mentor of modernist artists in New York City. Born Ivan Gratianovitch ...

(1886–1961), painter *

Aldro Hibbard Aldro Thompson Hibbard (August 25, 1886 – November 12, 1972) was an American plein air painter known for his depictions of snowy landscapes, particularly of Vermont. Hibbard worked in oil, as watercolor couldn't be used in January and Febru ...

(1886–1972), painter * Frederick Kann (1886–1965), painter * Charles James Martin (1886–1955), painter *

Morgan Russell Morgan Russell (January 25, 1886 – May 29, 1953) was a modern American artist. With Stanton Macdonald-Wright, he was the founder of Synchromism, a provocative style of abstract painting that dates from 1912 to the 1920s. Russell's "synchromie ...

(1886–1953), painter * Joseph Tepper (1886–1977), portrait painter and artist *

Edward Weston Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..." and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." ...

(1886–1958), photographer *

Mary Agnes Yerkes Mary Agnes Yerkes, ( ; August 9, 1886 – November 8, 1989), was an American Impressionist painter, photographer and artisan. She was skilled in the media of oil, pastel and watercolor. Her professional career was cut short by the Great Depres ...

(1886–1989), painter 1887 * Sam Charles (1887–1949), painter *

Andrew Dasburg Andrew Michael Dasburg (4 May 1887 – 13 August 1979) was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism". Biography Dasburg was born in 1887 in Paris. He emigrated from Germany to New York City wit ...

(1887–1979), painter * Manierre Dawson (1887–1969), painter *

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...

(1887–1968), painter, sculptor *

Louis Grell Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis ...

(1887–1960), painter, muralist *

Maria Martinez Maria Montoya Martinez (1887, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico – July 20, 1980, San Ildefonso Pueblo) was a Native American artist who created internationally known pottery. Martinez (born Maria Poveka Montoya), her husband Julian, and o ...

(1887–1980), potter, ceramist *

Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of Ame ...

(1887–1986), painter * John C. Poole (1887–1926), etcher and wood engraver * Claggett Wilson (1887–1952), painter * Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson) (1887–1968) *

William Zorach William Zorach (February 28, 1889 – November 15, 1966) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer. He won the Logan Medal of the arts. He is notable for being at the forefront of American artists embracing cubism, as well as fo ...

(1887–1966), sculptor 1888 *

Josef Albers Josef Albers (; ; March 19, 1888March 25, 1976) was a German-born artist and educator. The first living artist to be given a solo show at MoMA and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College ...

(1888–1976), painter * William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1888–1965), painter and commercial artist *

Arnold Franz Brasz __NOTOC__ Arnold Franz Brasz (July 19, 1888 – April 1, 1966) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was born in Polk County, Wisconsin on July 19, 1888. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and also with Robert He ...

(1888–1966), painter, sculptor, and printmaker * Augustus Dunbier (1888–1977), painter *

Gerald Murphy Gerald Clery Murphy and Sara Sherman Wiborg were wealthy, expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century and who, with their generous hospitality and flair for parties, created a vibrant social circle, particularly ...

(1888–1967), painter * William Robert Pearmain (1888–1912), painter *

Horace Pippin Horace Pippin (February 22, 1888 – July 6, 1946) was a self-taught American artist who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World War I, landscapes, portraits, and biblical subjects. Some of his best-known work ...

(1888–1946), painter * Ruth Faison Shaw (1888–1969), painter 1889 *

Maurice Becker Maurice Becker (1889– August 28, 1975) was a radical political artist best known for his work in the 1910s and 1920s for such publications as ''The Masses'' and '' The Liberator''. Biography Early years Maurice Becker was born in Nizhni-Novg ...

(1889–1975), political cartoonist, illustrator * Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), painter, muralist, printmaker *

James Daugherty James Henry Daugherty (June 1, 1889 – February 21, 1974) was an American modernist painter, muralist, children's book author and illustrator. Life Daugherty was born in Asheville, North Carolina. He later lived in Indiana, Ohio, and at the ...

(1889–1974), painter, illustrator *

Laura Gardin Fraser Laura may refer to: People * Laura (given name) * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia * Laura Bay, a bay on ...

(1889–1966), sculptor *

Gleb Ilyin , birth_date = , birth_place = Kazan, Russian Empire , death_date = , death_place = Sebastopol, California , nationality = Russian , spouse = Natalia Aleksandrovna Melnikov , field = painting , training = ...

(1889–1968), portraiture and landscapes * Geneva Mercer (1889–1984), sculptor * Robert William Wood (1889–1979), painter

Born 1890–1899

1890 *

Grace Albee Grace Thurston Arnold Albee (July 28, 1890 – July 26, 1985) was an American printmaker and wood engraver. During her sixty-year career life, she created more than two hundred and fifty prints from linocuts, woodcuts, and wood engravings. She rec ...

(1890–1985), printmaker *

Theresa Bernstein Theresa Ferber Bernstein-Meyerowitz (March 1, 1890 – February 13, 2002) was an American artist and writer born in Kraków, in what is now Poland, and raised in Philadelphia. She received her art training in Philadelphia and New York City. Over ...

(1890–2002), artist, painter, writer * Gerald Curtis Delano (1890–1972), painter *

Leo Friedlander Leo Friedlander (July 6, 1888 – October 24, 1966) was an American sculptor, who has made several prominent works. Friedlander studied at the Art Students League in New York City, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Brussels and Paris, and the America ...

(1890–1966), sculptor * Frances Cranmer Greenman (1890–1981), portrait painter * Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965), sculptor, designer *

Robert Laurent Robert Laurent (June 29, 1890 – April 20, 1970) was a French-American modernist figurative sculptor, printmaker and teacher. His work, the ''New York Times'' wrote,"figured in the development of an American sculptural art that balanced natu ...

(1890–1970), sculptor *

Stanton Macdonald-Wright Stanton Macdonald-Wright (July 8, 1890 – August 22, 1973), was a modern American artist. He was a co-founder of Synchromism, an early abstract, color-based mode of painting, which was the first American avant-garde art movement to receive inte ...

(1890–1973), painter *

Jan Matulka Jan Matulka (7 November 1890 – 25 June 1972) was a Czech-American modern artist originally from Bohemia. Matulka's style ranged from Abstract expressionism to landscapes, sometimes in the same day. He has directly influenced artists like Doro ...

(1890–1972), painter *

Man Ray Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to eac ...

(1890–1976), photographer, dadaist * Paul Strand (1890–1976), photographer * Mark Tobey (1890–1976), painter 1891 * Mabel Alvarez (1891–1985), painter * George Ault (1891–1948), painter * McClelland Barclay (1891–1942), illustrator, pin-up artist * Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971), painter * Arthur N. Christie (1891–1980), painter * Edwin Dickinson (1891–1978), painter * Robert Lee Eskridge (1891–1975), painter * Genevieve Springston Lynch (1891–1960) * Justin McCarthy (artist), Justin McCarthy (1891–1977), self-taught artist * Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891–1978), painter * Jennings Tofel (1891–1959) * Grant Wood (1891–1942), painter 1892 * Ralph Pallen Coleman (1892–1968), painter and illustrator * Hugo Gellert (1892–1985), illustrator and muralist * Naomi Polk (1892–1984), American artist, watercolors and poet * Augusta Savage (1892–1962), sculptor, teacher * Vaclav Vytlacil (1892–1984), painter, teacher * John Ellsworth Weis (1892–1962), painter * Winslow Wilson (1892–1974), painter, teacher 1893 * Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), painter * Rene Paul Chambellan (1893–1955), sculptor * Pál Fried (1893–1976), oil painter, dancers, nudes, and portraits * Wanda Gág (1893–1946), printmaker, illustrator * George Albert Gale (1893–1951), nautical themed artist * R. H. Ives Gammell (1893–1981), painter * Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1893–1953), painter * Bernard E. Peters (1893-1949), painter * Abraham Rattner (1893–1978), painter 1894 * Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), painter * Stuart Davis (painter), Stuart Davis (1894–1964), painter * Ernest Fiene (1894–1965), lithographer, printmaker * Otto Kuhler (1894–1977), painter * Lucile Lloyd (1894–1941), muralist * Bashka Paeff (1894–1979), sculptor * Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), painter, illustrator * Amanda Snyder (1894–1980), painter, printmaker * James Thurber (1894–1961), cartoonist 1895 * Talbert Abrams (1895–1990), photographer * Frederick Cornelius Alston (1895–1987), painter * Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), printmaker, painter, illustrator * Lucile Blanch (1895–1981), painter * Adolf Dehn (1895–1968), lithographer, illustrator * Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), architect, visionary * Harry Gottlieb (1895–1993), painter, illustrator * Regina Olson Hughes (1895–1993), botanical illustrator * Millie Rose Lalk (1895–1943), painter * Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), photographer * John Allen Wyeth (1895–1981), painter 1896 * Arnold Blanch (1896–1968), painter, printmaker * Allyn Cox (1896–1982), painter, muralist * John Russell Fulton (1896–1979), painter, illustrator * Morris Kantor (1896–1974), painter * Barbara Latham (1896–1989), painter, printmaker, illustrator * Eve Ryder (1896-1984), painter * Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983), painter 1897 * James Billmyer (1897–1989), painter, illustrator * Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), painter * John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), painter, muralist, printmaker * William Gropper (1897–1977), cartoonist, painter, muralist, printmaker * Theodore Lukits (1897–1992), painter, muralist, illustrator, teacher * Caroline Mytinger (1897–1980), painter * Reuben Nakian (1897–1986), sculptor * Dudley Pratt (1897–1975), sculptor * Matthew E. Ziegler (1897-1981), painter, muralist 1898 * Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), photographer * Samuel Adler (artist), Samuel Adler (1898–1979), artist * Dewey Albinson (1898–1971), artist * Robert Brackman (1898–1980), painter * Alexander Calder (1898–1976), sculptor * Aaron Douglas (artist), Aaron Douglas (1899–1979), painter * Elsie Driggs (1898–1992), painter * Lorser Feitelson (1898–1978), painter * Hyman William Katz (1898–1988), painter, printmaker * Reginald Marsh (artist), Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), painter, printmaker * John McLaughlin (artist), John McLaughlin (1898–1976), painter * Kay Sage (1898–1963), painter * Ben Shahn (1898–1969), painter, printmaker, graphic artist 1899 * Eugène Berman (1899–1972), painter * Francis Chapin (1899–1965), painter * Gladys Emerson Cook (1899-1976), painter, illustrator * De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965), painter * Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), assemblage artist, sculptor * Moses Soyer (1899–1974), painter * Raphael Soyer (1899–1987), painter * Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899–1955), painter