This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth. These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily

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List of 21st-century women artists This is a partial list of 21st-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth. These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, print ...

Before 1870

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Louise Abbéma Louise Abbéma (30 October 185329 July 1927) was a French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque. Biography Abbéma was born in Étampes, Essonne. She was born into a wealthy Parisian family, who were well connected in the local ...

(1858–1927), painter, printmaker, sculptor *

Helen Allingham Helen Allingham (née Paterson; 26 September 1848 – 28 September 1926) was a British watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era. Biography Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born on 26 September 1848, at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, ...

(1848–1926), painter, illustrator * Laura Alma-Tadema (1852–1909), painter"Dictionary of Women Artists" Edited by Delia Gaze. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, pp. 161-165. *

Ester Almqvist Ester Dorothea Almqvist (3 November 1869 – 11 June 1934) was a Swedish artist who was a pioneer of Expressionist painting in Sweden. Family and education Almqvist was born in Bromma but spent her childhood in Stockholm, where her parents tau ...

(1869–1934), Swedish painter *

Anna Ancher Anna Ancher (18 August 1859 – 15 April 1935) was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters, an artist colony on the northern point of Jylland, Denmark. She is considered to be one of Denmark's greatest visual artists. Background Ann ...

(1859–1935), Danish painter * Sophie Anderson (1823–1903), painter * Marie-Elmina Anger (1844–1901), nun and painter *

Helen Maitland Armstrong Helen Maitland Armstrong (October 14, 1869 – November 26, 1948) was an American stained glass artist who worked both solo and in partnership with her father, Maitland Armstrong. Her work is considered among the finest produced in America in t ...

(1869–1948), stained glass artist * Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter *

Alice Pike Barney Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike; 1857–1931) was an American Painting, 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 (gathering), salon hostess ...

(1857–1931), painter * Susie M. Barstow (1836–1923), painter * Jane E. Bartlett (1839–1923), painter and portraitist *

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 in ...

(1855–1942), painter *

Julie Hart Beers Julie Hart Beers Kempson (1835 – August 13, 1913) was an American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School who was one of the very few commercially successful professional women landscape painters of her day. Life Born Julie H ...

(1835–1913), painter *

Enella Benedict Enella Benedict (December 21, 1858 – April 6, 1942) was an American realism and landscape painter. She taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a founder and director for nearly 50 years for the Art School at the Hull Hous ...

(1858–1942), American painter *

Harriet Blackstone Harriet Blackstone (November 13, 1864 – March 16, 1939) was an American figure and portrait painter. Many of her subjects were midwestern business leaders and their families she also painted a number of prominent musicians. Early life and ed ...

(1864–1939), figure painter *

Anna Boch Anna Rosalie Boch (10 February 1848 – 25 February 1936) was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut. Anna Boch died in Ixelles in 1936 and is interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium. Artistic style Boch partici ...

(1848–1936), painter *

Alice Boughton Alice Boughton (14 May 1866 – 21 June 1943) was an early 20th-century American photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time. She was a Fellow of Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession, a circle of phot ...

(c. 1866–1943), photographer *

Marie Bracquemond Marie Bracquemond (1 December 1840 – 17 January 1916) was a French Impressionist artist. She was one of four notable women in the Impressionist movement, along with Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), and Eva Gonzales (1847-1 ...

(1841–1916), painter * Susan Hinckley Bradley (1851–1929), American painter *

Fidelia Bridges Fidelia Bridges (May 19, 1834 – May 14, 1923) was an American artist of the late 19th century. She was known for delicately detailed paintings that captured flowers, plants, and birds in their natural settings. Although she began as an oil paint ...

(1834–1923), watercolorist * Caroline Shawk Brooks (1840–1913), American sculptor *

Matilda Browne Matilda Browne (May 8, 1869 – November 3, 1947) was an American Impressionist artist noted for her flower paintings and her farm and cattle scenes. Born in Newark, New Jersey, she was a child prodigy who received early art training from her ar ...

(1869–1947), American painter * Elizabeth Eaton Burton (1869–1937), painter, printmaker, designer *

Sally Bush Sally Bush (October 29, 1860 – November 3, 1946) was an American photographer also known for her quiet philanthropy, especially her generosity toward hungry people during the Great Depression of the 1930s. She also served as her father's host ...

(1860–1946), photographer *

Evelyn Cameron Evelyn Cameron (August 26, 1868 – December 26, 1928) was a photographer and diarist of the American West, who documented her life as a pioneer near Terry, Montana from the late 1890s onward. She is best known for her photography chronicling th ...

(1868–1928), photographer *

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 *

Nellie Charlie Nellie Charlie (1867–1965) was a Mono Lake Paiute - Kucadikadi basketmaker associated with Yosemite National Park. She was born in Lee Vining, California, the daughter of tribal headman Pete Jim, and his wife Patsy, also a basket maker. She ...

(1867–1965), basket weaver *

Christabel Cockerell Christabel Annie Cockerell, Lady Frampton (baptized 21 October 1864 – 18 March 1951) was a British painter of children, portraits and landscapes. Marriage She married sculptor Sir George Frampton, becoming Lady Frampton, but continued to exh ...

(1863–1951), painter *

Kate Cory Kate Cory (February 8, 1861 – June 12, 1958) was an American photographer and artist. She studied art in New York, and then worked as commercial artist. She traveled to the southwestern United States in 1905 and lived among the Hopi f ...

(1861–1958), painter, sculptor * Helene Cramer (1844–1916), painter * Molly Cramer (1852–1936), painter *

Annie I. Crawford Annie Isabel Crawford (1856-1942) was an American painter and print maker. Biography Crawford was born in Buffalo, New York, on November 3, 1856. She studied at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and then traveled to Europe to study in Rome and Paris ...

(1856–1942), painter, printmaker *

Alice Dannenberg Alice Dannenberg, (4 April 1861 – 28 June 1948) was an early 20th century French painter of Russian origin who cofounded an art school in Paris, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Biography Alice Dannenberg was born in Mitau, then part of th ...

(1861–1948), 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 *

Cécile Douard Cécile Douard (1866-1941) was a Belgians, Belgian artist. Biography Douard was born Cécile Leseine on 29 December 1866 in Rouen, France. She studied under . Douard often painted the people and landscape of the coalmining town Borinage. At t ...

(1866–1941), painter, sculptor *

Florence Dreyfous Florence Dreyfous (October 25, 1868 – September 11, 1950) was an American painter who studied and spent most of her life in New York City. Early life and education Florence Dreyfous was born in New York City on October 25, 1868 to Alida Gomez D ...

(1868–1950), painter *

Elisabeth von Eicken Elisabeth von Eicken (18 July 1862 – 21 July 1940) was a German landscape painter. Life Elisabeth von Eicken was born as the third daughter of Hermann Wilhelm von Eicken (1816–1873) and Anna Elisabeth Borchers (1836–1916) in Mülheim an der ...

(1862–1940), German landscape painter * Florence Esté (1860–1926), painter * Johanna van Eybergen (1865–1950), applied artist and designer *

Frances C. Fairman Frances Caroline Fairman (1839 – February 1923) was a British watercolourist, a painter in oils, and an illustrator. In her lifetime she was best known for her canine portraits, some of which were commissioned by royalty and aristocracy. Sh ...

(1839–1923), animal painter, illustrator *

Eva Scott Fényes Eva Scott Fényes (1849-1930) was an American painter known for watercolor landscape of the American west. She was also known for her philanthropic activities. Biography Fényes was born on November 9, 1849, in New York City as the only child o ...

(1849–1930), painter *

Olga Fialka Olga Fialka (1848-1930) was an Austro-Hungarian artist and matriarch of the Ferenczy family of artists. Biography Olga Fialka was born on 19 April 1848 in Theresienstadt. She studied painting under Jan Matejko in Kraków. She went on to study un ...

(1848–1930), painter, illustrator *

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; (12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German-born avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical self ...

(1874–1927), Dada artist, happening artist, painter, sculptor *

Laura Ann Fry Laura Anne Fry (born January 22, 1857–1943) was an American artist who specialized in wood carving, ceramics, and china painting. She worked at both the Rookwood Pottery Company and the Lonhuda Pottery Company as a ceramic painter and teacher, ...

(1857–1943), ceramic painter *

Frances Gearhart Frances Gearhart (January 4, 1869 – April 4, 1959) was an American printmaker and watercolorist known for her boldly drawn and colored woodcut and linocut prints of American landscapes. Focused especially on California's coasts and mountains, th ...

(1869–1959), printmaker and watercolorist * Grace Woodbridge Geer (1854–1938), painter *

Anna Gerresheim Anna Louise Adolphine Eduardine Gerresheim (8 March 1852 – 1 December 1921) was a German landscape artist, portrait painter and etcher. She was among the founders of the artist's colony in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea. Life Anna Gerresheim was ...

(1852–1921), German painter * Anne Goldthwaite (1869–1944), printmaker, painter *

Caroline Gotch Caroline Burland Gotch ( née Yates, 9 May 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a British artist and part of the Newlyn School. Biography Gotch was born in Liverpool. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Edward Yates, a wealthy local proper ...

(1854–1945), painter *

Jane Hawkins Jane Hawkins (1841–1904) was a British portrait painter from Chelsea who exhibited at the Royal Academy and with the Society of British Artists. Hawkins public paintings are mostly of political individuals especially those of the family of th ...

(1841–1904), portrait artist *

Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley (1860-1958) was an American painter who emigrated to the Netherlands. Biography Hawley was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey on July 13, 1860. She studied at the Cooper Union Women's Art School and the Art Students League ...

(1860–1958), painter *

Laura Coombs Hills Laura Coombs Hills (1859–1952) was an American artist and illustrator who specialized in watercolor and pastel still life paintings, especially of flowers, and miniature portrait paintings on ivory. She became the first miniature painter elected ...

(1859–1952), painter * Anna Hope (Nan) Hudson (1869–1957), painter * Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), photographer *

Gertrude Käsebier Gertrude Käsebier (née Stanton; May 18, 1852 – October 12, 1934) was an American photographer. She was known for her images of motherhood, her portraits of Native Americans, and her promotion of photography as a career for women. Biography ...

(1852–1934), photographer *

Mina Karadžić Wilhelmina "Mina" Karadžić-Vukomanović ( sr-cyr, Вилхелмина "Мина" Караџић-Вукомановић; 12 July 1828, in Vienna – 12 June 1894, in ''ibidem'') was an Austrian-born Serbian painter and writer. She was born in ...

(1828–1894), painter *

Lucy Kemp-Welch Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (20 June 1869 – 27 November 1958) was a British artist and teacher who specialised in painting horses. Though increasingly overlooked after the Second World War, from the late 1890s to the mid 1920s she was one o ...

(1869–1958), painter *

Louisa Keyser Louisa Keyser, or Dat So La Lee (ca. 1829 - December 6, 1925) was a celebrated Native American basket weaver. A member of the Washoe people in northwestern Nevada, her basketry came to national prominence during the Arts and Crafts movement ...

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Datsolalee Louisa Keyser, or Dat So La Lee (ca. 1829 - December 6, 1925) was a celebrated Native American basket weaver. A member of the Washoe people in northwestern Nevada, her basketry came to national prominence during the Arts and Crafts movement ...

) (c. 1829/1850–1925), Washoe basket weaver *

Kitty Lange Kielland Kitty Lange Kielland (8 October 1843 – 1 October 1914) was a Norwegian landscape painter. Early life and training Kielland was born to an affluent family in Stavanger, the older sister of Alexander Kielland. Kielland's interactions with her b ...

(1843–1914), painter * Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), painter * Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), printmaker, sculptor, painter *

Ida Pulis Lathrop Ida F. Pulis Lathrop (1859–1937) was an American painter. She primarily worked on portraits, still life and landscapes as subjects. Lathrop was based in Albany, New York. About She was born on October 27, 1859 as Ida F. Pulis in Troy, New Y ...

(1859–1937), American painter * Jessie Lipscomb (1861–1952), sculptor *

Séraphine Louis Séraphine Louis, known as Séraphine de Senlis (Séraphine of Senlis; 3 September 1864 – 11 December 1942), was a French painter in the naïve style. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows an ...

(1864–1942), painter *

Maria Magdalena Łubieńska Maria Magdalena Łubieńska, also known as Countess Łubieńska (1833–1920) was a Polish artist and educator, of noble descent. Life and career Łubieńska born in 1833 to business man Henryk Łubieński and his wife Irena (née Potocka). Sh ...

(1833–1920), Polish painter and founder of an arts school. * Carol Brooks MacNeil (1871–1944), American sculptor *

Bessie MacNicol Elizabeth "Bessie" MacNicol (1869–1904) was a Scottish painter and member of the Glasgow Girls group of artists affiliated with the Glasgow School of artists. Early life and education MacNicol was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 5 July 1869, ...

(1869–1904), painter *

Jacqueline Marval Jacqueline Marval was the pseudonym for Marie Josephine Vallet (19 October 1866 – 28 May 1932), who was a French painter, lithographer and sculptor. Early life Vallet was born in Quaix-en-Chartreuse into a family of school teachers. She w ...

(1866–1932), French painter Les Odalisques-Jacqueline Marval

Cornelia F. Maury Cornelia Field Maury (1866–1942) was an American artist, known for her portraits of children. Maury often worked in pastels. She was based in St. Louis, Missouri. About Cornelia Field Maury was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1866. Her fam ...

(1866–1942), American pastel artist *

Blanche Hoschedé Monet Blanche Hoschedé Monet (10 November 1865 – 8 December 1947) was a French painter who was both the stepdaughter and the daughter-in-law of Claude Monet. Early life Ernest and Alice Hoschedé Blanche Hoschedé was born in Paris, the sec ...

(1865–1947), 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 * Dora Louise Murdoch (1857–1933), painter *

Iris Nampeyo Nampeyo (1859 – 1942) was a Hopi-Tewa potter who lived on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. Her Tewa name was also spelled Num-pa-yu, meaning "snake that does not bite". Her name is also cited as "Nung-beh-yong," Tewa for Sand Snake. She used ...

(c. 1860–1942), potter, ceramic artist *

Clara Chipman Newton Clara Chipman Newton (October 26, 1848 – December 8, 1936)Profile with dat ...

(1848–1936), china painter *

Clara Weaver Parrish Clara Minter Parrish ( Weaver; March 16, 1861 – November 11, 1925) was an American artist from Alabama. Although she produced a large amount of work in a wide array of media, she is best known for her paintings and stained glass window designs ...

(1861–1925) painter, stained glass *

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 *

Edith Mitchill Prellwitz Edith Mitchill Prellwitz (1865–1944) was an American artist who is known for Impressionist and Tonalist studies of Peconic Bay, New York, as well as for figurative paintings with literary or mythical subjects. Family and education She was born ...

(1865–1944), painter *

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 *

Suze Robertson Suze Robertson (17 December 1855 – 18 October 1922) was a Dutch painter. She belonged to a group of artists known as the Amsterdamse Joffers. Biography Suze Robertson was born to a family of merchants. Her mother died when she was two and she ...

(1855–1922), painter *

Adelaïde Alsop Robineau Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865–1929) was an American china painter and potter, and is considered one of the top ceramists of American art pottery in her era. Early life and education Adelaide Alsop was born in 1865 in Middletown, Connecticut. Sh ...

(1865–1929), ceramic artist * Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946), painter *

Anna Page Scott Anna Page Scott (1863–1925) was an American Impressionism, American Impressionist painter and educator. Biography Scott was born in Dubuque, Iowa, on October 13, 1863. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvani ...

(1863–1925), painter * Janet Scudder (1869–1940), sculptor * Annie Ware Sabine Siebert (1864–1947), painter * Martha Simkins (1866–1969), painter * Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935), painter, illustrator *

Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope (1857–1944) was an English sculptor and painter. She was the niece of John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope and the cousin of Evelyn Pickering De Morgan, both of whom were noted pre-Raphaelite painters. Life and career Mary ...

(1857–1944), sculptor, painter *

Eloise Harriet Stannard Eloise Harriet Stannard (1829–1915) was a British 19th century painter known for her still life work. She was one of only two notable women artists associated with the Norwich School of painters, Britain's first provincial art movement. Biog ...

(1829–1915), painter *

Emily Coppin Stannard Emily Stannard (née Emily Coppin; 8 February 18026 January 1885), who from 1826 called herself (even during her long widowhood) Mrs Joseph Stannard, was a British still life painter. She was associated with the Norwich School of painters, Bri ...

(1803–1885), painter *

Marianne Stokes Marianne Stokes (née Preindlsberger; 1855–1927) was an Austrian painter. She settled in England after her marriage to Adrian Scott Stokes (1854–1935), the landscape painter, whom she had met in Pont-Aven. Stokes was considered one of the le ...

(1855–1927), painter *

Eva Stort Eva Stort (1855-1936) was a German painter. Biography Stort was born on 1 February 1855 in Berlin, Germany. She studied at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Her teachers included Karl Stauffer-Bern and Max Liebermann. She was a member of ''Verein ...

(1855–1936), painter *

Austa Densmore Sturdevant Austa Densmore Sturdevant (1855-1936) was an American painter. Biography Sturdevant née Densmore was born in Blooming Valley, Pennsylvania in 1855. She married James Warner Sturdevant with whom she had two children. She studied at Allegheny Col ...

(1855–1936), painter *

Josefine Swoboda Josefine Swoboda (29 January 1861 in Vienna – 27 October 1924 in Vienna) was an Austrian portrait painter. She was one of the most active Vienna portraitists. Life Josefine Swoboda came from a Vienna family of artists, she was the daughter o ...

(1861–1924), Austrian portrait painter *

Annie Swynnerton Annie Louisa Swynnerton, ARA ( Robinson; 26 February 1844 – 24 October 1933) was a British painter best known for her portrait and symbolist works. She studied at Manchester School of Art and at the Académie Julian, before basing herself in ...

(1844–1933), painter *

Emma Beach Thayer Emma Beach Thayer (1849-1924) was an American artist known for her floral paintings. Biography Thayer née Beach was born in New York City in 1849. The Smithsonian American Art Museum credits her with creating studies for the illustrations for ...

(1849–1924), painter *

Ellen Thesleff Ellen Thesleff (5 October 1869 – 12 January 1954) was an expressionist Finnish painter, regarded as one of the leading Finnish modernist painters. Thesleff was born in Helsinki, the eldest daughter of five siblings and her father was an amateur ...

(1869–1954), painter * Juliet Thompson (1873–1956), painter * Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter *

Marianne von Werefkin Marianne von Werefkin, born Marianna Vladimirovna Veryovkina ( rus, Мариа́нна Влади́мировна Верёвкина, Marianna Vladimirovna Veryovkina, mərʲɪˈanːə vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvnə vʲɪˈrʲɵfkʲɪnə; – 6 Febr ...

(1860–1938), painter *

Candace Wheeler Candace Wheeler (née Thurber; March 24, 1827 – August 5, 1923), often credited as the "mother" of interior design, was one of America's first woman interior and textile designers. She is noted for helping to open the field of interior design to ...

(1827–1923), interior and textile designer * Anna Lillian Winegar (1867–1941), painter and illustrator

1870–1879

Gabriele Münter Abend im Park (Nightfall in St

Zella de Milhau Zella de Milhau (1870–1954) was an American artist, ambulance driver, community organizer and motorcycle policewoman. Milhau was instrumental in organizing ''Block Beautiful'', a 1902 neighborhood beautification program in Brooklyn, New York. A ...

(1870–1954), printmaker *

Dorothea A. Dreier Dorothea Adelheid Dreier (1870–1923) was an American Post-Impressionist painter. Biography Dreier was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 8, 1870, to German immigrants Dorothea Adelheid and John Caspar Theodor Dreier. Her five siblings ...

(1870–1923), painter *

Martha Stettler Adelheid Fanny Martha Stettler (25 September 1870 – 16 December 1945) was a Swiss painter and engraver. She was one of the founders of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and was co-principal of the school from 1909 until 1945. Biography Mar ...

(1870–1945), painter * Enid Yandell (1870–1934), sculptor * Emily Carr (1871–1945), painter *

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 *

Elizabeth Campbell Fisher Clay Elizabeth Campbell Fisher Clay (1871–1959) was an American artist and painter. Clay studied art in Boston, New York, and Paris. After her marriage, she lived in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England and exhibited in London, including two exhibition ...

(1871–1959), lithographer, etcher *

Elinor Darwin Elinor Mary Darwin (née Monsell; 1879–1954) was an Irish born illustrator, engraver and portrait painter. Her illustrations were included in several of her husband, Bernard Darwin's books for children. Personal life Elinor Mary Monsell was ...

(1871–1954), engraver, portrait painter * Eliza Gardiner (1871–1955), painter and printmaker *

Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – May 29, 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as ''The Ladies' Home Journal'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and ''Harper's Magazine''. ...

(1871–1954), painter, illustrator * Emily Nichols Hatch (1871–1959), painter *

Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (russian: Анна Петровна Остроумова-Лебедева, 17 May 1871 — 5 May 1955) was a Russian and Soviet artist most notable for her watercolor painting. She was also one of the pioneers o ...

(1871–1955), graphic artist, watercolorist * Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944), painter *

May Gearhart May Gearhart (April 22, 1872 – August 14, 1951) was an American printmaker who was part of an early 20th century circle of Southern California printmakers strongly influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and Japanese art. Education and teac ...

(1872–1951), printmaker *

Bertha Zillessen Bertha Zillessen (1872–1936) was a German painter and photographer. She was the first professional photographer in Bautzen. Biography Zillessen was born on 17 October 1872 in Rheydt, Mönchengladbach, Germany. As a young woman she moved to Wi ...

(1872–1936), photographer, painter * Ethel Carrick (1872–1952), English painter *

Pauline Powell Burns Pauline Powell Burns (1872–1912) was an American painter and pianist. She was the first African-American artist to exhibit paintings in California in 1890. Powell was also a pianist who gave recitals around the San Francisco Bay Area. Family hi ...

(1872–1912), first African-American artist to exhibit in California. *

Mary Foote Mary Foote (1872–1968) was an American painter and producer of notes of Carl Jung's seminars. As an artist, she lived and worked in New York's Washington Square Park, Washington Square, Paris and Peking. From 1928 to the 1950s she lived i ...

(1872–1968), painter * Edna Boies Hopkins (1872–1947), woodcut prints * Edith Maryon (1872–1924), sculptor * Virginia Randall McLaws (1872–1967), painter *

Nadežda Petrović Nadežda Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Надежда Петровић; 11/12 October 1873 – 3 April 1915) was a Serbian painter and one of the women war photography pioneers in the region. Considered Serbia's most famous expressionist and fauvist, ...

(1872–1922), painter *

Helena Sturtevant Helena Sturtevant (1872-1946) was an American painter. Biography Sturtevant was born in Middletown, Rhode Island on October 13, 1863. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Académie Colarossi. Her teachers included ...

(1872–1946), painter * Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955), sculptor *

Beta Vukanović Beta Vukanović (18 April 1872 – 31 October 1972), also known as Babette Bachmayer, was a Serbian painter and centenarian. Biography Born in Bamberg, Upper Franconia Upper Franconia (german: Oberfranken) is a ''Regierungsbezirk'' (adminis ...

(1872–1972), painter * Ethel Sands (1873–1962), painter * Fanny Adele Watson (1873–1947), painter, lithographer * Gertrude Partington Albright (1874–1959), American artist * Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), painter * Isabel Codrington (1874–1943), English painter *

Mabel Esplin Mabel Esplin (1874–1921)''OZ Glass''.
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(1874–1921), stained glass artist *

(1874–1927), Dada artist and poet * Violet Oakley (1874–1961), muralist, stained glass *

Henrika Šantel Henrika Šantel (17 August 1874 – 15 February 1940) was a Slovenian realist painter. Šantel was born in Gorizia (in northeast Italy, currently on the border with Slovenia), then part of Austria-Hungary. Her mother, Avgusta Šantel, was a paint ...

(1874–1940), painter *

Anne Belle Stone Anne Belle Stone or Anna Belle Stone (1874–1949) was an American artist known for her floral still-lifes. She was one of the founders of the Women Painters of Washington. Biography Stone was born in 1874 in Des Moines, Iowa, and moved to Sea ...

(1874–1949), painter *

Nellie Walker Nellie Verne Walker (December 8, 1874 – July 10, 1973), was an American sculptor best known for her statue of James Harlan formerly in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol, Washington D.C. Early years Nellie V ...

(1874–1973), sculptor * Elenore Abbott (1875–1935), painter, teacher * Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), painter *

Erma Bossi Erma Bossi (1875-1952) was an Italian German Expressionism, German Expressionist painter. Biography Bossi was born in 1875 in Pula. She studied art in Munich and was associated with Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky. She was a member of ...

(1875–1952), painter *

Clara McDonald Williamson Clara McDonald Williamson (November 20, 1875 – February 17, 1976) was a 20th century American painter who worked in the tradition of naïve art. Her subjects were genre scenes of life in the American West, especially her home state of Texas. Lik ...

(1875–1976), 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, photographer *

Delle Miller Adele Helene “Delle” Miller (1875-1932) was an American artist, craftswoman, and teacher. She was born in Kansas, but spent most of her life in Kansas City, Missouri. She worked with various media, including metalworking and oil paints. Amon ...

(1875–1932), painter * Margaret Preston (1875–1963), painter, printmaker *

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 *

Christian Jane Fergusson Christian Jane Fergusson, née Stark, (14 September 1876 – 5 January 1957), was a Scottish painter, who was associated with the Glasgow School and known for her landscape and still life works. Biography Fergusson, who sometimes signed her wor ...

(1876–1957), painter *

Emily Parker Groom Emily Parker Groom (1876–1975) was an American artist born in Wayland, Massachusetts. She remained an active painter until the age of 97, spending nearly her entire career in Wisconsin, and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Early life and educati ...

(1876–1975), painter * Lillian Genth (1876–1953), painter * Fairlie Harmar (1876-1945), painter * Gwen John (1876–1939), painter *

Maude Kerns Maude Irvine Kerns (August 1, 1876 – August 19, 1965) was an American artist and art educator, known for her avant-garde paintings. Her works were exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, National Gallery of Art, and the Salon des Réalités Nouve ...

(1876–1965), American painter and

avant garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or 'vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical De ...

artist *

Paula Modersohn-Becker Paula Modersohn-Becker (8 February 1876 – 20 November 1907) was a German Expressionist painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. Her work is noted for its intensity and its blunt, unapologetic humanity, and for the many self-portraits the ...

(1876–1907), painter *

Else Berg Else Berg (19 February 1877, Ratibor – 19 November 1942, Auschwitz) was a German-born Dutch painter of Jewish descent; associated with the Bergense School. She was married to the Dutch painter, Mommie Schwarz. She and her husband were both mu ...

(1877–1942), painter *

Katherine Sophie Dreier Katherine Sophie Dreier (September 10, 1877 – March 29, 1952) was an American artist, lecturer, patron of the arts, and social reformer. Dreier developed an interest in art at a young age and was afforded the opportunity of studying art in the ...

(1877–1952), painter * Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), sculptor, painter, poet *

Elena Guro Elena Genrikhovna Guro ( rus, Еле́на Ге́нриховна Гуро́, p=jɪˈlʲɛnə ˈɡʲɛnrʲɪxəvnə ɡʊˈro, a=Yelyena Gyenrihovna Guro.ru.vorb.oga; in marriage Matyushina ( rus, Матю́шина, p=mɐˈtʲuʂɪnə, a=Yelyena G ...

(1877–1913), painter, writer * Kata Kalivoda (1877–1936), painter * Laura Knight (1877–1970), painter * Gabriele Münter (1877–1962), painter *

Käte Schaller-Härlin Käte Schaller-Härlin (1877–1973) was a German painter. Biography Schaller-Härlin née Härlin was born on 19 October 1877 in Mangalore, India. She was the daughter of missionary parents. She moved to Germany as a young woman and attende ...

(1877–1973), painter *

Hilda Annetta Walker Hilda Annetta Walker FRSA (1877 – 3 June 1960) was an English sculptor, and a painter of landscapes, seascapes and horses, flourishing between 1902 and 1958. She was a war artist painting in England during the First and Second World Wars, a ...

(1877–1960), sculptor and painter *

Mabel May Woodward Mabel May Woodward (September 28, 1877 – August 14, 1945) was a prominent Rhode Island impressionist painter during the late 19th and early 20th century. She was active from 1896 until 1943, primarily in Rhode Island and in Maine. Early life ...

(1877–1945), painter * Margaret Gere (1878–1965), painter *

Edith Haworth Edith Haworth (1878–1953) was an American painter, who studied art in New York and showed her work in New York City and Detroit, Michigan, particularly at the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1903 she was co-founder and treasurer of the Detroit Soc ...

(1878–1953), painter *

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), painter, teacher *

Anna Coleman Ladd Anna Coleman Watts Ladd (July 15, 1878 – June 3, 1939) was an American sculptor in Manchester, Massachusetts, who devoted her time and skills throughout World War I to designing prosthetics for soldiers who were disfigured from injuries recei ...

(1878–1939), sculptor *

Sr. Maria Stanisia Religious sister, Sister Maria Stanisia, S.S.N.D., (May 4, 1878 – January 28, 1967) was an American Catholic Church, Catholic nun, artist, and painter, member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Early life Monika Kurkowska was born on May 4, 1 ...

(née Monica Kurkowski; 1878–1967), painter * Pamela Colman Smith (1878–1951), illustrator and painter * Ellen Trotzig (1878–1949), painter *

Emmy Worringer Emmy Worringer (1878–1961) was a German artist and cofounder of the Gereonsklub, an avant-garde artists' association in Cologne in the years immediately preceding World War I. Worringer studied art in Dachau as well as at the Academy in Munich; ...

(1878–1961), German artist *

Émilie Charmy Émilie Charmy (pronounced "shar-mee") (April 2, 1878 – June 7, 1974) was an artist in France's early avant-garde. She worked closely with Fauvism, Fauve artists like Henri Matisse, and was active in exhibiting her artworks in Paris, parti ...

(1878–1974), painter *

Frances Farrand Dodge Frances Julia Farrand Dodge (22 November 1878 – 12 January 1969) was an American artist and teacher. Early life and education The eldest of four girls, Frances Farrand was born on 22 November 1878 in Lansing, Michigan. Her father, Hart Au ...

(1878–1969), painter and illustrator *

Elisabeth Epstein Elisabeth Ivanowna Epstein (1879–1956) was a Russian painter. Biography Epstein née Hefter was born on 27 February 1879 in Zhytomyr, Russia. Her family moved to Moscow, then she located to Munich. In 1898 she married Meizyslaw Epstein, with ...

(1879–1956), painter * Nell Choate Jones (1879–1981), painter, teacher *

Thea Schleusner Thea Schleusner (1879-1964) was a German painter. Biography Schleusner was born on 30 April 1879 in Wittenberg, Germany. She studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Moderne. In Germany, she studied with Franz Skarbina a ...

(1879–1964), painter *

Anna Heyward Taylor Anna Heyward Taylor (November 13, 1879 – March 4, 1956) was a painter and printmaker who is considered one of the leading artists of the Charleston Renaissance. Early life and education Anna Heyward Taylor was born November 13, 1879, in Columbia ...

(1879–1956), painter, printmaker *

Ada Hill Walker Ada Hill Walker (1879-10 November 1955) was a British scientific illustrator, artist and flower painter based in St Andrews in Scotland who provided illustrations for the scientific publications of William M'Intosh (1838-1931). She often sign ...

(1879–1955), scientific illustrator and artist * Bessie Davidson (1879–1965), painter * Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), painter and interior designer

1880–1889

Natalia Goncharova (self-portrait, 1907, GTG)

Rowena Meeks Abdy Rowena Fischer Meeks Abdy (April 24, 1887 – August 18, 1945) was an American modernist painter. She primarily painted landscapes and worked in Northern California. Early life and education She was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1878 to American ...

(1887–1945), painter *

Berenice Abbott Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and ...

(1898–1991) photographer * Edith Cleaves Barry (1884–1969), American painter, photographer, sculptor *

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), sculptor *

Nessa Cohen Nessa Cohen, born Helen Nessa Cohen, (December 11, 1885 - December 1976) was an American sculptor, born in New York City. She exhibited in the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art. Early life Cohen was born on December 11, 1884 in New Yo ...

, (1885–1976), sculptor * Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), photographer * Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), painter * Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973), Brazilian painter *

Marthe Donas Marthe Donas (26 October 1885 – 31 January 1967) was a Belgian Abstract art, abstract and Cubism, cubist painter and is recognized as one of the leading figures of Modernism. Donas worked under the Androgyny, androgynous pseudonyms Tour d'Onask ...

(1885–1967), painter * Aleksandra Ekster (1882–1949), painter * Lili Elbe - Poplerne langs Hobro Fjord - 1908

Lili Elbe (1882–1931), painter *

Ester Ellqvist Ruth "Ester" Elisabet Ellqvist (4 October 1880 – 20 November 1918) was a Swedish artist, model and wife of John Bauer (illustrator), John Bauer, who was a painter and illustrator. She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and spent one ye ...

(1880–1918), painter *

Stella Elmendorf Tylor Stella or STELLA may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media Comedy * Stella (comedy group), a comedy troupe consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and David Wain Characters *Stella (given name), including a list of characters with t ...

(1885–1980), American painter *

Beryl Fowler Beryl Fowler, née Mary Beryl Menzies (1881–1963) was an English painter. Her oil paintings often depict rural life in Eskdale, Cumbria in England. Biography Mary Beryl Menzies was born in 1881 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her father was an engi ...

(1881–1963), English painter * Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950), painter * Laura Gardin Fraser (1889–1966), sculptor * Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962), painter * Norah Neilson Gray (1882–1972), painter * Madeline Emily Green (1884–1947), painter *

Tina Haim-Wentscher Tina Haim-Wentscher also: ''Tina Haim-Wentcher'' (17 December 1887 – 21 April 1974) was a German-Australian sculptor. Life Tina Haim-Wentscher was born in 1887 in Constantinople, the daughter of Serbian merchant David Leon Haim and his Itali ...

(1887–1974), German-Australian sculptress *

Lydia Bush-Brown Head Lydia Bush-Brown Head (1887–1984) was an American visual artist, known to work as a painter and designer. She is best known for her silk batik wall hangings. Biography Born in Florence, Italy, Lydia Bush-Brown was the daughter of sculptor He ...

(1887–1984) American painter and designer * Ilse Heller-Lazard (1884–1934) French-Swiss painter * Sigrid Hjertén (1885–1948), painter * Hannah Höch (1889–1978), German painter, photographer, and photomontage artist * Malvina Hoffman (1887–1966), sculptor * Valentine Hugo (1887–1968), illustrator *

Daisy Marguerite Hughes Daisy Marguerite Hughes (1883–1968) was an American painter and lithographer. About A native of Los Angeles, California and born in 1883. Hughes studied with George Elmer Browne, Ralph Johonnot, Louise Elizabeth Garden MacLeod, Rudolph Schaeff ...

(1883–1968), American painter and lithographer *

Dora Koch-Stetter Dora Koch-Stetter (4 May 1881 – 16 January 1968) was a German landscape artist, portrait-painter and etcher. Life Dora Stetter already came into contact with art as a child. After the death of her husband and the retreat to Berlin in 1884, he ...

(1881–1968), German painter (aka Dora Stetter) * Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter, printmaker *

Constance Jenkins Macky Constance Jenkins Macky (née Constance Lillian Jenkins; 1883–1961) was an Australian-born American artist and teacher. She was known for her portraits, landscape paintings, and still life paintings. Biography Constance Lillian Jenkins was b ...

(1883–1961), painter, teacher *

Ana Marinković Ana Marinković ( sr-cyr, Ана Маринковић, Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 7 April 1881 ― Guéthary, France, 30 May 1973) was a well-known Serbian artist from the turn of the century until the outbreak of World War II. She has paintin ...

(1881–1973), painter * Maria Martinez (1887–1980), potter *

Marlow Moss Marjorie Jewel "Marlow" Moss (29 May 1889 – 23 August 1958) was a British Constructivist artist who worked in painting and sculpture. Biography Moss was born on 29 May 1889 in Kilburn in London. She was the daughter of Lionel and Fannie Moss ...

(1889–1958), sculptor, painter *

Geneva Mercer Geneva Mercer (January 27, 1889 – March 2, 1984) was an American artist from Alabama. Best known as a sculptor, she was also an accomplished painter in her later years. Although most of her early work with Italian sculptor Giuseppe Moretti was ...

(1889–1984), sculptor * Ethel Myers (1881–1960), sculptor, painter *

Ella Naper Ella Louise Naper, ( Champion), (9 February 1886 – 1972) was an English jeweller, potter, designer and painter. Biography Naper was born in Charlton, one of the nine children of Alfred Champion, a fireman, and Mary Ann Champion. She attende ...

(1886–1972), jeweller & potter *

Hilda Rix Nicholas Hilda Rix Nicholas ( Rix, later Wright, 1 September 1884 – 3 August 1961) was an Australian artist. Born in the Victoria (Australia), Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionism, Australian Impressio ...

(1884–1961), painter *

Elizabeth Norton (artist) Elizabeth Sawyer Norton (1887–1985) was an American artist, known for her bronze sculptures, paintings, and printmaking. The subject of her work often featured animals, landscapes and/or portraits. She lived in Palo Alto, California, from 1919 u ...

(1887–1985) printmaker, bronze sculptor, painter * Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), painter *

Olga Oppenheimer Olga Oppenheimer (9 July 1886 – 4 July 1941) was a German Expressionist artist. Education Oppenheimer trained under Paul Sérusier in Paris in 1909. Thereafter, she trained in private studios in Munich and Dachau. Oppenheimer's father encouraged ...

(1886–1941), German artist * Jessie Burns Parke (1889–1964), painter, illustrator *

Clara Elsene Peck Clara Elsene Peck (April 18, 1883 – February 1968) was an American illustrator and painter known for her illustrations of women and children in the early 20th century. Peck received her arts education from the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts an ...

(1883–1968), painter, illustrator *

Agnes 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), painter *

Gladys Reynell Gladys Reynell (1881–1956) was one of South Australia's earliest potters and is known for her bold modernist style and her preference for working with native clays. Family and education Reynell was born on 4 September 1881 in Glenelg, a s ...

(1881–1956), potter * Anne Ryan (1889–1954), painter * Zinaida Serebriakova (1884–1967), painter *

Henrietta Shore Henrietta Mary Shore (January 22, 1880 – May 17, 1963) was a Canadian-born artist who was a pioneer of modernism. She lived a large part of her life in the United States, most notably California. Early life Shore was born in Toronto, Canada, to ...

(1880–1963), painter *

Zulma Steele Zulma Steele (1881–1979) was one of the pioneering women of the Arts and Crafts movement and Modernism in New York. American arts journalist for the ''New York Times'' Grace Glueck noted that Steele was a "progressive-minded artist and artisa ...

(1881–1979), painter * Helen Margaret Spanton (1877–1934), painter * Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943), painter *

Lucy Telles Lucy Parker Telles (/1885–1955/6) was a Mono Lake Paiute - Kucadikadi (Northern Paiute) and Southern Sierra Miwok (Yosemite Miwok) Native American basket weaver.Giese, Paula"Miwok-Paiute Tradition."''Yosemite Basket Makers - Native American ...

(c. 1885–1955), Mono Lake Paiute-

Yosemite Miwok The Plains and Sierra Miwok were once the largest group of California Indian Miwok people, indigenous to California. Their homeland included regions of the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley, and the Sierra Nevada. Geography The Plains and ...

basket weaver * Nadezhda Udaltsova (1886–1961), painter * Doris Ulmann (1882–1934), photographer * Vukosava Velimirović (1888–1965), sculptor *

Grace Vollmer Grace Libby Vollmer (née Grace Libby; 1884 – 1977) was an American painter, she was active in California and Idaho. She was a California Impressionist and painted still lifes, figures, portraits, and landscapes. Biography Grace Libby was bo ...

(1884–1977) American painter * Pepi Weixlgärtner-Neutra (1886–1981), Austrian-Swedish painter, graphic designer and miniaturist * Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948), painter *

Carla Witte Carla Witte (20 May 1889 – 8 May 1943) was a German Uruguayan, German-Uruguayan painter, sculptor, and teacher. Biography Carla Witte was born in Leipzig, a German city in Saxony on 20 May 1889, and studied plastic arts in Berlin. In 1927, sh ...

(1889–1943), German and Uruguayan painter and sculptor *

Marta Worringer Marta Worringer (January 16, 1881 – October 27, 1965) was a German Expressionist artist known for her haunting images of women. Life She was born Marta Maria Emilie Schmitz in Cologne, to attorney Emil Schmitz and Elise (Esser) Schmitz. She ...

(1881–1965), German artist *

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 *

Marguerite Zorach Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson; September 25, 1887 – June 27, 1968) was an American Fauvist painter, textile artist, and graphic designer, and was an early exponent of modernism in America. She won the 1920 Logan Medal of the Arts. Early lif ...

(''née'' Thompson) (1887–1968), painter

1890–1899

Porträt der Jeanne Hébuterne, Amedeo Modigliani

(1898–1991), photographer *

Karimeh Abbud Karimeh Abbud or Karimeh Abboud (18 November 1893 – 27 April 1940; ar, كريمة عبّود), was a Palestinian professional photographer and artist who lived and worked in Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. She was one of ...

(1896–1940), photographer * Eileen Agar (1899–1991), painter, collage *

Elene Akhvlediani Elene Akhvlediani () (April 5, 1898 in Telavi – December 30, 1975 in Tbilisi) was a 20th-century Georgian painter, graphic artist, and theater decorator. Akhvlediani is famous for her depictions of Georgian towns, for her illustrations for t ...

(1898–1975), painter * Anni Albers (1899–1994), designer, weaver and graphic artist * Elsie Allen (1899–1990), Cloverdale Pomo basket weaver *

Mabel Alvarez Mabel Alvarez (November 28, 1891 – March 13, 1985) was an American painter. Her works, often introspective and spiritual in nature, and her style is considered a contributing factor to the Southern California Modernism and California Impressi ...

(1891–1985), painter * Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), printmaker, painter, illustrator * Eugenie Baizerman (1899–1949), painter * Carrie Bethel (1898–1974), Mono Lake Paiute basket weaver * Clara Birnberg (1894–1989), illustrator, portraitist, sculptor *

Dorrit Black Dorothea Foster Black (23 December 1891 – 13 September 1951) was an Australian painter and printmaker of the modernism, Modernist school, known for being a pioneer of Modernism in Australia. In 1951, at the age of sixty, Black was killed in a ...

(1891–1951), painter *

Kathleen Blackshear Kathleen Blackshear (1897–1988) was an American Modernist artist known for her sensitive depictions of African-American subjects. Early Life and Education Kathleen Blackshear was born June 6, 1897, near the Texas Cotton Belt in a city called N ...

(1897–1988), painter *

Lucile Blanch Lucile Esma Lundquist Blanch (December 31, 1895 – October 31, 1981) was an American artist, art educator, and Guggenheim Fellow. She was noted for the murals she created for the U.S. Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts during the Great ...

(1895–1981), painter * Elise Blumann (1897–1990), painter *

Claude Cahun Claude Cahun (, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portr ...

(1894–1954), photographer, author * Dora Carrington (1893–1932), painter *

Dorothy Coke Dorothy Josephine Coke (11 April 1897 – 1979) was an English artist notable for her work as a war artist on the British home front during the Second World War. Coke was also an art teacher and as an artist was known for her watercolours, whic ...

(1897–1979), painter * Isabel Cooper (1892–1984), illustrator primarily known for depicitons of animals collected on research expeditions * Mildred Coughlin (1892–1984), painter, printmaker, illustrator *

Trena Cox Trena is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Trena Cox (1895–1980), English artist * Trena King (born 1958), American archer * Trena Trice-Hill (born 1965), American basketball player See also * Trina (name) Trina is a com ...

(1895–1980), stained glass artist *

Grace Crowley Grace Adela Williams Crowley (pr: as in "slowly") (28 May 1890 – 21 April 1979) was an Australian artist and modernist painter. Early life and education Grace Crowley was born in May 1890 in Barraba, New South Wales. She was the fourth chi ...

(1890–1979), painter *

Louise Dahl-Wolfe Louise Dahl-Wolfe (November 19, 1895 – December 11, 1989) was an American photographer. She is known primarily for her work for ''Harper's Bazaar'', in association with fashion editor Diana Vreeland. Background Louise Emma Augusta Dahl was bor ...

(1895–1989), photographer *

Florence Davidson Florence Edenshaw Davidson (1896–1993) was a Canadian First Nations artist from the Haida. She created basketry and button-blankets and was a respected elder in her village of Masset, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Early life Florence Edensh ...

(1896–1993),

Haida Haida may refer to: Places * Haida, an old name for Nový Bor * Haida Gwaii, meaning "Islands of the People", formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands * Haida Islands, a different archipelago near Bella Bella, British Columbia Ships * , a 1 ...

basket weaver * Margaret Firth (1898–1991), painter *

Lillian Florsheim Lillian Florsheim ( – ) was a sculptor whose work was displayed in the Art Institute of Chicago and museums in Washington D.C. and New Orleans, LA. Early life and education Lillian Hyman was born on in New Orleans, Louisiana to Clara Newman ...

(1896–1988), sculptor * Helen Katharine Forbes (1891–1945), muralist * Enid Foster (1895–1979), artist, sculptor, playwright *

Frances Foy Frances Foy (April 11, 1890 – 1963) was an American painter, muralist, illustrator, and etcher born in Chicago, Illinois. Career Foy began studying art with Wellington J. Reynolds at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and later attended the School ...

(1890–1963), artist, muralist *

Elsa Fraenkel Elsa Fraenkel née Rothschild (1892–1975) was a German–born British sculptor raised in Heidelberg, Germany. Education and Marriage Elsa Fraenkel's interest in art began when she was a young girl. She received the support of her family in th ...

(1892–1975), sculptor * Alethea Garstin (1894–1978), English painter * Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), photographer *

Minetta Good Minetta Good, also known as Minnetta Good (1895–1946), was an American painter and printmaker who was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Her work often depicted farm scenes, family life, and/or transportation. Biography Born in ...

(1895–1946), painter and printmaker, W.P.A. artist * Laicita Gregg (1892–1975), painter *

Maija Grotell Maija (Majlis) Grotell (August 19, 1899 — December 6, 1973) was an influential Finnish-American ceramic artist and educator. She is often described as the "Mother of American Ceramics." Early life and education Finland Maija Grotell was born ...

(1899–1973), ceramic artist * Grace L. Hamilton (1894-1992), muralist * Jennie Harbour (1893–1959), illustrator * Jeanne Hébuterne (1898–1920), painter *

Dörte Helm Dorothea "Dörte" Helm, also ''Dörte Helm-Heise'' (3 December 1898 – 24 February 1941) was a German Bauhaus artist, painter and graphic designer. Life Dörte Helm was a daughter of the classical philologist Rudolf Helm (1872–1966) and his J ...

(1898–1941), artist, painter and graphic designer *

Marion Huse Marion may refer to: People *Marion (given name) *Marion (surname) *Marion Silva Fernandes, Brazilian footballer known simply as "Marion" *Marion (singer), Filipino singer-songwriter and pianist Marion Aunor (born 1992) Places Antarctica * Mari ...

(1896–1967), painter and printmaker, W.P.A. artist * Margaret Calkin James (1895–1985), calligrapher, graphic designer, textile printer, watercolour painter, printmaker *

Lotte Jacobi Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyn ...

(1896–1990), photographer *

Alison Mason Kingsbury Alison Mason Kingsbury Bishop (born Alison Mason Kingsbury; 1898–1988) was an American artist who lived and worked in Ithaca, New York. Known professionally by her maiden name, her work features the landscapes of the Finger Lakes region and res ...

(1898–1988), painter, muralist * Georgina Klitgard (1893–1976), muralist * Gina Knee Brook (1898–1982), painter *

Winifred Knights Winifred Margaret Knights (5 June 1899–7 February 1947) was a British painter. Amongst her most notable works are ''The Marriage at Cana'' produced for the British School at Rome, which is now in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa a ...

(1899–1947), painter *

Katarzyna Kobro Katarzyna Kobro (26 January 1898 – 21 February 1951) was a Polish avant-garde sculptor and a prominent representative of the Constructivist movement in Poland. A pioneer of innovative multi-dimensional abstract sculpture, she rejected Aes ...

(1898–1951), sculptor *

Anka Krizmanić Anka Krizmanić, also known as Anka Krizmanic-Paulic (1896–1987) was a Croatian painter and printmaker, and later scientific illustrator. She was active between 1910 and 1946. About She attended a private painting school at Krizman School o ...

(1896–1987), Croatian painter and printmaker * Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), photographer *

Dorothy P. Lathrop Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (April 16, 1891 – December 30, 1980) was an American people, American writer and illustrator of children's books. Biography Dorothy Pulis Lathrop was born in Albany, New York, April 16, 1891 to Ida Pulis Lathrop and ...

(1891–1980), American illustrator and writer * Gertrude K. Lathrop (1896–1996), American sculptor * Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980), painter *

Lucile Lloyd Lucile Lloyd, also known as Lucile Lloyd Brown, Lucila Lloyd Nulty (August 28, 1894 – February 25, 1941) was an American muralist, illustrator, and decorative painter. In 1937, Lloyd worked with the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts ...

(1894–1941), muralist * Lou Loeber (1894–1983), painter * Gladys M. Lux (1899–2003), painter, printmaker *

Suzanne Malherbe Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Alberte Malherbe, 19 July 1892 – 19 February 1972) was a French illustrator, designer, and photographer. She, along with her romantic and creative partner Claude Cahun, was a surrealist writer and photographer. Earl ...

(1892–1972), illustrator, designer *

Hildreth Meière Hildreth Meière (, ) (1892–1961) was an American muralist active in the first half of the twentieth century who is especially known for her Art Deco designs. During her 40-year career she completed approximately 100 commissions. She designed mur ...

(1892–1961), mosaicist *

Yevonde Middleton Yevonde Philone Middleton (née Cumbers; 5 January 1893 – 22 December 1975) was an English photographer, who pioneered the use of colour in portrait photography. She used the professional name Madame Yevonde. Early life Educated at the lib ...

(1893–1975), photographer *

Lilian May Miller Lilian May Miller (July 20, 1895 – January 11, 1943) was an American painter, woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, Japan. In the world of art she marked her place with imagery, while she attended presentations in traditional kimonos, an ...

(1895–1943), woodblock printer and painter * Tina Modotti (1896–1942), photographer *

Lucia Moholy Lucia Moholy (née Schulz; 18 January 1894 — 17 May 1989) was a photographer and publications editor. Her photos documented the architecture and products of the Bauhaus, and introduced their ideas to a post-World War II audience. However Moholy ...

(1894–1989), photographer *

Olive Mudie-Cooke Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890-11 September 1925) was a British artist who is best known for the paintings she created during the First World War. Mudie-Cooke served as an ambulance driver in both France and Italy during the conflict and these experie ...

(1890–1925), painter * Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), sculptor * Marjorie Ann Nuhn (1898–1988), painter *

Bashka Paeff Bashka Paeff ( be, Башка Паэф) (August 12, 1889 — January 24, 1979), was an American sculptor active near Boston, Massachusetts. Bashka Paeff was known as the ''Subway sculptor'' for the pieces she modeled at the Park Street T stat ...

(1894–1979), sculptor *

Tonita Peña Tonita Peña (born May 10, 1893 in San Ildefonso – died September 9, 1949 in Santo Domingo Pueblo) born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueb ...

(1893–1949), works on paper, muralist *

Zora Petrović Zora Petrović (Dobrica, May 17, 1894 – Belgrade, May 25, 1962) was a Serbian painter. Her notable works can be seen in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, and in Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection in Novi Sad. Biography She attended ...

(1894–1962), painter *

Dulcie Mary Pillers Dulcie Mary Pillers (17 August 18912 December 1961) was an English medical illustrator and a founding member of the Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain (MAA). The daughter of a Bristol solicitor, she completed her art training at Ken ...

(1891–1961), medical illustrator *

Orovida Camille Pissarro Orovida Pissarro (8 October 1893 – 8 August 1968), known for most of her life as Orovida, was a British painter and etcher. For most of her career she distanced herself from the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles of her father, Lucie ...

(1893–1968), painter, printmaker *

Pearlie Posey Pearlie Posey (1894-1984) was an American quilt artist and mother of Sarah Mary Taylor. She is known for her appliquéd quilts. Biography Posey was born in 1894. She taught her quilting technique to her daughter Sarah Mary Taylor and eventually ...

(1894-1984), textile artist *

Dod Procter Dod Procter, born Doris Margaret Shaw, (1890–1972) was an English artist, and the wife of the artist Ernest Procter. Her painting ''Morning'' was bought for the public by the ''Daily Mail'' in 1927. Procter and her husband attended art s ...

(1892–1972), painter *

Jessie Beard Rickly Jessie Beard Rickly (1895-1975) was an American artist and co founder of the Ste. Genevieve Art Colony. Biography Rickly née Beard was born on October 5, 1895, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. She attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts where her ...

(1895-1975), painter *

Hannah Ryggen Hannah Ryggen, born Hannah Jönsson (21 March 1894, Malmö – 2 February 1970, Trondheim), was a Swedish-born Norwegian textile artist. Self-trained, she worked on a standing loom constructed by her husband, the painter . She lived on a farm on ...

(1894–1970), textile artist *

Kay Sage Katherine Linn Sage (June 25, 1898 – January 8, 1963), usually known as Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet active between 1936 and 1963. A member of the Golden Age and Post-War periods of Surrealism, she is mostly recognized f ...

(1898–1963), painter *

Augusta Savage Augusta Savage (born Augusta Christine Fells; February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who w ...

(1892–1962), sculptor *

Bertha Schaefer Bertha Schaefer (1895–1971) was an American designer and gallery director, she was known for her furniture designs, and as an interior designer. Biography Schaefer was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1895. Her father Emil Schaefer was a ref ...

(1895–1971), furniture designer, galleryist *

Elsa Schiaparelli Elsa Schiaparelli ( , also , ; 10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973) was a fashion designer from an Italian aristocratic background. She created the house of Schiaparelli in Paris in 1927, which she managed from the 1930s to the 1950s. ...

(1890–1973), fashion, textiles * Martel Schwichtenberg (1896–1945), painter and designer * Dorothy Hope Smith (1895–1955), artist *

Janet Sobel Janet Sobel (May 31, 1893 – November 11, 1968), born Jennie Olechovsky (occ. Lechovsky), was a Ukrainian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter whose career started mid-life, at age forty-five in 1938. Sobel pioneered the drip painting te ...

(1893–1968), painter * Varvara Stepanova (1894–1958), painter and designer *

Vere Temple Vere Lucy Temple (8 February 1898 – 14 March 1980) was a British artist, best known for her illustrations of British wildlife. She had a particular interest in entomology. Life Vere Temple was born at Boreham Manor, two miles east of Warminster ...

(1898-1980), wildlife illustrator * Alma Thomas (1891–1978), painter *

Charley Toorop Charley Toorop (24 March 1891 – 5 November 1955) was a Dutch painter and lithographer. Her full name was Annie Caroline Pontifex Fernhout-Toorop. Life Charley Toorop was born in Katwijk. She was the daughter of Jan Toorop and Annie Hall. ...

(1891–1955), painter *

Marie Elisabeth Wrede Marie Elisabeth Wrede (born 1898 in Salzburghofen, died 1981 in Boulogne) was an Austrian painter, best known for her portraits. Wrede studied with Fernand Léger in Paris. She associated with Paul Valéry, Robert and Sonia Delaunay and also Pa ...

(1898-1981), painter *

Beulah Woodard Beulah Ecton Woodard (November 11, 1895 – July 13, 1955) was an African-American sculptor and painter based in California. Woodard was the first African American artist to have a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and ...

(1895–1955), sculptor * Ogura Yuki (1895–2000), painter

1900–1909

Milena Pavlović-Barili Hot Pink with Cool Grey

Gertrude Abercrombie Gertrude Abercrombie (February 17, 1909 – July 3, 1977) was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists", Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and was friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gille ...

(1909–1977), painter *

Mary Adshead Mary Adshead (15 February 1904 - 3 September 1995) was an English painter, muralist, illustrator and designer. Biography Adshead was born in Bloomsbury, London, the only child of Stanley Davenport Adshead, architect, watercolourist, and Profes ...

(1904–1995), muralist, painter *

Maxine Albro Maxine Albro (January 20, 1893 – July 19, 1966) was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, and sculptor. She was one of America's leading female artists, and one of the few women commissioned under the New Deal's Federal Ar ...

(1903–1966), muralist, printmaker *

Griselda Allan Griselda Norma Allan (22 November 1905 – 23 August 1987) was an English artist, known for her flower paintings. Biography Allan was born in Sunderland in the north-east of England, into one of the city's then prosperous shipbuilding families. ...

(1905–1987), painter *

Catherine Tharp Altvater Catherine Tharp Altvater (1907–1984) was an American Oil painting, oil painter and Watercolor painting, watercolorist. Her watercolor paintings hang in Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art and several other museums. Altvater was the f ...

(1907–1984), painter *

Grace Greenwood Ames Grace Greenwood Ames (born Brooklyn, January 15, 1905 – died New York City, July 21, 1979) was an American artist and social realism muralist. She worked in Mexico on murals alongside historical artists. When she married, rather than dropping ...

(1905–1979) artist, muralist * Rita Angus (1908–1970), painter * Mariam Aslamazyan (1907–2006), painter * Eranuhi Aslamazyan (1910–1998), painter *

Evgenia Baykova Evgenia Vasilievna Baykova (russian: Евге́ния Васи́льевна Байко́ва; November 22, 1907 – 1997) was a Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad). Sh ...

(1907–1997), painter *

Celia Frances Bedford Celia Frances Bedford (11 February 1904 – 23 February 1959) was a British artist, notable for her portrait and figure paintings plus her work as a lithographer. Biography Bedford was born in Kensington in west London into an artistic family, ...

(1904–1959), painter, printmaker * Suzanne Belperron (1900–1983), jeweler *

Ruth Bernhard Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer. Early life and education Bernhard was born in Berlin to Lucian Bernhard and Gertrude Hoffmann. Lucian Bernhard was known for his poster and typeface ...

(1905–2006), photographer *

Nellie Geraldine Best Nellie Geraldine Best (May 22, 1905 – June 2, 1990) was an American artist, she is known for her sculptures, paintings, and murals. She was active in Oregon, California, and Minneapolis, from the 1930s until the 1950s. Biography Nellie Gerald ...

(1905–1990), muralist, sculptor * Isabel Bishop (1902–1988), painter *

Frances Blakemore Frances Blakemore (1906 – 1997; also published as Frances Baker and Frances Wismer) was an American-born artist, writer, curator, and art collector who spent more than 50 years of her life in Japan. Early life and career She was born France ...

(1906–1997), printmaker *

Lucienne Bloch Lucienne Bloch (January 5, 1909 – March 13, 1999) was a Switzerland-born American artist. She was best known for her murals and for her association with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, for whom she produced the only existing photographs o ...

(1909–1999) painter *

Elisa Maria Boglino Elisa Johanne Rosa Maria Boglino (7 May 1905 – 2002) was a Danish-Italian painter, active in Denmark and Italy. Biography The father was ''Legationssekr.'' Alberto Maioli. Boglino grew up with her divorced mother. Boglino married, and set ...

(1905–2002),painter *

Dorr Bothwell Dorr Hodgson Bothwell (May 3, 1902 – September 24, 2000) was an American artist, designer, educator, and world-traveler. A varied artist, Bothwell was considered a part of the Bay Area Surrealist artist scene and has paintings, drawings, coll ...

(1902–2000), painter, printmaker * Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), photographer *

Dorothea Braby Dorothea Braby (17 October 1909 – 1987) was a British artist. Although she had a long career as a freelance designer producing work for several well-known companies, Braby is best known for the book illustrations she created, particularly thos ...

(1909–1987), painter, book illustrator *

Lola Álvarez Bravo Lola Álvarez Bravo (3 April 1903 – 31 July 1993) was the first Mexican female photographer and a key figure in the post-revolution Mexican renaissance. Known for her high level of skill in composition, her works were seen by her peers as fin ...

(1907–1993), photographer * Emmy Bridgewater (1906–1999), painter, poet *

Felicia Browne Felicia Mary Browne (18 February 1904 – 25 August 1936) was an English artist and leftist. She was the only British woman combatant and first British volunteer to die in the Spanish Civil War.Tom Buchanan, "The Lost Art of Felicia Browne", ''H ...

(1904–1936), artist, activist *

Marjorie Frances Bruford Marjorie Frances Bruford known as Midge Bruford (9 April 1902 – 1958) was a British artist associated with the Newlyn School of artists. Although born in Eastbourne, Bruford was an active participant in several of the artist groups based in C ...

(1902–1958), painter *

Margaret Brundage Margaret Brundage, born Margaret Hedda Johnson (December 9, 1900April 9, 1976), was an American illustrator and painter who is remembered chiefly for having illustrated the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales''. Working in pastels on illustration bo ...

(1900–1976), illustrator * Norma Bull (1906–1980), painter *

Selma Burke Selma Hortense Burke (December 31, 1900 – August 29, 1995) was an American sculptor and a member of the Harlem Renaissance movement. Burke is best known for a bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which may have been the model ...

(1900–1995), sculptor *

Nancy Carline Nancy Mona Carline (née Higgins, 30 November 1909 – 18 October 2004) was a British artist who painted landscapes with figures, portraits, biblical and classical subjects plus groups of figures in domestic settings. She studied at the Slade S ...

(1909–2004), painter * Ruth Chaney (1908–1973), printmaker * Marie Z. Chino (1907–1982), ceramic artist * Grace Clements (1905–1969), muralist, mosaicist, art critic * Marion Osborn Cunningham (1908–1948), printmaker * Martina Gangle Curl (1906–1994), artist, activist *

Dorothy Dehner Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an American painter and sculptor. Early life Dorothy Dehner was born on December 23, 1901, in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a passionate suffragette. When Dehner was ten years o ...

(1901–1994), sculptor, printmaker * Evelyn Dunbar (1906–1960), painter * Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997), sculptor, painter, printmaker *

Perle Fine Perle Fine (born Poule Feine)(1905–1988) was an American Abstract expressionist painter.Leonor Fini Leonor Fini (30 August 1907 – 18 January 1996) was an Argentinian born Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Early life Fini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentin ...

(1907–1996), painter *

Cornelia MacIntyre Foley Cornelia MacIntyre Foley (January 31, 1909 – January 18, 2010) was an American painter from Hawaii. Biography Cornelia MacIntyre was born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii on January 31, 1909. She began her art training under the first art ...

(1909–2010), painter *

Constance Edith Fowler Constance Edith Fowler (1907–1996) was an American artist known as a painter and printmaker, an author, and an educator who taught at Willamette University and Albion College. Early life and education Constance Edith Fowler was born June 2, ...

(1907–1996), painter, printmaker, author, educator * Gisèle Freund (1908 or 1912–2000), photographer * Gyo Fujikawa 1908-1998), illustrator and author * Zhenya Gay (1906–1978), illustrator *

Evelyn Gibbs Evelyn May Gibbs (5 May 1905 – 27 February 1991) was an English artist and teacher.Mary Fedden, "Obituary: Evelyn Gibbs. Etched on the Midlands", ''The Guardian'', 4 March 1991. Biography Evelyn Gibbs studied at the Liverpool School of Art ...

(1905–1991), engraver, art teacher *

Elizabeth Ginno Elizabeth de Gebele Ginno (1907–1991) was a fine artist from Berkeley, California specializing in painting and printmaking. She is known for her participation in the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) and other Works Progress Administr ...

(1907–1991) painter, printmaker * Marion Greenwood (1909–1970), artist, muralist *

Edith Hamlin Edith Ann Hamlin (June 23, 1902 – February 18, 1992) was an American landscape and portrait painter, and muralist. She is known for her social realism murals created while working with the Public Works of Art Project, Federal Art Project and th ...

(1902–1992), muralist, landscape and portrait painter *

Isobel Heath Isobel Atterbury Heath (29 December 1908 – 1989) was a British artist and poet active in the St Ives area of Cornwall. Biography Heath was born in Kingston Upon Hull. Little is known of her childhood but later in life she indicated that her ...

(1908–1989), artist, poet *

Barbara Hepworth Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leadi ...

(1903–1975), sculptor *

Josette Hébert-Coëffin Josette Hébert-Coëffin (16 December 1906 Rouen – 3 June 1973 Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French sculptor, medallist and a recipient of a 1937 Guggenheim Fellowship. Early life and education Hébert-Coëffin was born on 16 December 1906 in Ro ...

(1906–1973) *

Gertrude Hermes Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes (18 August 1901 – 9 May 1983) was a British wood-engraver and sculptor. Hermes was a member of the English Wood Engraving Society (1925–31) and exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers, the Royal Academy and ...

(1901–1983), print maker and sculptor *

Elsie Dalton Hewland Elsie Dalton Hewland (23 November 1901 – 1979) was a British artist, who painted figure and genre subjects and is now known for her images of British life during World War II. Biography Hewland was born and grew up in the north of England. ...

(1901–1979), painter * Karen Holtsmark (1907–1998), painter *

Ray Howard-Jones Rosemary "Ray" Howard-Jones (30 May 1903 – 25 June 1996) was a prolific Welsh painter best known for her impressionistic seascapes and paintings of the coastline of Wales, particularly of the areas around Skomer and Marloes. Early life and ...

(1903–1996), painter * Lois Mailou Jones (1905–1998), painter *

Rebecca Field Jones Rebecca Field Jones (1905–2002) was an American artist who worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and went on to found the West Hartford Art League. Biography Jones née Field was born in Montague, Massachusetts on March 13, 190 ...

(1905–2002), sculptor, educator *

Frida Kahlo Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, ...

(1907–1954) painter *

Maude Kegg Maude Kegg (Ojibwa name ''Naawakamigookwe'', meaning "Centered upon the Ground Woman"; 1904–1996) was an Ojibwa writer, folk artist, and cultural interpreter. She was a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, located in east-central Minnesot ...

(1904–1986), bead artist * Anna Kostrova (1909–1994), painter, graphic artist * Lee Krasner (1908–1984), painter * Doris Lee (1905–1983), painter *

Ruth Harriet Louise Ruth Harriet Louise (born Ruth Goldstein; January 13, 1903 – October 12, 1940) was an American photographer. She was the first woman photographer active in Hollywood, and she ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930. Early ...

(1903–1940), photographer * Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999), painter * Sheila Marbain (1908–2008), master printmaker * Tatyana Mavrina (1902–1996), painter and book illustrator *

Dorothy Meredith Dorothy Laverne Meredith (1906 – 1986) was an American artist and educator. She was known for her fiber art and abstract watercolor paintings. Early life and education Dorothy Laverne Meredith was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November 17, ...

(1906–1986), American artist and educator, known for fiber art. *

Mabel McKay Mabel McKay (1907–1993) was a member of the Long Valley Cache Creek Pomo people, Pomo Indians and was of Patwin people, Patwin descent. She was the last Dreamer of the Pomo people and was renowned for her basket weaving. Greg Sarris publishe ...

(1907–1993), basket weaver *

Miriam McKinnie Miriam McKinnie (May 22, 1906– October 22, 1987) also known as Miriam McKinnie Hofmeier, was an American artist. Education McKinnie was born in Evanston, Illinois. She attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis (MN) School ...

(1906–1987), muralist *

Dora Maar Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. A romantic partner of Pablo Picasso, Maar was depicted in a number of Picasso's paintings, including his ''Portr ...

(1907–1997), photographer, painter, poet * Maruja Mallo (1902–1995), painter *

Doris Meltzer Doris Meltzer (1908-1977) was an American artist and art dealer. Biography Meltzer was born in 1908 in Ulster County, New York. She attended the Art Students League of New York. Meltzer was a member of the American Federation of Arts and, for ...

(1908–1977), printmaker and art dealer *

Hansel Mieth Hansel Mieth (1909–1998) was a German-born photojournalist who worked on the staff of LIFE Magazine. She was best known for her social commentary photography which recorded the lives of working class Americans in the 1930s and 1940s. Biograph ...

(1909–1998), photographer * Lee Miller (1907–1977), photographer *

Lisette Model Lisette Model (born Elise Amelie Felicie Stern; November 10, 1901 – March 30, 1983) was an Austrian-born American photographer primarily known for the frank humanism of her street photography. A prolific photographer in the 1940s and a member ...

(1901–1983), photographer * Barbara Morgan (1900–1992), photographer *

Donia Nachshen Donia Esther Nachshen (22 January 1903 – 1987) was a Ukrainian-born British book illustrator and poster artist who is now best known for the posters she produced for the British government during World War Two. Biography Nachshen was born ...

(1903–1987), illustrator, poster artist *

Fannie Nampeyo Fannie Nampeyo (1900–1987) (also known as Fannie Lesou Polacca and Fannie Nampeyo Polacca) was a modern and contemporary fine arts potter, who carried on the traditions of her famous mother, Nampeyo of Hano, the grand matriarch of modern Hopi ...

(1900–1987), potter, ceramic artist *

Alice Neel Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psyc ...

(1900–1984), painter *

Loukia Nicolaidou Loukia Nicolaidou ( gr, Λουκία Νικολαΐδου-Βασιλείου, 1909–1994) was the first Cypriot woman to study art abroad and is considered a pioneer for women professional artists in Cyprus. Her painting '' The Good Fruit of the ...

(1909–1994), painter * Olive Nuhfer (1901-1996), painter *

Vevean Oviette Vevean Oviette (1902-1986) was an Austrian artist known for her printmaking. Biography Oviette was born on 31 March 1902 in Graz, Austria. In 1936 she moved to New York City where she studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Frankl ...

(1902–1986), printmaker * Essie Parrish (1902–1979),

Kashaya Pomo The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Pomo people in Sonoma County, California.Pritzker, Barry M. ''A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples''. Oxford: Oxford Univ ...

basket weaver * Betty Parsons (1900–1982), painter, gallerist *

Milena Pavlović-Barili Milena Pavlović-Barili (alt. Barilli; sr-cyr, Милена Павловић-Барили; 5 November 1909 – 6 March 1945) was a Serbian painter and poet. She is the most notable female artist of Serbian modernism. Biography Her Italian fathe ...

(1909–1945), painter *

Irene Rice Pereira Irene Rice Pereira (August 5, 1902 – January 11, 1971) was an American abstract artist, poet and philosopher

(1902–1971), painter, author * Mary Potter (1900–1981), painter *

Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli, also known as Dorothy Puccinelli Cravath (December 19, 1901 – May 24, 1974), was a New Deal-era artist and muralist. She was based in San Francisco, California. Biography Born as Dorothy Wagner on December 19, 190 ...

(1901–1974), muralist, painter * Mildred Rackley (1906–1992), printmaker * Alice Rahon (1904–1987) painter * Margaretha Reichardt (1907–1984), textile designer * Andrée Rexroth (1902–1940), painter * Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), filmmaker *

Louise Emerson Ronnebeck Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (25 August 1901 – 17 February 1980) was an American painter now best known for her work as a muralist. She submitted entries to 16 competitions for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), winning and completing two WPA ...

(1901–1980), painter *

Stella Schmolle Stella Schmolle, (1908-5 March 1975) was a British painter, known for the paintings she produced while serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II and for her post-war portrait paintings. Early life Schmolle was born in B ...

(1908–1975), painter *

Ethel Schwabacher Ethel Kremer Schwabacher (born May 20, 1903, New York, New York, U.S.— died November 25, 1984, New York, New York, U.S.) was an abstract expressionist painter, represented by the Betty Parsons Gallery in the 1950s and 1960s. She was a proté ...

(1903–1984), painter *

Bernarda Bryson Shahn Bernarda Bryson Shahn (March 7, 1903 – December 12, 2004) was an American painter and lithographer. She also wrote and illustrated children's books including ''The Zoo of Zeus'' and ''Gilgamesh.'' The artist Ben Shahn was her "life companion ...

(1903–2004), painter, lithographer *

Jessamine Shumate Ada Jessamine Shumate (born on March 31, 1902, as Ada Jessamine White in Horsepasture, Virginia – died on December 16, 1990, in Greenville, North Carolina) was an American artist, historian and cartographer, winner of the "Award of Distinction" ...

(1902–1990), painter * Elena Skuin (1909–1986), painter *

Mary Tillman Smith Mary Tillman Smith (1904–1995) was a self-taught painter of the American South who lived and worked in Mississippi most of her life. She created bold, colorful, and expressive paintings, usually using house paint on wood or tin. Her work consi ...

(1904–1995), painter * Virginia Snedeker (1909–2000), painter *

Ethel Spears Ethel Spears (1903–1974) was an American artist known for her humorous paintings of Depression-era urban life. Education Ethel Spears was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 5, 1903, and grew up in the Beverly area. After high school, she ...

(1903–1974), painter * Doris Spiegel (1901–1996), illustrator, printmaker *Sultana Suruzhon (1900–1961), painter *Lenore Tawney (1907–2007), fiber artist, sculptor *Remedios Varo (1908–1963), painter *Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992), painter *Ilse Weber (1908–1944), painter *Thelma Frazier Winter (1903–1977), ceramic sculptor and enamelist *Henriette Wyeth (1907–1997), painter *Maria Zubreeva (1900–1991), painter, graphic artist

1910–1919

*Ida Abelman (1910–2002), painter *Blanch Ackers (1914–2003), painter *Taisia Afonina (1913–1994), painter *Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990), painter, art restorer *Evgenia Antipova (1917–2009), painter *Eve Arnold (1912–2012), photographer *Gwen Barnard (1912–1988), painter, printmaker *Bernece Berkman (1911–1988), painter *Semiha Berksoy (1910–2004), painter, opera singer *Ana Bešlić (1912–2008), sculptor *Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), sculptor *Doris Blair (born 1915), painter *Harriet Bogart (1917–1988), painter *Eden Box (1919–1988), painter *Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), painter *Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) sculptor, printmaker *Chien-Ying Chang (1913–2004), painter *Malvina Cheek (1915–2016), painter *Helen Cordero (1915–1994), ceramic artist *Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989), painter *Maya Deren (1917–1961), filmmaker and theorist, photographer *Yvonne Drewry (1918–2007), painter and print-maker *Jane Frank (1918–1986), mixed-media painter, sculptor *Louise Arnstein Freedman (1915–2001), printmaker *Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999), sculptor, assemblage *Wilhelmina McAlpin Godfrey (1914–1994), painter *Blanche Grambs (1916–2010), painter, printmaker *Dorothy Grebenak (1913–1990), textile artist *Isabelle Greenberger (1911–1997), printmaker *Riva Helfond (1910–2002), printmaker *Carmen Herrera (1915–2022), painter *Nora Heysen (1911–2003), painter *Ruth Horsting (1919–2000), sculptor, professor *Erlund Hudson (1912–2011), painter *Tove Jansson (1914–2001), painter, illustrator, novelist *Shirley Julian (1914–1995), painter, printmaker *Kali (painter), Kali (1918–1998), painter *Corita Kent (1918–1986), printmaker *Gwendolyn Knight (1914–2005), painter *Gunhild Kristensen (1919–2002), stained glass artist *Jacqueline Lamba (1910–1993), painter *Maria Lassnig (1919–2014), painter *Miriam Laufer (1918–1980), painter *Helen Levitt (1913–2009), photographer *Frances Macdonald (English artist), Frances Macdonald (1914–2002), painter *Mary Macqueen (1912–1994), printmaker, drawing and mixed media *Ethel Magafan (1916–1993), painter *Beatrice Mandelman (1912–1998), painter and printmaker *Agnes Martin (1912–2004), painter *Mercedes Matter née Carles (1913–2001), painter *Louisa Matthíasdóttir (1917–2000), painter *Sylvia Melland (1906–1993), painter *Corinne Mitchell (1914-1993), painter *Mona Moore (1917–2000), painter *Hilda Grossman Morris (1911–1991), sculptor *Esta Nesbitt (1918–1975), xerox artist, fashion illustrator *Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985), sculptor *Juliet Pannett (1911–2005), portrait artist *Garnet Pavatea (1915–1981), potter *Tuulikki Pietilä (1917–2009), illustrator *Elizabeth Carney Pope (1910 – 1991), muralist *Mary M. Purser (1913-1986), painter *Lilo Rasch-Naegele (1914–1978), painter, graphic artist, fashion designer, book illustrator *Ruth Ray (1919–1977), painter *Miriam C. Rice (1918–2010), sculptor and textile artist *Hulda D. Robbins (1910–2011), printmaker *Maria Rudnitskaya (1916–1983), painter *Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943), painter *Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941), painter *Clara Sherman (1914–2010), textile artist *Nadezhda Shteinmiller (1915–1991), painter, stage designer *Sylvia Sleigh (1916–2010), painter *Ann Hunt Spencer (1913 - 1972), painter *Thelma Johnson Streat (1911–1959), painter, dancer, educator *Hedda Sterne (1910–2011), painter *Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012), painter *Domicėlė Tarabildienė (1912–1985), graphic artist, sculptor, book illustrator *Gerda Taro (1910–1937), photographer *Angotigolu Teevee (1910–1967), printmaker *Anya Teixeira (1913–1992), photographer *Elsa Thiemann (1910–1981), photographer *Margaret Thomas (painter), Margaret Thomas (1916–2016), painter *Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917–1990), painter *Mary Van Blarcom (1913–1953), printmaker *Pablita Velarde (1918–2006), painter *Pauline Vinson (1915–1986), illustrator *Carol Weinstock (1914–1971), painter, printmaker *Alicia Wiencek Fiene (1918-1961), painter *Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990), photographer *Joan Elizabeth Woollard (1916–2008), sculptor *Tetyana Yablonska (1917–2005), painter

1920–1929

*Carla Accardi (1924–2014), painter *Etel Adnan (1925–2021), painter, poet *Ruthadell Anderson (1922–2018), textile and fiber artist *Ida Applebroog (born 1929), painter *Diane Arbus (1923–1971), photographer *Pamela Ascherson (1923–2010), sculptor, illustrator *Alice Baber (1928–1982), painter *Jo Baer (born 1929), painter *Irina Baldina (1922–2009), painter *Hannelore Baron (1926–1987), collage artist *Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (1922–2005), painter *Mona Beaumont (1927–2007), painter, printmaker *Brenda Bettinson (born 1929), artist, muralist, radio station art editor, and professor *Edith Birkin (1927–2018), painter *Zlata Bizova (1927–2013), painter *Nell Blaine (1922–1996), painter *Sandra Blow (1925–2006), painter *Kossa Bokchan (1925–2009), painter *Druie Bowett (1924–1998), painter *Geta Bratescu (1926–2018), visual artist *Fanny Brennan (1921–2001), painter *Esther Bubley (1921–1998), photographer *Martha Elizabeth Burchfield Richter, Martha Burchfield (1924–1977), Watercolor painting, watercolorist *Crucita Calabaza (Blue Corn, c. 1920–1999), ceramic artist *Delores Churchill (born 1929), basket maker *Irene V. Clark (1927-1980), painter *Jean Cooke (1927–2008), Royal Academy artist *Marie Cosindas (1925–2017), photographer *Amanda Crowe (1928–2004), woodcarver *Jay DeFeo (1929–1989), painter, visual artist *Lois Dodd (born 1927), painter *Mavis Doering (1929–2007), Cherokee basket weaver *Rosalyn Drexler (born 1926), painter *Sonja Eisenberg (1926–2017), abstract painter *Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1924–2019), sculptor *Francine Felsenthal (1922–2000), painter, printmaker *Lilly Fenichel (1927–2016), painter *Claire Fejes (1920–1998), sculptor *Jackie Ferrara (born 1929), sculptor *Mary Fitzpayne (born 1928), painter *Victorine Foot (1920–2000), painter *Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), painter *Jane Freilicher (1924–2014), painter *Sonia Gechtoff (1926–2018), painter *Ilka Gedő (1921–1985), painter, graphic artist *Mokarrameh Ghanbari (1928–2005), painter *Françoise Gilot (born 1921), painter, writer *Vee Guthrie (1920—2012), illustrator *Terry Haass (1923–2016), painter, printmaker, sculptor *Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal (1920–2010), painter *Edie McKee Harper (1922–2010), photographer, painter, lithography, sculpture *Grace Hartigan (1922–2008), painter *Pati Hill (1921–2014), Xerox art, copier artist *Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947), painter *Martha Holmes (photographer), Martha Holmes (1923–2006), photographer *Mansooreh Hosseini (1926–2012), painter *Olga Jančić (1929–2012), sculptor *Olga Jevrić (1922–2014), sculptor *Ynez Johnston (1920–2019), painter, printmaker, sculptor and educator *Ljubinka Jovanović (1920–2015), painter *Lila Katzen (1925–1998), sculptor *Cynthia Kenny (born 1929), painter *Ruth Kerkovius (1921–2007), painter, printmaker *Maya Kopitseva (1924–2005), painter *Tatiana Kopnina (1921–2009), painter *Elena Kostenko (1926–2019), painter *Marina Kozlovskaya (1925–2019), painter *Yayoi Kusama (born 1929), sculptor, performance art, installation art *Valeria Larina (1926–2008), painter *June Leaf (born 1929), painter, sculptor *Barbara Lekberg (1925–2018), metal sculptor *Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (1928–1995), painter, teacher *Eleanore Mikus (1927–2017), painter *Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), painter *Inge Morath (1923–2002), photographer *Emiko Nakano (1925–1990), painter, printmaker *Anna-Stina Nilstoft (1928–2017), Swedish painter *Zelda Nolte (1929–2003), sculptor/woodblock printmaker *Margaret Olley (1923–2011), painter *Mimi Parent (1924–2005), painter *Pat Passlof (1928–2011), painter *Joanna Pettway (1924 - 1993), quilter *Sharni Pootoogook (1922–2003), printmaker *:pl:Ludmi%C5%82a Popiel, Ludmiła Popiel (1928–2011), painter *Galina Rumiantseva (1927–2004), painter *Kapitolina Rumiantseva (1925–2002), painter *Betye Saar (born 1926), assemblage sculpture *Ana Sacerdote (1925–2012), painter, video artist *Behjat Sadr (1924–2009), painter *Takako Saito (born 1929), installation art, performance art *Honoré Desmond Sharrer (1920–2009), painter *Alice Shaddle (1928 – 2017), sculptor *Sarai Sherman (1922–2013), painter, printmaker, sculptor *Galina Smirnova (1929–2015), painter *Doretta Frenna Smith (1924–2012), painter *Nancy Spero (1926–2009), painter *Katy Stephanides (1925–2012), painter *Mel and Dorothy Tanner, Dorothy Tanner (1923–2020), light sculptor *Hannah Tompkins (artist), Hannah Tompkins (1920–1995), painter, printmaker *Anne Truitt (1921–2004), sculptor *Draginja Vlasic (1928–2011), painter *Nina Veselova (1922–1960), painter *Stella Waitzkin (1920–2003), painter *Jane Wilson (1924–2015), painter *Leona Wood (1921–2008), painter

1930–1939

*Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017), sculptor and graphic artist *Alice Adams (artist), Alice Adams (born 1930), sculptor, textile art, earthworks *Maliheh Afnan (1935–2016), mixed media artist *Gayleen Aiken (1934–2005), painter, musician *Edith Altman (born 1931), painter, performance artist *Emma Andijewska (born 1931), painter, writer * :pl:Maria Anto, Maria Anto (1936–2007), Polish painter, poet, matron of the Art Prize *Electa Arenal (1935–1960), Mexican muralist *Helene Aylon (1931–2020), sculptor *Gillian Ayres (1930–2018), painter *Audrey Barker (1932–2002), installation artist *Mardi Barrie (1930–2004), painter *Mária Bartuszová (1936–1996), sculptor *Annemirl Bauer (1939–1989), painter *Baya (artist) (1931–1998), painter, potter *Zuleika Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (born 1939), painter *Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hilla Becher (1934–2015), photographer *Mary Holiday Black (born c. 1934), Navajo basket maker *Karen Boccalero (1933–1997), printmaker *Maude Boltz (1939-2017), fiber artist *Lee Bontecou (born 1931), sculptor, printmaker *Pauline Boty (1938–1966), painter *Joan Brown (1938–1990), painter *P. Buckley Moss (born 1933), painter *Barbara Bullock (born 1938), painter, educator *Judy Chicago (born 1939), installation artist *Chryssa (1933–2013), sculptor *Meinrad Craighead (1936–2019), painter, printmaker *Iran Darroudi (1936–2021), painter *Agnes Denes (born 1931), conceptual artist, multidisciplinary *Irina Dobrekova (born 1931), painter *Martha Edelheit (born 1931), painter *Lillian Wolock Elliott (1930–1994) American fiber artist, textile designer *Marisol Escobar (1930–2016), sculptor *Janet Fish (born 1938), painter *Audrey Flack (born 1931), painter, printmaker, sculptor *Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959), painter *Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993), sculptor, printmaker *Valerie Ganz (1936–2015), painter *Irina Getmanskaya (born 1939), painter *Tatiana Gorb (1935–2013), painter *Shirley Gorelick (1936–2000), painter *Elena Gorokhova (1933–2014), painter *Carmen Gracia (born 1935), printmaker *Nancy Graves (1939–1995), sculptor, painter, printmaker *Martha Nessler Hayden (born 1936), American painter *Mary Habsch (born 1931), Belgian painter and printmaker *Lee Hall (artist), Lee Hall (1934–2017), American abstract landscape painter, writer, university president *Eva Hesse (1936–1970), sculptor *Nicole Hollander (born 1939), illustration, comics *Valerie Hollister (born 1939), painter, printmaker *Nancy Holt (1938–2014), sculptor/ land art *Joan Jonas (born 1936), performance artist *Alison Knowles (born 1933), Fluxus, performance artist *Sara Leighton (born 1937), portrait painter *Lee Lozano (1930–1999), painter *Althea McNish (c. 1933–2020), textile designer *Totte Mannes (born 1933), painter *Helena Markson (1934–2012), printmaker *Emily Mason (1932–2019), painter *Leyly Matine-Daftary (1937–2007), modernist painter *Norma Minkowitz (b. 1937), fiber artist *Valentina Monakhova (born 1932), painter *Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991), performance artist, Fluxus *Ree Morton (1933–1977), painter *Vera Nazina (born 1931), painter *Carol Heifetz Neiman (1937–1990), Xerox artist, printmaker, pastel, pencil, painter *Lorraine O'Grady (born 1934), performance art, installation art *Yoko Ono (born 1933), performance art, music *Marilyn Pappas (born 1931), textile artist *Fay Peck (1931–2016), American Expressionism, Expressionist artist *Nancy Petyarre (1934/38–2009), painter *Anirnik Ragee (born 1935), printmaker *Deborah Remington (1930–2010), painter *Bridget Riley (born 1931), painter *Faith Ringgold (born 1930), painter *Dorothea Rockburne (born 1932), painter *Eliyakota Samualie (1939–1987), graphic artist and sculptor *Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019), performance artist *Joan Semmel (born 1932), painter *Jacqueline Skiles (born 1937), printmaker, sculptor *Anita Steckel (1930–2012), graphic artist *Marjorie Strider (1931–2014), sculptor *Michelle Stuart (born 1933), painter, sculptor, photographer *Anita Louise Suazo (born 1937), ceramics *Atsuko Tanaka (artist), Atsuko Tanaka (1932–2005), painting, sculpture, performance art, installation art *Ana Vidjen (born 1931), sculptor

1940–1949

*Pacita Abad (1946–2004), painter *Marina Abramović (born 1946), performance artist *Gretchen Albrecht, (born 1943), painter *Laurie Anderson (born 1947), performance artist *Heather Angel (photographer), Heather Angel (born 1941), photographer, author *Germaine Arnaktauyok (born 1946), printmaker, painter *Alice Aycock (born 1946), sculptor *Tina Barney (born 1945), photographer, filmmaker *Jennifer Bartlett (born 1941), painter *Anne Bascove (born 1946), painter, printmaker, mixed media *Lynda Benglis (born 1941), sculptor *Judith Bernstein (born 1942), painter *Vivienne Binns (born 1940), painter, enamels *Shirley L. Bolton (1945-1984), painter *Melinda Bordelon (1949–1995), painter, illustrator *Fionnuala Boyd (born 1944), painter, photographer *Dina Bursztyn (born 1948), visual artist and writer *Deborah Butterfield (born 1949), sculptor *Kathleen Caraccio (b. 1947), printmaker *Rhea Carmi (born 1942), abstract expressionist and mixed-media artist *Squeak Carnwath (born 1947), painter *Vera Chino (born 1943), Acoma Pueblo ceramic artist *Suzanne Klotz (born 1944), painter, sculptor *Shelagh Cluett (1947–2007), sculptor fine art lecturer *Susan Crile (born 1942), painter *Lynn Davis (photographer), Lynn Davis (born 1944), photographer *Virginia Dotson (born 1943), woodworker *Orshi Drozdik (born 1946), photographer, sculptor, performance artist, painter, writer, conceptual artist *Bracha Ettinger (born 1948), painter, photographer, psychoanalyst, writer *Valie Export (born 1940), performance artist, video installations, photography *Carole Feuerman (born 1945), sculptor *Helen C. Frederick (born 1945), printmaker *Rose Garrard (born 1946), installation, video and performance *:pl:Teresa Gierzy%C5%84ska, Teresa Gierzyńska (born 1947), Polish conceptual artist, photographer *Mary Giles (1944-2018), fiber artist *Jan Groover (1943–2012), photographer *Kathy Grove (born 1948), conceptual artist *Graciela Gutiérrez Marx (1945–2022), mail artist *Elisabeth Haarr (born 1945), textile artist *Maggi Hambling (born 1945), painter, sculptor *Helen Hardin (1943–1984), painter *Margaret Harrison (born 1940), painter *Masumi Hayashi (photographer), Masumi Hayashi (1945–2006), photographer *Judithe Hernández (born 1948) painter, muralist *Rebecca Horn (born 1944), sculptor, installation art *Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947), photographer *Sanja Iveković (born 1949), interdisciplinary artist *Susan Kaprov (born 1946), multi-disciplinary artist *Rita Keegan (born 1949), multii-media artist *Mary Kelly (artist) (born 1941), installation art, interdisciplinary *Yvonne Walker Keshick (born 1946), quill artist and basket maker *Gayane Khachaturian (1942–2009), painter *:pl:Barbara Koz%C5%82owska, Barbara Kozłowska (1940–2008), installation, environment artist, photographer *Barbara Kruger (born 1945), conceptual artist *Annie Leibovitz (born 1949), photographer *Pat Lipsky, (born 1940), painter *Hung Liu, (1948–2021), painter *Kistat Lund (1944–2017), graphic artist, illustrator, painter *Markéta Luskačová (born 1944), photographer *Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015), photographer *Linda McCartney (1942–1998), photographer *Rebecca Medel (born 1947) fiber artist *Susan Meiselas (born 1948), photographer *Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), performance art, sculptor *Annette Messager (born 1943), installation art, interdisciplinary *Tania Mouraud (born 1942), installation art, mixed media *Sheila Mullen (artist), Sheila Mullen (born 1942), painter *Glòria Muñoz (born 1949), painter *Elizabeth Murray (artist), Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007), painter, printmaker *Avis Newman (born 1946), painter, sculptor *Gladys Nilsson (born 1940), painter *Guity Novin (born 1944), painter *Lydia Okumura (born 1948), sculptor *Orlan (born 1947) performance artist *Gloria Petyarre (1945–2021), painter *Adrian Piper (born 1948), conceptual artist *Sylvia Plachy (born 1943), photographer *Stephanie Pogue (1944–2002), printmaker *Susan Mohl Powers (born 1944), sculptor, painter *Helen Ramsaran (born 1943), sculptor *Judy Rifka (born 1945) painter, video artist *Suellen Rocca (1943–2020), painter *Barbara Rosenthal (born 1948), photographer *Martha Rosler (born 1943), photographer, performance, video *Barbara Rossi (artist), Barbara Rossi (born 1940), painter *Ursula von Rydingsvard (born 1942), sculptor *Kakulu Saggiaktok (1940–2020), visual artist *Barbara Schwartz (artist), Barbara Schwartz (1949–2006), painter, sculptor *Sandy Skoglund (born 1946), photographer *Hollis Sigler (1948–2001), painter *Joan Snyder (born 1940), painter *Annegret Soltau (born 1946), graphic, performance, video, photocollage *Pat Steir (born 1938), painter *Vicki Stone (born 1949), painter *Altoon Sultan (born 1948), painter *Carol Sutton (artist), Carol Sutton (born 1945), painter *Berenice Sydney (1944–1983), paintings, drawings, prints, children's books, costume design, performance *Joyce Tenneson (born 1945), photographer *Gail Tremblay (born 1945), installation artist and basket weaver *Yvonne Edwards Tucker (born 1941), American potter *Mym Tuma (born 1940), painter and Mixed media, mixed-media artist *Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943–2011), painter, architect, educator *Vivian Wang (born 1945), sculptor *Hannah Wilke (1940–1993), sculptor, photographer *Annie Williams (painter), Annie Williams (born 1942), watercolour artist *Val Wilmer (born 1941), photographer, author *Jackie Winsor (born 1941), sculptor

1950–1959

*Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959), videographer, photographer *Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954), filmmaker *Davida Allen (born 1951), painter, filmmaker *Cecilia Alvarez (born 1950), painter, muralist *Annie Antone (born 1955), basket weaver *Anne Appleby (born 1954), painter *Sue Arrowsmith (1950–2014), photographic artist *Imna Arroyo (born 1951), printmaker *Lynda Barry (born 1956), illustrator, comics *Jane Boyd (born 1953), installation *Lisa Bradley (born 1951), painter *Chrisann Brennan (born 1954), painter *Chila Kumari Burman (born 1957), printmaker, painter, installation artist *Catherine Chalmers (born 1957), photographer *Sophie Calle (born 1953), photographer, author, installation artist, conceptual artist *Louisa Chase (1951–2016), painter, printmaker *Emily Cheng (born 1953), painter *Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (1952–2012), painter *Victoria Civera (born 1955), interdisciplinary artist, painter *Sokari Douglas Camp (born 1958), sculptor *Susan Derges (born 1955), photographic artist *A. K. Dolven (born 1953), painting, film, and interventions in public space *Lola Flash (born 1959), photographer *Cherryl Fountain (born 1950), still life, landscape and botanical artist *Joanne Gair (born 1958), painter, body art *Anne Geddes (born 1956), photographer *Nan Goldin (born 1953), photographer *Patricia Gonzalez (born 1958), painter *Jane Hammond (born 1950), painter, printmaker *Akiko Hatsu (born 1959), illustrator, comics *Jenny Holzer (born 1950), conceptual artist *Roni Horn (born 1955), photographer *Mona Hatoum (born 1952), video, installation *Lubaina Himid (born 1954), mixed media *Leiko Ikemura (born 1951), painter, sculptor *Janel Jacobson (b. 1950), ceramicist, wood carver *Terrell James (born 1955), painter, sculptor *Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings (born 1952), bead and textile artist *Claudette Johnson (born 1959), painter *Sharon Kerry-Harlan (b. 1951), textile artist *Deborah Kennedy (born 1953), sculptor, painter, contemporary art *Maya Lin (born 1959), installation artist *Marita Liulia (born 1957), photographer, digital and interactive media *Cynthia Lockhart (born 1952), textile artist *Sally Mann (born 1951), photographer *Soraida Martinez (born 1956), artist, designer *Michiko Matsumoto (born 1950), photographer *Emma McCagg (born 1957), painter, filmmaker *Moseka Yogo Ambake (1956–2019), painter *Shirin Neshat (born 1957), filmmaker, videographer, photographer *Deborah Niland (born 1950), painter, illustrator *Kilmeny Niland (1950–2009), painter, illustrator *Cady Noland (born 1956), sculptor *Cornelia Parker (born 1956), sculptor, drawing, installation artist *Elisa Pritzker (born 1955), contemporary artist *Ingrid Pollard (born 1953), portrait photographer *Valerie Pourier (born 1959), buffalo horn carver *Sheila Kanieson Ransom (born 1954), basket weaver *Shani Rhys James (born 1953), painter *Jenny Scobel (born 1955), painter *Cindy Sherman (born 1957), photographer, filmmaker *Noriko Shinohara (born 1953), multi-disciplinary artist *Li Shuang (artist), Li Shuang (born 1957), painter *Jiang Shuo (born 1958), sculptor *Kiki Smith (born 1954), sculptor, printmaker, installation art *Gilda Snowden (1954–2014), painter *Renee Stout (born 1958), photographer, installation art *Rumiko Takahashi (born 1957), illustrator, author *Zoja Trofimiuk (born 1952), sculptor, printmaker *Alison Turnbull (born 1956), painter, sculptor *Barbara Tyson Mosley (born 1950), American mixed media artist *Linda Vallejo (born 1951), painting, sculpture, ceramics *Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), photographer, filmmaker *Nancy Worden (1954–2021), metalsmith *Emmi Whitehorse (born 1957), painter *Eva Janina Wieczorek (born 1951), painter *Sue Williams (artist), Sue Williams (born 1956), British visual artist *Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), photographer

1960–1969

*Jessica Abel (born 1969), illustrator, author *Yeşim Ağaoğlu (born 1966), installation art *Rachel Ara (born 1965), conceptual and data art *Sofia Areal (born 1960), painter *Cosima von Bonin (born 1962), concept art *Margarete Bagshaw (born 1964), painter *Fiona Banner (born 1966), wordscapes, sculpture, drawing, installation *Vanessa Beecroft (born 1969), performance art *Sonia Boyce (born 1962), mixed media, photography, installation, text *Cecily Brown (born 1969), painter *Tiffany Lee Brown (born 1969), interdisciplinary arts, performance, music, writing *Jo Bruton, b. 1967, British, painter *Carolyn Cole (born 1961), photographer *Justine Cooper (artist), Justine Cooper (born 1968), mixed media *Cecilie Dahl (born 1960), installation artist *Tacita Dean (born 1965), film, drawing, photography, sound *Simone Decker (born 1968), artist working with photography and installations *Berlinde De Bruyckere (born 1964), painter, sculptor *Xiomara De Oliver (born 1967), Canadian painter *Inka Essenhigh (born 1969), painter *Mary Evans (artist) (born 1963), installation, works on paper *Abigail Fallis (born 1968), sculptor *Ceal Floyer (born 1968) *Anna Fox (born 1961), photographer *Else Gabriel (born 1962), performance artist and educator *Ellen Gallagher (born 1965), painter, mixed media artist *Patricia Goslee (born 1970), painter, curator *Brita Granström (born 1969), painter, illustrator, author *Maya Hayuk (born 1969), painter, muralist *Taraneh Hemami (born 1960), multidisciplinary artist, installations, craft *Iva Honyestewa (born 1964), basket maker *Zuzanna Janin (born 1961), mixed-media, video artist, installation, sculptor *Chantal Joffe (born 1969), painter *Lori Kay (born 1962), sculptor, mixed media *Hilja Keading (born 1960), video installation artist *Toba Khedoori (born 1964), sculptor, mixed-media, drawings, paintings *Rachel Khedoori (born 1964), sculptor, mixed-media *Lorena Kloosterboer (born 1962), painter, sculptor *Mariko Kusumoto (born 1967), fabric and metal artist *Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photographer, visual artist *Vera Lutter (born 1960), mixed-media *Maria Marshall (born 1966), sculptor, painter, photographer, video artist *Amanda Matthews (born 1968), sculptor, painter, public art designer *Shari Mendelson (born 1961), American sculptor *Julie Anne Mihalisin, (born 1965), jewelry artist *Mariko Mori (born 1967), performance, installation *Debora Moore (born 1960), glass artist *Eva Navarro (painter), Eva Navarro (born 1967), painter *Virginia Nimarkoh (born 1967), photo installations *Audrey Niffenegger (born 1963), printmaker, author *Catherine Opie (born 1961), photographer *Janette Parris (born 1963), drawing *Olivia Peguero (born 1962), painter, sculptor, author *Jennifer Wynne Reeves (1963–2014), painter *Lique Schoot (born 1969), painter, photographer, installation *Linda Sikora (born 1960), ceramist *Lorna Simpson (born 1960), photographer *Jonny Star (born 1964), sculptor, installation artist, collage artist *Maud Sulter (1960–2008), portraiture, montage *Roxanne Swentzell (born 1962), sculptor *Sarah Sze (born 1969), installation art *Tomoko Takahashi (born 1966), installation art *Ningiukulu Teevee (born 1963), illustrator *Jill Thompson (born 1966), illustrator, author *Patience Torlowei (born 1964), textile artist *Verónica Ruiz de Velasco (born 1968), painter *Kara Walker (born 1969), collage artist, painter, printmaker, installation artist *Bettina Werner (born 1965), artist who invented the textured colorized salt crystal technique as an art medium *Rachel Whiteread (born 1963), sculptor *Ingrid Wildi Merino, Ingrid Wildi-Merino (born 1964), Chilean-Swiss video artist *Melanie Yazzie (born 1966), sculptor, painter, printmaker *Laurie Walker (artist) (born 1962), interdisciplinary artist *Christine Wilks b. 1960, British digital artist *gwendolyn yoppolo (born 1968), ceramist *Andrea Zittel (born 1965), painter, sculptor The list ends with artists born in 1969. For later births see

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