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

fine art In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwor ...

ists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily

visual The visual system comprises the sensory organ (the eye) and parts of the central nervous system (the retina containing photoreceptor cells, the optic nerve, the optic tract and the visual cortex) which gives organisms the sense of sight ...

in nature, including traditional media such as

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and a ...

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

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is emplo ...

, and

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed techniqu ...

, as well as more recent genres, including

installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

body art Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. Body art covers a wide spectrum including tattoos, body piercings, scarification, and body painting. Body art may include performance art, body art is likewise utilized for investi ...

conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called ins ...

digital art Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960s, various name ...

and

video art Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting ...

Born 1900–1909

1900 * Samuel Cashwan (1900–1988), sculptor * Carl Holty (1900–1973), painter *

Fred Kabotie Fred Kabotie (c. 1900–1986) was a celebrated Hopi painter, silversmith, illustrator, potter, author, curator and educator. His native name in the Hopi language is Naqavoy'ma which translates to Day After Day. Background and education Fred Kabo ...

(c. 1900–1986), painter, silversmith * Rico Lebrun (1900–1964), painter *

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 *

Betty Parsons Betty Parsons (born Betty Bierne Pierson, January 31, 1900 – July 23, 1982) was an American artist, art dealer, and collector known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She is regarded as one of the most influential and dynamic f ...

(1900–1982), painter, gallerist * Virginia True (1900–1989), painter *

Jack Tworkov Jack Tworkov (15 August 1900 – 4 September 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Biography Yakov Tworkovsky, more commonly known as Jack Tworkov, was born in Biała Podlaska on the border between Poland and the Russian Empi ...

(1900–1982), painter * Adja Yunkers (1900–1983), painter 1901 * James Richmond Barthé (1901–1989), sculptor *

Francis Criss Francis Hyman Criss (1901 - 1973) was an American painter. Criss's style is associated with the American Precisionists like Charles Demuth and his friend Charles Sheeler. Biography Criss was born in 1901 in London and immigrated with his family ...

(1901–1973), painter * Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994), sculptor, printmaker *

Beauford Delaney Beauford Delaney (December 30, 1901 – March 26, 1979) was an American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his mov ...

(1901–1979), painter *

Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film p ...

(1901–1966), cartoonist, animator, filmmaker * Thomas Brownell Eldred (1903–1993), painter, printmaker *

Philip Evergood Philip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood (born Howard Blashki; 1901–1973) was an American painter, etcher, lithographer, sculptor, illustrator and writer. He was particularly active during the Depression and World War II era. Life Philip Evergo ...

(1901–1973), painter, printmaker, sculptor *

Greta Kempton Martha Greta Kempton (March 22, 1901 – December 9, 1991) was the White House artist during the Truman administration. Biography Kempton was born in Vienna and came to the United States in the 1920s. She studied at the Vienna Academy of ...

(1901–1991), portrait artist * Richard Lindner (1901–1978), painter *

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 * Esther Rose (1901–1990), painter, calligrapher *

Albert Swinden Albert Swinden (1901–1961) was an English-born American abstract painter. He was one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists, and he created significant murals as part of the Federal Art Project. Life Albert Swinden was born in Birmi ...

(1901–1961), painter * John Augustus Walker (1901–1967), painter * Elof Wedin (1901–1983), artist 1902 * Ansel Easton Adams (1902–1984), photographer *

Isabel Bishop Isabel Bishop (March 3, 1902 – February 19, 1988) was an American painter and graphic artist. Bishop studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York, where she would later become an instructor. She was most notable fo ...

(1902–1988), painter, printmaker *

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, co ...

(1902–2000), painter, printmaker * Alexander Cañedo (1902–1978), surrealism and magic realism * Roger Wilson Dennis (1902–1996), painter, art conservator *

Lee Gatch Harry Lee Gatch (September 10, 1902 – November 10, 1968), was a twentieth-century American artist known for his lyrical abstractions and his ability to find "a fresh approach" to painting the figure and nature "through interwoven patterns of ...

(1902–1968), painter, muralist *

Donal Hord Donal Hord (February 26, 1902 – June 29, 1966), an American sculptor, was born Donald Horr in Prentice, Wisconsin. Early life In 1914, Hord and his mother moved west, to Seattle, Washington. Shortly thereafter he contracted rheumatic fever, ...

(1902–1966), sculptor *

Paul Kelpe Paul Kelpe (; January 15, 1902 – December 8, 1985) was a German-born American abstract painter. His constructions integrating found objects into paintings were the first such works created in the United States and he painted two of the fi ...

(1902–1985), painter *

Kenzo Okada Kenzo Okada (岡田謙三, ''Okada Kenzō''; born on September 28, 1902, died on July 25, 1982) was a Japanese-born American painter and the first Japanese-American artist to work in the abstract expressionism, Abstract Expressionist style and ...

(1902–1982), painter * I. Rice Pereira (1902–1971), painter * Pietro Pezzati (1902–1993), painter *

Otis Polelonema Otis Polelonema (1902–1981), was a Hopi painter, illustrator, weaver, song composer, and educator. He lived in Shongopovi most of his life. He also worked as a WPA artist in the mural division. His native name in the Hopi language is Lomadamoc ...

(1902–1981), painter, illustrator *

Charles Pollock Charles Cecil Pollock (December 25, 1902, in Denver, Colorado - May 8, 1988, in Paris) was an American abstract painter and the eldest brother of artist Jackson Pollock. Biography Pollock was born on December 25, 1902, in Denver, Colorado. He ...

(1902–1988), painter *

Isaac Soyer Isaac Soyer (April 26, 1902 – July 8, 1981) was a Russian-born American social realist painter and educator. His art work often portrayed working-class people of New York City in his paintings. Biography He was born as Isaac Schoar on April 26, ...

(1902–1981), painter 1903 *

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 A ...

(1903–1966), painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, sculptor *

Walter Inglis Anderson Walter Inglis Anderson (September 29, 1903 – November 30, 1965) was an American painter and writer. Anderson died from cancer November 30, 1965, at the age of 62. Early life and education Anderson was born in New Orleans to George Walter A ...

(1903–1965), painter *

Joseph Cornell Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American visual artist and film-maker, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmm ...

(1903–1972), sculptor, filmmaker * Vestie Davis (1903–1978), self-taught artist * Elwood Decker (1903–1992), painter *

Stephen Etnier Stephen Morgan Etnier (September 11, 1903 – November 7, 1984) was an American realist painter, painting for six decades. His work is distinguished by a mixture of realism and luminism, favoring industrial and working scenes, but always ...

(1903–1984), painter *

Walker Evans Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from ...

(1903–1975), photographer *

Adolph Gottlieb Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker. Early life and education Adolph Gottlieb, one of the "first generation" of Abstract Expressionists, was born in New York ...

(1903–1974), painter *

Robert Gwathmey Robert Gwathmey (January 24, 1903 – September 21, 1988) was an American social realist painter. His wife was photographer Rosalie Gwathmey(September 15, 1908 – February 12, 2001) and his son was architect Charles Gwathmey (June 19, 1938 – ...

(1903–1988), painter *

Al Hirschfeld Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. Personal life Al Hirschfeld was born in 1903 in a two-story duplex at 1313 Carr ...

(1903–2003), caricaturist *

Leon Karp Leon Karp (1903-1951) was an American artist. Biography Karp was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1903. He attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He was also associated with the Ate ...

(1903–1951), painter and printmaker *

Seymour Lipton Seymour Lipton (6 November 1903 – 15 December 1986) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. He initially trained as a dentist but focused on s ...

(1903–1986), sculptor * Charles S. Martz (1903–1966), painter and photographer *

Isamu Noguchi was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and severa ...

(1903–1988), sculptor *

Mark Rothko Mark Rothko (), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, link=no, lv, Markuss Rotkovičs, link=no; name not Anglicized until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Lat ...

(1903–1970), painter * Louis Schanker (1903–1981), painter * Ethel Schwabacher (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 *

Karl Zerbe Karl Zerbe (September 16, 1903 – November 24, 1972) was a German-born American painter and educator. Biography Karl Zerbe was born on September 16, 1903 in Berlin, Germany. The family lived in Paris, France from 1904–1914, where his fat ...

(1903–1972), painter 1904 *

Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971), an American photographer and documentary photographer, became arguably best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry under the Soviets' ...

(1904–1971), photographer * Hans Burkhardt (1904–1994), painter *

Paul Cadmus Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999) was an American artist widely known for his egg tempera paintings of gritty social interactions in urban settings. He also produced many highly finished drawings of single nude male figures ...

(1904–1999), painter, printmaker * Clarence Holbrook Carter (1904–2000), painter *

Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, hy, Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of hi ...

(1904–1948), painter *

Chaim Gross Chaim Gross (March 17, 1902 – May 5, 1991) was an American sculptor and educator of Ukrainian Jewish origin. Childhood Gross was born to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa (now known as Mizhhiria, Ukraine), in t ...

(1904–1991), sculptor * Murray Hantman (1904–1999), painter and muralist *

Peter Hurd Peter Hurd (February 22, 1904 – July 9, 1984) was an American painter whose work is strongly associated with the people and landscapes of San Patricio, New Mexico, where he lived from the 1930s. He is equally acclaimed for his portraits and his ...

(1904–1984), painter *

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...

(1904–1997), painter * Fletcher Martin (1904–1979), painter *

Nan Phelps Nan Phelps (née Hinkle; August 25, 1904 – January 17, 1990), was an American folk artist from London, Kentucky. Phelps’ work has often been compared to that of the more famous Grandma Moses in both style and subject matter. Biography Phelps ...

(1904–1990), painter *

Jose de Rivera Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. * Jose ben Abin *Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galile ...

(1904–1985), sculptor *

Clyfford Still Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 – June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately follow ...

(1904–1980), painter 1905 *

Leonard Bahr Leonard Marion Bahr (May 12, 1905 – July 25, 1990) was an American portrait painter, muralist, illustrator and educator. He worked for many years as a painting professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Personal life Leonard Ma ...

(1905–1990), painter, muralist, illustrator * Grace Clements (1905–1969), muralist, mosaicist, art critic *

Perle Fine Perle Fine (born Poule Feine)(1905–1988) was an American Abstract expressionist painter.Jared French Jared French (February 4, 1905 – January 8, 1988) was an American painter who specialized in the medium of egg tempera. He was one of the artists attributed to the style of art known as magic realism along with contemporaries George Tooker a ...

(1905–1988), painter * Forrest Hibbits (1905–1996), watercolor painter, illustrator * Winnifred Hudson (1905–1996), abstract painter * Lois Mailou Jones (1905–1998), painter * Martin W. Kellogg (1905–1989), portrait painter *

Doris Lee Doris Emrick Lee (February 1, 1905 – June 16, 1983) was an American painter known for her figurative painting and printmaking. She won the Logan Medal of the Arts from the Chicago Art Institute in 1935. She is known as one of the most successf ...

(1905–1983), painter * Joseph Meert (1905 - 1989), painter, muralist, printmaker * Paul Meltsner (1905–1966), painter *

Barnett Newman Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He has been critically regarded as one of the major figures of abstract expressionism, and one of the foremost color field painters. His paintings explore the sense o ...

(1905–1970), painter *

Sanford Plummer Sanford Plummer (Ga-yo-gwa-doke) (1905–1974) (Seneca) was a Native American narrative watercolor painter from New York state. He painted works portraying traditional life and culture of the Seneca and people of other Iroquois nations. His works ...

(1905–1974), watercolor painter * James Amos Porter (1905–1970), painter, art historian * Anton Refregier (1905–1979), painter * Kurt Roesch (1905–1984), painter *

Ray Strong Ray Stanford Strong (January 3, 1905 – July 3, 2006) was an American painter from Corvallis, Oregon. He associated with the New Deal muralists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Early life and education Ray Strong was born in Corvallis, Oreg ...

(1905–2006), painter 1906 *

Harry Anderson Harry Laverne Anderson (October 14, 1952 – April 16, 2018) was an American actor, comedian and magician. He is best known for his role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984–1992 television series ''Night Court''. He later starred in the si ...

(1906–1996), painter and illustrator *

Peter Blume Peter Blume (27 October 1906 – 30 November 1992) was an American painter and sculptor. His work contained elements of folk art, Precisionism, Parisian Purism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Biography Blume, born in Smarhon, Russian Empire to a J ...

(1906–1992), painter * James Brooks (1906–1992), painter and muralist *

Ralston Crawford Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer. Early life He was born on September 5, 1906, in St. Catharines, Ontario, and spent his childhood in Buffalo, New York. He studied art beginning in ...

(1906–1978), painter, lithographer, and photographer *

Burgoyne Diller Burgoyne A. Diller (January 13, 1906 – January 30, 1965) was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known works are characterized by orthogonal geometric forms that reflect his strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work of ...

(1906–1965), painter *

Herbert Ferber Herbert Ferber (1906 – 1991) was an American Abstract Expressionist, sculptor and painter, and a "driving force of the New York School." Background Herbert Ferber Silvers was born on April 30, 1906, in New York City. In 1923, he beg ...

(1906–1991), sculptor *

Crockett Johnson Crockett Johnson (October 20, 1906 – July 11, 1975) was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He is best known for the comic strip '' Barnaby'' (1942–1952) and the ''Harold'' series of boo ...

(1906-1975), cartoonist, illustrator, mathematical painter *

Philip Johnson Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the po ...

(1906–2005), architect, art collector * Dorothy Morang (1906–1994), painter and pastelist * David Smith (1906–1965), sculptor *

Leon Polk Smith Leon Polk Smith (1906–1996) was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and he is a follow er of the Hard-edge school. His best-known paintings constitute maximally reduced forms, c ...

(1906–1996), painter 1907 *

Charles Alston Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance; A ...

(1907–1977), painter *

Acee Blue Eagle Acee Blue Eagle (17 August 1907 – 18 June 1959) was a Native American artist, educator, dancer, and Native American flute player,Wyckoff, 92 who directed the art program at Bacone College. His birth name was Alexander C. McIntosh, he also we ...

(1907–1959), painter, muralist *

Ilya Bolotowsky Ilya Bolotowsky (July 1, 1907 – November 22, 1981) was a leading early 20th-century Russian-American painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced cubism and ge ...

(1907–1981), painter, printmaker * Marie Z. Chino (1907–1982), potter, ceramic artist *

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 *

Jon Gnagy Jon Gnagy (January 13, 1907 – March 7, 1981) was a self-taught artist most remembered for being America's original television art instructor, hosting ''You Are an Artist'', which began on the NBC network and included analysis of paintings from ...

(1907–1981), painter, illustrator, television art instructor * Jacob Kainen (1909–2001), painter * Albert Kotin (1907–1980), painter * Tom Lea (1907–2001), muralist, illustrator, painter * Michael Loew (1907–1985), painter * Harry Mintz (1907–2002), painter *

Walter Tandy Murch Walter Tandy Murch (August 17, 1907 – December 11, 1967) was a painter whose still life paintings of machine parts, brick fragments, clocks, broken dolls, hovering light bulbs and glowing lemons are an unusual combination of realism and abstract ...

(1907–1967), painter *

Fairfield Porter Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. He was the brother of photo ...

(1907–1975), painter *

Gregorio Prestopino Gregorio Prestopino (1907–1984) was an American artist. According to the art historian Irma B. Jaffe, he was "one of the major American painters who refused to reject the image, ndhas devoted his career to depicting the human condition with a ...

(1907–1984), painter *

George Rickey George Warren Rickey (June 6, 1907 – July 17, 2002) was an American kinetic sculptor. Early life and education Rickey was born on June 6, 1907, in South Bend, Indiana. When Rickey was still a child, his father, an executive with Singer S ...

(1907–2002), sculptor * Theodore Roszak (1907–1981), sculptor, painter *

Millard Sheets Millard Owen Sheets (June 24, 1907 – March 31, 1989) was an American artist, teacher, and architectural designer. He was one of the earliest of the California Scene Painting artists and helped define the art movement. Many of his large-scale bu ...

(1907–1989), painter * Bernard Joseph Steffen (1907–1980), painter, printmaker *

Henriette Wyeth Henriette Wyeth Hurd (October 22, 1907 – April 3, 1997) was an American artist noted for her portraits and still life paintings. The eldest daughter of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, she studied painting with her father and brother Andrew Wyeth at the ...

(1907–1997), painter 1908 *

Claire Falkenstein Claire Falkenstein (; July 22, 1908 – October 23, 1997) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer, and teacher, most renowned for her often large-scale abstract metal and glass public sculptures. Falkenstein was one of Am ...

(1908–1997), sculptor *

Sybil Gibson Sybil Gibson (née Sybil Aaron; February 18, 1908 – January 2, 1995) was an American painter, she was self taught artist. Early life and education Born Sybil Aaron in Dora, Alabama, to parents Lenora Reid Aaron and Monroe Aaron. Her father w ...

(1908–1995), painter *

Herblock Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretch ...

(1908–2001), political cartoonist * Lee Krasner (1908–1984), painter * Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999), painter *

Nicholas Marsicano Nicholas Marsicano (1908 – 1991) was an American painter and teacher of the New York School. His work was primarily based on the female figure. Life Marsicano was born October 1, 1908, in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the ...

(1908–1991), painter * George McNeil (1908–1995), painter *

Wilber Moore Stilwell Wilber Moore Stilwell (1908–1974) was an American depression era artist, White House/National Gallery of Art/American Artists Professional League honoree, inventor, patent holder, author, and Chair of Art, University of South Dakota. Personal ...

(1908–1974), depression era artist *

Roger Tory Peterson Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, illustrator and educator, and one of the founding inspirations for the 20th-century environmental movement. Background Peterson was born in James ...

(1908–1996), graphic artist, illustrator, naturalist * Minor White (1908–1976), photographer 1909 *

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),

Surrealist Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

painter * Jean Cory Beall, (1909–1978), painter and public artist *

Al Capp Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip ''Li'l Abner'', which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (wi ...

(1909–1979), cartoonist * Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia (1909–1982), impressionist painter, sculptor, and lithographer * Enrico Donati (1909–2008), painter * Jacob Lipkin (1909–1996), sculptor *

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 * Charles Gordon (1909–1978), watercolor artist * Dorothy Stratton King (1909–2007), painter and printmaker * Norman Lewis (1909–1979), painter *

Alex Raymond Alexander Gillespie Raymond Jr. (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) was an American cartoonist who was best known for creating the ''Flash Gordon'' comic strip for King Features Syndicate in 1934. The strip was subsequently adapted into many ...

(1909–1956), cartoonist * Herman Rose (1909–2007), painter * Manfred Schwartz (1909–1970), painter * Fay Morgan Taylor (1909–1990), modernist artist

Born 1910–1919

1910 *

Leonard Bocour Leonard Bocour (March 18, 1910 – September 6, 1993) was an American artist. Bocour was born in New York City. Around 1933, he formed the New York City based company Bocour Artists Colors. He was the co-developer along with Sam Golden of Ma ...

(1910–1993), paint-maker, painter *

Paul Feeley Paul Feeley (July 27, 1910 − June 10, 1966) was an artist and director of the Art Department at Bennington College during the 1950s and early 1960s. Overview Though Feeley was born in the same generation as the Abstract Expressionists, hi ...

(1910–1966), painter * James FitzGerald (1910–1973), sculptor, painter *

Morris Graves Morris Graves (August 28, 1910 – May 5, 2001) was an American painter. He was one of the earliest Modern artists from the Pacific Northwest to achieve national and international acclaim. His style, referred to by some reviewers as Mysticism, ...

(1910–2001), painter, printmaker * Hiroshi Honda (1910–1970), painter *

Franz Kline Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Mot ...

(1910–1962), painter * Fuller Potter (1910–1990), painter *

Mitchell Siporin Mitchell Siporin (1910–1976) was a Social Realist American painter. Biography Mitchell Siporin was born on May 5, 1910 in New York City to Hyman, a truck driver, and Jennie Siporin, both immigrants from Poland, and grew up in Chicago.Abram ...

(1910–1976), painter *

Hedda Sterne Hedda Sterne (August 4, 1910 – April 8, 2011) was a Romanian-born American artist who was an active member of the New York School of painters. Her work is often associated with Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism.Sterne, Hedda, Sarah L Eckh ...

(1910–2011), painter *

Dorothea Tanning Dorothea Margaret Tanning (25 August 1910 – 31 January 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. Biography Dorothea Tanning was born and raised in Galesburg, Illin ...

(1910–2012), painter, surrealist 1911 * Arnold Arbeit (1911–1974), architect, sculptor, painter * Will Barnet (1911–2012), painter, printmaker *

Romare Bearden Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City a ...

(1911–1988), painter, printmaker * Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), sculptor, printmaker *

Eleanor Layfield Davis Eleanor Layfield Davis (1911–1985), also called ELDA, was an American painter. She served on the Board of Trustees for Meredith College and both Meredith and Wake Forest University award art scholarships in her memory. Life Eleanor Layfield Da ...

(1911–1985), painter, sculptor *

John McCrady John McCrady (September 11, 1911 – December 24, 1968) was a Louisiana painter and printmaker. McCrady was born in Canton, Mississippi and was raised in the American South. After winning a scholarship from the Art Students League of New York fo ...

(1911–1968), painter * Carl Morris (1911–1993), painter, muralist * Hilda Grossman Morris (1911–1991), sculptor * David Park (1911–1960), painter * Kara Shepherd (1911–1984), surrealist painter * Kurt Sluizer (1911–1988), painter 1912 *

Charles Addams Charles Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters, signing the cartoons as Chas Addams. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams ...

(1912–1988), cartoonist * William Baziotes (1912–1963), painter *

William Congdon William Grosvenor Congdon (April 15, 1912 – April 15, 1998) was an American painter who became notable as an artist in New York City in the 1940s, but lived most of his life in Europe. Early life/education William Grosvenor Congdon was b ...

(1912–1998), painter * William Franklin Draper (1912–2003), painter * Fay Kleinman (1912–2012), painter *

Ida Kohlmeyer Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer (3 November 1912 – 24 January 1997) was an American painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Louisiana. Kohlmeyer took up painting in her 30s and achieved wide recognition for her work in art museums and galleries ...

(1912–1997), painter, sculptor *

Alexander Liberman Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman (September 4, 1912 – November 19, 1999) was a Ukrainian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publicati ...

(1912–1999), painter, sculptor *

Morris Louis Morris Louis Bernstein (November 28, 1912 – September 7, 1962), known professionally as Morris Louis, was an American painter. During the 1950s he became one of the earliest exponents of Color Field painting. While living in Washington, D. ...

(1912–1962), painter *

Agnes Martin Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004), was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Mart ...

(1912–2004), painter * Phillip Pavia (1912–2005), sculptor *

Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionism, abstract expressionist movement. He was widely noticed for his "Drip painting, drip technique" of pouring or splas ...

(1912–1956), painter * Raymond Francis Robbins (1912–1980), intricate realist paintings * Walter Sanford (1912–1987), artist * Tony Smith (1912–1980), sculptor *

George Sugarman George Sugarman (11 May 1912 – 25 August 1999) was an American artist working in the mediums of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Often described as controversial and forward-thinking, Sugarman's prolific body of work defies a definitive styl ...

(1912–1999), sculptor * Carl Thorp (1912–1989), impressionist landscapes 1913 *

Peter Agostini Peter Agostini (February 13, 1913 Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan – March 27, 1993) was an American sculptor. Life Agostini studied at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School in 1935 and 1936. He taught sculpture and painting at the New York Studio School, ...

(1913–1993) * Ralph Leon Bagley (1913–2008), artist and art instructor *

Harold Black Harold Stephen Black (April 14, 1898 – December 11, 1983) was an American electrical engineer, who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by discovering the negative feedback amplifier in 1927. To some, his discovery is considered the ...

, painter, muralist *

Hyman Bloom Hyman Bloom (March 29, 1913 – August 26, 2009) was a Latvian-born American painter. His work was influenced by his Jewish heritage and Eastern religions as well as by artists including Altdorfer, Grünewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Blake, Bre ...

(1913–2009), painter * Lawrence Calcagno (1913–1993), painter *

Robert Capa Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some to b ...

(1913–1954), photographer * Mary Gehr (1913–1997), painter and printmaker *

Philip Guston Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. Early in his five decade career, muralist David Siquieros described him as one of "the most promising ...

(1913–1980), painter, printmaker *

Reuben Kadish Reuben Kadish (January 29, 1913 – September 20, 1992) was an American artist, specializing as a sculptor, draughtsman, muralist, painter, and printmaker. In his later career he also taught art history and sculpture in New York City. Biograph ...

(1913–1992), sculptor * James Kelly (1913–2003), painter *

Ibram Lassaw Ibram Lassaw (May 4, 1913 – December 30, 2003) was a Russian-American sculptor, known for non-objective construction in brazed metals. Biography Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. H ...

(1913–2003), sculptor *

Conrad Marca-Relli Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 – August 29, 2000) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been reco ...

(1913–2000), collage artist, painter *

Mercedes Matter Mercedes Matter (née Carles; 1913 – December 4, 2001) was an American painter, draughtswoman, and writer. She was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, and the Founder and Dean Emeritus of the New York Studio School. ...

(1913–2001), painter * Ruthe Katherine Pearlman (1913–2007), painter and art educator * Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967), painter * Bettina Steinke (1913–1999), painter and muralist 1914 *

Glen Alps Glen Alps (1914-1996) was a printmaker and educator who is credited with having developed the collagraph. A collagraph is a print whose plate is a board or other substrate onto which textured materials are glued. The plate may be inked for printi ...

(1914–1996), printmaker, sculptor * Ward Brackett (1914–2006), illustrator * Nassos Daphnis (1914–2010), painter *

Allan Houser Allan Capron Houser or Haozous (June 30, 1914 – August 22, 1994) was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter and book illustrator born in Oklahoma.Gwendolyn Knight (1914–2005), painter *

Tony Rosenthal Bernard J. Rosenthal (August 9, 1914 – July 28, 2009), also known as Tony Rosenthal, was an American abstract sculptor widely known for his monumental public art sculptures, created over seven decades. Biography Rosenthal was born August ...

(1914–2009), sculptor * Charles Shannon (1914–1996), painter *

Alton Tobey Alton Stanley Tobey (November 5, 1914 – January 4, 2005) was an American painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and teacher of art. Biography Alton Tobey was born in Middletown, Connecticut on November 5, 1914. At t ...

(1914–2005), painter, muralist, illustrator *

Emerson Woelffer Emerson Seville Woelffer (July 27, 1914 – February 2, 2003) was an American artist and arts educator. He was known as a prominent abstract expressionist artist and painter and taught art at some of the most prestigious colleges and universities ...

(1914–2003), painter 1915 *

Elizabeth Catlett Elizabeth Catlett, born as Alice Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) was an African American sculptor and graphic artist best known for her depictions of the Black-American experience in the ...

(1915–2012), sculptor, printmaker *

Claude Clark Claude Clark (November 11, 1915 – April 21, 2001) was an American Painting, painter, Printmaking, printmaker and art educator. Clark's subject matter was the diaspora of African American culture, including dance scenes, Street children, street ...

(1915–2001), painter *

John Rogers Cox John Rogers Cox (March 24, 1915 – January 25, 1990) was an American painter from Terre Haute, Indiana. His style and subject matter align him with the Regionalist (American scene painting) and Magic Realist landscape tradition. Early life and ...

(1915–1990), painter * Edward Dugmore (1915–1996), painter *

Friedel Dzubas Friedel Dzubas (April 20, 1915 in Berlin, Germany – December 10, 1994 in Auburndale, Massachusetts) was a German-born American abstract painter. Life and work Friedel Dzubas studied art in his native land before fleeing Nazi Germany in ...

(1915–1994), painter * Ruth Gikow (1915–1982), muralist *

Sam Golden Sam Golden (May 20, 1915 – March 11, 1997) started his paintmaking career in 1936 at Bocour Artist Colors with his uncle Leonard Bocour. In 1947, he developed Magna paint, the world's first artist acrylic paint. He returned from retirement in 1 ...

(1915–1997), paint-maker, painter *

Bob Kane Robert Kane (born Robert Kahn ; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created Batman (with Bill Finger) and most early related characters for DC comics. He was inducted into the comi ...

(1915–1998), cartoonist *

Jack Levine Jack Levine (January 3, 1915November 8, 2010) was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives. Levine is considered one of the key artists of the Bos ...

(1915–2010), painter *

Clayton Lewis Clayton Scott Lewis (March 15, 1915 – September 15, 1995) was an American artist known primarily for his work as an envelope artist and jewelry designer. Life and career Clayton Lewis began his professional life as a furniture designer in t ...

(1915–1995), painter and sculptor *

Richard Lippold Richard Lippold (May 3, 1915 – August 22, 2002) was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium. Life Lippold was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Chicago, and graduated from ...

(1915–2002), sculptor * Nellie Meadows (1915–2006), artist *

Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of ''The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology''. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also inc ...

(1915–1991), painter, printmaker *

Hans Namuth Hans Namuth (March 17, 1915 – October 13, 1990) was a German-born photographer. Namuth specialized in portraiture, photographing many artists, including abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock. His photos of Pollock at work in his studio increa ...

(1915–1990), photographer 1916 * Adolf Aldrich (1916–2010), printmaker *

Elmer Bischoff Elmer Nelson Bischoff (July 9, 1916 – March 2, 1991) was a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post- World War II generation of artists who started as abstract p ...

(1916–1991), painter *

Warren Eugene Brandon Warren Eugene Brandon (November 2, 1916 – September 11, 1977) was a California painter and photographer who was born in San Francisco. Biography He studied art at Milligan College and also with Jack Davis, Ralph Ledesma, Jack Feldman, Ra ...

(1916–1977), painter * Eyvind Earle (1916–2000), painter * Leonard Edmondson (1916–2002) painter, printmaker * Joseph Goto (1916–1994), sculptor * Karl Kasten (1916–2010), painter, printmaker *

Ethel Magafan Ethel Magafan (August 10, 1916 – April 24, 1993) was an American painter and muralist. Early life Ethel Magafan was born in Chicago to Greek parents who had recently immigrated to the U.S. The family soon relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado ...

(1916–1993), painter * Montyne (1916–1989) *

Alfonso Ossorio Alfonso Angel Yangco Ossorio (August 2, 1916 – December 5, 1990) was a Filipino American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental. His heritage was Hispanic ...

(1916–1990), painter, collagist *

Eunice Parsons Eunice Lulu Parsons (born August 4, 1916), also known as Eunice Jensen Parsons, is an American modernist artist known for her collages. Parsons was born in Loma, Colorado and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. She studied at the School of the ...

(born 1916), modernist collagist * Paul Penczner (1916–2010), painter * Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992), painter * Jon Schueler (1916–1992), painter * Sylvia Sleigh (1916–2010), painter *

Reuben Tam Reuben Tam (January 17, 1916 – January 3, 1991) was an American landscape painter, educator, poet and graphic artist. Early life and education He was born in Kapa'a on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i. He earned a BA degree from the Universi ...

(1916–1991), painter 1917 * Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (1917–2010), abstract expressionist painter *

Albert Alcalay Albert Alcalay (August 17, 1917 Paris - March 29, 2008 Boston) was an American abstract artist, also known as an abstract expressionism artist. Life Albert Alcalay was born in Paris in 1917, a son of Samuel and Lepa Alcalay, both of whom were born ...

(1917–2008), painter *

Nicolas Carone Nicolas Carone (June 4, 1917 – July 15, 2010) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. Their artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized internationally, including in London and Paris. New ...

(1917–2010), painter * Maya Deren (1917–1961), avant-garde filmmaker and theorist, photographer *

Manny Farber Emanuel Farber (February 20, 1917 – August 18, 2008) was an American painter, film critic and writer. Often described as "iconoclastic",Grimes, William (August 19, 2008) ''New York Times''Kiderra, Inga (August 21, 2008Obituary: Artist and Crit ...

(1917–2008), painter, film critic * Edith Frohock (1917–1997), painter and printmaker *

Robert Goodnough Robert Goodnough (October 23, 1917 – October 2, 2010) was an American abstract expressionist painter. A veteran of World War II, Goodnough was one of the last of the original generation of the New York School; (although he has been referred to ...

(1917–2010), painter * Stephen Greene (1917–1999), painter * David Hare (1917–1992), sculptor and photographer *

Jacob Lawrence Jacob Armstead Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", although by his own ac ...

(1917–2000), painter, printmaker *

Louisa Matthíasdóttir Louisa Matthíasdóttir (February 20, 1917 – February 26, 2000) was an Icelandic- American painter. Louisa was born in Reykjavík. From 1925 to 1937 she grew up in the famous Höfði house since her family resided there. She showed artistic ...

(1917–2000), painter * Malcolm H. Myers (1917–2002), painter and printmaker * Milton Resnick (1917–2004), painter * Robert Richenburg (1917–2006), painter * Syd Solomon (1917–2004), painter *

Andrew Wyeth Andrew Newell Wyeth ( ; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. In his ...

(1917–2009), painter 1918 *

Ronald Bladen Ronald Bladen (July 13, 1918 – February 3, 1988) was a Canadian-born American painter and sculptor. He is particularly known for his large-scale sculptures. His artistic stance, was influenced by European Constructivism, American Hard-Edge Pa ...

(1918–1988), sculptor *

Cornell Capa Cornell Capa (born Kornél Friedmann; April 10, 1918 – May 23, 2008) was a Hungarian American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa. Graduating from ...

(1918–2008), photographer * Keith Crown (1918–2010), abstract painter * Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989), painter *

Jane Frank Jane Schenthal Frank (born Jane Babette Schenthal) (July 25, 1918 – May 31, 1986) was an American multidisciplinary artist, known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, illustrator, and textile artist. Her landscape-like, mixed-media ab ...

(1918–1986), painter * Cleve Gray (1918–2004), painter * Stephen Pace (1918–2010), painter * David Foster Pratt (1918–2010), painter * Joseph Rajer (1918-1976), printmaker * Gerard Francis Tempest (1918–2009), painter and sculptor *

Charles Banks Wilson Charles Banks Wilson (August 6, 1918 – May 2, 2013) was an American artist. Wilson was born in Springdale, Arkansas in 1918; his family eventually moved to Miami, Oklahoma, where he spent his childhood. A painter, printmaker, teacher, lec ...

(1918–2013), painter 1919 *

Theophilus Brown William Theophilus Brown (April 7, 1919 – February 8, 2012) was an American artist. He became prominent as a member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Background and career A descendant of early-American intellectuals, Brown was born i ...

(1919–2012), painter *

Fritz Bultman Fritz Bultman (April 4, 1919 – July 20, 1985) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and collagist and a member of the New York School of artists. Biography A. Fred Bultman was the second child and only son of A. Fred and ...

(1919–1985), painter, sculptor * Edward Corbett (1919–1971), painter * Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009), painter * Lester Johnson (1919–2010), painter * Irving Kriesberg (1919–2009), painter * Alden Mason (1919–2013), painter * Lee Mullican (1919–1998), painter *

John Wilde John Wilde (December 12, 1919 – March 9, 2006, pronounced "WILL-dee") was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker of fantastic imagery. Born near Milwaukee, Wilde lived most of his life in Wisconsin, save for service in the U.S. Army during Wor ...

(1919–2006), painter, draughtsman, printmaker

Born 1920–1929

1920 *

John Coplans John Rivers Coplans (24 June 1920 – 21 August 2003) was a British artist, art writer, curator, and museum director. A veteran of World War II and a photographer, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 and had many exhibitions in Europe and ...

(1920–2003), painter, photographer * Gene Davis (1920–1985), painter, printmaker *

Jimmy Ernst Hans-Ulrich Ernst (June 24, 1920 – February 6, 1984), known as Jimmy Ernst, was an American painter born in Germany. Early life Jimmy Ernst was born in 1920 in Cologne, Germany, the son of German Surrealist painter Max Ernst and Luise St ...

(1920–1984), painter * Elaine Hamilton (1920–2010), painter *

Ray Harryhausen Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British animator and special effects creator who created a form of stop motion model animation known as "Dynamation". His works include the animation for '' Mi ...

(1920–2013), stop-motion animator, sculptor *

Luchita Hurtado Luchita Hurtado (; born Luisa Amelia García Rodriguez Hurtado; November 28, 1920August 13, 2020), was a Venezuelan-born American painter based in Santa Monica, California, and Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Born in Venezuela, she moved to the United ...

(1920–2020), painter *

Herbert Katzman Herbert Katzman (1923-2004) was an American artist known for his Expressionist paintings. Biography Katzman was born on January 8, 1923, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before joining the United St ...

(1923-2004), painter * Eugene Mackaben (1920–1984), painter * Roger Medearis (1920–2001), painter * Albert Nemethy (1920–1998), painter *

Honoré Desmond Sharrer Honoré Desmond Sharrer (July 12, 1920 – April 17, 2009) was an American artist. She first received public acclaim in 1950 for her painting ''Tribute to the American Working People'', a five-image polyptych conceived in the form of a Renaissanc ...

(1920–2009), painter *

Wayne Thiebaud Morton Wayne Thiebaud ( ; November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021) was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his la ...

(1920–2021), painter, printmaker * George Tooker (1920–2011), painter * Hannah Tompkins (1920–1995), painter, printmaker *

Paul Wonner Paul John Wonner (April 24, 1920April 23, 2008) was an American artist best known for his still-life paintings done in an abstract expressionist style. Born in Tucson, Arizona, he received a B.A. in 1952, an M.A. in 1953, and an M.L.S. in 1955� ...

(1920–2008), painter 1921 *

Herbert Abrams Herbert E. Abrams (March 20, 1921 – August 29, 2003) was an American artist. He was one of the leading portrait artists of his era known for his style of traditional realism. His works included the official White House portraits of former pr ...

(1921–2003), painter * Gertrude Bleiberg (1921–2001), painter *

Norman Bluhm Norman Bluhm (March 28, 1921 – February 3, 1999), was an American painter classified as an abstract expressionist, and as an action painter. Biography He was born on March 28, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois. His father Henry Bluhm was of Polish ...

(1921–1999), painter *

Edward Boccia Edward Eugene Boccia (1921–2012) was an American painter and poet who lived and worked in St. Louis, Missouri and served as a university professor in the School of Fine Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. Boccia's work consisted mostly o ...

(1921–2012), painter *

William Brice William Arnstein, professionally William Brice (April 23, 1921 – March 3, 2008) was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract paintings. Biography Born to actress Fanny Brice and her second husband, professional gambler Juliu ...

(1921–2008), painter * Thomas Chimes (1921–2009), painter * Lillian Desow-Fishbein (1921–2004), painter * Norris Embry (1921–1981), painter * Salvatore Grippi (1921–2017), painter, printmaker * Charles Li Hidley (1921–2003), abstract expressionist *

Al Jaffee Allan Jaffee (born Abraham Jaffee; March 13, 1921) is an American cartoonist. He is notable for his work in the satirical magazine '' Mad'', including his trademark feature, the ''Mad'' Fold-in. Jaffee was a regular contributor to the magazine ...

(born 1921), cartoonist *

Frank Lobdell Frank Lobdell (1921 - 2013) was an American painter, often associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and Bay Area Abstract Expressionism. Life and career Frank Lobdell was born on August 23, 1921 in Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Miss ...

(1921–2013), painter * Joe Stefanelli (1921–2017), painter *

Anne Truitt Anne Truitt (March 16, 1921December 23, 2004), born Anne Dean, was an American sculptor of the mid-20th century. She became well known in the late 1960s for her large-scale minimalist sculptures, especially after influential solo shows at Andr� ...

(1921–2004), sculptor * Ralph Burke Tyree (1921–1979), painter * Leona Wood (1921–2008), painter 1922 *

Leonard Baskin Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist, as well as founder of the Gehenna Press (1942–2000). One of America's first fine arts presses, it went on to become "one of the most imp ...

(1922–2000), sculptor, printmaker *

Leland Bell Leland Bell (September 17, 1922 – September 18, 1991) was an American painter. Leland Bell was a self-taught painter whose passion for the discipline of painting has inspired and influenced many. He was also a fierce advocate for artists tha ...

(1922–1991), painter *

Nell Blaine Nell Blair Walden Blaine (July 10, 1922 in Richmond, Virginia – November 14, 1996 in New York City) was an American landscape painter, expressionist, and watercolorist. From Richmond, Virginia, she had most of her career based in New York City ...

(1922–1996), painter *

Robert De Niro, Sr. Robert Henry De Niro (May 3, 1922 – May 3, 1993), better known as Robert De Niro Sr.,According to the Social Security Death Index. Searchable at http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/ssdi was an American abstract expressionist painter a ...

(1922–1993), painter * Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (1922–2005), painter and printmaker *

Richard Diebenkorn Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he bega ...

(1922–1993), painter, printmaker *

Kahlil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...

(1922–2008), sculptor, inventor, painter * Helen Gilbert (1922–2002), painter and kinetic sculptor * Charlotte Gilbertson (1922–2014), painter, printmaker *

Leon Golub Leon Golub (January 23, 1922 – August 8, 2004) was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, and his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in ...

(1922–2004), painter * Grace Hartigan (1922–2008), painter *

Julius Hatofsky Julius Hatofsky (April 1, 1922 – January 1, 2006) was an American painter. Biography Julius Hatofsky was born in Ellenville, in upstate New York, in 1922, and first studied art as a teenager in the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Pr ...

(1922–2006), painter *

John Hultberg John Hultberg (February 8, 1922 – April 15, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist and Abstract realist painter. Early in his career he was related to the Bay Area Figurative Movement; he was also a lecturer and playwright. Early life a ...

(1922–2005), painter *

Matsumi Kanemitsu Matsumi "Mike" Kanemitsu (May 28, 1922- May 11, 1992) was a Japanese-American painter who was also proficient in Japanese style Inkstick, ''sumi'' and lithography. Kanemitsu was born to Japanese parents in Ogden, Utah on May 28, 1922. At age th ...

(1922–1992), painter and lithographer * Albert Kresch (1922-2022), painter *

Harvey Littleton Harvey Littleton (June 14, 1922 – December 13, 2013) was an American glass artist and educator, one of the founders of the studio glass movement; he is often referred to as the "Father of the Studio Glass Movement". Born in Corning, New York, ...

(1922–2013), glass artist * Stan Masters (1922–2005), painter *

Jules Olitski Jevel Demikovski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007), known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Early life Olitski was born Jevel Demikovsky in Snovsk, in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( ...

(1922–2007), painter * Ray Parker (1922–1990), painter * Charles Cropper Parks (1922–2012), sculptor *

Haywood Rivers Haywood "Bill" Rivers (May 8, 1922 – December 27, 2001) was an African American contemporary artist and gallerist. Biography Haywood Rivers was born in Morven, North Carolina on May 8, 1922. He attended classes the Art Students League of New Y ...

(1922–2001), painter *

Theodoros Stamos Theodoros Stamos (Greek: Θεόδωρος Στάμος) (December 31, 1922 – February 2, 1997) was a Greek-American painter. He is one of the youngest painters of the original group of abstract expressionist painters (the so-called " Irasc ...

(1922–1997), painter *

Richard Stankiewicz Richard Stankiewicz (1922–1983) was an American sculptor, known for his work in scrap metal. Stankiewicz was born in Philadelphia, but spent his formative years in Detroit. He began painting and sculpting while in the United States Navy, in ...

(1922–1983) * Jim Steg (1922–2001), printmaker, collage artist *

H. C. Westermann H. C. Westermann (Horace Clifford "Cliff" Westermann) (December 11, 1922 – November 3, 1981) was an American sculptor and printmaker. His sculptures frequently incorporated traditional carpentry and marquetry techniques. From the late 1950s ...

(1922–1981), sculptor 1923 *

Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (; née Nemerov; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971
" The New York ...

(1923–1971), photographer *

David Aronson David Aronson (October 28, 1923 – July 2, 2015) was a painter and Professor of Art at Boston University. Biography Aronson was born in Šiluva, Lithuania in 1923. He taught at Boston University from 1955 to his death in 2015, where he forme ...

(1923–2015), painter * Richard Artschwager (1923–2013), painter, sculptor *

Robert Beauchamp Robert Beauchamp (1923 – 22 March 1995) was an American figurative painter and arts educator. Beauchamp's paintings and drawings are known for depicting dramatic creatures and figures with expressionistic colors. His work was described in the ...

(1923–1995), painter * Erlena Chisolm Bland (1923–2009), painter * John Boatright (1923–2006), painter * Ernest Briggs (1923–1984), painter * John Ery Coleman (1923–1993), painter *

Jess Collins Jess Collins (August 6, 1923 – January 2, 2004), simply known today as Jess, was an American visual artist. Biography Jess was born Burgess Franklin Collins in Long Beach, California. He was drafted into the military and worked on the product ...

(1923–2004), painter, collage artist *

Sam Francis Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 – November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker. Early life Sam Francis was born in San Mateo, California,

(1923–1994), painter, printmaker * Charles Garabedian (1923–2016), painter * Paul Georges (1923–2002), painter * Shirley Jaffe (1923–2016), painter * Paul Jenkins (1923–2012), painter *

Ellsworth Kelly Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, c ...

(1923–2015), painter, printmaker *

Jonah Kinigstein Jonah Kinigstein (born June 26, 1923) is an American artist known for his Expressionist paintings. Early life and education Kinigstein was born on June 26, 1923, in Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia and P ...

(born 1923), painter *

Roy Lichtenstein Roy Fox Lichtenstein (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. ...

(1923–1997), painter, sculptor, printmaker *

Knox Martin Knox Martin (February 12, 1923 – May 15, 2022) was an American painter, sculptor, and muralist. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 until 1950. He was one of the leading members of the N ...

(1923—2022), painter, sculptor, muralist * Fred Mitchell (1923–2013), painter *

Ruth Mountaingrove Ruth Mountaingrove (February 21, 1923 – December 18, 2016) was an American lesbian-feminist photographer, poet and musician, known for her photography documenting the lesbian land movement in Southern Oregon. Early life and education She ...

(1923–2016), feminist photographer and poet *

Larry Rivers Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg) (1923 – 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the first artists ...

(1923–2002), painter 1924 * John Bageris (1924–2000), artist *

Al Blaustein Alfred H. Blaustein (1924-2004) was an American painter and printmaker. Biography Blaustein was born on January 23, 1924, in New York City, where he attended the High School of Music & Art He served in the United States Air Force for three yea ...

(1924–2004), painter and printmaker *

George Brecht George Brecht (August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008), born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson ...

(1924–2008), Fluxus artist, composer *

Gandy Brodie Gandy Brodie (May 20, 1924 - October 22, 1975) was an American painter working primarily in New York City and Townshend, Vermont during the middle part of the 20th century. He had ties to Abstract Expressionism through artists such as Willem de ...

(1924–1975), painter *

Robert Frank Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled ''The Americans'', earned Frank comparisons to a modern-da ...

(1924–2019), filmmaker, photographer *

Jane Freilicher Jane Freilicher (November 19, 1924 – December 9, 2014) was an American representational painter of urban and country scenes from her homes in lower Manhattan and Water Mill, Long Island. She was a member of the informal New York School beginni ...

(1924–2014), painter * Michael Goldberg (1924–2007), painter * Douglas Huebler (1924–1997), conceptual artist * James Jarvaise (1924–2015), painter * Chris Karras (1924–2014), painter * LaVerne Krause (1924–1987), printmaker, painter *

John Levee John Levee (April 10, 1924 – January 18, 2017) was an American abstract expressionist painter who had worked in Paris since 1949. His father was M. C. Levee. Background John Harrison Levee received a master's degree in philosophy from UCL ...

(1924–2017), painter *

Kenneth Noland Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was though ...

(1924–2010), painter *

Philip Pearlstein Philip Martin Pearlstein (May 24, 1924 – December 17, 2022) was an American painter best known for Modernist Realist nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. Biography ...

(1924–2022), painter, printmaker *

Beverly Pepper Beverly Pepper (née Stoll; December 20, 1922 – February 5, 2020) was an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remained independent from any particular art movement. She lived in Italy, primarily in ...

(1924–2020), sculptor, painter *

George Segal George Segal Jr. (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American actor. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as ''Ship o ...

(1924–2000), sculptor * Kendall Shaw (1924–2019), painter *

Peter Voulkos Peter Voulkos (born Panagiotis Harry Voulkos; 29 January 1924 – 16 February 2002) was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic cr ...

(1924–2002), ceramic artist * Charles Waterhouse (1924–2013), painter, illustrator and sculptor *

Jane Wilson Jane Wilson (April 29, 1924 – January 13, 2015) was an American painter associated with both landscape painting and expressionism. She lived and worked in New York City and Water Mill, New York. Early influences Wilson was born in Seymour, ...

(1924–2015) 1925 *

John Altoon John Altoon (November 5, 1925 – February 8, 1969) was an American artist. Born in Los Angeles to immigrant Armenian parents, from 1947 to 1949 he attended the Otis Art Institute, from 1947 to 1950 he also attended the Art Center College of D ...

(1925–1969), painter * Karl Benjamin (1925–2012), painter *

Robert Colescott Robert H. Colescott (August 26, 1925 – June 4, 2009) was an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being African American. He studied with Fernand L ...

(1925–2009), painter * Nita Engle (1925–2019), watercolor painter * Len Gridley Everett (1925–1984), painter * Joseph Glasco (1925–1996), painter * Duane Hanson (1925–1996), sculptor *

Lila Katzen Lila Katzen (30 December 1925, in Brooklyn, NY – 20 September 1998, in New York, NY), born Lila Pell, was an American sculptor of fluid, large-scale metal abstractions. Education and early work Katzen was born and raised in Brooklyn. She attend ...

(1925–1998) sculptor *

Joan Mitchell Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artis ...

(1925–1992), painter, printmaker *

Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...

(1925–2008), all media *

Emmett Williams Emmett Williams (4 April 1925 – 14 February 2007) was an American poet and visual artist. He was married to British visual artist Ann Noël. Williams was born in Greenville, South Carolina, grew up in Virginia, and lived in Europe from 1 ...

(1925–2007), collage artist, concrete poet 1926 * Stephen Antonakos (1926–2013), sculptor, light artist *

Hannelore Baron Hannelore Baron (June 8, 1926 – April 28, 1987) was an artist who created highly personal, book-sized, abstract collages and box constructions, and exhibited in the late 1960s. Biography Born in Dillingen/Saar, Germany, Baron and her family ...

(1926–1987), collage artist *

Wallace Berman Wallace "Wally" Berman (February 18, 1926 – February 18, 1976) was an American experimental filmmaker, assemblage, and collage artist and a crucial figure in the history of post-war California art. Personal life and education Wallace Berman ...

(1926–1976), assemblage artist *

Stanley Boxer Stanley Boxer (1926-May 8, 2000) was an American artist best known for thickly painted abstract works of art. He was also an accomplished sculptor and printmaker. He received awards from the Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Endowment for t ...

(1926–2000), painter * Edward Clark (1926–2019), painter *

Rosalyn Drexler Rosalyn Drexler (born November 25, 1926) is an American visual artist, novelist, Obie Award-winning playwright, and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, and former professional wrestler. Although she has had a polymathic career, Drexler is perhaps ...

(born 1926), painter * Sonia Gechtoff (1926–2018), painter *

Everett Raymond Kinstler Everett Raymond Kinstler (August 5, 1926 – May 26, 2019) was an American artist, whose official portraits include Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.Ellen Lanyon Ellen Lanyon (December 21, 1926 – October 7, 2013) was a painter and printmaker from Chicago, Illinois. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), her MFA from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art Hi ...

(1926–2013), painter * Ed Moses (1926–2018), painter *

Elva Nampeyo Elva Nampeyo (1926–1985) (also known as Elva Tewaguna) was an American studio potter. Biography Elva Nampeyo was born 1926 in the Hopi-Tewa Corn Clan atop Hopi First Mesa, Arizona. Her parents were Fannie Nampeyo and Vinton Polacca. Her gra ...

(1926–1985), potter, ceramic artist *

George Earl Ortman George Earl Ortman (October 17, 1926 – December 16, 2015) was an American painter, printmaker, constructionist and sculptor. His work has been referred to as Neo-Dada, pop art, minimalism and hard-edge painting. His constructions, built with ...

(1926–2015), painter *

Roland Petersen Roland Conrad Petersen (born 1926) is a Danish-born American painter, printmaker, and professor. His career spans over 50 years, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and is perhaps best-known for his "Picnic series" (a yearly event at UC Davi ...

(born 1926), painter *

Betye Saar Betye Irene Saar (born July 30, 1926) is an African-American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which eng ...

(born 1926), assemblage artist * Charles Seliger (1926–2009), painter *

Nancy Spero Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) was an American visual artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. She married and collaborated with artist Leon Golub. As both artist and activist, Nancy ...

(1926–2009), painter, printmaker, collage artist * Don Stivers (1926–2009), painter *

Beth Van Hoesen Beth Van Hoesen (1926 – November 26, 2010), sometimes known as Beth Van Hoesen Adams, was an American artist who was best known for her prints and drawings of animals and botanical subjects. Biography Elizabeth "Beth" Marie Van Hoesen wa ...

(1926–2010), printmaker *

Jack Youngerman Jack Albert Youngerman (March 25, 1926 – February 19, 2020) was an American artist known for his constructions and paintings. Biography Jack Youngerman was born in 1926 in Webster Groves, Missouri, moving to Louisville, Kentucky in 1929 w ...

(1926–2020), painter 1927 * James Bishop (1927–2021), painter * Jack Boul (born 1927), painter, sculptor and printmaker *

Lilian Thomas Burwell Lilian Thomas Burwell (born 1927) is a Washington, DC sculptor and painter whose shaped paintings often blur the line between the two disciplines. Her artwork uses abstraction to create a personal response to the natural world. Early life and ...

(born 1927), painter and sculptor *

Richard Callner Richard Callner (May 18, 1927 – August 31, 2007) was a 20th-century American painter. His early work was related to the Chicago Monster School of the 1950s. Later, he was known for his intricately patterned interiors and landscapes. His career ...

(1927–2007), painter * John Chamberlain (1927–2011), sculptor *

Tony DeLap Tony DeLap (November 4, 1927 – May 29, 2019) was a West Coast artist, known for his abstract sculpture utilizing illusionist techniques and meticulous craftsmanship. As a pioneer of West Coast minimalism and Op Art, DeLap's oeuvre is a test ...

(1927–2019), sculptor *

Peter Forakis Peter Forakis (September 22, 1927 – November 26, 2009) was an American artist and professor. He was known as an abstract geometric sculptor. Early life and education Peter Forakis was born on September 22, 1927, in Hanna, Wyoming. The son o ...

(1927–2009), sculptor *

Al Hansen Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen (5 October 1927 – 20 June 1995) was an American artist. He was a member of Fluxus, a movement that originated on an artists' collective around George Maciunas. He was the father of Andy Warhol protégé Bibbe Hans ...

(1927–1995), performance artist, collage artist, Fluxus artist * Ray Johnson (1927–1995), collage artist, mail artist *

Wolf Kahn Wolf Kahn (October 4, 1927 – March 15, 2020) was a German-born American painter. Kahn, known for his combination of Realism and Color Field, worked in pastel, oil paint, and printmaking. He studied under Hans Hofmann, and also graduated fro ...

(1927–2020), painter *

Allan Kaprow Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and " Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well ...

(1927–2006), painter, assemblagist, performance artist *

Alex Katz Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Early life and career Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of an émigré who ...

(born 1927), painter, printmaker * Edward Kienholz (1927–1994), installation artist, sculptor *

Alfred Leslie Alfred Leslie (born October 29, 1927) is an American artist and filmmaker. He first achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of realistic figurative paintings. Biography ...

(born 1927), painter * John Mason (1927–2019), ceramic artist * Eleanore Mikus (1927–2017), painter * Jack Roth (1927–2004), painter * William Scharf (1927–2018), painter *

Lillian Schwartz Lillian F. Schwartz (born 1927) is an American artist considered a pioneer of computer-mediated art and one of the first artists notable for basing almost her entire oeuvre on computational media. Many of her ground-breaking projects were done in t ...

(born 1927), Digital artist * Kenneth Snelson (1927–2016), sculptor * Anne Tabachnick (1927–1995), painter *

John Paul Thomas John Paul Thomas (4 February 1927, Bessemer, Alabama – 5 September 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii) was an American artist specializing in oil painting, watercolor and drawing in several media. He was also an educator and arts scholar. Life John Pau ...

(1927–2001), painter * Ernest Trova (1927–2009), sculptor 1928 * Pat Adams (born 1928), painter *

Arman Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave (''cachets'', ''allures d'objet'') to ...

(1928–2005), painter, sculptor, experimental artist * Alice Baber (1928–1982), painter * Yoong Bae (1928–1992), painter and sculptor * Allyn Bromley (born 1928), printmaker * Rolando López Dirube (1928–1997), artist * Thomas Downing (1928–1985), painter * Ken Ferguson (1928–2005), ceramist *

Helen Frankenthaler Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s u ...

(1928–2011), painter, printmaker *

Ralph Goings Ralph Goings (May 9, 1928 – September 4, 2016) was an American painter closely associated with the Photorealism movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was best known for his highly detailed paintings of hamburger stands, pick-up trucks ...

(1928–2016), painter * Wally Hedrick (1928–2003), painter, collage artist *

Al Held Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, howe ...

(1928–2005), painter, printmaker *

Robert Indiana Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018) was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His iconic image LOVE was first created in 1964 in the form of a card which he sent to several friends and acq ...

(1928–2018), painter, sculptor, printmaker * Robert Irwin (born 1928), installation artist *

Donald Judd Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism (a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed).Tate Modern websit"Tate Modern Past Exhibitions Donald Judd" Retrieved on February 19, 2009. In ...

(1928–1994), sculptor *

Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...

(1928–2007), conceptual artist, installation artist, sculptor, printmaker *

Brian O'Doherty Brian O'Doherty (4 May 1928 – 7 November 2022) was an Irish-American art critic, writer, visual artist, and academic. He lived in New York City for over 50 years, serving as an art critic for ''The New York Times'' and NBC, as well as an edit ...

, aka Patrick Ireland (born 1928), sculptor, painter, installation artist, conceptual artist *

Nathan Oliveira Nathan Oliveira (December 19, 1928 – November 13, 2010) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to immigrant Portuguese parents. Since the late 1950s, Oliveira has been the subject of nearly one hundred ...

(1928–2010), painter, printmaker *

Pat Passlof Pat Passlof (August 5, 1928 – November 13, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Biography Passlof was born in Georgia in 1928 and grew up in New York City, attending Queens College. In the summer of 1948, she studied painting ...

(1928–2011), painter * Wendell Thompson Perkins (1928–1997), painter *

Dextra Nampeyo Quotskuyva Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo (born September 7, 1928, Polacca, Arizona) is a Native American potter and artist. She is in the fifth generation of a distinguished ancestral line of Hopi potters. In 1994 Dextra Quotskuyva was proclaimed an “Ariz ...

(born 1928), potter, ceramic artist * Paul Resika (born 1928), painter * Betty Sabo (1928–2016), landscape painter and sculptor * David Simpson (born 1928), painter *

Julian Stanczak Julian Stanczak (November 5, 1928 – March 25, 2017) was a Polish-born American painter and printmaker. The artist lived and worked in Seven Hills, Ohio with his wife, the sculptor Barbara Stanczak. Biography Julian Stanczak was born in Boro ...

(1928–2017), painter * Anthony Triano (1928–1997), painter, sculptor, and illustrator *

Cy Twombly Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly is said to have influenced younger artists such as ...

(1928–2011), painter, sculptor *

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...

(1928–1987), painter, filmmaker, printmaker *

John Wesley John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Meth ...

(1928–2022), painter 1929 *

Ida Applebroog Ida Applebroog (born November 11, 1929) is an American multi-media artist who is best-known for her paintings and sculptures that explore the themes of gender, sexual identity, violence and politics. Applebroog has been the recipient of multiple ...

(born 1929), painter *

Jo Baer Josephine Gail Baer (born August 7, 1929) is an American painter associated with minimalist art. She began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s. In the mid-1970s, she turne ...

(born 1929), painter * John Button (1929–1982), painter * Robert d’Arista (1929–1987), painter *

Jay DeFeo Jay DeFeo (March 31, 1929 – November 11, 1989) was a visual artist who first became celebrated in the 1950s as part of the spirited community of Beat artists, musicians, and poets in San Francisco. Best known for her monumental work ''The Rose' ...

(1929–1989), painter, visual artist *

Jules Feiffer Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929)''Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1650; February 2009; Page 107 is an American cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as North- ...

(born 1929), cartoonist *

Jackie Ferrara Jackie Ferrara (born Jacqueline Hirschhorn on November 17, 1929, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American sculptor and draughtswoman best known for her pyramidal stacked structures. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Los ...

(born 1929), sculptor * Vassilios Giavis (1929–2019), historical illustrator *

Howard Kanovitz Howard Kanovitz (February 9, 1929 – February 2, 2009) was a pioneering painter in the Photorealist and Hyperrealist Movements, which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s in response to the abstract art movement. Howard Kanovitz, whose 50-year car ...

(1929–2009), painter *

Lyman Kipp Lyman Emmet Kipp, Jr. (December 24, 1929 - March 30, 2014) was a sculptor and painter who created pieces that are composed of strong vertical and horizontal objects and were often painted in bold primary colors recalling arrangements by De Sti ...

(1929–2014), sculptor *

Nicholas Krushenick Nicholas Krushenick (May 31, 1929 – February 5, 1999) was an American abstract painter, collagist and printmaker whose mature artistic style straddled Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism and Color Field. He was active in the New York art scene f ...

(1929–1999), painter * Gabriel Laderman (1929–2011), painter * Clement Meadmore (1929–2005), sculptor *

Claes Oldenburg Claes Oldenburg (January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions ...

(1929–2022), sculptor * Charles O. Perry (1929–2011), sculptor * Raquel Rabinovich (born 1929), painter, sculptor *

Neil Welliver Neil Gavin Welliver (July 22, 1929 – April 5, 2005) was an American modern artist, best known for his large-scale landscape paintings inspired by the deep woods near his home in Maine. One of his sons, Titus Welliver, later became a successful ...

(1929–2005), painter

Born 1930–1939

1930 *

Richard Anuszkiewicz Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz (; May 23, 1930 – May 19, 2020) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Life and work Anuszkiewicz was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of Victoria (Jankowski) and Adam Anuszkiewicz, who worked in a pap ...

(1930–2020), painter, sculptor, printmaker *

Robert Arneson Robert Carston Arneson (September 4, 1930 – November 2, 1992) was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades. Early life and education Robert Carston Ar ...

(1930–1992), sculptor, ceramist * William H. Bailey (1930–2020), painter * James E. Brewton (1930–1967), painter, printmaker *

Harold Bruder Harold Jacob Bruder (born August 31, 1930) is an American realist painter. In 1984, he was honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is a former professor of art, working with the Kansas City Art Institute, Pratt Institute, Na ...

(born 1930), realist painter *

Annette Corcoran Annette Corcoran (born 1930) is an American artist who was born in Inglewood, California. She earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952, and continued post-graduate studies at California State University, Long Beach, Cali ...

(born 1930), graphic artist and ceramist *

Allan D'Arcangelo Allan D'Arcangelo (June 16, 1930Marisol Escobar Marisol Escobar (May 22, 1930 – April 30, 2016), otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City. She became world-famous in the mid-1960s, but lapsed into relative obsc ...

(1930–2016), sculptor, printmaker *

Helen Frank Helen Frank (born 1930) is an American artist from New York and New Jersey. She is known for her etchings and watercolors of New York City, New Jersey, arts appreciation, cultural identity, immigration, women's issues, sports, travel and daily l ...

(born 1930), painter, printmaker * Judith Godwin (1930–2021), painter * Ron Gorchov (1930–2020), painter *

Jasper Johns Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related top ...

(born 1930), painter, sculptor, printmaker * Ken Kerslake (1930–2006), printmaker, painter *

Howard Kottler Howard William Kottler (March 5, 1930 – January 21, 1989) was an American ceramist, conceptual artist, and professor of ceramics at the University of Washington, credited as a seminal force in redefining the direction of contemporary ...

(1930–1989), ceramist, sculpture *

Lee Lozano Lee Lozano (November 5, 1930 – October 2, 1999) was an American painter, and visual and conceptual artist. Biography Early years Born Lenore Knaster in Newark, New Jersey, she started to use the name "Lee" at the age of fourteen, often prefer ...

(1930–1999), painter * Robert Natkin (1930–2010), painter *

Manuel Neri Manuel John Neri Jr. (April 12, 1930October 18, 2021) was an American sculptor who is recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble. In Neri's work with the figure, he conveys an emotional inner state that is re ...

(1930–2021), sculptor, painter *

Walter Pashko Walter Pashko, American, 1930–2006 "Walter Pashko studied painting in Hartford during the heyday of Chick Austin who made modern art, especially Surrealism, a great strength of the Wadsworth Atheneum. The G.I. Bill enabled him to go to Mexico ...

(1930–2006), surrealism *

Deborah Remington Deborah Remington (June 25, 1930 – April 21, 2010) was an American abstract painter. Her most notable work is characterized as Hard-edge painting abstraction. She became a part of the San Francisco Bay Area's Beat scene in the 1950s. In 1965 ...

(1930–2010), painter, printmaker *

Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930 in Harlem, New York City) is an American painter, writer, mixed media sculptor, and performance artist, best known for her narrative quilts. Early life Faith Ringgold was born the youngest of three childr ...

(born 1930), painter and fabric artist *

Robert Ryman Robert Ryman (May 30, 1930February 8, 2019) was an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He was best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lived and worked in New York C ...

(1930–2019), painter *

Anita Steckel Anita Slavin Arkin Steckel (February 24, 1930 – March 16, 2012) was an American feminist artist known for paintings and photomontages with sexual imagery. She was also the founder of the arts organization "The Fight Censorship Group", whose othe ...

(1930–2012), graphic artist * Susan Weil (born 1930), painter *

Gahan Wilson Gahan Allen Wilson (February 18, 1930 – November 21, 2019) was an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations. Biography Wilson was born in Evanston, Illinois, and was inspired by th ...

(1930–2019), cartoonist 1931 * Helene Aylon, (1931–2020), painter *

John Baldessari John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 2, 2020) was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter ...

(1931–2020), conceptual artist, printmaker * John Balossi (1931–2007), painter and sculptor * John Nelson Battenberg (1931–2012) * Jack Beal (1931–2013), painter *

Lee Bontecou Lee Bontecou (January 15, 1931 – November 8, 2022) was an American sculptor and printmaker and a pioneer figure in the New York art world. She kept her work consistently in a recognizable style, and received broad recognition in the 1960s. Bont ...

(born 1931), sculptor, printmaker *

Stan Dann Stan F. Dann (born May 23, 1931 Burnaby, British Columbia, died May 8, 2013 in Lafayette, California) was a contemporary Northern California artist known for his puzzle-like bas-relief wall sculptures of polychrome wood. His earlier commercial caree ...

(1931–2013), wood sculptor *

Audrey Flack Audrey L. Flack (born May 30, 1931) is an American artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism and encompasses painting, sculpture, and photography. Flack has numerous academic degrees, including both a graduate and an honorary doct ...

(born 1931), painter *

Rolland Golden Rolland Harve Golden (November 8, 1931 – July 1, 2019) was an American visual artist known mainly for his Realism (visual arts), realism, abstract realism and "Borderline-Surrealisterm", a term he used to describe a style of his where the subje ...

(1931–2019), abstract realist painter *

R.C. Gorman Rudolph Carl Gorman (July 26, 1931 – November 3, 2005) was a Native American artist of the Navajo Nation. Referred to as "the Picasso of American Indian artists" by ''The New York Times'', his paintings are primarily of Native American women ...

(1931–2005), painter * Raymond Han (1931–2017), painter * Fred Holle (born 1931), artist and educator *

Budd Hopkins Elliot Budd Hopkins (June 15, 1931 – August 21, 2011) was an American artist, author, and ufologist. He was a prominent figure in alien abduction phenomena and related UFO research. Life Elliot Budd Hopkins was born in 1931. He was rai ...

(1931–2011), painter *

Howard Mehring Howard Mehring (1931–1978) was a twentieth-century painter born in Washington, D.C. Howard Mehring is associated with Color Field painting and the Washington Color School and the artists at Jefferson Place Gallery. Mehring and Robert Gates b ...

(1931–1978), painter *

Malcolm Morley Malcolm A. Morley (June 7, 1931 – June 1, 2018) was a British-American artist and painter. He was known as an artist who pioneered in varying styles, working as a photorealist and an expressionist, among many other styles. Life Morley was ...

(1931–2019), painter, printmaker * Robert Morris (1931–2019), sculptor, conceptual artist *

Marjorie Strider Marjorie Virginia Strider (January 26, 1931 – August 27, 2014) was an American painter, sculptor and performance artist best known for her three-dimensional paintings and site-specific soft sculpture installations. Biography Born in 1931 in Gu ...

(1931–2014), sculptor *

Tom Wesselmann Thomas K. Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. Early years Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati. From 1949 to 1951 he atte ...

(1931–2004), painter, collage artist 1932 *

Alan Bean Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, NASA astronaut and painter; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astron ...

(1932–2018), former American astronaut, painter *

Robert Bechtle Robert Alan Bechtle (May 14, 1932 – September 24, 2020) was an American painter, printmaker, and educator. He lived nearly all his life in the San Francisco Bay Area and whose art was centered on scenes from everyday local life. His paintings ar ...

(1932–2020), painter * Emilie Benes Brzezinski (born 1932), sculptor *

James Lee Byars James Lee Byars (April 10, 1932, Detroit, Michigan – May 23, 1997, Cairo, Egypt) was an American conceptual artist and performance artist specializing in installations and sculptures, as well as a self-considered mystic. He was best known for h ...

(1932–1997), installation artist, sculptor, performance artist *

Richard Estes Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of ...

(born 1932), painter, printmaker * Ron Ferri (1932–2019), digital artist *

Charles Hinman Charles Hinman born 1932 in Syracuse, New York is an Abstract Minimalist painter, notable for creating three-dimensional shaped canvas paintings in the mid-1960s. Early years Charles Hinman was born in 1932, in Syracuse, New York. He initiated ...

(born 1932), painter * Morris Katz (1932–2010), painter *

Craig Kauffman Craig Kauffman (March 31, 1932 – May 9, 2010) was an artist who has exhibited since 1951. Kauffman's primarily abstract paintings and wall relief sculptures are included in over 20 museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whit ...

(1932–2010), painter, sculptor *

Emily Mason Emily Mason (January 12, 1932 – December 10, 2019) was an American abstract art, abstract painter and printmaker. Mason developed her individual approach to the Abstract Expressionist and color field painting traditions with her veils of color ...

(1932–2019), painter * Nora Chapa Mendoza (born 1932), abstract painter *

Nam June Paik Nam June Paik (; July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super h ...

(1932–2006), Fluxus, installation artist *

Dorothea Rockburne Dorothea Rockburne DFA (born c. 1932) is an abstract painter, drawing inspiration primarily from her deep interest in mathematics and astronomy. Her work is geometric and abstract, seemingly simple but very precise to reflect the mathematical co ...

(born 1932), painter * Harry Tsuchidana (born 1932), abstract painter 1933 *

William Anastasi William Anastasi (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1933) is an American visual artist working in a wide range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, photographic works, and text. He has lived and worked in New York City since the early 19 ...

(born 1933), painter * George Bogart (1933–2005), painter * Kenneth Wayne Bushnell (1933–2020), visual artist * Albert Contreras (1933–2017), painter *

Chryssa Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali ( el, Χρύσα Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist scu ...

(1933–2013), sculptor * Guy Coheleach (born 1933), painter * Bruce Conner (1933–2008), filmmaker, assemblage artist, sculptor, painter, collagist, graphic artist and photographer * Mary Beth Edelson (1933-2021), artist *

Dale Eldred Dale Eldred (November 9, 1933 in Minneapolis, Minnesota – July 26, 1993 in Kansas City, Missouri) was an internationally acclaimed sculptor renowned for large-scale sculptures that emphasized both natural and generated light. Biography The ...

(1933–1993), sculptor *

Dan Flavin Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American Minimalism, minimalist artist famous for creating sculpture, sculptural objects and installations from commercially available Fluorescent lamp, fluorescent light fixtures. Earl ...

(1933–1996), sculptor *

Sam Gilliam Sam Gilliam ( ; November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) was an American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam was associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C.-area artists that developed a form ...

(1933–2022), painter, printmaker *

Carol Haerer Carol Haerer (1933-2002) was an American artist known for abstract painting in the vein of Minimalism and Lyrical abstraction. Career Haerer is best known for her ''White Painting'' series of works. Her work was included in the ''Lyrical Abstra ...

(1933–2002), painter *

Phillip Hefferton Phillip Hefferton (July 25, 1933 – April 2, 2008) was an American pop artist from Detroit, Michigan, known for his paintings of banknotes. Artist In 1958-9 he began drawing "common objects". In 1960 his work was featured in an ''Art in Ameri ...

(1933–2008) *

John Stuart Ingle John Stuart Ingle (1933 – October 30, 2010) was an American contemporary realist artist, known for his meticulously rendered watercolor paintings, typically still lifes. Some criticism has characterized Ingle's work as a kind of magic realis ...

(1933–2010), watercolorist *

Alison Knowles Alison Knowles (born 1933) is an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications. Knowles was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, an international network of artists who aspired to merge diff ...

(born 1933), Fluxus performance artist, sound artist, papermaker, printmaker *

Charlotte Moorman Madeline Charlotte Moorman (November 18, 1933 – November 8, 1991) was an American cellist, performance artist, and advocate for avant-garde music. Referred to as the "Jeanne d'Arc of new music", she was the founder of the Annual Avant Garde Fes ...

(1933–1991), Fluxus, performance artist *

Ree Morton Ree Morton (August 3, 1936 – April 30, 1977) was an American visual artist who was closely associated with the postminimalist and feminist art movements of the 1970s. Life and career Ree Morton was born on August 3, 1936, in Ossining, New Yo ...

(1933–1977), painter, sculptor *

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...

(born 1933), installation artist, sculptor, filmmaker *

Joseph Raffael Joseph Raffael (born February 22, 1933 in Brooklyn, NY - July 12, 2021 Cagnes-sur-Mer) was an American contemporary realist painter. His paintings, primarily watercolors, are almost all presented on a very large scale. Early life Raffael was ...

(1933–2021), painter *

James Rosenquist James Rosenquist (November 29, 1933 – March 31, 2017) was an American artist and one of the proponents of the pop art movement. Drawing from his background working in sign painting, Rosenquist's pieces often explored the role of advertising a ...

(1933–2017), painter and muralist, printmaker * Joe Shannon (born 1933), painter *

Stephen De Staebler Stephen De Staebler (March 24, 1933 – May 13, 2011) was an American sculptor, printmaker, and educator, he was best recognized for his work in clay and bronze. Totemic and fragmented in form, De Staebler's figurative sculptures call forth the m ...

(1933–2011), sculptor *

Michelle Stuart Michelle Stuart (born 1933) is an American multidisciplinary artist known for her sculpture, painting and environmental art. She is based in New York City. Early life Stuart was born in 1933 and she grew up in Los Angeles, California. After at ...

(born 1933), painter, sculptor, photographer * Mark di Suvero (born 1933), sculptor * Paul Thek (1933–1988), installation, painting, sculpture 1934 *

Don Bachardy Donald Jess Bachardy (born May 18, 1934) is an American portrait artist. He resides in Santa Monica, California. Bachardy was the partner of Christopher Isherwood for over 30 years. Early life Born in Los Angeles, California, Bachardy studi ...

(born 1934), portrait artist * Colette Bangert (born 1934), new media artist *

Walter Darby Bannard Walter Darby Bannard (September 23, 1934 – October 2, 2016) was an American abstract painter and professor of art and art history at the University of Miami Early life and education Bannard was born in New Haven, Connecticut and attended Ph ...

(1934–2016), painter *

Bill Barrett William Emery Barrett (February 9, 1929 – September 20, 2016) was an American Republican Party United States, Republican politician from Nebraska who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2001 as the con ...

(born 1934), sculptor, painter *

Billy Al Bengston Billy Al Bengston (June 7, 1934 – October 8, 2022) was an American visual artist and sculptor who lived and worked in Venice, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Bengston was probably best known for work he created that reflected California's " ...

(born 1934), painter, sculptor * Helen Bershad (born 1934), abstract expressionist painter * Llyn Foulkes (born 1934), painter * James Gill (born 1934), painter *

Anita Huffington Anita Huffington (born December 25, 1934) is an American sculptor who is noted for her stone and Bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (inclu ...

(born 1934), sculptor *

Yvonne Jacquette Yvonne Jacquette (born 1934) is an American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointil ...

(born 1934), painter, printmaker * Joni T. Johnson (1934–1988), painter * John McCracken (1934–2011), sculptor *

Jay Milder Jay Milder (born 1934) is an American artist and a figurative expressionist painter of the second generation New York School. Themes from the Hebrew Bible such as Jacob's Ladder and Noah’s Ark, and the esoteric mystical beliefs of the Kabba ...

(born 1934), painter * Forrest Moses (1934–2021), abstract landscape painter * Irving Petlin (1934–2018), painter * Gloria Plevin (born 1934), painter *

Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.

(born 1934), performance artist, choreographer, dancer *

Peter Saul Peter Saul (born August 16, 1934) is an American painter. His work has connections with Pop Art, Surrealism, and Expressionism. His early use of pop culture cartoon references in the late 1950s and very early 1960s situates him as one of the fa ...

(born 1934), painter * Selina Trieff (1934–2015), abstract artist * Harold Joe Waldrum (1934–2003), painter, photographer * Neil Williams (1934–1988), painter 1935 *

Carl Andre Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures and for the suspected murder of contemporary and wife, Ana Mendieta. His sculptures range from large public art ...

(born 1935), minimalist sculptor *

Eleanor Antin Eleanor Antin (née Fineman; February 27, 1935) is an American performance artist, film-maker, installation artist, conceptual artist and feminist artist. Early life and education Eleanor Fineman was born in the Bronx on February 27, 1935. Her p ...

(born 1935), performance artist, filmmaker, installation artist *

Christo Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and ...

(1935–2020), environmental installation artist * Walter De Maria (1935–2013), sculptor *

Jim Dine Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American artist whose œuvre extends over sixty years. Dine’s work includes painting, drawing, printmaking (in many forms including lithographs, etchings, gravure, intaglio, woodcuts, l ...

(born 1935), painter, sculptor, printmaker * Simmie Knox (born 1935), portrait artist * Al Loving (1935–2005), painter * Ben Fortunado Marcune (born 1935), figurative and representational sculptor and painter * Chuck Oberstein (1935–2002), clown paintings *

Kenneth Price Kenneth Price (February 16, 1935February 24, 2012) was an American artist who predominantly created ceramic sculpture. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles, before re ...

(1935–2012), ceramist *

Joseph Rael Joseph Rael (Tiwa: ''Tslew-teh-koyeh'': "Beautiful Painted Arrow") (b. 1935) is a Native American ceremonial dancer, shaman, writer, and artist. He is also known as the founder of a global network of Sound Peace Chambers. Early life and educati ...

(born 1935), artist and writer * Mel Ramos (1935–2018), painter *

Hib Sabin Hib Sabin (born 1935) is an American sculptor and educator. He is known for his indigenous-style work in juniper wood. He carves spirit animal spirit bowls, spirit canoes, dream and dance sticks, and shamanistic masks. He lives in Santa Fe, New M ...

(born 1935), sculptor * Stanley Tomshinsky (1935–2004), artist * Carol Wald (1935–2000), artist and illustrator 1936 *

Edward Avedisian Edward Avedisian (June 15, 1936 – August 17, 2007) was an American abstract painter who came into prominence during the 1960s. His work was initially associated with Color field painting and in the late 1960s with Lyrical Abstraction. Early ...

(1936–2007), painter *

Hollis Frampton Hollis William Frampton, Jr. (March 11, 1936 – March 30, 1984) was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer, theoretician, and pioneer of digital art. He was best known for his innovative and non-linear structural films that defin ...

(1936–1984), experimental filmmaker, photographer, theorist *

Gregory Gillespie Gregory Joseph Gillespie (November 29, 1936 – April 26, 2000) was an American magic realist painter. Life and career He was born in Roselle Park, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he became a nondegree student at Cooper Union ...

(1936–2000), painter *

Hans Haacke Hans Haacke (born August 12, 1936) is a Germany, German-born artist who lives and works in New York City. Haacke is considered a "leading exponent" of Institutional Critique. Early life Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the ''S ...

(born 1936), conceptual artist *

Richard Haas Richard John Haas (born August 29, 1936) is an American muralist who is best known for architectural murals and his use of the ''trompe-l'œil'' style. Haas has a 1959 B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and a 1964 M.F.A. from the U ...

(born 1936), muralist * Eva Hesse (1936–1970), sculptor * Tom Holland (born 1936), painter, mixed media *

Dennis Hopper Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in '' Giant'' (1956). In the next ten year ...

(1936–2010), actor, photographer, painter, other media *

Joan Jonas Joan Jonas (born July 13, 1936) is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Evan Lindquist (born 1936), printmaker *

Doug Ohlson Douglas Dean Ohlson (November 18, 1936 – June 29, 2010) was an American abstract artist who specialized in geometric patterns. Ohlson was born on November 18, 1936, in Cherokee, Iowa and attended Bethel College before serving in the United S ...

(1936–2010), painter * Richard Pionk (1936–2007), pastellist, painter *

Lucas Samaras Lucas Samaras (born 1936) is a Greek-American artist. Early life and education Samaras was born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal. Career Samaras participated in ...

(born 1936), photographer, sculptor, printmaker *

Frank Stella Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York City. Biography Frank Stella was born in Ma ...

(born 1936), painter, printmaker * DeWain Valentine (1936-2022), sculptor *

Leo Valledor Leo Valledor (1936–1989) was a Filipino-American painter who pioneered the hard-edge painting style. During the 1960s he was a member of the Park Place Gallery in Soho, New York City, which exhibited many influential and significant artists o ...

(1936–1989), painter *

Carlos Villa Carlos Villa (December 11, 1936 – March 23, 2013) was a Filipino- American visual artist, curator and faculty member in the Painting Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. His work often explored the meaning of cultural diversity and ...

(1936–2013), painter *

Thornton Willis Thornton Willis (born May 25, 1936) is an American abstract painter. He has contributed to the New York School (art), New York School of painting since the late 1960s. Viewed as a member of the Third Generation of American Abstract Expressionis ...

(born 1936), painter 1937 *

Peter Campus Peter Campus (born 1937 in New York, NY), often styled as peter campus, is an American artist and a pioneer of new media and video art, known for his interactive video installations, single-channel video works, and photography. His work is held ...

(born 1937), video artist, photographer *

Reginald Case Reginald Case (December 23, 1937 – April 24, 2009) was an American artist who made American Folk Art collages and Hollywood iconographic mixed-media assemblages and sculptures. Life and work Case was born in Watertown, New York, and graduate ...

(1937–2009), painter, collagist, sculptor *

Ronald Davis Ronald "Ron" Davis (born 1937) is an American painter whose work is associated with geometric abstraction, abstract illusionism, lyrical abstraction, hard-edge painting, shaped canvas painting, color field painting, and 3D computer graphics ...

(born 1937), painter *

Eugene Gregan Eugene Gregan (born 1937 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American painter, graphic designer, and illustrator. He specializes in landscapes and Chinese-influenced painting. Gregan attended the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA degree) and Yale ...

(born 1937), painter *

Red Grooms Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop art, pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic ...

(born 1937), multimedia artist, printmaker * Carolyn Heller (1937–2011), painter and decorative artist * LeRoy Johnson (born 1937) painter, sculptor, collagist *

Robert Mangold Robert Mangold (born October 12, 1937) is an American minimalist artist. He is also father of film director and screenwriter James Mangold. Early life and education Mangold was born in North Tonawanda, New York. His mother, Blanche, was a d ...

(born 1937), painter, printmaker *

Peter Max Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein, October 19, 1937) is a German-American artist known for using bright colors in his work. Works by Max are associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, particularly psychedelic art and pop art. ...

(born 1937), printmaker, graphic designer *

Larry Poons Lawrence M. "Larry" Poons (born October 1, 1937) is an American abstract painter. Poons was born in Tokyo, Japan, and studied from 1955 to 1957 at the New England Conservatory of Music, with the intent of becoming a professional musician. After ...

(born 1937), painter *

Harvey Quaytman Harvey Quaytman (April 20, 1937 - April 8, 2002) was a geometric abstraction painter best known for large modernist canvases with powerful monochromatic tones, in layered compositions, often with hard edges - inspired by Malevich and Mondrian. ...

(1937–2002), painter * Charles Ross (born 1937), sculptor *

Edward Ruscha Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (, ''roo-SHAY''; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography and film. He is also noted for creating severa ...

(born 1937), painter, printmaker, photographer, conceptual artist *

Fritz Scholder Fritz William Scholder V (October 6, 1937 – February 10, 2005) was a Native American artist. Scholder was an enrolled member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Luiseños, a California Mission tribe. Scho ...

(1937–2005), painter, printmaker, graphic artist * Bob Thompson (1937–1966), painter *

William T. Wiley William Thomas Wiley (October 21, 1937April 25, 2021) was an American artist. His work spanned a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance, and pinball. At least some of Wiley's work has been referred to a ...

(1937–2021), painter, printmaker * Marlene Tseng Yu (born 1937), abstract expressionist * Richard Van Buren, (born 1937), sculptor *

Larry Zox Larry is a masculine given name in English, derived from Lawrence or Laurence. It can be a shortened form of those names. Larry may refer to the following: People Arts and entertainment * Larry D. Alexander, American artist/writer *Larry Boon ...

(1937–2006), painter 1938 * Fran Bull (born 1938), painter, printmaker, sculptor, installation artist * Joan Brown (1938–1990), painter *

Vija Celmins Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns;Hilarie M. Sheets and Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015)''New York Times''. lv, Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and dr ...

(born 1938), painter, graphic artist, printmaker *

Janet Fish Janet Fish (born May 18, 1938) is a contemporary American realist artist. Through oil painting, lithography, and screenprinting, she explores the interaction of light with everyday objects in the still life genre. Many of her paintings include ...

(born 1938), painter * Robert Graham (1938–2008), sculptor * Dick Higgins (1938–1998), Fluxus artist, composer, writer * Nancy Holt (1938–2014), sculptor, installation and earth artist * Robert H. Hudson (born 1938), sculptor * Stephanie Oursler (born 1938), visual artist and political activist *

Brice Marden Brice Marden (born October 15, 1938) is an American artist generally described as Minimalist, although his work may be hard to categorize. He lives and works in New York City; Tivoli, New York; Hydra (island), Hydra, Greece; and Eagles Mere, Penn ...

(born 1938), painter, printmaker *

Eugene J. Martin Eugene James Martin (July 24, 1938 – January 1, 2005) was an African-American visual artist. Art Eugene J. Martin's art is best known for his imaginative, complex mixed media collages on paper, his often gently humorous pencil and pen and i ...

(1938–2005), collagist, painter, graphic artist * Clark Murray (born 1938), sculptor, painter * Stephen Howard Naegle (born 1938), watercolor artist *

Jim Nutt James T. Nutt (born November 28, 1938) is an American artist who was a founding member of the Chicago surrealist art movement known as the Chicago Imagists, or the Hairy Who. Though his work is inspired by the same pop culture that inspired ...

(born 1938), painter *

Dennis Oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the natu ...

(1938–2011), sculptor, installation and earth artist * Robert Perless (born 1938), kinetic artist *

Ben Sakoguchi Ben Sakoguchi (born 1938) is a Japanese-American artist who was born in San Bernardino, California. At age five, his family was Internment of Japanese Americans, interned at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona following the enforcement o ...

(born 1938) *

Richard Serra Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American artist known for his large-scale sculptures made for site-specific landscape, Urban area, urban, and Architecture, architectural settings. Serra's sculptures are notable for their material q ...

(born 1938), sculptor, printmaker *

Robert Smithson Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and mu ...

(1938–1973), sculptor, installation and earth artist *

Dieterich Spahn Dieterich Spahn (b. 1938 - d. November 2, 2021) was a German-born American artist working in the fields of stained glass and painting. In a career spanning more than four decades he produced roughly 370 stained glass commissions for places of w ...

(born 1938), painter, stained glass designer 1939 *

Peter Alexander Peter Alexander may refer to: * Pete Alexander (born Grover Cleveland Alexander; 1887–1950), American baseball player * Peter Alexander (Shakespearean scholar) (1893–1969), professor of English language and literature at the University of Glasgo ...

(1939–2020), sculptor * Larry Bell (born 1939), sculptor *

Jake Berthot Jake Berthot (1939–2014) was an American artist whose abstract paintings contained elements of both the Minimalism, minimalist and Abstract expressionism, expressionist styles. During the first 36 years of his career his paintings were entirel ...

(1939–2014), painter * Scott Burton (1939–1989), sculptor * Rosemarie Castoro (1939–2015), painter, sculptor * Judy Chicago (born 1939), installation artist, sculptor *

William Eggleston William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939) is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. Eggleston's books include ''William Eggleston's Guide'' (1976) and ''The ...

(born 1939), photographer *

Louise Fishman Louise Fishman (January 14, 1939 – July 26, 2021) was an American abstract painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For many years she lived and worked in New York City, where she died. Biography Louise Fishman was born in Philadelphia on Ja ...

(1939–2021), painter * Edward J. Fraughton (born 1939), sculptor, inventor *

Nancy Graves Nancy Graves (December 23, 1939 – October 21, 1995, in Massachusetts) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime- filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the Moon. Her works are included in ...

(1939–1995), sculptor, painter, printmaker * Margia Kramer (born 1939), interdisciplinary mixed-media artist *

Robert Lostutter Robert Lostutter (born 1939) is a Chicago-based artist. He was a member of the Chicago Imagists, a breakaway group of surrealist iconoclasts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who showed in the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969 and late ...

(born 1939), painter *

Ed Paschke Edward Francis Paschke (June 22, 1939 – November 25, 2004) was an American painter of Polish descent. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a caree ...

(1939–2004), painter, printmaker *

Carolee Schneemann Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and ...

(1939–2019), performance artist * Paul Shapiro (born 1939), Abstract Expressionist and landscape painter * Diane Tuckman (born 1939), silk painter * Igor Tulipanov (born 1939), painter *

Mierle Laderman Ukeles Mierle Laderman Ukeles (born 1939) is a New York City-based artist known for her feminist and service-oriented artworks, which relate the idea of process in conceptual art to domestic and civic "maintenance". She has been the Artist-in-Residence a ...

(born 1939), feminist artist, installation artist *

Jack Whitten Jack Whitten (December 5, 1939 – January 20, 2018) was an American painter and sculptor. In 2016, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts. Life Whitten was born in 1939 in Bessemer, Alabama. Planning a career as an army doctor, Whitten enter ...

(1939–2018), painter

Born 1940–1949

1940 *

Vito Acconci Vito Acconci (, ; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an influential American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. His foundational p ...

(1940–2017), conceptual artist, installation artist, performance artist, filmmaker *

Mel Bochner Mel Bochner (born 1940) is an American conceptual artist. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in New York City. Life Bochner was born in Pittsbu ...

(born 1940), conceptual artist * James Bohary (born 1940) *

Gary Bower Gary Bower is an American artist born in Dayton, Ohio, on May 10, 1940. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Ohio State University. His paintings incorporate a blend of figurative and abstract imagery with an impressive use of ...

(born 1940), painter *

Chuck Close Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very l ...

(1940–2021), painter, printmaker * John Connell (1940–2009), painter, sculptor, printmaker *

Mimi Gross Mimi Gross (born 1940) is a New York City born American artist. Biography Early life Gross was born in New York City in 1940. She is the daughter of the sculptor Chaim Gross. She grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan among the artist commu ...

(born 1940), painter * Paul Havas (1940–2012), landscape painter * Harvey Konigsberg (born 1940), artist * Paul Laffoley (1940–2015), artist * Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007), painter, printmaker * Gladys Nilsson (born 1940), painter *

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (born 1940) is a Native Americans in the United States, Native American visual artist and curator. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and is also of Métis and Shoshone descent. She is ...

(born 1940), painter, printmaker * Barbara Rossi (born 1940), painter * Ernest Ruckle (1940–2018), visual artist * Steven L. Sles (born 1940), artist *

Joan Snyder Joan Snyder (born April 16, 1940) is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (1974). Snyder first gained public attention in the early 1970s with her gestur ...

(born 1940), painter *

Pat Steir Pat Steir (born 1940) is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she sta ...

(born 1940), painter * Mym Tuma (born 1940), painter, mixed media * Hannah Wilke (1940–1993), all media * Peter Young (born 1940), painter 1941 * Jennifer Bartlett (born 1941), painter * Lynda Benglis (born 1941), sculptor *

Tony Berlant Anthony Hanna Berlant (born 1941) is an American artist who was born in New York City. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received a BA (1961) and MA (1962) in painting and an MFA (1963) in sculpture. He has a larg ...

(born 1941), mixed-media artist * Karen Breschi (born 1941), ceramic artist *

Gary Hugh Brown Gary Hugh Brown (born 1941) is an American artist, painter, draftsman, and professor emeritus of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Brown has a drawing in the collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has exhibited his ...

(born 1941), painter *

Dale Chihuly Dale Chihuly () (born September 20, 1941) is an American glass artist and entrepreneur. He is best known in the field of blown glass, "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture". Early life Dale Patrick Chihuly was born on September 20 ...

(born 1941), glass sculptor * John De Andrea (born 1941), sculptor *

Peter Erskine Peter Erskine (born June 5, 1954) is an American jazz drummer who was a member of the jazz fusion groups Weather Report and Steps Ahead. Early life and education Erskine was born in Somers Point, New Jersey, U.S. He began playing the dru ...

(born 1941), light sculptor * André Harvey (1941–2018), sculptor * Renne Hughes (1941–1991), painter and photographer * Mary Kelly (born 1941), conceptual artist * William Leavitt (born 1941), conceptual artist, painter, installation artist * Pat Lipsky (born 1941), painter *

Judith Lodge Judith Lodge (born July 25, 1941) is an American Canadian painter and photographer who often explores how the two mediums play off of and inform one another. Her abstract portraits of memories, situations, events, and people are inspired by the un ...

(born 1941), painter and photographer *

Forrest Myers Forrest Warden Myers, also known as Frosty Myers (born 1941 in Long Beach, California) is an American sculptor. He is best known for his pieces ''Moon Museum'' (1969) and ''The Wall'' (1973), the latter being a monumental wall sculpture in the So ...

(born 1941), sculptor *

Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico. Life and work ...

(born 1941), installation artist, video artist, printmaker *

Martin Puryear Martin L. Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in wood and bronze, among other media, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries ...

(born 1941), sculptor, printmaker * Anita Rodriguez (born 1941), artist incorporating ingenious ceremonialism and mysticism *

John Seery John Seery (born 1941) is an American artist who is associated with the Lyrical Abstraction, lyrical abstraction movement.
...

(born 1941), painter * Keith Sonnier (1941–2020), sculptor *

Richard Tuttle Richard Dean Tuttle (born July 12, 1941) is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, casual, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line. His works span a range of formats, from sculpture, painting, drawing, printma ...

(born 1941), sculptor, painter, installation artist * Jackie Winsor (born 1941), sculptor * Joe Zucker (born 1941), mixed-media artist 1942 * Judith Bernstein (born 1942), feminist artist * Jonathan Borofsky (born 1942), painter, sculptor, installation artist * Jerry Dolyn Brown (1942–2016), folk artist, potter * Rhea Carmi (born 1942), Abstract expressionism, abstract expressionist and Mixed media, mixed-media artist * Dan Christensen (1942–2007), painter * Susan Crile (born 1942), painter * Porfirio DiDonna (1942–1986), painter * Lucien Dulfan (born 1942), conceptual artist * Dan Graham (1942-2022), conceptual artist, performance artist * Jann Haworth (born 1942), sculptor * Michael Kabotie (1942–2009), painter, silversmith * Harry McCormick (born 1942) interior spaces painter * Bob Ross (1942–1995), painter, television artist * David True (born 1942), painter * Lawrence Weiner (1942–2021), conceptual artist * William T. Williams (born 1942), painter 1943 * Michael Asher (artist), Michael Asher (1943–2012), conceptual artist, installation artist * Sandra Bowden (born 1943), painter * Robert Butler (Florida Highwaymen Artist), Robert Butler (1943–2014), painter * Pauline Campanelli (1943–2001), painter, writer * Cora Cohen (born 1943), painter * Ron Cooper (artist), Ron Cooper (born 1943), artist * Robert Crumb (born 1943), cartoonist * David Diao (born 1943), painter * William Dutterer, William S. Dutterer (1943–2007), painter * Simon Gaon (born 1943), painter * David Hammons (born 1943), installation artist, sculptor * Helen Hardin (1943–1984), painter * Steven Kemenyffy (born 1943), ceramic artist * Stephen Kline (born 1943), painter, photographer, pen and ink * Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), situationist, site-specific artist, performance artist * David R. Prentice (born 1943), painter * Martha Rosler (born 1943), video, photo-text, installation, performance art * Suze Rotolo (1943–2011), book artist * Susan Louise Shatter (1943–2011), landscape painter * Betty Spindler (born 1943), ceramist * James Surls (born 1943), sculptor and visual artist * James Turrell (born 1943), installation artist * William Wegman (photographer), William Wegman (born 1943), video artist, photographer, painter * Jerry Wilkerson (1943–2007), painter * Christopher Wilmarth (1943–1987), sculptor 1944 * Lewis Bryden (born 1944), naturalistic landscapes * Louis Delsarte (1944–2020), painter * Don Eddy (born 1944), painter * Jan Harrison (born 1944), painter and sculptor * Michael Heizer (born 1944), sculptor, earth artist * Sanit Khewhok (born 1944), painter and sculptor * Allan McCollum (born 1944), conceptual artist, sculptor, all media * Richard Mock (1944–2006), painter * Thomas Nozkowski(1944–2019), painter * Susan Mohl Powers (born 1944), sculptor, painter * Fred H. Roster (1944–2017), sculptor * Allen Ruppersberg (born 1944), conceptual artist, installation artist * Alan Saret (born 1944), sculptor 1945 * Michele Oka Doner (born 1945), sculptor, public artist, printmaker, video artist * Donray (born 1945), painter * Sheila Elias (born 1945) * Carole Feuerman (born 1945), sculptor * Charles Fincher (born 1945), cartoonist * Helen C. Frederick (born 1945), printmaker * Jack Goldstein (1945–2003), conceptual artist, filmmaker, painter * Glenda Green (born 1945), painter * Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (born 1945), painter, printmaker * Neil Jenney (born 1945), painter * Charles Hollis Jones (born 1945), furniture designer * Joseph Kosuth (born 1945), conceptual artist * Barbara Kruger (born 1945), photographer, graphic artist, sculptor * Suzanne Lacy (born 1945), installations, video, performance artist * Robert Lawrance Lobe (born 1945), sculptor * Paul McCarthy (born 1945), sculptor, installation artist, video artist * Robert W. Olszewski (born 1945), painter and miniatures artist * Louise Parks (born 1945), painter * Peter Reginato (born 1945), sculptor * Judy Rifka (born 1945), painter, video artist * Susan Rothenberg (1945–2020), painter, printmaker * Sean Scully (born 1945), painter, printmaker * Carol Sutton (artist), Carol Sutton (born 1945), painter * Audrey Ushenko (born 1945), realist figurative painter * Daisy Youngblood (born 1945), ceramic artist, sculptor 1946 * Charles Arnoldi (born 1946), painter * Dennis Ashbaugh (born 1946), painter * Alice Aycock (born 1946), sculptor * Frances Bagley (born 1946), American sculptor * Jean Bales (1946–2004), painter and printmaker * Betty Beaumont (born 1946), site-specific artist, all media * EC Bell (born 1946), painter * Chris Burden (1946–2015), performance artist, sculptor * T.C. Cannon (1946–1978), painter * Dennis H. Farber (1946–2017), painter and photographer * Don Gummer (born 1946), sculptor * David Eugene Henry (born 1946), painter, sculptor * Nabil Kanso (born 1946), painter * Lev Kublanov (born 1946), graphic artist * Fran Lew (born 1946), painter * Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), photographer * Anthony McCall (born 1946), installation artist, projected film * Ann McCoy (born 1946), sculpture, drawing * Anne Neely (born 1946), painter * Lonnie Ortega (born 1946), aviation artist * David Reed (artist), David Reed (born 1946), painter * Ann Leda Shapiro (born 1946), painter. * Marsha Steinberg (born 1946), drawing, etchings, and paintings * Jamie Wyeth (born 1946), painter * Bhakti Ziek (born 1946), textiles 1947 * Laurie Anderson (born 1947), experimental performance artist, musician * Allen 'Big Al' Carter (1947–2008), painter, printmaker, photographer, sculptor * Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013), conceptual artist, photographer * Daniel Kelly (artist), Daniel Kelly (born 1947), painter, printmaker * Ronnie Landfield (born 1947), painter * Louise Lawler (born 1947), photographer * Sherrie Levine (born 1947), conceptual artist * Richard Minsky (born 1947), bookbinder and cover artist * Stephen Mueller (1947–2011), painter * Eduardo Oropeza (1947–2003) * Linda Ridgway (born 1947), sculptor * Christine Rosamond (1947–1994), painter * James Schoppert (1947–1992), Alaskan Native artist * Larry Stanton (1947–1984) painter * Bill Stoneham (born 1947), feature film (creature shop), surrealist, illustrator 1948 * Cornelia Breitenbach (1948–1984), textile artist * Ronnie Cutrone (1948–2013), painter * Eric Fischl (born 1948), painter, printmaker * David Geiser (1948–2020), painter * Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (born 1948), installation, collage * Jonathan Lasker (born 1948), painter * Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), performance artist * Meridel Rubenstein (born 1948), photographer and installation artist * Joseph Sanchez (born 1948), painter and museum curator * Judith Shea (born 1948), sculptor * Hollis Sigler (1948–2001), painter, printmaker * Lizbeth Stewart (1948–2013), ceramist * Altoon Sultan (born 1948), painter * J. Craig Thorpe (born 1948), landscape artist * J. Chris Wilson (born 1948), artist * Brian Wood (artist), Brian Wood (born 1948), film maker, multiple media, painter, photographer 1949 * Ross Bleckner (born 1949), painter * Deborah Butterfield (born 1949), sculptor * Stephen Hickman (1949–2021), illustrator, sculptor * Geoffrey Laurence (born 1949), painter * Dellamarie Parrilli (born 1949), abstract expressionism, abstract expressionist, action painting, action painter, jewelry designer * Richard Prince (born 1949), painter, photographer, sculptor * Archie Rand (born 1949), painter, muralist * Barbara Schwartz (artist), Barbara Schwartz (1949–2006), painter, sculptor * Laurie Simmons (born 1949), photographer * Josh Simpson (glass artist), Josh Simpson (born 1949), glass artist * Mark Tansey (born 1949), painter * Andrea Way (born 1949), painter, sculptor * Jean Wells (artist), Jean Wells (born 1949), mosaic sculptor

Born 1950–1959

1950 * Lesley Dill (born 1950), all media * Lin Evola (born 1950) * Margery E. Goldberg (born 1950), painter, sculptor * Jenny Holzer (born 1950), conceptual artist * Marilyn Kirsch (born 1950), painter * Jack Reilly (artist), Jack Reilly (born 1950), painter * James Rizzi (1950–2011), painter * Mary Michael Shelley (born 1950), carver, painter * Ira Sherman (born 1950), sculptor * Glennray Tutor (born 1950), painter 1951 * Ned Bittinger (born 1951), painter * Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951), sculptor and figurative painter * Lisa Bradley (born 1951), painter * Louisa Chase (1951–2016), painter * Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951), photographer * Mary Heebner (born 1951), painter * Gary Hill (born 1951), video installation artist * Lee H. Letts (born 1951), bronze sculptor, goldsmith, and painter * Melissa Miller (artist), Melissa Miller (born 1951), painter * Matt Mullican (born 1951), video, painting, electronic media, and installation * Joseph Nechvatal (born 1951), digital painter * Nic Nicosia (born 1951), American Fine-art photography, art photographer * James Dean Pruner (1951–1987/1988), painter, printmaker, sculptor * Julian Schnabel (born 1951), painter, filmmaker * Peter Shelton (sculptor), Peter Shelton (born 1951), American sculptor * Michael Smith (performance artist), Michael Smith (born 1951), performance, video, and installation artist * Lynne Woods Turner (born 1951), abstract painter * Bill Viola (born 1951), video artist * Russ Warren (born 1951), figurative painter * William Wolk (born 1951), realist painter 1952 * Chris Campbell (artist), Chris Campbell (born 1952), painter * David Em (born 1952), digital art * Sonya Fe (born 1952), painter * Ken Feingold (born 1952), installation artist, all media * Sam Havadtoy (born 1952), painter, interior designer * Nicholas Hondrogen (1952–2007), painter * Cynthia Knott (born 1952), seascapes * Deborah Nehmad (born 1952), printmaker and mixed-media artist * John Newman (sculptor), John Newman (born 1952), sculptor * Tom Otterness (born 1952), sculptor * Lari Pittman (born 1952), painter * John Pomara (born 1952), abstract artist * Clifford Ross (born 1952), painter, photographer, video * David Salle (born 1952), painter * Linda St. Clair (born 1952), wildlife painter 1953 * Larry Dell Alexander (born 1953), painter * Debra Bermingham (born 1953), interior scenes and still lifes * Rebecca Bluestone (born 1953), tapestry weaver * Sean K. L. Browne (born 1953), sculptor * James Casebere (born 1953), photographer * Gordon Chandler (born 1953), sculptor * Jeff Chapman-Crane (born 1953), painter * Sean Earley (born 1953), oil painter, commercial illustrator * April Gornik (born 1953), painter * Alex Grey (born 1953), artist * Michael Hafftka (born 1953), painter * Peter Halley (born 1953), painter * Malcolm T. Liepke (born 1953), painter * Robert Longo (born 1953), sculptor, graphic artist * Sergio Rossetti Morosini (born 1953), painter, sculptor * Stephen Namara (born 1953), figurative artist * Tom Nussbaum (born 1953), painter, sculptor, graphic artist * Charles Ray (artist), Charles Ray (born 1953), sculptor * Geoffrey Raymond (born 1953), painter, executive portraits * Alexander Tsiaras (born 1953), artist and photojournalist * Carol Wax (born 1953), printmaker * Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), photographer * Stephen Westfall (born 1953), painter, art critic 1954 * Mary Endico (born 1954), painter, watercolorist * Robert Gober (born 1954), sculptor * Joseph Havel (born 1954), sculptor * Mike Kelley (artist), Mike Kelley (1954–2012), all media * Donna Meistrich (born 1954), wax carver, model maker, painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, animator * Francis X. Pavy (born 1954), painter and sculptor * Cindy Sherman (born 1954), photographer * Michael Sherrill (born 1954), ceramist, sculptor * Kiki Smith (born 1954), sculptor, printmaker, all media * Randy Souders (born 1954), painter * Fred Wilson (artist), Fred Wilson (born 1954), conceptual artist, printmaker * David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992), painter, photographer 1955 * Katherine Bowling (born 1955), layered landscapes * Mark Staff Brandl (born 1955), painter, installation artist, art historian * Charles Fazzino (born 1955), silkscreen serigraph pop artist * F. Scott Hess (born 1955), painter and conceptual artist * Roni Horn (born 1955), sculptor, photographer * Terrell James (born 1955), painter, sculptor * Karen Kilimnik (born 1955), painter, installation artist * Jeff Koons (born 1955), sculptor * Christian Marclay (born 1955), visual artist, composer * Robert Lyn Nelson (born 1955), marine painter * Philip Taaffe (born 1955), painter, printmaker * David Tineo (born 1955), cultural and identity issues artist * Michael Toombs (born 1955), painter and arts educator * Jeffrey Vallance (born 1955), conceptual artist * Karen Wheeler (born 1955), painter * Richard Wyatt, Jr. (born 1955), painter, muralist 1956 * Mark Beard (artist), Mark Beard (born 1956), painter, sculptor, set designer * Mark Bloch (artist), Mark Bloch (born 1956), interdisciplinary artist * F. Lennox Campello (born 1956), visual and multimedia artist * Kaloust Guedel (born 1956), painter, sculptor * Julian Hatton (born 1956), painter * Soraida Martinez (born 1956), painter * Alison Saar (born 1956), sculptor, installation artist * Fred Tomaselli (born 1956), painter 1957 * Julie Ault (born 1957), collaborative artist, curator * Sarah Brayer (born 1957), painter, paper artist, printmaker * Fred Cray (born 1957), photographer * Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996), sculptor, installation artist, interdisciplinary * Jim Hodges (artist), Jim Hodges (1957), sculptor * Clay Huffman (1957–2001), painter * Tony Oursler (born 1957), video, performance and installation artist * Adam Shaw (painter), Adam Shaw (born 1957), painter * James Siena (born 1957), painter 1958 * Ben Aronson (born 1958), painter * Wayne Barlowe (born 1958), science fiction and fantasy painter * John Dubrow (born 1958), painter * Lori K. Gordon (born 1958), multi-media artists * Keith Haring (1958–1990), graphic artist, muralist, sculptor, printmaker * Tracy Harris (born 1958), painter * Wendy W. Jacob (born 1958), sculptor * Thomas Kinkade (1958–2012), painter * Christie Repasy (born 1958), floral painter * James Romberger (born 1958), pastels, comics * Moses Ros (born 1958), architect, sculptor, painter, printmaker and muralist * Kenny Scharf (born 1958), painter * Renee Stout (born 1958), assemblagist * Ray Turner (artist), Ray Turner (born 1958), painter, portraits, landscapes * Jeff Wassmann (born 1958), assemblage * Francesca Woodman (1958–1981), photographer 1959 * Ashley Bickerton (born 1959), painter, sculptor * Laura Bruce (born 1959), artist * Anne Chu (1959–2016), sculptor * Donny Johnson (born c. 1959), painter, unconventional technique * Maya Lin (born 1959), installation artist * Raymond Persinger (born 1959), sculptor, public artist * Jerry Weiss (artist), Jerry Weiss (born 1959), painter

Born 1960–1969

1960 * Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), painter * Bob Eggleton (born 1960), science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. * Laura Ann Jacobs (born 1960), sculptor and mixed media artist. * MaPo Kinnord (born 1960), ceramic artist, sculptor, and educator. * Glenn Ligon (born 1960), conceptual artist, all media * Sono Osato (artist), Sono Osato (born 1960), artist * Jack Pierson (born 1960), sculptor, photographer, other media * Lorna Simpson (born 1960), photographer * Tim Tate (artist), Tim Tate (born 1960) multimedia sculptor, video artist 1961 * Sam Durant (born 1961), variety of media * Nestor Hernández (1961–2006), photographer * Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photographer and visual artist * Catherine Opie (born 1961), photographer * Geoffrey C. Smith (sculptor), Geoffrey C. Smith (born 1961), sculptor * Rirkrit Tiravanija (born 1961), conceptual artist, installation artist * Israel Tsvaygenbaum (born 1961), painter 1962 * Daniel Adel (born 1962), painter and illustrator * Gregory Crewdson (born 1962), photographer * John Currin (born 1962), painter * Monica Aissa Martinez (born 1962), painter * Renee McGinnis (born 1962), painter * Rebecca Jo Morales (born 1962), painter * Laura Myntti (born 1962), painter * Lisa Yuskavage (born 1962), painter 1963 * Gretchen Baer (born 1963), painter and performance artist * Rina Banerjee (born 1963), painter * Kathy Butterly (born 1963), sculptor * Jon Coffelt (born 1963), painter, sculptor, book arts, curator * Chris Lattanzio (born 1963), artist * Paul Henry Ramirez (born 1963), painter * Spar Street (born 1963), painter and sculptor 1964 * Janine Antoni (born 1964), sculptor, installation artist * Thomas Arvid (born 1964), oil painter * Margarete Bagshaw (1964–2015), painter, clay artist * Meghan Boody (born 1964), surrealist artist * Rachel Lachowicz (born 1964), painter * Ray Navarro (1964–1990), artist, filmmaker, and HIV/AIDS activist * Jason Teraoka (born 1964), painter * Erwin Timmers (born 1964), environmental sculptor 1965 * Andrea Fraser (born 1965), performance artist * Tom Friedman (artist), Tom Friedman (born 1965), sculptor * Ellen Gallagher (born 1965), painter, mixed media artist * Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965), painter * Jason Rhoades (1965–2006), installation artist * Paul Rusconi (born 1965), painter, mixed media artist * Brian Rutenberg (born 1965), abstract painter * Andrea Zittel (born 1965), sculptor, installation artist 1966 * Margaret Boozer (born 1966), ceramist * Bela Borsodi, (born 1966), photographer * Charlie Bynar, (born 1966), watercolorist * Susanne Crane (born 1966), Minnesota artist * Rachel Harrison (born 1966), sculptor, photographer * Annette P. Jimerson (born 1966), painter * Josiah McElheny (born 1966), sculptor, glass artist * Ivan Morley (born 1966), painter * Ranu Mukherjee (born 1966), multimedia artist * Roxy Paine (born 1966), sculptor, kinetic art * Jonathan Podwil (born 1966), painter 1967 * Matthew Barney (born 1967), multimedia artist, sculptor, filmmaker * Geoffrey Chadsey (born 1967), painter and draftsman * Harrell Fletcher (born 1967), socially engaged interdisciplinary projects * Davyd Whaley (1967–2014), painter 1968 * Doug Aitken (born 1968), multimedia artist * Dave Halili (born 1968), painter, illustrator, and designer of album covers, posters, and graphic merchandise * Amanda Matthews (born 1968), sculptor, painter, public art designer * Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born 1968), documentary photographer * Andrew Cornell Robinson (born 1968), sculptor, ceramist, painter, printmaker 1969 * Inka Essenhigh (born 1969), painter * Matt Kish (born 1969), artist, illustrator, book cover illustrator * Kara Walker (born 1969), collage artist, painter, printmaker, installation artist

Born 1970–1979

1970 * Noah Becker (born 1970), painter, Whitehot Magazine publisher, saxophonist * Bob Coronato (born 1970), painter and printmaker * Clandestine Culture (born 1970), painter, multidisciplinary artist * Shepard Fairey (born 1970), painter, printmaker, illustrator and muralist * Susie Frazier (born 1970), mixed media * Ron Laboray (born 1970), conceptual art and painting * John Newsom (born 1970), painter 1971 * Michael Birawer (born 1971), surrealist urban settings painter * Paul Kremer (born 1971), artist * Andrew Prokos (born 1971), photographer * John Waguespack (born 1971), artist * Logan Hicks (born 1971), artist 1972 * Jules de Balincourt, (born 1972), French-American nationality, painter * J Stoner Blackwell, (born 1972), American mixed media artist * Letitia Huckaby (born 1972), photographer, mixed media * Monika Steiner (born 1972), artist and sculptor * Kelly Sueda (born 1972), painter * Erick Swenson (born 1972), sculptor * Charlie White (artist), Charlie White (born 1972), photographer 1973 * Hayley Barker (born 1973), painter and drawer, spiritual experience, landscape, ritual * Violet Hopkins (born 1973), painter * Pearl C. Hsiung (born 1973), mixed media * Rosy Lamb (born 1973), painter and sculptor based in Paris 1974 * Carrie Ann Baade (born 1974), painter * Jason D'Aquino (born 1974) * Lee Kohse (born 1974), painter * Marni Kotak (born 1974), performance artist * Aaron Padilla (artist), Aaron Padilla (born 1974), ceramist and woodworker * John Ross Palmer (born 1974), painter * Willy Bo Richardson (born 1974), painter 1975 * Lauren Fensterstock (born 1975), installation artist, sculptor, goldsmith * Jessica Todd Harper (born 1975), portrait photographer * Adreon Henry (born 1975), artist * Sedrick Huckaby (born 1975), painter * Elliott Johnson (born 1975), painter and designer * Patrick McGrath Muñíz (born 1975), painter * Greg Simkins (born 1975), painter 1976 * Seamus Conley (born 1976), artist * Marlon Forrester (born 1976), painter and educator * Mathew Hintz (born 1976), impressionist painter and drawer * Casey McKee (born 1976), artist * William Powhida (born 1976), drawing 1977 * Becca Bernstein (born 1977), painter * Eric Daigh (born 1977), mixed media * David Herbert (artist), David Herbert (born 1977), sculpture, installation and video * Tim Lokiec (born 1977), 2-D mixed media * Vadis Turner (born 1977), mixed media * Lesley Vance (artist), Lesley Vance, painter 1978 * Hernan Bas (born 1978), painter * John Kleckner (born 1978), painter * Chad Person (born 1978), sculptor and collage artist 1979 * Rachel Bess (born c. 1979), painter * Evan Gruzis (born 1979), painter * Jimmy Kuehnle (born 1979), sculpture, performance and installation * Tameka Norris (born 1979), performance artist

Born 1980–1989

1980 * Kadar Brock (born 1980), abstract artist * Sarah Beth Goncarova (born 1980), painter, sculptor and installation artist * Richard T. Scott (born 1980), painter * Michael Tarbi (born 1980), artist * Lindsey White (born 1980), visual artist, photography, video, sculpture, and book making 1981 * Rafa Esparza (born 1981), performance artist * Dash Snow (1981–2009), artist * Francesca DiMattio (born 1981), artist * Sean Raspet (born 1981), artist * Wendy Red Star (born 1981), multimedia artist 1982 * Heather Dewey-Hagborg, information artist and Grinder (biohacking community), bio-hacker * Wu Tsang (born 1982), filmmaker, performance artist 1983 * Liza Sylvestre, visual artist from Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1986 * Aleah Chapin (born 1986), portrait painter * Alexa Meade (born 1986), body artist * Brenna Murphy (born 1986), psychedelic visual forms combined with three-dimensional object 1987 * Lauren Silva (born 1987), painter 1988 * Everitte Barbee (born 1988), artist, Arabic calligrapher 1989 * American Artist (artist), American Artist (born 1989), new media and installation artist * Ari Glass (born 1989), painter, designer and musician

Born 1990–1999

1990 * Matt Wisniewski (born 1990), collage artist and photographer * Clotilde Jiménez, (born 1990), American artist 1992 * George Pocheptsov, painter and draughtsman 1995 * Patricia Renee' Thomas, painter, draftswoman, and art educator

Born 2000-present

Date of birth unknown

* Michele Banks, painter * Aisha Tandiwe Bell, mixed media * Rora Blue, installation, text-based, and interactive * Dorothy Braudy, artist * Charlot Byj, greeting card and advertising artist * Nancy Calef, figurative painter * Sheila Cameron (artist), Sheila Cameron, artist and graphic designer * Pritika Chowdhry, artist * Adam Cooley, painter and sculptor * Rosetta DeBerardinis, painter * David Dewey, watercolor landscapes * Michael D. Fay, war and combat artist * Chawky Frenn, painter and art professor * MK Guth, installation artist * Scott Jacobs, photorealism * Hedy Klineman, celebrity portraits * Llanakila, painter and digital artist * Don H. Marr, painter, romantic realism and sociocomic surrealism * Scape Martinez, abstract artist and muralist * Anado McLauchlin, artist * Betty Merken, painter and printmaker, abstract geometric monotypes * John Randall Nelson, painter and sculptor * Pamela Nelson, contemporary painter and installation artist * Hal Olsen, artist * David Wells Roth, figurative painter * Diane Tuckman, silk painter * Pheoris West, artist

References

{{reflist Lists of American artists, 1900 and after American artists

Born 1900–1909

Born 1910–1919

Born 1920–1929

Born 1930–1939

Born 1940–1949

Born 1950–1959

Born 1960–1969

Born 1970–1979

Born 1980–1989

Born 1990–1999

Born 2000-present

Date of birth unknown

See also

References