1900 in art
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The year 1900 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
- April 14–November 12 – Exposition Universelle in Paris helps popularize Art Nouveau style. Alphonse Mucha decorates the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborates on the Austria-Hungary one.
- F. Holland Day organizes an exhibition of the New School of American Photography at the Royal Photographic Society in London.
- The Wallace Collection in London opens to the public.
- The Zachęta art gallery in Warsaw is completed.
- Claude Monet stays in London and begins his Houses of Parliament series of paintings.
- Wilhelm von Debschitz and Hermann Obrist found the Lehr- und Versuchsatelier für angewandte und freikunst, an influential art school in Munich.
Works
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- Mary Cassatt
- Jules Being Dried by His Mother
- Young Mother Sewing
- Frank Cadogan Cowper – Rapunzel
- Aurélia de Souza – Self-portrait
- Maurice de Vlaminck{{cite news|last=Melikian|first=Souren|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/12/arts/melik12.php|title=Vlaminck: expressing mood with color|newspaper=International Herald Tribune|date=2008-07-11|accessdate=2008-07-13}}
- Sur le zinc ("At the Bar")
- L'homme a la pipe ("Man Smoking a Pipe")
- Adolphe Demange
- La Duchesse d'Uzès travaillant à la statue monumentale de Jeanne d'Arc, dans l'atelier de Falguière
- Place de la Concorde
- Maurice Denis – Homage to Cézanne
- Frank Dicksee – [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dicksee-the-two-crowns-n01839 The Two Crowns]
- Thomas Eakins
- Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (second version, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
- The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- Florence Fuller – [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105045558/http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/detail.jsp?ecatKey=3799 Inseparables]
- J. W. Godward
- Idleness
- The Jewel Casket
- The Toilet
- Vilhelm Hammershøi – Sunbeams
- Holman Hunt – The Light of the World (replica)
- Paja Jovanović – The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex
- Gustav Klimt - Attersee{{Cite web |title=Gustav Klimt {{!}} Highlights {{!}} COLLECTION {{!}} Leopold Museum |url=https://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/collection/highlights/145 |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=www.leopoldmuseum.org}}
- Henry Herbert La Thangue – [http://www.wikiart.org/en/henry-herbert-la-thangue/the-watersplash-1900 The Watersplash]
- Edmund Leighton – God Speed
- Maximilien Luce – Notre Dame de Paris
- Ambrose McEvoy – [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mcevoy-bessborough-street-pimlico-n06080 Bessborough Street, Pimlico] (Tate)
- Henri Matisse
- [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/matisse-notre-dame-n05905/text-catalogue-entry Notre-Dame] (Tate)
- Two self-portraits
- Edvard Munch
- Golgotha
- [https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/668279 Red Virginia Creeper]
- Emil Nolde – Wheat Field (approximate date)
- William Orpen – [http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14158.html Herbert Everett] (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
- Roland Hinton Perry – Thompson Elk Fountain (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
- Pablo Picasso
- Le Blouse Romaine
- [http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/3411 Le Moulin de la Galette]
- Fritz von Uhde – Woman, why weepest thou?
- Edouard Vuillard - Sans le Portique (completed){{Cite web |title=Artworks at TEFAF Maastricht 2023, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd |url=https://www.thomasgibsonfineart.com/content/feature/28/image_standalone153/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd |language=en}}
- John William Waterhouse
- Destiny
- A Mermaid
- The Siren
Births
- January 5 – Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter (d. 1955)
- January 8 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-born painter (d. 1969)
- January 10 – Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (d. 1974)
- January 20 – Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (d. 1983)
- January 28 – Alice Neel, American portrait painter (d.1984)
- January 31 – Betty Parsons, American painter and gallerist (d. 1982)
- March 1 – Nano Reid, Irish painter (d. 1981)
- March 10 – Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor (d. 1981)
- March 13 – Andrée Bosquet, Belgian painter (d. 1980)
- April 13 – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
- April 20 – Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer (d. 1984)
- June 13 – Pierre Matisse, French-born gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (d. 1989)
- June 22 – Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract animator, filmmaker and painter (d. 1967)
- June 26
- František Muzika, Czech avant-garde painter (d. 1974)
- Jo Spier, Dutch artist and illustrator (d. 1978)
- July 19 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (d. 1991)
- August 12 – Ronald Moody, Jamaican-born woodcarver (d. 1984)
- August 15 – Jack Tworkov, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1982)
- August 23 – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (d. 1988)
- September 19 – Ong Schan Tchow, Chinese artist (d. 1945)
- October 1 – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter (d. 1978)
- October 14 – Roland Penrose, English surrealist painter and art collector (d. 1984)
- October 16
- Edward Ardizzone, British writer and illustrator (d. 1979)
- Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (d. 1988)
- October 17 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
- November 20 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
- date unknown
- Francesco Di Cocco, Italian painter (d. 1989)
- Guan Liang, Chinese painter (d. 1986)
- Grace Morley, American curator (d. 1985)
- Fannie Nampeyo, American Hopi potter and ceramic artist (d. 1987)
- Tanasko Milovich, Serbian painter (d. 1964)
Deaths
- January 20 – John Ruskin, English art critic (b. 1819)
- April 7 – Frederic Edwin Church, American landscape painter (b. 1826)
- April 20 – Alexandre Falguière, French painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
- May 5 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian seascape painter (b. 1817)
- July 2 – Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor (b. 1827)
- August 4 – Isaac Levitan, Russian landscape painter (b. 1860)
- August 17 – Thomas Faed, Scottish genre painter (b. 1826)
- October 27 – William Anderson, English collector of Japanese art (b. 1842)
- November 29 – Méry Laurent, French muse and model to Édouard Manet (b. 1849)