# 1900 in art

The year 1900 in art involved some significant events and new works.

## Events

* April 14–November 12 – Exposition Universelle in Paris helps popularize Art Nouveau style. Alphonse Mucha decorates the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborates on the Austria-Hungary one.
* F. Holland Day organizes an exhibition of the New School of American Photography at the Royal Photographic Society in London.
* The Wallace Collection in London opens to the public.
* The Zachęta art gallery in Warsaw is completed.
* Claude Monet stays in London and begins his Houses of Parliament series of paintings.
* Wilhelm von Debschitz and Hermann Obrist found the Lehr- und Versuchsatelier für angewandte und freikunst, an influential art school in Munich.

## Works

* Mary Cassatt
** Jules Being Dried by His Mother
** Young Mother Sewing
* Frank Cadogan Cowper – Rapunzel
* Aurélia de Souza – Self-portrait
* Maurice de Vlaminck
** Sur le zinc ("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 – 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 – 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
* Henry Herbert La Thangue – The Watersplash
* Edmund Leighton – God Speed
* Maximilien Luce – Notre Dame de Paris
* Ambrose McEvoy – Bessborough Street, Pimlico (Tate)
* Henri Matisse
** Notre-Dame (Tate)
** Two self-portraits
* Edvard Munch
** Golgotha
** Red Virginia Creeper
* Emil Nolde – Wheat Field (approximate dat)
* William Orpen – Herbert Everett (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
* Roland Hinton Perry – Thompson Elk Fountain (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
* Pablo Picasso
** Le Blouse Romaine
** Le Moulin de la Galette
* Fritz von Uhde – Woman, why weepest thou?
* Edouard Vuillard - Sans le Portique (completed)
* 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)