1900 in art
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The year 1900 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
- April 14âNovember 12 â 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 ZachÄta 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
- Frank Cadogan Cowper â Rapunzel
- Aurélia de Souza â Self-portrait
- Maurice de Vlaminck[1]
- Sur le zinc ("At the Bar")
- L'homme a la pipe ("Man Smoking a Pipe")
- Adolphe Demange
- Maurice Denis â Homage to Cézanne
- Frank Dicksee â The Two Crowns
- Thomas Eakins
- Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter â Equestrian statue of George Washington, Paris, France
- Florence Fuller â Inseparables
- J. W. Godward
- Idleness
- The Jewel Casket
- The Toilet
- Vilhelm Hammershøi â Sunbeams
- Holman Hunt â The Light of the World (replica)
- Paja JovanoviÄ â The Proclamation of DuÅ¡an's Law Codex
- Gustav Klimt - Attersee[2]
- Henry Herbert La Thangue â The Watersplash
- Edmund Leighton â God Speed
- Maximilien Luce â Notre Dame de Paris
- Ambrose McEvoy â Bessborough Street, Pimlico (Tate)
- Henri Matisse
- Notre-Dame (Tate)
- Two self-portraits
- Edvard Munch
- Emil Nolde â Wheat Field (approximate date)
- William Orpen â Herbert Everett (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
- Roland Hinton Perry â Thompson Elk Fountain (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
- Pablo Picasso
- Le Blouse Romaine
- Le Moulin de la Galette
- Edward Poynter â Water Babies
- James Jebusa Shannon â The Flower Girl[3]
- Philip Wilson Steer â Seated Nude, The Black Hat
- Fritz von Uhde â Woman, why weepest thou?
- Ãdouard Vuillard - Sans le Portique (completed)[4]
- John William Waterhouse
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Births
- January 5 â Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter (d. 1955)
- January 8 â Serge Poliakoff, Russian-born painter (d. 1969)
- January 10 â Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (d. 1974)
- January 20 â Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (d. 1983)
- January 28 â Alice Neel, American portrait painter (d.1984)
- January 31 â Betty Parsons, American painter and gallerist (d. 1982)
- March 1 â Nano Reid, Irish painter (d. 1981)
- March 10 â Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor (d. 1981)
- March 13 â Andrée Bosquet, Belgian painter (d. 1980)
- April 13 â Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
- April 20 â Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer (d. 1984)
- June 13 â Pierre Matisse, French-born gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (d. 1989)
- June 22 â 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 â Arno Breker, German sculptor (d. 1991)
- August 12 â Ronald Moody, Jamaican-born woodcarver (d. 1984)
- August 15 â Jack Tworkov, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1982)
- August 23 â Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (d. 1988)
- September 19 â Ong Schan Tchow, Chinese artist (d. 1945)
- October 1 â Živko StojsavljeviÄ, Serbian painter (d. 1978)
- October 14 â 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 â C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
- November 20 â 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 â John Ruskin, English art critic (b. 1819)
- April 7 â Frederic Edwin Church, American landscape painter (b. 1826)
- April 20 â Alexandre Falguière, French painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
- May 5 â Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian seascape painter (b. 1817)
- July 2 â Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor (b. 1827)
- August 4 â Isaac Levitan, Russian landscape painter (b. 1860)
- August 17 â Thomas Faed, Scottish genre painter (b. 1826)
- October 27 â William Anderson, English collector of Japanese art (b. 1842)
- November 29 â Méry Laurent, French muse and model to Ãdouard Manet (b. 1849)