The year 1900 in art involved some significant events and new works.
Events
Works
See also: Category:1900 sculptures
Births
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January 5 – Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter (d. 1955)
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January 8 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-born painter (d. 1969)
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January 10 – Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (d. 1974)
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January 28 – Alice Neel, American portrait painter (d.1984)
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January 31 – Betty Parsons, American painter and gallerist (d. 1982)
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March 1 – Nano Reid, Irish painter (d. 1981)
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March 10 – Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor (d. 1981)
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April 13 – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
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April 20 – Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer (d. 1984)
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June 13 – Pierre Matisse, French-born gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (d. 1989)
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June 22 – Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract animator, filmmaker and painter (d. 1967)
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July 19 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (d. 1991)
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August 12 – Ronald Moody, Jamaican-born woodcarver (d. 1984)
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August 15 – Jack Tworkov, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1982)
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August 23 – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (d. 1988)
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September 19 – Ong Schan Tchow, Chinese artist (d. 1945)
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October 1 – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter (d. 1978)
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October 14 – Roland Penrose, English surrealist painter and art collector (d. 1984)
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October 16
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October 17 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
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November 20 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
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Deaths
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January 20 – John Ruskin, English art critic (b. 1819)
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April 7 – Frederic Edwin Church, American landscape painter (b. 1826)
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April 15 – Jules Dalou, French sculptor (b. 1838)
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April 20 – Alexandre Falguière, French painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
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May 5 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian seascape painter (b. 1817)
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June 11 – Otto Eckmann, German painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
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July 2 – Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor (b. 1827)
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July 28 – Jehan Georges Vibert, French academic painter (b. 1840)
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August 4 – Isaac Levitan, Russian landscape painter (b. 1860)
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August 17 – Thomas Faed, Scottish genre painter (b. 1826)
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October 27 – William Anderson, English collector of Japanese art (b. 1842)
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November 29 – Méry Laurent, French muse and model to Édouard Manet (b. 1849)