List of American artists before 1900

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List of American artists Those who were born before 1900
painter and photographer,artist-illustrator, surveyor,sculptor, folk art portraitist, primitive portrait painter

Born before

John White (c. 1540–c. 1606), artist-illustrator, surveyor
Thomas Smith (died c. 1691), painter
John Smybert (1688–1751), painter
Robert Feke (ca. 1705/1707–1750), painter
Joseph Badger (c. 1707/8-1765), painter
Jeremiah Theus (1716–1774), painter
Patience Wright (1725–1786), sculptor
John Hesselius (1728–1778), painter
John Singleton Copley (c. 1738–1815), painter
Benjamin West (1738–1820), painter
Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), painter
James Peale (1749–1831), painter
Ralph Earl (1751–1801), painter
Gilbert Charles Stuart (1755–1828), painter
William Rush (1756–1833), sculptor
John Trumbull (1756–1843), painter
Mather Brown (1761–1831), painter
James Earl (1761–1796), painter
Edward Savage (1761–1817), painter
John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854), painter
Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772–1848), folk art portraitist
William Jennys (1774–1859), primitive portrait painter
Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825), painter
Cephas Thompson (1775–1856), portrait painter
Jacob Eichholtz (1776–1842), portrait painter
John Vanderlyn (1776–1852), painter
Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860), painter
Washington Allston (1779–1843), painter
Edward Hicks (1780–1849), painter
John Wesley Jarvis (c. 1781–1839), painter
Thomas Sully (1783–1872), painter
Solomon Willard (1783–1861), stone carver
Bass Otis (1784–1861), painter
Rubens Peale (1784–1865), painter
John James Audubon (1785–1851), painter of birds and nature
Charles Bird King (1785–1862), portrait painter
James Frothingham (1786–1864), painter
John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821), America’s first genre painter
Hannah Cohoon (1788–1864), painter
Sarah Goodridge (1788–1853), painter of miniatures
Matthew Harris Jouett (1788–1827), portrait artist
William Edward West (1788–1859), portrait painter
Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), sculptor and inventor
Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), painter, inventor
Alvan Fisher (1792–1863), painter
Susanna Paine (1792–1862), portrait artist
James Bowman (c. 1793–1842), painter
Thomas Doughty (1793–1856), painter
Amasa Hewins (1795–1855), painter
George Catlin (1796–1872), painter
Asher Durand (1796–1886), painter
John Neagle (1796–1865), painter
Elizabeth Goodridge (1798–1882), painter of miniatures
Titian Peale (1799–1885), painter

Born 1800–1809

1800
Francis Alexander (1800–1881), painter

1801
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), painter
Henry Inman (1801–1846), painter
John Quidor (1801–1881), painter

1803
Robert Walter Weir (1803–1889), painter

1804
Fitz Hugh Lane (1804–1865), painter

1805
Horatio Greenough (1805–1852), sculptor
Hiram Powers (1805–1873), sculptor

1806
Peter Rindisbacher (1806–1834), watercolorist, illustrator

1807
William Sidney Mount (1807–1868), painter

1808
Seth Eastman (1808–1875), painter, illustrator

1809
Moses Billings (1809–1884), portrait painter
James G. Evans (1809–?), painter
George Winter, English-born portrait painter noted for his pictures of Potawatomi and Miami figures

Born 1810–1819

1811
George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), painter
John William Casilear (1811–1893), painter
William Page (1811–1885), painter

1812
Jane Stuart (1812–1888), portrait painter

1813
Joseph Goodhue Chandler (1813–1884), portrait painter
Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888), lithographer
George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), portrait painter
Asahel Lynde Powers (1813–1843), portrait painter
William Ranney (1813–1857), painter

1814
Edward Bailey (1814–1903), American/Hawaiian painter

1815
Joseph Horace Eaton (1815–1896), New Mexico landscapes

1816
Daniel DeWitt Tompkins Davie (1816–1877), photographer
George Whiting Flagg (1816–1898), painter
John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872), painter
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816–1868), painter

1817
Benjamin Champney (1817–1907), painter
Peter F. Rothermel (1817–1895), painter

1819
Richard Saltonstall Greenough (1819–1904), sculptor
Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904), painter
James Augustus Suydam (1819–1865), painter

Born 1820–1829

1820
Aramenta Dianthe Vail (1820–1888), painter
John E. Weyss (1820–1903), artist and cartographer
Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910), painter

1821
Robert Duncanson (c. 1821–1872), painter, muralist
Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906), Hawaiian-born painter and sketch artist

1822
Mathew Brady (1822–1896), photographer

1823
Daniel Folger Bigelow (1823–1910), painter
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), painter
Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), painter
William Hart (1823–1894), painter
Thomas Waterman Wood (1823–1903), painter

1824
William Morris Hunt (1824–1879), painter
James Merritt Ives (1824–1895), lithographer
Eastman Johnson (1824–1906), painter

1825
Benjamin Paul Akers (1825–1861), sculptor
Vincent Colyer (1825–1888), painter
Jacob Guptil Fletcher (1825–1889), painter
George Inness (1825–1894), painter
William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874), sculptor

1826
Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), painter

1827
David Johnson (1827–1908), painter
Francis Blackwell Mayer (1827–1899), painter
Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), interior and textile design

1828
Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828–1901), painter
James McDougal Hart (1828–1901), painter
Jervis McEntee (1828–1891), painter

1829

Albert Fitch Bellows (1829–1883), painter
Thomas Hill (1829–1908)
Edward Moran (1829–1901), painter

Born 1830–1839

1830
Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), painter
Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon (1830–1906), painter
Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), photographer
Granville Perkins (1830–1895), painter, engraver
John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), sculptor

1831
Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (1831–1898), political portrait painter
Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1831–1932), painter

1832
Samuel Colman (1832–1920), painter, interior designer

1833
Margarete Garvin Gillin (1833–1915), painter
Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (1833–1889), painter, daguerreotyper, engraver, portraitist
William Trost Richards (1833–1905), painter

1834
Dwight Benton (1834–1903), painter
Caspar Buberl (1834–1899), sculptor
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), painter, printmaker

1835
William Stanley Haseltine (1835–1900), painter
John LaFarge (1835–1910), painter, stained-glass window designer
Edmund Darch Lewis (1835–1910), painter
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), actress, painter, and poet

1836
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), painter, illustrator, printmaker
Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836–1892), painter

1837
Robert Wilson Andrews (1837–1922)
Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837–1908), painter
Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837–1922), salon painter
Thomas Moran (1837–1926), painter

1838
Caroline Morgan Clowes (1838–1904), painter

1839
Robert Crannell Minor (1839–1904), painter
Henry Bacon (1839–1912), painter
Arthur Quartley (1839–1886), painter

Robert Wylie (1839–1877), painter

Born 1840–1849

1840
Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (1840–1879), artist
Caroline Shawk Brooks (1840–1913), sculptor
Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905), painter
Thomas Hovenden (1840–1895), painter
Thomas Nast (1840–1902), caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator

1841
John Joseph Enneking (1841–1916), painter
Edward Lamson Henry (1841–1919), painter
Theodore Otto Langerfeldt (1841–1906), painter
John Ferguson Weir (1841–1926), painter, sculptor

1842
Willis Seaver Adams (1842–1921), painter
Conrad Wise Chapman (1842–1910), war painter
Preston Powers (1842–1904), sculptor

1843
Alexander Wilson Drake (1843–1916), painter, wood engraver
George Albert Frost (1843–1907), painter
William Henry Jackson (1843–1942), painter, photographer

1844
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), painter, printmaker
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), painter, photographer, sculptor
Moses Jacob Ezekiel (1844–1917), sculptor
Henry Farrer (1844–1903), painter, printmaker
Carl Gutherz (1844–1907), symbolist
Olin Levi Warner (1844–1896), sculptor

1845
Edmonia Lewis (1845–1911), sculptor

1846
Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923), sculptor
Francis Davis Millet (1846–1912), painter
Julian Scott (1846–1901), painter and Civil War artist

1847
Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), painter
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847–1928), painter
Frederick Dielman (1847–1935), painter
Irene E. Parmelee (1847–1934), portrait artist
Vinnie Ream (1847–1914), sculptor
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917), painter
T C Steele (1847–1926), painter

1848
Frank Duveneck (1848–1919), painter
William Harnett (1848–1892), painter
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933), painter
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), sculptor
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), artist and designer
Charles Henry Francis Turner (1848–1908), painter

1849
George Newell Bowers (1849–1909), painter
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), painter
Frank C. Penfold (1849–1921), painter
Jacob Riis (1849–1914), photographer
Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), painter
Dwight William Tryon (1849–1925), painter

Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum (1849–1925), illustrator, painter

Born 1850–1859

1850
Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), sculptor
Paul E. Harney (born 10/21/1850), artist
George Hitchcock (1850–1913), painter
Robert Koehler (1850–1917), painter
Alfred Lambourne (1850–1926), painter

1851
J. Ottis Adams (1851–1927), painter
Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851–1912), painter
Thomas Dewing (1851–1938), painter
Arthur Burdett Frost (1851–1928), illustrator, graphic artist, comics writer, painter

1852
Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), illustrator, painter
James Carroll Beckwith (1852–1917), painter
Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr. (1852–1944), landscape painter
Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photographer
Theodore Robinson (1852–1896), painter
J. Alden Weir (1852–1919), painter

1853
William Turner Dannat (1853–1929), painter
T. Alexander Harrison (1853–1930), painter
John Francis Murphy (1853–1921), painter
Howard Pyle (1853–1911), illustrator
Henry Fitch Taylor (1853–1925), painter
John Henry Twachtman (1853–1902), painter

1854
William Henry Chandler (1854–1928), painter in pastels
Hugo Anton Fisher (1854–1916), painter
William Forsyth (1854–1935), painter
Herbjørn Gausta (1854–1924), landscape artist
L. Birge Harrison (1854–1929), painter
George Inness, Jr. (1854–1926), painter
Leonard Ochtman (1854–1935), painter
John Frederick Peto (1854–1907), painter

1855
Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), painter
Jacob Fjelde (1855–1896), Norwegian-born American sculptor
Claudine Raguet Hirst (1855–1942), still life painter
James Edward Kelly (1855–1933), sculptor, illustrator
Charles Henry Niehaus (1855–1935), sculptor
Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855–1919), painter

1856
Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893), painter
Colin Campbell Cooper (1856–1937), painter
Kenyon Cox (1856–1919), painter
Charles Harold Davis (1856–1933), painter
John Haberle (1856–1933), painter
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942), painter
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), portrait artist

1857
Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter
Alice Pike Barney (1857–1931), painter
Bruce Crane (1857–1937), painter
Edward Wilson Currier (1857–1918), painter
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922), painter, printmaker
Charles Warren Eaton (1857–1937), painter
Emma B. King (1857–1933), impressionist
Florence MacKubin (1857–1918), portrait painter
George E. Ohr (1857–1918), ceramic potter
Edward Clark Potter (1857–1923), sculptor
Frank Raubicheck (1857–1952), painter
John Vanderpoel (1857–1911), painter, graphics
Mary Rogers Williams (1857–1907), painter

1858
Herbert Adams (1858–1945), sculptor
Joseph DeCamp (1858–1923), painter
Francis Edwin Elwell (1858–1922), sculptor
Frederick Gottwald (1858–1941), painter
Charles S. Kaelin (1858–1929, painter
Willard Metcalf (1858–1925), painter
Henry Siddons Mowbray (1858–1928), painter
Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II (1858–1923), painter and poet
Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924), painter
Henry Ward Ranger (1858–1916), painter
William B. T. Trego (1858–1909), painter

1859

William Bliss Baker (1859–1886), painter
George Elbert Burr (1859–1939), painter, printmaker
Walter Leighton Clark (1859–1935), painter, sculptor
Childe Hassam (1859–1935), painter, printmaker
Joseph Henry Sharp (1859–1953), painter

Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), painter

Born 1860–1869

1860
William Jacob Baer (1860–1941), painter
Carl Eytel (1862–1925), landscape painter, illustrator
John Kane (1860–1934), painter
Dodge MacKnight (1860–1950), painter
Arthur Frank Mathews (1860–1945), painter
Grandma Moses (1860–1961), painter
Iris Nampeyo (c. 1860–1942), potter, ceramic artist
Anna M. Sands (born 1860), painter
Lorado Taft (186–1936), sculptor

1861
Dennis Miller Bunker (1861–1890), painter
Theodore Earl Butler (1861–1936), painter
Charles Courtney Curran (1861–1942), painter
D. Howard Hitchcock (1861–1943), painter
Florence Koehler (1861–1944)
Wilton Lockwood (1861–1914), artist
Clara Weaver Parrish (1861–1925), painter, printmaker, stained glass designer
Frederic Remington (1861–1909), painter, sculptor, illustrator
Frank Rinehart (1861–1928), photographer, illustrator
Douglas Tilden (1861–1935), sculptor

1862
Adam Emory Albright (1862–1957), painter of figures in landscapes
Frank Weston Benson (1862–1951), painter, printmaker
Charles Grafly (1862–1929), sculptor
Alice De Wolf Kellogg (1862–1900), painter
Hudson Mindell Kitchell (1862–1944), luminescent and tonalist landscapes
Albert Pike Lucas (1862–1945), landscape, figure, and portrait
Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947), painter
Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862–1924), painter
Robert Reid (1862–1929), painter and muralist
Edmund C. Tarbell (1862–1938), painter

1863
George Gray Barnard (1863–1938), sculptor
Arthur B. Davies (1863–1928), painter, printmaker
Frederick William MacMonnies (1863–1937), sculptor
Verner Moore White (1863–1923), painter
Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935), Illustrator

1864
Charles Basing (1864–1933), artist
George Henry Bogert (1864–1944), painter
Henry Golden Dearth (1864–1918), painter
Louis Eilshemius (1864–1941), painter
William Frederic Ritschel (1864–1949), German American painter
Charles Marion Russell (1864–1926), painter, sculptor
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), photographer
Svend Rasmussen Svendsen (1864–1945), Norwegian American impressionist artist
Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864–1940), painter

1865
George Bridgman (1865–1943), painter
Herbert A. Collins (1865–1937), landscape and portrait painter
Thomas Cromwell Corner (1865–1938), portrait painter
Leon Dabo (1865–1960), painter
Frank Vincent DuMond (1865–1951), painter
Robert Henri (1865–1929), painter
Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865–1929), painter and potter

1866
Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952), painter
E. Irving Couse (1866–1935), painter, illustrator
Helen Thomas Dranga (1866–1940), painter
Jenny Eakin Delony (1866–1949), painter
Emil Fuchs (1866–1929), Austrian-born painter

1915
Arvid Nyholm (1866–1927), Swedish-American portrait and landscape artist
Theodore Scott-Dabo (1866–1928), painter
Henry Otto Wix (1866–1922), German-born American painter
Art Young (1866–1943), cartoonist

1867
Reynolds Beal (1867–1951), painter
Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867–1938), painter
Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), sculptor
Harry Buckwalter (1867–1930), photographer, filmmaker
Wickliffe Covington (1867–1938), painter
Henry Brown Fuller (1867–1934), painter
Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), graphic artist
George Luks (1867–1933), painter
Jerome Myers (1867–1940), painter
Bela Lyon Pratt (1867–1917), sculptor
William Sommer (1867–1949), painter
Allen Butler Talcott (1867–1908), painter
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), architect, innovator

1868
Solon Borglum (1868–1922), sculptor
Merton Clivette (1868–1931), painter
Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952), photographer
Nellie Huntington Gere (1868–1949), painter and illustrator
Alfred Henry Maurer (1868–1932), painter
Bert Geer Phillips (1868–1956), painter
Anne Louise Gregory Ritter (1868–1929), painter and ceramicist
Anna Woodward (1868–1935), painter

1869
Kate Carew (1869–1961), caricaturist
Percy Gray (1869–1952), painter
Mary Sheppard Greene (1869–1958), painter and illustrator
Charles Hopkinson (1869–1962), painter
Wilson Irvine (1869–1936), painter
Xavier Timoteo Martinez (1869–1943), painter
William McGregor Paxton (1869–1941), painter
Edward Willis Redfield (1869–1965), painter
Janet Scudder (1869–1940), sculptor

Harriet “Hattie” Elizabeth Wilcox (1869–1943), ceramics artist

Born 1870–1879

1870
Thomas P. Barnett (1870–1929), painter
Anna Richards Brewster (1870–1952), painter
Alexander Stirling Calder (1870–1945), sculptor
William Glackens (1870–1938), painter
John Marin (1870–1953), painter, printmaker
John T. McCutcheon (1870–1949), political cartoonist
Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966), painter, illustrator
Augustus Vincent Tack (1870–1949), painter
Frederick Weygold (1870–1941), painter and photographer
Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870–1952), sculptor
Samuel Washington Weis (1870–1956), painter
Enid Yandell (1870–1934), sculptor

1871
Edith Woodman Burroughs (1871–1916), sculptor
Angel De Cora (1871–1919), painter, illustrator
Margaret Fernie Eaton (1871–?), artist, book plate illustrator
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), printmaker
Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871–1954), illustrator
Albert Herter (1871–1950), artist and painter
Granville Redmond (1871–1935), painter
John French Sloan (1871–1951), painter
Edward Charles Volkert (1871–1935), painter
Clark Voorhees (1871–1933), painter

1872
Charles Avery Aiken (1872–1965), painter, watercolorist
Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872–1930), muralist
Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872–1930), painter
Edna Boies Hopkins (1872–1937), woodblock print artist
Frederick Dana Marsh (1872–1961), illustrator
George L. Viavant (1872–1925), acquascape artist
Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955), sculptor

1873
Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873–1961)
Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873–1945), painter, muralist
Ernest Lawson (1873–1939), painter
Paul Mersereau (born 1873), painter
Arthur Putnam (1873–1930), sculptor
Juliet Thompson (1873–1956), painter
Cordelia Wilson (1873–1953), painter

1874
John Wolcott Adams (1874–1925), drawing
Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874–1960), painter
Franklin Booth (1874–1948), illustrator
Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), painter
Ira J. Deen (1874–1952), artist
Harold Heartt Foley (1874–1923), painter, collagist, and illustrator
Arnold Friedman (1874–1946), painter
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939), painter
Charles R. Knight (1874–1953), dinosaur artist
Violet Oakley (1874–1961), muralist
Rose O’Neill (1874–1944), first comic strip artist
Hans K. Schuler (1874–1951), sculptor
1875
Ethel Blanchard Collver (1875–1955), Impressionist artist and teacher
Alice Cooper (1875–1937), sculptor
Maynard Dixon (1875–1946), painter
Dulah Marie Evans (1875–1951), painter, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, etcher
Charles Keck (1875–1951), sculptor
Marion Wachtel (1875–1951), painter
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), sculptor

1876
Alson S. Clark (1876–1949), painter
Edith Dimock (1876–1955), painter
Eulabee Dix (1878–1961), water colour portrait miniatures
James Earle Fraser (1876–1953), sculptor
Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt (1876–1962), painter of miniatures
Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973), sculptor
Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876–1952), painter
Frederick Pawla (1876–1964), painter and muralist
Boardman Robinson (1876–1952), Canadian American painter
Paul R. Schumann (1876–1946), impressionist seascapes
Everett Shinn (1876–1953), painter and illustrator
Walter Ufer (1876–1936), printer, illustrator
Bessie Wheeler (born 1876), painter

1877
Eda Nemoede Casterton (1877–1969), painter
Rinaldo Cuneo (1877–1939), painter
Rudolph Dirks (1877–1968), cartoonist
Paul Dougherty (1877–1947), painter
Katherine S. Dreier (1877–1952), painter
James Montgomery Flagg (1877–1960), illustrator, painter
Edmund Greacen (1877–1949), painter
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), painter
William Penhallow Henderson (1877–1943), painter and architect
Walt Kuhn (1877–1949), painter
Mary Elizabeth Price (1877–1965)
Joseph Stella (1877–1946), painter
Maurice Sterne (1877/78–1957), sculptor
Mahonri Young (1877–1957), sculptor

1878
Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878–1949), sculptor
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (1878–1942), sculptor
Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878–1962), still life painter
E. William Gollings (1878–1932), western painter
Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939), sculptor
Gus Mager (1878–1956), cartoonist, illustrator, painter
Abraham Walkowitz (1878–1965), painter

1879
Gifford Beal (1879–1956), painter
Helena Smith Dayton (1879–1960), painter and sculptor
Julian Martinez (1879–1943), potter, ceramist
Charles Cary Rumsey (1879–1922), sculptor
George Demont Otis (born 9/21/1879), landscape artist
Arthur Prince Spear (born 1879), imaginary and fantasy painter
William Starkweather (1879–1969), impressionist painter
Edward Steichen (1879–1973), photographer, painter

Gunnar Widforss (1879–1934), painter specializing in National Park landscapes

Born 1880–1889

1880
Wilford Conrow (1880–1957), portrait painting
Arthur Dove (1880–1946), painter
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880–1959), sculptor
George Herriman (1880–1944), cartoonist
Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), painter
Jonas Lie (1880–1940), painter

1881
Gustave Baumann (1881–1971), printmaker, painter
Chester Beach (1881–1956), sculptor
Patrick Henry Bruce (1881–1936), painter
Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961), modernist painter
Allen Tupper True (1881–1955), painter, illustrator, muralist
Max Weber (1881–1961), painter

1882
George Bellows (1882–1925), painter, illustrator, printmaker
Albert Bloch (1882–1961), painter
Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952), painter
John Covert (1882–1960), painter
Edward Hopper (1882–1967), painter, printmaker
Rockwell Kent (1882–1971), painter, illustrator
Gaston Lachaise (1882–1935), sculptor
Harry Mathes (1882–1969), painter
Elie Nadelman (1882–1946), sculptor
Julian Onderdonk (1882–1922), painter
James Sessions (born 9/20/1882), artist
Walter Pach (1883–1958), painter
N.C. Wyeth (1882–1945), illustrator

1883
Johann Berthelsen (1883–1972), painter
Edward William Carlson (1883–1932), miniature portraitist
Henry B. Christian (1883–1953), painter
Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), photographer
Jo Davidson (1883–1952), sculptor
Charles Demuth (1883–1935), painter
Rube Goldberg (1883–1970), cartoonist, inventor
Donna N. Schuster (1883–1953), painter
Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), painter
Eugene Speicher (1883–1962), painter

1884
Walter Emerson Baum (1884–1956), painter and art school founder
Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952), painter, printmaker
Jose de Creeft (1884–1982), sculptor
Guy Pène du Bois (1884–1958), painter
Harvey Dunn (1884–1952), painter
Samuel Halpert (1884–1930), painter
William Victor Higgins (1884–1949), painter
Leon Kroll (1884–1974), painter
Robert Minor (1884–1952), political cartoonist
Horatio Nelson Poole (1884–1949), painter and printmaker

1885
Milton Avery (1885–1965), painter, printmaker
Oscar Cesare (1885–1948), illustrator, cartoonist, painter
Fred Ellis (1885–1965), political cartoonist
E. Charlton Fortune (1885–1969), impressionist painter
Paul Manship (1885–1966), sculptor
Josephine Paddock (1885–1964)
Jules Pascin (b. Bulgaria 1885-1930), painter
Sophy Regensburg (1885–1974), naïve painter
Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones (1885–1968), painter
Ralph Ward Stackpole (1885–1973), sculptor
John Storrs (1885–1956), sculptor
Nina B. Ward (born 1/23/1885), painter

1886
Pauline Boumphrey (1886–1959), sculptor
Paul Burlin (1886–1969), painter
Elias Goldberg (1886–1978), painter
John D. Graham (1886–1961), painter
Aldro Hibbard (1886–1972), painter
Charles James Martin (1886–1955), painter
Morgan Russell (1886–1953), painter
Joseph Tepper (1886–1977), portrait painter and artist
Edward Weston (1886–1958), photographer
Mary Agnes Yerkes (1886–1989), painter

1887
Sam Charles (1887–1949), painter
Andrew Dasburg (1887–1979), painter
Manierre Dawson (1887–1969), painter
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), painter, sculptor
Louis Grell (1887–1960), painter, muralist
Maria Martinez (1887–1980), potter, ceramist
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), painter
John C. Poole (1887–1926), etcher and wood engraver
Claggett Wilson (1887–1952), painter
Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson) (1887–1968)
William Zorach (1887–1966), sculptor

1888
Josef Albers (1888–1976), painter
William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1888–1965), painter and commercial artist
Arnold Franz Brasz (1888–1966), painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Augustus Dunbier (1888–1977), painter
Gerald Murphy (1888–1967), painter
William Robert Pearmain (1888–1912), painter
Horace Pippin (1888–1946), painter
Ruth Faison Shaw (1888–1969), painter

1889
Maurice Becker (1889–1975), political cartoonist, illustrator
Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), painter, muralist, printmaker
James Daugherty (1889–1974), painter, illustrator
Laura Gardin Fraser (1889–1966), sculptor
Gleb Ilyin (1889–1968), portraiture and landscapes
Geneva Mercer (1889–1984), sculptor

Robert William Wood (1889–1979), painter

Born 1890–1899

1890
Grace Albee (1890–1985), printmaker
Gerald Curtis Delano (1890–1972), painter
Leo Friedlander (1890–1966), sculptor
Frances Cranmer Greenman (1890–1981), portrait painter
Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965), sculptor, designer
Robert Laurent (1890–1970), sculptor
Stanton MacDonald-Wright (1890–1973), painter
Jan Matulka (1890–1972), painter
Man Ray (1890–1976), photographer, dadaist
Paul Strand (1890–1976), photographer
Mark Tobey (1890–1976), painter

1891
Mabel Alvarez (1891–1985), painter
George Ault (1891–1948), painter
McClelland Barclay (1891–1942), illustrator, pin-up artist
Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971), painter
Edwin Dickinson (1891–1978), painter
Robert Lee Eskridge (1891–1975), painter
Genevieve Springston Lynch (1891–1960)
Justin McCarthy (1891–1977), self-taught artist
Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891–1978), painter
Jennings Tofel (born 10/18/1891)
Grant Wood (1891–1942), painter

1892
Ralph Pallen Coleman (1892–1968), painter and illustrator
Hugo Gellert (1892–1985), illustrator and muralist
Augusta Savage (1892–1962), sculptor, teacher
Vaclav Vytlacil (1892–1984), painter, teacher
John Ellsworth Weis (1892–1962), painter
Winslow Wilson (1892–1974), painter, teacher

1893
Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), painter
Rene Paul Chambellan (1893–1955), sculptor
Pál Fried (1893–1976), oil painter, dancers, nudes, and portraits
Wanda Gág (1893–1946), printmaker, illustrator
George Albert Gale (1893–1951), nautical themed artist
R. H. Ives Gammell (1893–1981), painter
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1893–1953), painter
Abraham Rattner (1893–1978), painter

1894
Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), painter
Stuart Davis (1894–1964), painter
Ernest Fiene (1894–1965), lithographer, printmaker
Otto Kuhler (1894–1977), painter
Lucile Lloyd (1894–1941), muralist
Bashka Paeff (1894–1979), sculptor
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), painter, illustrator
Amanda Snyder (1894–1980), painter, printmaker
James Thurber (1894–1961), cartoonist

1895
Talbert Abrams (1895–1990), photographer
Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), printmaker, painter, illustrator
Lucile Blanch (1895–1981), painter
Adolf Dehn (1895–1968), lithographer, illustrator
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), architect, visionary
Harry Gottlieb (1895–1993), painter, illustrator
Regina Olson Hughes (1895–1993), botanical illustrator
Millie Rose Lalk (1895–1943), painter
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), photographer
John Allen Wyeth (1895–1981), painter

1896
Arnold Blanch (1896–1968), painter, printmaker
Allyn Cox (1896–1982), painter, muralist
John Russell Fulton (1896–1979), painter, illustrator
Morris Kantor (1896–1974), painter
Barbara Latham (1896–1989), painter, printmaker, illustrator
Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983), painter
1897
James Billmyer (1897–?), painter, illustrator
Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), painter
John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), painter, muralist, printmaker
William Gropper (1897–1977), cartoonist, painter, muralist, printmaker
Theodore Lukits (1897–1992), painter, muralist, illustrator, teacher
Caroline Mytinger, painter (1897–1980), painter
Reuben Nakian (1897–1986), sculptor
Dudley Pratt (1897–1975), sculptor

1898
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), photographer
Samuel Adler (born 1898), artist
Dewey Albinson (1898–1971), artist
Robert Brackman (1898–1980), painter
Alexander Calder (1898–1976), sculptor
Aaron Douglas (1898–1979), painter
Elsie Driggs (1898–1992), painter
Lorser Feitelson (1898–1978), painter
Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), painter, printmaker
John McLaughlin (1898–1976), painter
Kay Sage (1898–1963), painter
Ben Shahn (1898–1969), painter, printmaker, graphic artist

1899
Eugene Berman (1899–1972), painter
Francis Chapin (1899–1965), painter
De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965), painter
Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), assemblage artist, sculptor
Moses Soyer (1899–1974), painter
Raphael Soyer (1899–1987), painter
Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899–1955), painter