List of American artists before 1900

Self-portrait by John Trumbull (1756–1843), dubbed the "Painter of the Revolution", is well-known for his historical paintings of the American Revolution.

For artists born 1900 and after, see List of American artists 1900 and after.

This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking.

Born before 1800

• John White (c. 1540 – c. 1606), artist-illustrator, surveyor
• Thomas Smith (died c. 1691), painter
• John Smybert (1688–1751), painter
• Robert Feke (c. 1705/1707–1750), painter
• Joseph Badger (c. 1707/1708–1765), 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
• Henry Benbridge (1743–1812), 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, 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

Sarah Miriam Peale (1800–1885)

1800

• Francis Alexander (d. 1881), painter
• Sarah Miriam Peale (d. 1885), portrait painter

1801

• Thomas Cole (d. 1848), painter
• Henry Inman (d. 1846), painter
• John Quidor (d. 1881), painter

1803

• Robert Walter Weir (d. 1889), painter

1804

• Fitz Henry Lane (d. 1865), painter

1805

Horatio Greenough (1805–1852)

• Horatio Greenough (d. 1852), sculptor
• Hiram Powers (d. 1873), sculptor

1806

Peter Rindisbacher (1806–1834)

• Peter Rindisbacher (d. 1834), Swiss-born watercolorist, illustrator

1807

• William Sidney Mount (d. 1868), painter

1808

• Seth Eastman (d. 1875), painter, illustrator

1809

• Moses Billings (d. 1884), portrait painter
• James Guy Evans (1809/1810–1859), painter
• George Winter (d. 1876), English-born portrait painter noted for his pictures of Potawatomi and Miami figures

Born 1810–1819

1811

William Page (1811–1885)

• George Caleb Bingham (d. 1879), painter
• John William Casilear (d. 1893), painter
• William Page (d. 1885), painter

1812

• Jane Stuart (d. 1888), portrait painter

1813

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

1814

• Edward Bailey (d. 1903), painter

1815

Joseph Horace Eaton (1815–1896)

• Joseph Horace Eaton (d. 1896), New Mexico landscapes

1816

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

1817

Benjamin Champney (1817–1907)

• Benjamin Champney (d. 1907), painter
• Peter F. Rothermel (d. 1895), painter

1819

• Richard Saltonstall Greenough (d. 1904), sculptor
• Martin Johnson Heade (d. 1904), painter
• James Augustus Suydam (d. 1865), painter

Born 1820–1829

1820

• Aramenta Dianthe Vail (d. 1888), painter
• John E. Weyss (d. 1903), artist, cartographer
• Worthington Whittredge (d. 1910), painter

1821

Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906)

• Robert S. Duncanson (d. 1872), painter, muralist
• Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (d. 1906), Hawaiian-born painter, sketch artist

1822

• Mathew Brady (d. 1896), photographer

1823

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

1824

James Merritt Ives (1824–1895)

• William Morris Hunt (d. 1879), painter
• James Merritt Ives (d. 1895), lithographer
• Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome (d. 1910), painter
• Eastman Johnson (d. 1906), painter

1825

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

1826

Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)

• Frederic Edwin Church (d. 1900), painter
• Caroline L. Ormes Ransom (d. 1910), painter

1827

• David Johnson (d. 1908), painter
• Francis Blackwell Mayer (d. 1899), painter
• Candace Wheeler (d. 1923), interior design, textile design

1828

• Edward Mitchell Bannister (d. 1901), painter
• James McDougal Hart (d. 1901), painter
• Jervis McEntee (d. 1891), painter

1829

Thomas Hill (1829–1908)

• Albert Fitch Bellows (d. 1883), painter
• Thomas Hill (d. 1908)
• Edward Moran (d. 1901), painter

Born 1830–1839

1830

Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (1831–1898)

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

1831

• Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (d. 1898), political portrait painter
• Hermann Ottomar Herzog (d. 1932), German-born painter

1832

• Samuel Colman (d. 1920), painter, interior designer
• Daniel Charles Grose (d. 1900), painter
• William Savage (d. 1908), painter

1833

• Margaret Girvin Gillin (d. 1915), painter
• Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (d. 1889), painter, daguerreotyper, engraver, portraitist
• William Trost Richards (d. 1905), painter

1834

James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)

• Dwight Benton (d. 1903), painter
• Caspar Buberl (d. 1899), sculptor
• James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903), painter, printmaker

1835

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

1836

• Winslow Homer (d. 1910), painter, illustrator, printmaker
• Alexander Helwig Wyant (d. 1892), painter

1837

Thomas Moran (1837–1926)

• Robert Wilson Andrews (d. 1922)
• Alfred Thompson Bricher (d. 1908), painter
• Elizabeth Jane Gardner (d. 1922), salon painter
• Thomas Moran (d. 1926), painter

1838

• Caroline Morgan Clowes (d. 1904), painter

1839

• Robert Crannell Minor (d. 1904), painter
• Henry Bacon (d. 1912), painter
• Arthur Quartley (d. 1886), painter
• Robert Wylie (d. 1877), painter

Born 1840–1849

1840

Caroline Shawk Brooks (1840–1913)

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

1841

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

1842

Conrad Wise Chapman (1842–1910)

• Willis Seaver Adams (d. 1921), painter
• Elizabeth Howard Bartol (d. 1927), painter
• Conrad Wise Chapman (d. 1910), war painter
• Preston Powers (d. 1904), sculptor

1843

• Alexander Wilson Drake (d. 1916), painter, wood engraver
• George Albert Frost (d. 1907), painter
• William Henry Jackson (d. 1942), painter, photographer

1844

Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)

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

1845

• Edmonia Lewis (d. 1911), sculptor

1846

Francis Davis Millet (center, standing; 1848–1912)

• Alexander Milne Calder (d. 1923), sculptor
• Francis Davis Millet (d. 1912), painter
• Julian Scott (d. 1901), painter, Civil War artist

1847

Vinnie Ream (1847–1914)

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

1848

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

1849

Dwight William Tryon (1849–1925)

• George Newell Bowers (d. 1909), painter
• William Merritt Chase (d. 1916), painter
• Frank C. Penfold (d. 1921), painter
• Jacob Riis (d. 1914), photographer
• Abbott Handerson Thayer (d. 1921), painter
• Dwight William Tryon (d. 1925), painter
• Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum (d. 1925), illustrator, painter

Born 1850–1859

1850

Robert Koehler (1850–1914)

• Daniel Chester French (d. 1931), sculptor
• Paul E. Harney (d. 1915), artist
• George Hitchcock (d. 1913), painter
• Antonio Jacobsen (d. 1921), Danish-born painter
• Robert Koehler (d. 1917), German-born painter
• Alfred Lambourne (d. 1926), English-born painter

1851

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

Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934)

1852

• Edwin Austin Abbey (d. 1911), illustrator, painter
• James Carroll Beckwith (d. 1917), painter
• Charles Graham (d. 1911), illustrator, painter
• Alfred Richard Gurrey Sr. (d. 1944), English-born landscape painter
• Gertrude Käsebier (d. 1934), photographer
• Theodore Robinson (d. 1896), painter
• J. Alden Weir (d. 1919), painter

Henry Fitch Taylor (1853–1925)

1853

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

William Forsyth (1854–1935)

1854

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

1855

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

Kenyon Cox (1856–1919)

1856

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

Bruce Crane (1857–1937)

1857

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

Henry Ward Ranger (1858–1916)

1858

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

1859

• William Bliss Baker (d. 1886), painter
• George Elbert Burr (d. 1939), painter, printmaker
• Walter Leighton Clark (d. 1935), painter, sculptor
• Childe Hassam (d. 1935), painter, printmaker
• Joseph Henry Sharp (d. 1953), painter
• Henry Ossawa Tanner (d. 1937), painter

Born 1860–1869

Dodge MacKnight (1860–1950)

1860

• William Jacob Baer (d. 1941), painter
• Carl Eytel (d. 1925), landscape painter, illustrator
• John Kane (d. 1934), painter
• Dodge MacKnight (d. 1950), painter
• Arthur Frank Mathews (d. 1945), painter
• Grandma Moses (d. 1961), painter
• Iris Nampeyo (c. d. 1942), potter, ceramicist
• Anna M. Sands (d. 1927/1940), painter
• Lorado Taft (d. 1936), sculptor

Theodore Earl Butler (1861–1936)

1861

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

1862

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

1863

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

1864

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

1865

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

1866

• Karl Albert Buehr (d. 1952), painter
• E. Irving Couse (d. 1935), painter, illustrator
• Helen Thomas Dranga (d. 1940), painter
• Jenny Eakin Delony (d. 1949), painter
• Emil Fuchs (d. 1929), Austrian-born painter
• Arvid Nyholm (d. 1927), Swedish-American portrait and landscape artist
• Theodore Scott-Dabo (d. 1928), painter
• Henry Otto Wix (d. 1922), German-born American painter
• Art Young (d. 1943), cartoonist

1867

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

1868

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

1869

• Kate Carew (d. 1961), caricaturist
• Percy Gray (d. 1952), painter
• Mary Sheppard Greene (d. 1958), painter, illustrator
• Charles Hopkinson (d. 1962), painter
• Wilson Irvine (d. 1936), painter
• Xavier Timoteo Martinez (d. 1943), painter
• William McGregor Paxton (d. 1941), painter
• Edward Willis Redfield (d. 1965), painter
• Janet Scudder (d. 1940), sculptor
• Harriet "Hattie" Elizabeth Wilcox (d. 1943), ceramicist

Born 1870–1879

1870

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

1871

• Edith Woodman Burroughs (d. 1916), sculptor
• Angel De Cora (d. 1919), painter, illustrator
• Margaret Fernie Eaton (d. 1953), artist, book plate illustrator
• Lyonel Feininger (d. 1956), printmaker
• Elizabeth Shippen Green (d. 1954), illustrator
• Albert Herter (d. 1950), painter
• Granville Redmond (d. 1935), painter
• John French Sloan (d. 1951), painter
• Edward Charles Volkert (d. 1935), painter
• Clark Voorhees (d. 1933), painter

1872

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

1873

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

1874

• John Wolcott Adams (d. 1925), drawing
• Ernest L. Blumenschein (d. 1960), painter
• Franklin Booth (d. 1948), illustrator
• Romaine Brooks (d. 1970), painter
• Ira J. Deen (d. 1952), artist
• Harold Heartt Foley (d. 1923), painter, collagist, illustrator
• Arnold Friedman (d. 1946), painter
• Frederick Carl Frieseke (d. 1939), painter
• Charles R. Knight (d. 1953), dinosaur artist
• Violet Oakley (d. 1961), muralist
• Rose O'Neill (d. 1944), first comic strip artist
• Hans K. Schuler (d. 1951), sculptor

1875

• Ethel Blanchard Collver (d. 1955), Impressionist artist, teacher
• Alice Cooper (d. 1937), sculptor
• Maynard Dixon (d. 1946), painter
• Dulah Marie Evans (d. 1951), painter, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, etcher
• Charles Keck (d. 1951), sculptor
• Marion Wachtel (d. 1951), painter
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (d. 1942), sculptor

1876

• Alson S. Clark (d. 1949), painter
• Alice D. Engley Beek (d. 1951), watercolor painter
• Edith Dimock (d. 1955), painter
• Eulabee Dix (d. 1961), water colour portrait miniatures
• James Earle Fraser (d. 1953), sculptor
• Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt (d. 1962), painter of miniatures
• Anna Hyatt Huntington (d. 1973), sculptor
• Kenneth Hayes Miller (d. 1952), painter
• Frederick Pawla (d. 1964), painter, muralist
• Boardman Robinson (d. 1952), Canadian-American painter
• Paul R. Schumann (d. 1946), Impressionist seascapes
• Everett Shinn (d. 1953), painter, illustrator
• Walter Ufer (d. 1936), printer, illustrator
• Bessie Wheeler (born 1876), painter

1877

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

1878

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

1879

• Albert Abramovitz (d. 1963), painter, woodcutter
• Gifford Beal (d. 1956), painter
• Helena Smith Dayton (d. 1960), painter, sculptor
• Julian Martinez (d. 1943), potter, ceramicist
• Charles Cary Rumsey (d. 1922), sculptor
• George Demont Otis (d. 1962), landscape artist
• Arthur Prince Spear (born 1879), imaginary and fantasy painter
• William Starkweather (d. 1969), Impressionist painter
• Edward Steichen (d. 1973), photographer, painter
• Gunnar Widforss (d. 1934), painter specializing in National Park landscapes

Born 1880–1889

1880

• Wilford Conrow (d. 1957), portrait painting
• Arthur Dove (d. 1946), painter
• Rufus J. Dryer (d. 1937), painter
• Sir Jacob Epstein (d. 1959), sculptor
• George Herriman (d. 1944), cartoonist
• Hans Hofmann (d. 1966), painter
• Jonas Lie (d. 1940), painter

1881

• Gustave Baumann (d. 1971), printmaker, painter
• Chester Beach (d. 1956), sculptor
• Patrick Henry Bruce (d. 1936), painter
• Bernice Pauahi Fernow (d. 1969), miniature painter
• Agnes Lawrence Pelton (d. 1961), modernist painter
• Alfred Rudolph (d. 1942), etcher, lithographer
• Allen Tupper True (d. 1955), painter, illustrator, muralist
• Max Weber (d. 1961), painter

1882

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

1883

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

1884

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

1885

• Milton Avery (d. 1965), painter, printmaker
• Oscar Cesare (d. 1948), illustrator, cartoonist, painter
• Fred Ellis (d. 1965), political cartoonist
• E. Charlton Fortune (d. 1969), Impressionist painter
• Paul Manship (d. 1966), sculptor
• Josephine Paddock (d. 1964)
• Jules Pascin (d. 1930), Bulgarian-born painter
• Sophy Regensburg (d. 1974), naïve painter
• Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones (d. 1968), painter
• Ralph Ward Stackpole (d. 1973), sculptor
• John Storrs (d. 1956), sculptor
• E. Oscar Thalinger (d. 1965), painter
• Nina B. Ward (d. 1944), painter

1886

• Pauline Boumphrey (d. 1959), sculptor
• Paul Burlin (d. 1969), painter
• Elias Goldberg (d. 1978), painter
• John R. Grabach (d. 1981), painter
• John D. Graham (d. 1961), painter
• Aldro Hibbard (d. 1972), painter
• Frederick Kann (d. 1965), painter
• Charles James Martin (d. 1955), painter
• Morgan Russell (d. 1953), painter
• Joseph Tepper (d. 1977), portrait painter
• Edward Weston (d. 1958), photographer
• Mary Agnes Yerkes (d. 1989), painter

1887

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

1888

• Josef Albers (d. 1976), painter
• William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (d. 1965), painter, commercial artist
• Arnold Franz Brasz (d. 1966), painter, sculptor, printmaker
• Mountfort Coolidge (d. 1954), painter, antiquarian
• Augustus Dunbier (d. 1977), painter
• Gerald Murphy (d. 1967), painter
• Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez (d. 1972), Native American artist
• William Robert Pearmain (d. 1912), painter
• Horace Pippin (d. 1946), painter
• Ruth Faison Shaw (d. 1969), painter

1889

• Maurice Becker (d. 1975), political cartoonist, illustrator
• Thomas Hart Benton (d. 1975), painter, muralist, printmaker
• James Daugherty (d. 1974), painter, illustrator
• Laura Gardin Fraser (d. 1966), sculptor
• Gleb Ilyin (d. 1968), portraiture, landscapes
• Geneva Mercer (d. 1984), sculptor
• Edna Cooke Shoemaker (d. 1975), illustrator
• Robert William Wood (d. 1979), painter

Born 1890–1899

1890

• Grace Albee (d. 1985), printmaker
• Theresa Bernstein (d. 2002), artist, painter, writer
• Gerald Curtis Delano (d. 1972), painter
• Leo Friedlander (d. 1966), sculptor
• Frances Cranmer Greenman (d. 1981), portrait painter
• Frederick Kiesler (d. 1965), sculptor, designer
• Robert Laurent (d. 1970), sculptor
• Stanton Macdonald-Wright (d. 1973), painter
• Jan Matulka (d. 1972), painter
• Man Ray (d. 1976), photographer, dadaist
• Paul Strand (d. 1976), photographer
• Mark Tobey (d. 1976), painter

1891

• Mabel Alvarez (d. 1985), painter
• George Ault (d. 1948), painter
• McClelland Barclay (d. 1942), illustrator, pin-up artist
• Francis Focer Brown (d. 1971), painter
• Arthur N. Christie (d. 1980), painter
• Edwin Dickinson (d. 1978), painter
• Robert Lee Eskridge (d. 1975), painter
• Genevieve Springston Lynch (d. 1960), painter
• Justin McCarthy (d. 1977), self-taught painter
• Alma Woodsey Thomas (d. 1978), painter
• Jennings Tofel (d. 1959)
• Grant Wood (d. 1942), painter

1892

• Ralph Pallen Coleman (d. 1968), painter, illustrator
• Hugo Gellert (d. 1985), illustrator, muralist
• Naomi Polk (d. 1984), watercolor artist, poet
• Augusta Savage (d. 1962), sculptor, teacher
• Vaclav Vytlacil (d. 1984), painter, teacher
• John Ellsworth Weis (d. 1962), painter
• Winslow Wilson (d. 1974), painter, teacher

1893

• Charles E. Burchfield (d. 1967), painter
• Rene Paul Chambellan (d. 1955), sculptor
• Pál Fried (d. 1976), oil painter, dancers, nudes, portraits
• Wanda Gág (d. 1946), printmaker, illustrator
• George Albert Gale (d. 1951), nautical-themed artist
• R. H. Ives Gammell (d. 1981), painter
• Yasuo Kuniyoshi (d. 1953), painter
• Bernard E. Peters (d. 1949), painter
• Abraham Rattner (d. 1978), painter

1894

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

1895

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

1896

• Arnold Blanch (d. 1968), painter, printmaker
• Allyn Cox (d. 1982), painter, muralist
• John Russell Fulton (d. 1979), painter, illustrator
• Morris Kantor (d. 1974), painter
• Barbara Latham (d. 1989), painter, printmaker, illustrator
• Eve Ryder (d. 1984), painter
• Charmion von Wiegand (d. 1983), painter

1897

• Lawrence Louis Barrett (d. 1973), printmaker, educator
• James Billmyer (d. 1989), painter, illustrator
• Charles Ragland Bunnell (d. 1968), painter
• John Steuart Curry (d. 1946), painter, muralist, printmaker
• William Gropper (d. 1977), cartoonist, painter, muralist, printmaker
• Theodore Lukits (d. 1992), painter, muralist, illustrator, teacher
• Caroline Mytinger (d. 1980), painter
• Reuben Nakian (d. 1986), sculptor
• Dudley Pratt (d. 1975), sculptor
• Matthew E. Ziegler (d. 1981), painter, muralist

1898

• Berenice Abbott (d. 1991), photographer
• Samuel Adler (d. 1979), artist
• Dewey Albinson (d. 1971), painter
• Robert Brackman (d. 1980), painter
• Alexander Calder (d. 1976), sculptor
• Aaron Douglas (d. 1979), painter
• Elsie Driggs (d. 1992), painter
• Lorser Feitelson (d. 1978), painter
• Hyman William Katz (d. 1988), painter, printmaker
• Reginald Marsh (d. 1954), painter, printmaker
• John McLaughlin (d. 1976), painter
• Kay Sage (d. 1963), painter
• Ben Shahn (d. 1969), painter, printmaker, graphic artist

1899

• Eugène Berman (d. 1972), painter
• Francis Chapin (d. 1965), painter
• Gladys Emerson Cook (d. 1976), painter, illustrator
• Channing Hare (d. 1976), painter
• De Hirsh Margules (d. 1965), painter
• Louise Nevelson (d. 1988), assemblage artist, sculptor
• Moses Soyer (d. 1974), painter
• Raphael Soyer (d. 1987), painter
• Bradley Walker Tomlin (d. 1955), painter

See also

• American art
• Native American artists
• African American art
• Sculpture of the United States
• Feminist art movement
• Hudson River School
• Luminism
• American Impressionism
• Ashcan School
• Precisionism
• American scene painting
• Regionalism
• WPA Federal Art Project
• Northwest School
• Abstract expressionism
• Pop art
• Happenings
• Fluxus
• Intermedia
• Hard-edge painting
• Minimalism
• Post-painterly abstraction
• Color field painting
• Post-minimalism
• Process art
• Site-specific art
• Earth art
• Lyrical abstraction
• Photorealism
• Conceptual art
• Postmodernism