List of American artists before 1900

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
Jacob Gerritse Strycker (1615–1687), artist, possibly of the Rembrandt studios
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
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 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
Sarah Miriam Peale (1800-1885)

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 Guy Evans (1809/1810–1859), 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
Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome (1824–1910), painter
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
Daniel Charles Grose (1832–1900), painter
William Savage (1832–1908), painter

1833

Margaret Girvin 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 (1850–1915), 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
Charles Graham (1852–1911), illustrator, 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 (1860–1927/1940), painter
Lorado Taft (1860–1936), 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, emigrated to US in 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 (1871–1953), 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
Alice D. Engley Beek (1876-1951), watercolor 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

Albert Abramovitz (1879 - 1963), painter and woodcutter
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 (1879–1962), 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
Rufus J. Dryer (1880-1937), 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
Alfred Rudolph (1881–1942), etcher, lithographer
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 (born 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
E. Oscar Thalinger (1885-1965), painter
Nina B. Ward (1885–1944), painter

1886

Pauline Boumphrey (1886–1959), sculptor
Paul Burlin (1886–1969), painter
Elias Goldberg (1886–1978), painter
John R. Grabach (1886–1981), painter
John D. Graham (1886–1961), painter
Aldro Hibbard (1886–1972), painter
Frederick Kann (1886–1965), 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
Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez (1888–1972), Native American artist
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
Edna Cooke Shoemaker (1889–1975), artist and illustrator
Robert William Wood (1889–1979), painter

Born 1890–1899

1890

Grace Albee (1890–1985), printmaker
Theresa Bernstein (1890–2002), artist, painter, writer
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
Arthur N. Christie (1891–1980), 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 (1891–1959)
Grant Wood (1891–1942), painter

1892

Ralph Pallen Coleman (1892–1968), painter and illustrator
Hugo Gellert (1892–1985), illustrator and muralist
Naomi Polk (1892–1984), American artist, watercolors and poet
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
Bernard E. Peters (1893-1949), 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
Frederick Cornelius Alston (1895–1987), painter
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
Eve Ryder (1896-1984), painter
Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983), painter

1897

Lawrence Louis Barrett (1897–1973), printmaker, educator
James Billmyer (1897–1989), 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 (1897–1980), painter
Reuben Nakian (1897–1986), sculptor
Dudley Pratt (1897–1975), sculptor
Matthew E. Ziegler (1897-1981), painter, muralist

1898

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), photographer
Samuel Adler (1898–1979), artist
Dewey Albinson (1898–1971), artist
Robert Brackman (1898–1980), painter
Alexander Calder (1898–1976), sculptor
Aaron Douglas (1899–1979), painter
Elsie Driggs (1898–1992), painter
Lorser Feitelson (1898–1978), painter
Hyman William Katz (1898–1988), painter, printmaker
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

Eugène Berman (1899–1972), painter
Francis Chapin (1899–1965), painter
Gladys Emerson Cook (1899-1976), painter, illustrator
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