List of American artists 1900 and after

This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized fine artists from the United States known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art, and video art.

Born 1900–1909

1900

Samuel Cashwan (d. 1988), sculptor Carl Holty (d. 1973), painter Fred Kabotie (d. 1986), painter, silversmith Rico Lebrun (d. 1964), painter Fannie Nampeyo (d. 1987), potter, ceramist Alice Neel (d. 1984), painter Betty Parsons (d. 1982), painter, gallerist Virginia True (d. 1989), painter Jack Tworkov (d. 1982), painter Adja Yunkers (d. 1983), Russian-born painter

1901

James Richmond Barthé (d. 1989), sculptor Francis Criss (d. 1973), painter Dorothy Dehner (d. 1994), sculptor, printmaker Beauford Delaney (d. 1979), painter Walt Disney (d. 1966), cartoonist, animator, filmmaker Philip Evergood (d. 1973), painter, printmaker, sculptor Greta Kempton (d. 1991), portrait artist Richard Lindner (d. 1978), painter Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (d. 1980), painter Esther Rose (d. 1990), painter, calligrapher Albert Swinden (d. 1961), painter John Augustus Walker (d. 1967), painter Elof Wedin (d. 1983), artist

1902

Ansel Easton Adams (d. 1984), photographer Isabel Bishop (d. 1988), painter, printmaker Dorr Bothwell (d. 2000), painter, printmaker Alexander Cañedo (d. 1978), surrealism, magic realism Roger Wilson Dennis (d. 1996), painter, art conservator Lee Gatch (d. 1968), painter, muralist Donal Hord (d. 1966), sculptor Paul Kelpe (d. 1985), painter Kenzo Okada (d. 1982), painter I. Rice Pereira (d. 1971), painter Pietro Pezzati (d. 1993), painter Otis Polelonema (d. 1981), painter, illustrator Charles Pollock (d. 1988), painter Isaac Soyer (d. 1981), painter Mary Yancey (d. 1992), ceramist

1903

Maxine Albro (d. 1966), painter, muralist, lithographer, mosaic artist, sculptor Walter Inglis Anderson (d. 1965), painter Tore Asplund (d. 1977), Swedish-born painter, watercolorist Joseph Cornell (d. 1972), sculptor, filmmaker Vestie Davis (d. 1978), self-taught artist Elwood Decker (d. 1992), painter Thomas Brownell Eldred (d. 1993), painter, printmaker Stephen Etnier (d. 1984), painter Walker Evans (d. 1975), photographer Adolph Gottlieb (d. 1974), painter Robert Gwathmey (d. 1988), painter Al Hirschfeld (d. 2003), caricaturist Leon Karp (d. 1951), painter, printmaker Seymour Lipton (d. 1986), sculptor Charles S. Martz (d. 1966), painter, photographer Mark Rothko (d. 1970), painter Louis Schanker (d. 1981), painter Ethel Schwabacher (d. 1984), painter Bernarda Bryson Shahn (d. 2004), painter, lithographer Karl Zerbe (d. 1972), painter

1904

Margaret Bourke-White (d. 1971), photographer Hans Burkhardt (d. 1994), painter Paul Cadmus (d. 1999), painter, printmaker Clarence Holbrook Carter (d. 2000), painter Arshile Gorky (d. 1948), painter Chaim Gross (d. 1991), sculptor Murray Hantman (d. 1999), painter, muralist Peter Hurd (d. 1984), painter Willem de Kooning (d. 1997), painter Fletcher Martin (d. 1979), painter Isamu Noguchi (d. 1988), sculptor Nan Phelps (d. 1990), painter Jose de Rivera (d. 1985), sculptor Clyfford Still (d. 1980), painter

1905

Leonard Bahr (d. 1990), painter, muralist, illustrator Grace Clements (d. 1969), muralist, mosaicist, art critic Perle Fine (d. 1988), painter Jared French (d. 1988), painter Forrest Hibbits (d. 1996), watercolorist, illustrator Winnifred Hudson (d. 1996), abstract painter Lois Mailou Jones (d. 1998), painter Martin W. Kellogg (d. 1989), portrait painter Doris Lee (d. 1983), painter Joseph Meert (d. 1989), painter, muralist, printmaker Paul Meltsner (d. 1966), painter Barnett Newman (d. 1970), painter Sanford Plummer (d. 1974), watercolorist James Amos Porter (d. 1970), painter, art historian Anton Refregier (d. 1979), Russian-born painter Kurt Roesch (d. 1984), painter Ray Strong (d. 2006), painter Sabina Teichman (d. 1983), painter

1906

Harry Anderson (d. 1996), painter, illustrator Peter Blume (d. 1992), painter James Brooks (d. 1992), painter, muralist Ralston Crawford (d. 1978), painter, lithographer, photographer Burgoyne Diller (d. 1965), painter Herbert Ferber (d. 1991), sculptor Crockett Johnson (d. 1975), cartoonist, illustrator, mathematical painter Philip Johnson (d. 2005), architect, art collector Henry E McDaniel (d. 2008), painter Anna Louisa Miller (d. 1997), painter Dorothy Morang (d. 1994), painter, pastelist Ludwig Sander (d. 1975), painter David Smith (d. 1965), sculptor Leon Polk Smith (d. 1996), painter

1907

Acee Blue Eagle (d. 1959), painter, muralist Charles Alston (d. 1977), painter Ilya Bolotowsky (d. 1981), painter, printmaker Marie Z. Chino (d. 1982), potter, ceramist Constance Edith Fowler (d. 1996), painter, printmaker Jon Gnagy (d. 1981), painter, illustrator, television art instructor Jacob Kainen (d. 2001), painter Albert Kotin (d. 1980), painter Thomas C. Lea III (d. 2001), muralist, illustrator, painter Michael Loew (d. 1985), painter Harry Mintz (d. 2002), painter Walter Tandy Murch (d. 1967), painter Fairfield Porter (d. 1975), painter Gregorio Prestopino (d. 1984), painter George Rickey (d. 2002), sculptor Theodore Roszak (d. 1981), sculptor, painter Millard Sheets (d. 1989), painter Bernard Joseph Steffen (d. 1980), painter, printmaker Henriette Wyeth (d. 1997), painter

1908

Claire Falkenstein (d. 1997), sculptor Sybil Gibson (d. 1995), painter Herblock (d. 2001), political cartoonist Lee Krasner (d. 1984), painter Helen Lundeberg (d. 1999), painter Nicholas Marsicano (d. 1991), painter George McNeil (d. 1995), painter Roger Tory Peterson (d. 1996), graphic artist, illustrator, naturalist Wilber Moore Stilwell (d. 1974), depression era artist Minor White (d. 1976), photographer

1909 11 Gertrude Abercrombie (d. 1977), surrealist painter Jean Cory Beall, (d. 1978), painter, public artist Al Capp (d. 1979), cartoonist Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia (d. 1982), Impressionist painter, sculptor, lithographer Enrico Donati (d. 2008), painter Cornelia MacIntyre Foley (d. 2010), painter Charles Gordon (d. 1978), watercolorist Dorothy Stratton King (d. 2007), painter, printmaker Jacob Lipkin (d. 1996), sculptor Norman Lewis (d. 1979), painter Alex Raymond (d. 1956), cartoonist Herman Rose (d. 2007), painter Manfred Schwartz (d. 1970), painter Fay Morgan Taylor (d. 1990), modernist artist

Born 1910–1919 1910

Leonard Bocour (d. 1993), paint-maker, painter, art collector Paul Feeley (d. 1966), painter James FitzGerald (d. 1973), sculptor, painter Morris Graves (d. 2001), painter, printmaker Hiroshi Honda (d. 1970), painter Franz Kline (d. 1962), painter Fuller Potter (d. 1990), painter Mitchell Siporin (d. 1976), painter Hedda Sterne (d. 2011), Romanian-born painter Dorothea Tanning (d. 2012), surrealist painter, sculptor, printmaker

1911

Arnold Arbeit (d. 1974), architect, sculptor, painter Will Barnet (d. 2012), painter, printmaker Romare Bearden (d. 1988), painter, printmaker Louise Bourgeois (d. 2010), French-born sculptor, printmaker Eleanor Layfield Davis (d. 1985), painter, sculptor John McCrady (d. 1968), painter Carl Morris (d. 1993), painter, muralist Hilda Grossman Morris (d. 1991), sculptor David Park (d. 1960), painter Kara Shepherd (d. 1984), surrealist painter Kurt Sluizer (d. 1988), painter

1912

Charles Addams (d. 1988), cartoonist William Baziotes (d. 1963), painter William Congdon (d. 1998), painter William Franklin Draper (d. 2003), painter Fay Kleinman (d. 2012), painter Ida Kohlmeyer (d. 1997), painter, sculptor Alexander Liberman (d. 1999), painter, sculptor Morris Louis (d. 1962), painter Agnes Martin (d. 2004), painter Philip Pavia (d. 2005), sculptor Jackson Pollock (d. 1956), painter Raymond Francis Robbins (d. 1980), intricate realist paintings Charlotte Rothstein Ross (d. 1991), lithograph artist Walter Sanford (d. 1987), artist Tony Smith (d. 1980), sculptor George Sugarman (d. 1999), sculptor Carl Thorp (d. 1989), impressionist California landscapes

1913

Peter Agostini (d. 1993) Ralph Leon Bagley (d. 2008), artist, art instructor Harold Black (d. 1993), painter, muralist Hyman Bloom (d. 2009), painter Lawrence Calcagno (d. 1993), painter Robert Capa (d. 1954), photographer Mario Dal Fabbro (d. 1990), Italian-born sculptor, furniture designer Mary Gehr (d. 1997), painter, printmaker Philip Guston (d. 1980), painter, printmaker Reuben Kadish (d. 1992), sculptor James Kelly (d. 2003), painter Ibram Lassaw (d. 2003), Egyptian-born sculptor Conrad Marca-Relli (d. 2000), collage artist, painter Mercedes Matter (d. 2001), painter Ruthe Katherine Pearlman (d. 2007), painter, art educator Ad Reinhardt (d. 1967), painter, printmaker Bettina Steinke (d. 1999), painter, muralist

1914

Glen Alps (d. 1996), printmaker, sculptor Ward Brackett (d. 2006), illustrator Nassos Daphnis (d. 2010), painter Allan Houser (d. 1994), painter, sculptor Gwendolyn Knight (d. 2005), painter Tony Rosenthal (d. 2009), sculptor Charles Shannon (d. 1996), painter Alton Tobey (d. 2005), painter, muralist, illustrator Emerson Woelffer (d. 2003), painter

1915

Elizabeth Catlett (d. 2012), sculptor, printmaker Claude Clark (d. 2001), painter John Rogers Cox (d. 1990), painter Edward Dugmore (d. 1996), painter Friedel Dzubas (d. 1994), painter Ruth Gikow (d. 1982), muralist Sam Golden (d. 1997), paint-maker, painter Bob Kane (d. 1998), cartoonist Jack Levine (d. 2010), painter Clayton Lewis (d. 1995), painter, sculptor Richard Lippold (d. 2002), sculptor Nellie Meadows (d. 2006), artist Robert Motherwell (d. 1991), painter, printmaker Hans Namuth (d. 1990), photographer

1916

Adolf Aldrich (d. 2010), printmaker Elmer Bischoff (d. 1991), painter Warren Eugene Brandon (d. 1977), painter Eyvind Earle (d. 2000), painter Leonard Edmondson (d. 2002), painter, printmaker Joseph Goto (d. 1994), sculptor Karl Kasten (d. 2010), painter, printmaker, educator Ethel Magafan (d. 1993), painter Montyne (d. 1989), painter Alfonso Ossorio (d. 1990), painter, collagist Eunice Parsons (d. 2024), modernist collagist Paul Penczner (d. 2010), painter Richard Pousette-Dart (d. 1992), painter Jon Schueler (d. 1992), painter Sylvia Sleigh (d. 2010), painter Reuben Tam (d. 1991), painter

1917

Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (d. 2010), abstract expressionist painter Albert Alcalay (d. 2008), painter Nicolas Carone (d. 2010), painter Maya Deren (d. 1961), avant-garde filmmaker, theorist, photographer Manny Farber (d. 2008), painter, film critic Edith Frohock (d. 1997), painter, printmaker Robert Goodnough (d. 2010), painter Stephen Greene (d. 1999), painter David Hare (d. 1992), sculptor, photographer Jacob Lawrence (d. 2000), painter, printmaker Louisa Matthíasdóttir (d. 2000), Icelandic-born painter Malcolm H. Myers (d. 2002), painter, printmaker Milton Resnick (d. 2004), painter Robert Richenburg (d. 2006), painter Syd Solomon (d. 2004), painter Andrew Wyeth (d. 2009), painter

1918

Ronald Bladen (d. 1988), sculptor Cornell Capa (d. 2008), photographer Gladys Clark (d. 2011), spinner and weaver Keith Crown (d. 2010), abstract painter Elaine de Kooning (d. 1989), painter Jane Frank (d. 1986), painter Cleve Gray (d. 2004), painter Stephen Pace (d. 2010), painter David Foster Pratt (d. 2010), painter Joseph Rajer (d. 1976), printmaker Gerard Francis Tempest (d. 2009), painter, sculptor Alberto Valdés (d. 1998), painter Charles Banks Wilson (d. 2013), painter

1919

Theophilus Brown (d. 2012), painter Fritz Bultman (d. 1985), painter, sculptor Edward Corbett (d. 1971), painter Frederick Hammersley (d. 2009), painter Lester Johnson (d. 2010), painter