This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth. These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.

The list covers artists born from 1870 through 1969. For earlier births, see List of 19th-century women artists. For later births see List of 21st-century women artists.

1870–1879

Zella de Milhau (1870–1954), printmaker Dorothea A. Dreier (1870–1923), painter Martha Stettler (1870–1945), painter Enid Yandell (1870–1934), sculptor Emily Carr (1871–1945), painter Edith Woodman Burroughs (1871–1916), sculptor Elizabeth Campbell Fisher Clay (1871–1959), lithographer, etcher Elinor Darwin (1871–1954), engraver, portrait painter Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), Dada artist, happening artist, painter, sculptor Eliza Gardiner (1871–1955), painter and printmaker Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871–1954), painter, illustrator Emily Nichols Hatch (1871–1959), painter Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871–1955), graphic artist, watercolorist Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944), painter Elsie Higgins (1871–1953), painter, miniaturist Helen Savier DuMond (1872–1968), painter, miniaturist, sculptor, teacher May Gearhart (1872–1951), printmaker Bertha Zillessen (1872–1936), photographer, painter Ethel Carrick (1872–1952), English painter Pauline Powell Burns (1872–1912), first African-American artist to exhibit in California. Mary Foote (1872–1968), painter Eugenie Fish Glaman (1873–1956), printmaker Edna Boies Hopkins (1872–1947), woodcut prints Carol Brooks MacNeil (1871–1944), American sculptor Edith Maryon (1872–1924), sculptor Virginia Randall McLaws (1872–1967), painter Alice Michaelis (1875–1943), German painter, educator Nadežda Petrović (1872–1922), painter Winifred Smith Rieber (1872–1963), painter Helena Sturtevant (1872–1946), painter Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955), sculptor Beta Vukanović (1872–1972), painter María del Adalid (1873–1930), painter Augusta Curiel (1873–1930), photographer Juliet Thompson (1873–1956), painter Minette Teichmueller (1871–1970), painter Elizabeth Tuttle Holsman (1873–1956), painter Ethel Sands (1873–1962), painter Fanny Adele Watson (1873–1947), painter, lithographer Gertrude Partington Albright (1874–1959), American artist Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), painter Isabel Codrington (1874–1943), English painter Mary Dawson Elwell (1874–1952), English painter Mabel Esplin (1874–1921), stained glass artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), Dada artist and poet Violet Oakley (1874–1961), muralist, stained glass Henrika Šantel (1874–1940), painter Anne Belle Stone (1874–1949), painter Nellie Walker (1874–1973), sculptor Elenore Abbott (1875–1935), painter, teacher Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), painter Erma Bossi (1875–1952), painter Nellie Augusta Knopf (1875–1962) Clara McDonald Williamson (1875–1976), painter Dulah Marie Evans (1875–1951), painter, photographer Delle Miller (1875–1932), painter Margaret Preston (1875–1963), painter, printmaker Alice D. Engley Beek (1876–1951), painter Edith Dimock (1876–1955), painter Avgusta Šantel (1876–1968), painter, teacher and printmaker Christian Jane Fergusson (1876–1957), painter Emily Parker Groom (1876–1975), painter Lillian Genth (1876–1953), painter Fairlie Harmar (1876–1945), painter Gwen John (1876–1939), painter Maude Kerns (1876–1965), American painter and avant garde artist Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), painter Else Berg (1877–1942), painter Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877–1952), painter Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), sculptor, painter, poet Elena Guro (1877–1913), painter, writer Annie Hurlburt Jackson (1877–1959), painter Kata Kalivoda (1877–1936), painter Laura Knight (1877–1970), painter and war artist Blondelle Malone (1877–1951), painter Gabriele Münter (1877–1962), painter Käte Schaller-Härlin (1877–1973), painter Hilda Annetta Walker (1877–1960), sculptor and painter Mabel May Woodward (1877–1945), painter Mathilde Battenberg (1878–1936), painter Margaret Gere (1878–1965), painter Edith Haworth (1878–1953), painter Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878–1962), painter, teacher Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939), sculptor Sr. Maria Stanisia (née Monica Kurkowski; 1878–1967), painter Pamela Colman Smith (1878–1951), illustrator and painter Ellen Trotzig (1878–1949), painter Emmy Worringer (1878–1961), German artist Émilie Charmy (1878–1974), painter Frances Farrand Dodge (1878–1969), painter and illustrator Elisabeth Epstein (1879–1956), painter Nell Choate Jones (1879–1981), painter, teacher Thea Schleusner (1879–1964), painter Anna Heyward Taylor (1879–1956), painter, printmaker Ada Hill Walker (1879–1955), scientific illustrator and artist Bessie Davidson (1879–1965), painter Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), painter and interior designer Daisy Radcliffe Beresford (1879–1939), painter and decorative artist Hedwig Jaenichen-Woermann (1879–1960), painter and sculptor Catherine Ouless (1879-1961), painter

1880–1889

Rowena Meeks Abdy (1887–1945), painter Edith Cleaves Barry (1884–1969), American painter, photographer, sculptor Clarice Beckett (1887–1935), painter Carry van Biema (1881–1942), color theorist Ida Bothe (fl. 1881–1890), German-American artist and educator Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952), sculptor Nessa Cohen, (1885–1976), sculptor Belle Cramer (1883–1978), painter Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), photographer Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), painter Olive Susanna DeLuce (1888–1970), painter, educator Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973), Brazilian painter Marthe Donas (1885–1967), painter Aleksandra Ekster (1882–1949), painter

Lili Elbe (1882–1931), painter Ester Ellqvist (1880–1918), painter Beryl Fowler (1881–1963), English painter Myrtle Merritt French (1886–1970), ceramicist Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950), painter Laura Gardin Fraser (1889–1966), sculptor Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962), painter Norah Neilson Gray (1882–1972), painter Madeline Emily Green (1884–1947), painter Hilda Kristina Gustafson-Lascari (1885–1937), sculptor Tina Haim-Wentscher (1887–1974), German-Australian sculptor Lydia Bush-Brown Head (1887–1984) American painter and designer Ilse Heller-Lazard (1884–1934) French-Swiss painter Sigrid Hjertén (1885–1948), painter Hannah Höch (1889–1978), German painter, photographer, and photomontage artist Malvina Hoffman (1887–1966), sculptor Tora Vega Holmström (1880–1967), painter Valentine Hugo (1887–1968), illustrator Daisy Marguerite Hughes (1883–1968), American painter and lithographer Dora Koch-Stetter (1881–1968), German painter (aka Dora Stetter) Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter, printmaker Constance Jenkins Macky (1883–1961), painter, teacher Ana Marinković (1881–1973), painter Maria Martinez (1887–1980), potter Marlow Moss (1889–1958), sculptor, painter Geneva Mercer (1889–1984), sculptor Ethel Myers (1881–1960), sculptor, painter Ella Naper (1886–1972), jeweller & potter Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884–1961), painter Elizabeth Norton (artist) (1887–1985) printmaker, bronze sculptor, painter Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez (1888–1972), Native American painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), painter Olga Oppenheimer (1886–1941), German artist Elsie Palmer Payne (1884–1971), American painter and sculptor Jessie Burns Parke (1889–1964), painter, illustrator Ethel Paxson (1885–1982), painter Clara Elsene Peck (1883–1968), painter, illustrator Agnes Pelton (1881–1961), painter Marion Louise Pooke (1883–1975), painter Gladys Reynell (1881–1956), potter Anne Ryan (1889–1954), painter Helen Saunders (1885–1963), painter Marianne Saxl-Deutsch (1885–1942), painter, illustrator Zinaida Serebriakova (1884–1967), painter Henrietta Shore (1880–1963), painter Zulma Steele (1881–1979), painter Helen Margaret Spanton (1877–1934), painter Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943), painter Lucy Telles (c. 1885–1955), Mono Lake Paiute-Yosemite Miwok basket weaver Nadezhda Udaltsova (1886–1961), painter Doris Ulmann (1882–1934), photographer Vukosava Velimirović (1888–1965), sculptor Grace Vollmer (1884–1977) American painter Pepi Weixlgärtner-Neutra (1886–1981), Austrian-Swedish painter, graphic designer and miniaturist Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948), painter Carla Witte (1889–1943), German and Uruguayan painter and sculptor Marta Worringer (1881–1965), German artist Mary Agnes Yerkes (1886–1989), painter Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson) (1887–1968), painter

1890–1899

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), photographer Karimeh Abbud (1896–1940), photographer Eileen Agar (1899–1991), painter, collage Elene Akhvlediani (1898–1975), painter Anni Albers (1899–1994), designer, weaver and graphic artist Elsie Allen (1899–1990), Cloverdale Pomo basket weaver Mabel Alvarez (1891–1985), painter Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), printmaker, painter, illustrator Eugenie Baizerman (1899–1949), painter Mária Barta (1897–1969), painter Carrie Bethel (1898–1974), Mono Lake Paiute basket weaver Dora Bianka (c. 1895–1979), Polish painter, illustrator Clara Birnberg (1894–1989), illustrator, portraitist, sculptor Dorrit Black (1891–1951), painter Kathleen Blackshear (1897–1988), painter Lucile Blanch (1895–1981), painter Elise Blumann (1897–1990), painter Ruth Harris Bohan (1891–1981), painter Regina Cassolo Bracchi (1894–1974), sculptor Alice Standish Buell (1892–1960), painter, etcher Claude Cahun (1894–1954), photographer, author Dora Carrington (1893–1932), painter Dorothy Coke (1897–1979), painter Isabel Cooper (1892–1984), illustrator primarily known for depicitons of animals collected on research expeditions Mildred Coughlin (1892–1984), painter, printmaker, illustrator Trena Cox (1895–1980), stained glass artist Grace Crowley (1890–1979), painter Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989), photographer Florence Davidson (1896–1993), Haida basket weaver Paula Eliasoph (1895–1983), painter, printmaker, illustrator Margaret Firth (1898–1991), painter Lillian Florsheim (1896–1988), sculptor Helen Katharine Forbes (1891–1945), muralist Enid Foster (1895–1979), artist, sculptor, playwright Frances Foy (1890–1963), artist, muralist Elsa Fraenkel (1892–1975), sculptor Alethea Garstin (1894–1978), English painter Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), photographer Minetta Good (1895–1946), painter and printmaker, W.P.A. artist Laicita Gregg (1892–1975), painter Maija Grotell (1899–1973), ceramic artist Grace L. Hamilton (1894–1992), muralist Jennie Harbour (1893–1959), illustrator Nola Hatterman (1899–1984), painter Jeanne Hébuterne (1898–1920), painter Dörte Helm (1898–1941), artist, painter and graphic designer Marion Huse (1896–1967), painter and printmaker, W.P.A. artist Margaret Calkin James (1895–1985), calligrapher, graphic designer, textile printer, watercolour painter, printmaker Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990), photographer Alison Mason Kingsbury (1898–1988), painter, muralist Georgina Klitgard (1893–1976), muralist Gina Knee Brook (1898–1982), painter Winifred Knights (1899–1947), painter Katarzyna Kobro (1898–1951), sculptor Anka Krizmanić (1896–1987), Croatian painter and printmaker Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), photographer Dorothy P. Lathrop (1891–1980), American illustrator and writer Gertrude K. Lathrop (1896–1996), American sculptor Mercédès Legrand (1893–1945), Spanish-born Belgian painter, sculptor, poet Eva Leigh (1895–1981) English portraitist and silhouettist Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980), painter Rosy Lilienfeld (1896–1942), German illustrator Lucile Lloyd (1894–1941), muralist Lou Loeber (1894–1983), painter Agnes Lowrie (1892–1964), landscape artist Agustina González López (1891–1936), writer and artist from the Generation of '27 Gladys M. Lux (1899–2003), painter, printmaker Suzanne Malherbe (1892–1972), illustrator, designer Hildreth Meière (1892–1961), mosaicist Yevonde Middleton (1893–1975), photographer