The year 1900 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

• April 14–November 12 – Exposition Universelle in Paris helps popularize Art Nouveau style. Alphonse Mucha decorates the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborates on the Austria-Hungary one.
• F. Holland Day organizes an exhibition of the New School of American Photography at the Royal Photographic Society in London.
• The Wallace Collection in London opens to the public.
• The Zachęta art gallery in Warsaw is completed.
• Claude Monet stays in London and begins his Houses of Parliament series of paintings.
• Wilhelm von Debschitz and Hermann Obrist found the Lehr- und Versuchsatelier für angewandte und freikunst, an influential art school in Munich.

Works

• Mary Cassatt
  • Jules Being Dried by His Mother
  • Young Mother Sewing
• Frank Cadogan Cowper – Rapunzel
• Aurélia de Souza – Self-portrait
• Maurice de Vlaminck^[1]
  • Sur le zinc ("At the Bar")
  • L'homme a la pipe ("Man Smoking a Pipe")
• Adolphe Demange
  • La Duchesse d'Uzès travaillant à la statue monumentale de Jeanne d'Arc, dans l'atelier de Falguière
  • Place de la Concorde
• Maurice Denis – Homage to Cézanne
• Frank Dicksee – The Two Crowns
• Thomas Eakins
  • Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (second version, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  • The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Florence Fuller – Inseparables
• J. W. Godward
  • Idleness
  • The Jewel Casket
  • The Toilet
• Vilhelm Hammershøi – Sunbeams
• Holman Hunt – The Light of the World (replica)
• Paja Jovanović – The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex
• Gustav Klimt - Attersee^[2]
• Henry Herbert La Thangue – The Watersplash
• Edmund Leighton – God Speed
• Maximilien Luce – Notre Dame de Paris
• Ambrose McEvoy – Bessborough Street, Pimlico (Tate)
• Henri Matisse
  • Notre-Dame (Tate)
  • Two self-portraits
• Edvard Munch
  • Golgotha
  • Red Virginia Creeper
• Emil Nolde – Wheat Field (approximate dat)
• William Orpen – Herbert Everett (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
• Roland Hinton Perry – Thompson Elk Fountain (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
• Pablo Picasso
  • Le Blouse Romaine
  • Le Moulin de la Galette
• Fritz von Uhde – Woman, why weepest thou?
• Edouard Vuillard - Sans le Portique (completed)^[3]
• J. W. Waterhouse
  • Destiny
  • The Siren

Births

• January 5 – Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter (d. 1955)
• January 8 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-born painter (d. 1969)
• January 10 – Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (d. 1974)
• January 28 – Alice Neel, American portrait painter (d.1984)
• January 31 – Betty Parsons, American painter and gallerist (d. 1982)
• March 1 – Nano Reid, Irish painter (d. 1981)
• March 10 – Corrado Parducci, Italian-American architectural sculptor (d. 1981)
• April 13 – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
• April 20 – Jacques Adnet, French modernist designer, architect and interior designer (d. 1984)
• June 13 – Pierre Matisse, French-born gallerist, son of Henri Matisse (d. 1989)
• June 22 – Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract animator, filmmaker and painter (d. 1967)
• June 26 – František Muzika, Czech avant-garde painter (d. 1974)
• July 19 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (d. 1991)
• August 12 – Ronald Moody, Jamaican-born woodcarver (d. 1984)
• August 15 – Jack Tworkov, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1982)
• August 23 – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American artist (d. 1988)
• September 19 – Ong Schan Tchow, Chinese artist (d. 1945)
• October 1 – Živko Stojsavljević, Serbian painter (d. 1978)
• October 14 – Roland Penrose, English surrealist painter and art collector (d. 1984)
• October 16
  • Edward Ardizzone, British writer and illustrator (d. 1979)
  • Primo Conti, Italian Futurist artist (d. 1988)
• October 17 – C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)
• November 20 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Di Cocco, Italian painter (d. 1989)
  • Guan Liang, Chinese painter (d. 1986)
  • Grace Morley, American curator (d. 1985)
  • Fannie Nampeyo, American Hopi potter and ceramic artist (d. 1987)
  • Tanasko Milovich, Serbian painter (d. 1964)

Deaths

• January 20 – John Ruskin, English art critic (b. 1819)
• April 7 – Frederic Edwin Church, American landscape painter (b. 1826)
• April 15 – Jules Dalou, French sculptor (b. 1838)
• April 20 – Alexandre Falguière, French painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
• May 5 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian seascape painter (b. 1817)
• June 11 – Otto Eckmann, German painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
• July 2 – Thomas Farrell, Irish sculptor (b. 1827)
• July 28 – Jehan Georges Vibert, French academic painter (b. 1840)
• August 4 – Isaac Levitan, Russian landscape painter (b. 1860)
• August 17 – Thomas Faed, Scottish genre painter (b. 1826)
• October 27 – William Anderson, English collector of Japanese art (b. 1842)
• November 29 – Méry Laurent, French muse and model to Édouard Manet (b. 1849)