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.

• 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

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

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

• Robert Walter Weir (d. 1889), painter

• Fitz Henry Lane (d. 1865), painter

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

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

• William Sidney Mount (d. 1868), painter

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

• 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

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

• Jane Stuart (d. 1888), portrait painter

• 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

• Edward Bailey (d. 1903), painter

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

• Mathew Brady (d. 1896), photographer

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

• Caroline Morgan Clowes (d. 1904), painter

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

• 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

• 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

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

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

• 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

• Edmonia Lewis (d. 1911), sculptor

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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