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
*Patience Wright (1725–1786), sculptor
*John Singleton Copley (c. 1738 – 1815), painter
*Benjamin West (1738–1820), painter
*Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), 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
*John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854), painter
*Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825), painter
*John Vanderlyn (1776–1852), painter
*Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860), painter
*Washington Allston (1779–1843), painter
*John Wesley Jarvis (c. 1781 – 1839), painter
*Thomas Sully (1783–1872), painter
*Solomon Willard (1783–1861) stone carver
*John Lewis Krimmel (1786-1821) America's first genre painter
*James Frothingham (1786–1864), painter
*Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), sculptor and inventor
*Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), painter, inventor
*Alvan Fisher (1792–1863), painter
*Thomas Doughty (1793–1856), painter
*George Catlin (1796–1872), painter
*Asher Durand (1796–1886), painter
*Titian Peale (1799–1885), painter

Born 1800-1809

1800

*Francis Alexander (1800–1881), painter

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

1806

*Peter Rindisbacher (1806–1834), watercolorist, illustrator

1808

*Seth Eastman (1808–1875), painter, illustrator

1809

*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

1813

*Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888), lithographer

1815

*Joseph Horace Eaton (1815–1896), New Mexico landscapes

1816

*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

*Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910), painter

1822

*Robert Duncanson (c. 1822 – 1872), painter, muralist

1823

*Matthew Brady (1823–1896), photographer
*Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), painter
*Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), painter
*William Hart (1823–1894), painter
*Thomas Waterman Wood (1823–1903), painter

1824

*James Merritt Ives (1824–1895), lithographer
*Eastman Johnson (1824 - 1906), painter

1825

*Vincent Colyer (1825–1888), painter

*Benjamin Paul Akers (1825–1861), sculptor
*George Inness (1825–1894), painter
*William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874), sculptor

1826

*Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), painter

1827

*David Johnson (1827–1908), 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

*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
*John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), sculptor

1831

*Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1831–1932), painter

1832

*Samuel Colman (1832–1920), painter, interior designer

1834

*Caspar Buberl (1834–1899), sculptor
*James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), painter, printmaker

1835
*Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868), American actress, painter and poet
*William Stanley Haseltine (1835–1900), painter
*John LaFarge (1835–1910), painter, stained glass window maker

1836

*Winslow Homer (1836–1910), painter, illustrator, printmaker
*Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836–1892), painter

1837

*Thomas Moran (1837–1926), painter

1839

*Arthur Quartley (1839–1886), painter

Born 1840-1849

1840

*Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905), painter
*Thomas Nast (1840–1902), caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator

1841

*John Ferguson Weir (1841–1926), painter, sculptor

1843

*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

1845

*Edmonia Lewis (1845–1911), sculptor

1846

*Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923), sculptor
*Julian Scott (1846–1901), painter and Civil War artist

1847

*Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), painter
*Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917), painter
*T C Steele (1847–1926), painter

1848

*Frank Duveneck (1848–1919), painter
*Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), sculptor
*William Harnett (1848–1892), painter
*Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933), painter
*Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), artist and designer

1849

*William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), painter
*Jacob Riis (1849–1914), photographer
*Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), painter

Born 1850-1859

1850

*George Hitchcock (1850–1913), painter
*Robert Koehler (1850–1917), painter

1851

*Thomas Dewing (1851–1938), painter
*Arthur Burdett Frost (1851–1928), illustrator, graphic artist, comics writer, painter
*Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851–1912), painter

1852

*Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), illustrator, painter
*Theodore Robinson (1852–1896), painter
*J. Alden Weir (1852–1919), painter

1853

*Howard Pyle (1853–1911), Illustrator
*John Henry Twachtman (1853–1902), painter

1854

*William Henry Chandler (1854–1928), painter in pastels
*George Inness, Jr. (1854–1926), painter
*Leonard Ochtman, (1854–1935), painter
*John Frederick Peto (1854–1907), painter

1855

*Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), painter
*James Edward Kelly (1855–1933), sculptor, illustrator

1856

*Colin Campbell Cooper (1856–1937), painter
*Kenyon Cox (1856–1919), painter
*Charles Harold Davis (1856–1933), painter
*Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942), painter
*John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), portrait artist

1857

*Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter
*Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922), painter, printmaker

1858

*Herbert Adams (1858–1945), sculptor
*Joseph DeCamp (1858–1923), painter
*Willard Metcalf (1858–1925), painter
*Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924), painter

1859

*George Elbert Burr (1859–1939), painter, printmaker
*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
*John Kane (1860–1934), painter
*Arthur Frank Mathews (1860–1945), painter
*Grandma Moses (1860–1961), painter
*Iris Nampeyo (c. 1860 – 1942), potter, ceramic artist

1861

*Dennis Miller Bunker (1861–1890), painter
*Charles Courtney Curran (1861–1942), painter
*David Howard Hitchcock (1861–1943), painter
*Frederick 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
*Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862-1924), painter
*Robert Reid (1862–1929), painter and muralist
*Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862–1938), painter

1863

*Arthur B. Davies (1863–1928), painter, printmaker

1864

*George Henry Bogert (1864–1944)
*Louis Eilshemius (1864–1941), painter
*Charles Marion Russell (1864–1926), painter, sculptor
* Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), photographer

1865

*Herbert A. Collins (1865–1937), landscape and portrait painter
*Robert Henri (1865–1929), painter
* Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929), American painter and potter

1866

*E. Irving Couse (1866-1935), painter, illustrator

1867

*Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), sculptor
*George Luks (1867–1933), painter
*Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), architect, innovator

1868

*Solon Borglum (1868–1922), sculptor
*Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952), photographer
*Alfred Henry Maurer (1868–1932), painter

1869

*Kate Carew (1869–1961), caricaturist
*Xavier Timoteo Martinez (1869–1943), painter
*Edward Willis Redfield (1869–1965), painter

Born 1870-1879

1870

*Alexander Stirling Calder (1870–1945), sculptor
*William Glackens (1870–1938), painter
*John Marin (1870–1953), painter, printmaker
*Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966), painter, illustrator
*Augustus Vincent Tack (1870–1949), painter

1871

*Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), printmaker
*Albert Herter (1871–1950), artist and painter
*Granville Redmond (1871–1935), painter
*John French Sloan (1871–1951), painter
*Edward Charles Volkert, (1871–1935), painter

1873

*Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873–1961)
*Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873–1945), painter, muralist
*Ernest Lawson (1873–1939), painter

1874

*Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874–1960), painter
*Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), painter
*Arnold Friedman (1874–1946), painter
*Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939), painter
*Charles R. Knight (1874–1953), dinosaur artist

1875

*Dulah Marie Evans (1875–1951), painter, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, etcher

1876
*James Earle Fraser (1876–1953), sculptor
*Everett Shinn (1876–1953), painter and illustrator
*Walter Ufer (1876-1936), printer, illustrator

1877

*Katherine S. Dreier (1877–1952), painter
*Edmund Greacen (1877–1949), painter
*Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), painter
*William Penhallow Henderson (1877–1943), painter and architect
*Walt Kuhn (1877–1949), painter
*Joseph Stella (1877–1946), painter

1878

*Abraham Walkowitz (1878–1965), painter
*Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878–1949), sculptor

1879

*Julian Martinez (1879–1943), potter, ceramist
*Edward Steichen (1879–1973), photographer, painter

Born 1880-1889

1880

*Arthur Dove (1880–1946), 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
*Patrick Henry Bruce (1881–1936), painter
*Max Weber (1881–1961), painter

1882

*George Bellows (1882–1925), painter, illustrator, printmaker
*Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952), 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
*N.C. Wyeth (1882–1945), illustrator

1883

*Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), photographer
*Jo Davidson (1883–1952), sculptor
*Charles Demuth (1883–1935), painter
*Rube Goldberg (1883–1970), cartoonist, inventor
*Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), painter
*Eugene Speicher (1883–1962), painter

1884

*Jose de Creeft (1884-1982), sculptor

1885

*Milton Avery (1885–1965), painter, printmaker
*Paul Manship (1885–1966), sculptor

1886

*John D. Graham (1886–1961), painter
*Morgan Russell (1886–1953), painter
*Edward Weston (1886–1958), photographer

1887

*Andrew Dasburg (1887–1979), painter
*Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), painter, sculptor
*Maria Martinez (1887–1980), potter, ceramist
*Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), painter

1888

*Josef Albers (1888–1976), painter
*Augustus Dunbier (1888–1977), painter
*Gerald Murphy (1888–1967), painter
*Horace Pippin (1888–1946), painter

1889

*Thomas Hart Benton (painter) (1889–1975), painter, muralist, printmaker
*Robert William Wood (1889–1979), painter

Born 1890-1899

1890

*Grace Albee (1890–1985), printmaker
*Gerald Curtis Delano (1890–1972), painter
*Leo Friedlander (1890–1966), sculptor
*Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965), sculptor, designer
*Robert Laurent (1890–1970), sculptor
*Stanton MacDonald-Wright (1890–1973), 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
*Edwin Dickinson (1891–1978), painter
*Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891–1978), painter
*Grant Wood (1891–1942), painter

1892

*Augusta Savage (1892–1962), sculptor, teacher

1893

*Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), painter
*Rene Paul Chambellan (1893–1955), sculptor
*Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1893–1953), painter
*Abraham Rattner (1893–1978), painter

1894

*Stuart Davis (1894–1964), painter
*Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), painter, illustrator
*James Thurber (1894–1961), cartoonist

1895

*Talbert Abrams (1895–1990), photographer
*Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), architect, visionary
*Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), photographer

1896

*Allyn Cox (1896–1982), painter, muralist

1897

*Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), painter
*John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), painter, muralist, printmaker
*Reuben Nakian (1897–1986), sculptor

1898

*Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), photographer
*Robert Brackman (1898–1980), painter
*Alexander Calder (1898–1976), sculptor
*Aaron Douglas (1898–1979), painter
*Elsie Driggs (1898–1992), painter
*Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), painter, printmaker
*Kay Sage (1898–1963), painter
*Ben Shahn (1898–1969), painter, printmaker, graphic artist

1899

*Raphael Soyer (1899–1987), painter