This page indexes the individual year in art pages; see also Art periods. This is a list of the Visual Arts only; for Music see Timeline of musical events.
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2000s
- 2009 in art
- 2008 in art - Death of William Brice, Enrico Donati, Paul Wonner, Robert Rauschenberg, Will Elder, Cornell Capa, Bruce Conner, Manny Farber, John Russell, Alain Jacquet
- 2007 in art - Death of Dan Christensen, Jules Olitski, Sol LeWitt, Jörg Immendorff, Salvatore Scarpitta, Elizabeth Murray, Edward Avedisian, Andre Emmerich, Lenore Tawney, R. B. Kitaj, Ileana Sonnabend, Paul Brach, Robert Kulicke, Michael Goldberg, Ismail Gulgee
- 2006 in art - Death of Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Isaac Witkin, Larry Zox, Ruth Bernhard, Karel Appel
- 2005 in art - Death of Philip Johnson, former gallerist and curator David Whitney, Al Held, Eugene J. Martin, R.C. Gorman, Fritz Scholder, and Arman; Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude create The Gates in New York's Central Park;
- 2004 in art - Death of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Agnes Martin, Tom Wesselmann, Leon Golub, Cleve Gray
- 2003 in art - Death of Kirk Varnedoe, Wally Hedrick, Emerson Woelffer; Artist John Trobaugh's exhibit was banned in Alabama from college gallery and labeled "dangerous" by its president Rogers.
- 2002 in art - Death of Inge Morath, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Niki de Saint Phalle, George Rickey, Richard Lippold, Stan Rice, Works - Elizabeth Catlett - Ife.
- 2001 in art - Death of Balthus and O. Winston Link; Janet Cardiff - Forty-Part Motet
- 2000 in art - Death of Jacob Lawrence;
1990s
- 1999 in art - Death of Paul Cadmus, Patrick Heron, Leo Castelli, Nicholas Krushenick
- 1998 in art - Death of Dick Higgins, John Krushenick, Chris Ofili wins the Turner Prize
- 1997 in art - Death of Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Golden
- 1996 in art - Death of Dan Flavin
- 1995 in art - Death of Harry Shoulberg, Nancy Graves
- 1994 in art - Death of Sam Francis, Robert Doisneau, Donald Judd, Clement Greenberg
- 1993 in art - Death of Richard Diebenkorn, Hannah Wilke, Rachel Whiteread wins the Turner Prize
- 1992 in art - Death of Francis Bacon, David Wojnarowicz, Joan Mitchell, Jeff Koons debuts Topiary Puppy
- 1991 in art - Death of Robert Motherwell, Berenice Abbott
- 1990 in art - Death of Keith Haring, Joan Brown
1980s
- 1989 in art - Death of Pierre Matisse, Robert Mapplethorpe, Salvador Dalí, Jay DeFeo
- 1988 in art - Death of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson
- 1987 in art - Death of Andy Warhol, Christian Lacroix opens his Paris fashion house
- 1986 in art - Death of Henry Moore, Georgia O'Keeffe
- 1985 in art - Death of Marc Chagall, Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public arousing interest in Neo-expressionism
- 1984 in art - Death of Ansel Adams, Lee Krasner
- 1983 in art - Death of Joan Miró
- 1982 in art - Death of Wifredo Lam, Ben Nicholson
- 1981 in art - Birth of Miru Kim
- 1980 in art - Death of Albert Kotin, Clyfford Still, Tony Smith, Graham Sutherland, Oskar Kokoschka; Pablo Picasso retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, May 22, 1980 through September 16, 1980. The largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States.
1970s
- 1979 in art - Death of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Peggy Guggenheim
- 1978 in art - Death of Norman Rockwell
- 1977 in art - Death of Charles Alston, Lee Miller, Naum Gabo
- 1976 in art - Death of Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Paul Strand, Mark Tobey, Josef Albers, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham
- 1975 in art - Death of Thomas Hart Benton
- 1974 in art - Death of Adolph Gottlieb
- 1973 in art - Death of Pablo Picasso, Edward Steichen, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, the first Whitney Biennial
- 1972 in art - Death of Joseph Cornell
- 1971 in art - Death of I. Rice Pereira
- 1970 in art - Birth of Jenny Saville, Death of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Eva Hesse
1960s
- 1969 in art - Death of Otto Dix, Ben Shahn, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, first Lyrical Abstraction exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in painting
- 1968 in art - Death of Marcel Duchamp Birth of John Trobaugh
- 1967 in art - Death of Edward Hopper, Rene Magritte, Ad Reinhardt
- 1966 in art - Death of Alberto Giacometti, Hans Hofmann, The second New York City Armory Show 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering sponsored by E.A.T. - Experiments in Art and Technology.
- 1965 in art - Death of Milton Avery, David Smith (sculptor), Le Corbusier, Birth of Damien Hirst
- 1964 in art - Death of Giorgio Morandi, Stuart Davis
- 1963 in art - Death of Georges Braque, Birth of Jon Coffelt, Marco Evaristti, Rachel Whiteread
- 1962 in art - Death of Morris Louis, Franz Kline, Yves Klein, Birth of John Currin, Gary Hume, October 31 the Sidney Janis Gallery mounts The New Realists the first Pop Art group exhibition in an uptown art gallery in New York City, in a 57th Street storefront near the gallery at 15 E. 57th Street
- 1961 in art - Death of Grandma Moses, Augustus John; Birth of Thomas Tulis
- 1960 in art - Death of David Park, Birth of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Makoto Fujimura, as public interest in Abstract expressionism wanes, Color field painting, Hard-edge painting, and Minimalism become increasingly popular
1950s
- 1959 in art - Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein
- 1958 in art - Frank Stella begins Black Pinstripe Paintings
- 1957 in art - Death of Diego Rivera, Jack Butler Yeats
- 1956 in art - Death of Jackson Pollock
- 1955 in art - Death of Fernand Léger, Nicolas de Staël, Birth of Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns completes Flag, (American Flag Painting)
- 1954 in art - Death of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Frida Kahlo, Birth of David Wojnarowicz
- 1953 in art - Death of John Marin
- 1952 in art - Jackson Pollock paints Blue Poles, and Number Twelve (damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion, Albany, NY in 1961) an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both Color field painting and Lyrical Abstraction
- 1951 in art - Death of Wols, Birth of Jack Spencer, Willem de Kooning paints Woman I, the Ninth Street Show of 1951, NYC. A seminal event of Abstract Expressionism.
- 1950 in art - Jackson Pollock paints Autumn Rhythm [1]
1940s
- 1949 in art - Birth of Ross Bleckner, Alberto Giacometti completes Three Men Walking II
- 1948 in art - Birth of Eric Fischl, Death of Arshile Gorky, George Ault
- 1947 in art - Birth of Ronnie Landfield, Death of Pierre Bonnard, Peggy Guggenheim closes The Art of This Century Gallery
- 1946 in art - Birth of Robert Mapplethorpe, Kirk Varnedoe, Death of Arthur Dove
- 1945 in art - Birth of Sean Scully, Peter Reginato
- 1944 in art - Birth of Odd Nerdrum, Death of Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon completes Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
- 1943 in art - Death of Chaim Soutine, Marsden Hartley, Piet Mondrian completes Broadway Boogie-Woogie
- 1942 in art - Birth of Dan Christensen, Peggy Guggenheim opens The Art of This Century Gallery
- 1941 in art
- 1940 in art - Birth of Mary Ellen Mark, Nancy Graves, Elizabeth Murray, Death of Paul Klee, Édouard Vuillard
1930s
- 1939 in art - Birth of Spider Martin
- 1938 in art - Birth of Joan Brown, Brice Marden, Eugene J. Martin, Death of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, William Glackens
- 1937 in art - Birth of David Hockney, Ronald Davis, Red Grooms, Robert Mangold, Larry Zox, Pablo Picasso paints Guernica; Death of Joseph-Maurice Ravel, French composer and pianist
- 1936 in art - Birth of Richard Estes, Eva Hesse, Frank Stella,
- 1935 in art - Birth of Jim Dine, Don McCullin, Death of Charles Demuth, Paul Signac
- 1934 in art - Birth of Patrick Ireland
- 1933 in art - Birth of Sam Gilliam, Yoko Ono, James Rosenquist, Dan Flavin
- 1932 in art - Birth of Howard Hodgkin, Paul Caponigro
- 1931 in art - Births of Frank Auerbach, Bridget Riley, Tom Wesselmann
- 1930 in art - Birth of Jasper Johns, Death of Jules Pascin
1920s
- 1929 in art - Birth of Jules Feiffer, Claes Oldenburg, Nicholas Krushenick, Diego Rivera marries Frida Kahlo, the Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City
- 1928 in art - Birth of Andy Warhol, Arman, Yves Klein, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt
- 1927 in art - Birth of John Chamberlain, Wolf Kahn
- 1926 in art - Death of Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet
- 1925 in art - Death of George Bellows, Birth of Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Mitchell
- 1924 in art - Birth of Kenneth Noland, Andre Emmerich, Michael Goldberg, George Segal
- 1923 in art - Birth of Marc Riboud, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein
- 1922 in art - Birth of Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn
- 1921 in art - Piet Mondrian completes Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
- 1920 in art - Birth of Wayne Thiebaud, Gene Davis, Patrick Heron, Helmut Newton, Death of Amedeo Modigliani
1910s
- 1919 in art - Death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Ralph Blakelock, Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus
- 1918 in art - Death of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele
- 1917 in art - Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Death of Edgar Degas, Albert Pinkham Ryder
- 1916 in art - Birth of Louis le Brocquy, Death of Thomas Eakins; Dadaism started in Zürich
- 1915 in art - Birth of Robert Motherwell, Sam Golden
- 1914 in art - Birth of Nicolas de Staël, O. Winston Link
- 1913 in art - Birth of Wols, Birth of Robert Capa, Ad Reinhardt, The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
- 1912 in art - Birth of Morris Louis, Robert Doisneau, Jackson Pollock, Agnes Martin, Tony Smith
- 1911 in art
- 1910 in art - Birth of Franz Kline, Death of Henri Rousseau, Winslow Homer
1900s
- 1909 in art - Birth of Francis Bacon, Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse completes The Dance, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque jointly collaborate in the invention of Analytic Cubism
- 1908 in art - Birth of Lee Krasner, Balthus, Henri Cartier-Bresson
- 1907 in art - Birth of Frida Kahlo, Leo Castelli, Charles Alston, Lee Miller; Pablo Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
- 1906 in art - Death of Paul Cézanne, Birth of Philip Johnson, David Smith
- 1905 in art - Birth of Ruth Bernhard, Barnett Newman
- 1904 in art - Birth of Arshile Gorky, Paul Cadmus, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, Salvador Dalí
- 1903 in art - Birth of Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Graham Sutherland, Joseph Cornell, Death of Paul Gauguin, Hans Gude, Camille Pissarro, James McNeil Whistler
- 1902 in art - Birth of Ansel Adams, I. Rice Pereira, Death of Albert Bierstadt, Death of James Tissot
- 1901 in art - Birth of Alberto Giacometti, Death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- 1900 in art - Birth of Yves Tanguy, Death of Frederic Edwin Church
1890s
- 1899 in art - Death of Alfred Sisley
- 1898 in art - Birth of Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Rene Magritte, Ben Shahn, Peggy Guggenheim
- 1897 in art - Paul Gauguin paints Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
- 1896 in art - Death of John Everett Millais
- 1895 in art - Death of Berthe Morisot
- 1894 in art - Birth of James Thurber, Norman Rockwell, Death of Gustave Caillebotte
- 1893 in art - Birth of Joan Miró, Chaim Soutine, Edvard Munch completes The Scream
- 1892 in art - Birth of Stuart Davis
- 1891 in art - Death of Georges-Pierre Seurat, Birth of Max Ernst, Otto Dix, George Ault
- 1890 in art - Death of Vincent van Gogh, Birth of Giorgio Morandi, Paul Strand, Egon Schiele, Naum Gabo
1880s
- 1889 in art - Birth of Thomas Hart Benton
- 1888 in art - Birth of Josef Albers, Seán Keating, Giorgio de Chirico, Vincent van Gogh begins his Sunflowers series; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Roses of Heliogabalus
- 1887 in art - Birth of Georgia O'Keeffe, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier
- 1886 in art - Birth of Diego Rivera, Oskar Kokoschka, Mies van der Rohe;
- 1885 in art - Birth of Jules Pascin
- 1884 in art - Birth of Amedeo Modigliani, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
- 1883 in art - Birth of Charles Demuth, Walter Gropius, Death of Édouard Manet
- 1882 in art - Birth of Edward Hopper, George Bellows, Georges Braque
- 1881 in art - Birth of Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger
- 1880 in art - Birth of Hans Hofmann, Jacob Epstein, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, André Derain, Arthur Dove, Death of Anselm Feuerbach, Anton Mauve completes 'Changing Pasture'
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- 1709 in art - Death: Meindert Hobbema, Andrea Pozzo
- 1708 in art - Death: Ludolf Bakhuysen, Birth: Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
- 1707 in art - Death: Evert Collier, Shitao, W. Velde the Younger, Birth: William Hoare, Van Loo
- 1706 in art - Death: Luo Mu,
- 1705 in art - Death: Zhu Da, Birth: Charles-André van Loo (1705-1765)
- 1704 in art
- 1703 in art - Birth of François Boucher
- 1702 in art - Birth of Carlo Marchionni; end of Dutch Golden Age painting
- 1701 in art - Birth of Pietro Longhi, Thomas Hudson
- 1700 in art - Birth of Charles-Joseph Natoire, Death of Pietro Santi Bartoli; end of Flemish Baroque painting
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