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Modern Artists (1880-1970)

If you are a student of Art or Art History, here is a more detailed list of artists you should know from this period.

NameBirthDeathNationalityMovement(s)Primary MediumRepresentative Works
Beuys, Joseph
 N6888 .B463
19211986GermanFluxusSculpture
Performance Art
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
7,000 Oaks
Boccioni, Umberto
 N6923 .B587
18821916ItalianFuturismPainting
Sculpture
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
The City Rises
Bourgeois, Louise
 NB237 .B72
19112010French-AmericanConfessional ArtSculpture
Painting
Installation Art
Maman
Destruction of the Father
Fillette
Brâncuși, Constantin
 NB933 .B7
18761957RomanianModernismSculptureBird in Space
Sleeping Muse
Braque, Georges
 ND553 .B86
18821963FrenchCubism
Fauvism
Painting
Printmaking
Sculpture
Man with a Guitar
Still Life with Chandeliers
Cassatt, Mary
 ND237 .C3
18441926AmericanImpressionismPaintingThe Child’s Bath
Afternoon Tea Party
Cézanne, Paul
 ND553 .C33
18391906FrenchPost-impressionismPaintingThe House of the Hanged Man
Study: Landscape at Auvers
The Card Players
Chagall, Marc
 ND699 .C5
18871985Russian-FrenchCubism
Expressionism
Painting
Stained Glass
I and the Village
The Fiddler
White Crucifixion
Dali, Salvador
 ND813 .D3
19041989SpanishCubism
Dadaism
Surrealism
PaintingThe Persistence of Memory
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
The Face of War
Duchamp, Marcel
 ND553 .D774
 N6853 .D8
18871968French-AmericanDadaism
Cubism
Surrealism
Painting
Sculpture
Fountain
Nude Descending a Staircase
Étant donnés
Ensor, James
 ND673 .E6
18601949BelgianExpressionism
Symbolism
Painting
Printmaking
The Rower
The Entry of Christ into Brussels
Gauguin, Paul
 ND553 .G27
18481903FrenchPost-impressionismPaintingVision of the Sermon
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Tahitian Women on the Beach
Giacometti, Alberto
 NB553 .G4
 N7153 .G47
19011966SwissSurrealism
Expressionism
Sculpture
Painting
Three Men Walking, II
Head of a Man on a Rod
Höch, Hannah
 TR685 .L38
18891978GermanDadaismPhotomontageCut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer- Belly of the Weimar Republic
Hopper, Edward
 ND237 .H75
18821967AmericanRealismPainting
Printmaking
Nighthawks
Automat
Kandinsky, Vassily
 ND699 .K3
18661944RussianAbstract ExpressionismPaintingDer Blaue Reiter
On White II
Composition VII
Klee, Paul
 ND588 .K5
18791940German-SwissExpressionism
Primitivism
Surrealism
PaintingAd Parnassum
Death for the Idea
In the Quarry
Klein, Yves19281962FrenchNew RealismPainting
Performance Art
IKB 79
Monochrome and Fire
Klimt, Gustav
 ND511.5 .K55
18621918AustrianSymbolism
Art Nouveau
PaintingThe Kiss
Danaë
Magritte, René
 ND673 .M35
18981967BelgianSurrealismPaintingThe Treachery of Images
The Human Condition
The Pilgrim
Malevich, Kazimir
 ND699 .M285
18791935RussianSuprematismPaintingBlack Square
White on White
Matisse, Henri
 ND553 .M37
18691954FrenchFauvism
Impressionism
Modernism
Painting
Sculpture
Woman with a Hat
Still Life with Geraniums
Red Studio
Munch, Edvard
 ND773 .M8
18631944NorwegianExpressionism
Symbolism
PaintingThe Scream
The Sick Child
The Mystery of a Summer Night
Nevelson, Louise
 NB237 .N43
18991988AmericanModernism
Feminisim
SculptureDawn’s Wedding Feast
Mrs. N’s Palace
Noguchi, Isamu
 NB237 .N6
19041988AmericanBiomorphismSculpture
Landscaping
Black Sun
Moerenuma Park, Sapporo, Japan
O’Keeffe, Georgia
 ND237 .O5
18871986AmericanAmerican ModernismPaintingCow’s Skull with Calico Roses
Jimson Weed, 1936
Picasso, Pablo
 ND553 .P5
18811973SpanishCubismPainting
Sculpture
Drawing
Guernica
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
The Old Guitarist
Three Musicians
Pollock, Jackson
 ND237 .P73
19121956AmericanAbstract ExpressionismPaintingNo. 5, 1948
Convergence 1952
Lavender Mist
Rauschenberg, Robert
 N6537 .R27
19252008AmericanAbstract Expressionism
Neo-Dada
Painting
Assemblage
Monogram
White Painting
Renoir, Auguste
 ND553 .R45
18411919FrenchImpressionismPaintingBal du moulin de la Galette
The Bathers
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Rivera, Diego
 ND259 .R5
18861957MexicanMexican MuralismPainting
Murals
Man at the Crossroads / Man, Controller of the Universe
En el Arsenal
Rodin, Auguste
 NB553 .R7
18401917FrenchImpressionism
Modernism
SculptureThe Thinker
The Kiss
The Gates of Hell
Rothko, Mark
 ND237 .R725
19031970AmericanAbstract Expressionism
Color Field
PaintingWhite Center (Yellow, Pink, and Lavender on Rose)
Orange, Red, Yellow
White and Greens in Blue
Rousseau, Henri
 ND553 .R67
18441910FrenchPost-Impressionism
Primitivism
PaintingSurpris! (Tiger in a Tropical Storm)
The Sleeping Gypsy
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
 ND553 .T7
18641901FrenchPost-Impressionism
Art Nouveau
Painting
Printmaking
Moulin Rouge series
Hangover
In Bed
Warhol, Andy
 N6537 .W28
19281987AmericanPop ArtPainting
Printmaking
Campbell’s Soup Cans
Marilyn Monroe
Whistler, James McNeill
 ND237 .W6
18341903AmericanTonalismPaintingWhistler’s Mother (Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1)
Nocturne in Blue and Silver