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Notable Modern Artists (1880-1970)

If you wish to be generally familiar with art history, here is a short list of artists you should know from this period.

NameBirthDeathNationalityMovement(s)Primary MediumRepresentative Works
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
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
Hopper, Edward
 ND237 .H75
18821967AmericanRealismPainting
Printmaking
Nighthawks
Automat
Kandinsky, Vassily
 ND699 .K3
18661944RussianAbstract ExpressionismPaintingDer Blaue Reiter
On White II
Composition VII
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
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
Renoir, Auguste
 ND553 .R45
18411919FrenchImpressionismPaintingBal du moulin de la Galette
The Bathers
Luncheon of the Boating Party
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
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