Arts and Music
20th-century Modern Artists
Painters and sculptors of the first half of the 20th century, a number of whom were associated with such movements as Cubism and Surrealism.
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Georgia O'Keeffe (born 1887, died 1986)
American painter.
- Painted Music: Pink and Blue
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Suzanne Valadon (born 1865, died 1938)
French painter. Original name: Marie-Clémentine Valadon. Mother of painter Maurice Utrillo.
- Painted Adam and Eve
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Paula Modersohn-Becker (born 1865, died 1938)
German painter.
- Painted Self-Portrait with a Camellia
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Gabriele Munter (born 1877, died 1962)
German painter.
- Painted Black Mask with Rose
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Emily Carr (born 1871, died 1945)
Canadian painter and author whose main subjects were the natives of British Columbia.
- Painted Forest, British Columbia
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Marguerite Thompson Zorach (born 1865, died 1938)
American painter.
- Painted Still Life with Blue and White Porcelain
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Lois Mailou Jones (born 1905)
American painter.
- Painted Les Fetiches
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Sonia Delaunay (born 1885, died 1979)
Russian-born French artist.
- Painted Electric Prisms
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Natalya Goncharova (born 1881, died 1962)
Russian painter.
- Painted Linen
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Alexandra Exter (born 1905)
Russian painter.
- Painted The Boat and the Town
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Hilma of Klint (born 1862, died 1944)
Swedish painter.
- Painted the series Drawings for the Temple
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Irene Rice Pereira (born 1907, died 1971)
American painter.
- Painted untitled geometric abstractions
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Maria Elena Vieira da Silva (born 1908, died 1992)
Portuguese painter.
- Painted Stones
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp (born 1889, died 1943)
Swiss artist.
- Created the Rectangular Relief with Cutout Circles, Painted and Cutout Squares, Rising Cubes and Cylinders
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Louise Nevelson (born 1900, died 1988)
American sculptor.
- Created the sculptural wall Moon Garden Plus One
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Barbara Hepworth (born 1903, died 1975)
English sculptor.
- Created the bronze Single Form (Memorial to Dag Hammarskjold)
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Germaine Richier (born 1904, died 1959)
French sculptor.
- Created the bronze sculpture The Batman
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Louise Bourgeois (born 1911)
French sculptor.
- Created the sculpture The Blind Leading the Blind
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Florine Stettheimer (born 1871, died 1944)
American painter.
- Painted Spring Sale at Bendel''s
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Gwen John (born 1876, died 1935)
Welsh sculptor.
- Painted A Corner of the Artist''s Room in Paris
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Vanessa Bell (born 1879, died 1961)
English painter.
- Painted Lytton Strachey
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Romaine Brooks (born 1874, died 1970)
American painter.
- Painted Emile d''Erlanger, La Baronne
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Frida Kahlo (born 1910, died 1954)
Mexican painter.
- Painted self-portraits combining Mexican folk imagery with Christian symbolism
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Anna Robertson ''Grandma'' Moses (born 1860, died 1961)
American folk painter.
- An untaught farm wife, she began her painting career at age 78, and produced more than 1500 paintings in the 23 years before her death
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Sally James Farnham (born 1869, died 1943)
American portrait sculptor.
- Awarded Venezuela''s Order of Bolívar for her Central Park statue of Simón Bolívar
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Augusta Savage (born 1892, died 1962)
American sculptor.
- Known for her portraits of W.E.B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, and other prominent African Americans
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