• John White (c. 1540–c. 1606), artist-illustrator, surveyor
• Jacob Gerritse Strycker (1615–1687), artist, possibly of the Rembrandt studios
• Thomas Smith (died c. 1691), painter
• John Smybert (1688–1751), painter
• Robert Feke (ca. 1705/1707–1750), painter
• Joseph Badger (c. 1707/8–1765), painter
• Jeremiah Theus (1716–1774), painter
• Patience Wright (1725–1786), sculptor
• John Hesselius (1728–1778), painter
• John Singleton Copley (c. 1738–1815), painter
• Benjamin West (1738–1820), painter
• Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), painter
• Henry Benbridge (1743–1812), 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
• James Earl (1761–1796), painter
• Edward Savage (1761–1817), painter
• John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854), painter
• Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772–1848), folk art portraitist
• William Jennys (1774–1859), primitive portrait painter
• Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825), painter
• Cephas Thompson (1775–1856), portrait painter
• Jacob Eichholtz (1776–1842), portrait painter
• John Vanderlyn (1776–1852), painter
• Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860), painter
• Washington Allston (1779–1843), painter
• Edward Hicks (1780–1849), painter
• John Wesley Jarvis (c. 1781–1839), painter
• Thomas Sully (1783–1872), painter
• Solomon Willard (1783–1861), stone carver
• Bass Otis (1784–1861), painter
• Rubens Peale (1784–1865), painter
• John James Audubon (1785–1851), painter of birds and nature
• Charles Bird King (1785–1862), portrait painter
• James Frothingham (1786–1864), painter
• John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821), America's first genre painter
• Hannah Cohoon (1788–1864), painter
• Sarah Goodridge (1788–1853), painter of miniatures
• Matthew Harris Jouett (1788–1827), portrait artist
• William Edward West (1788–1859), portrait painter
• Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), sculptor and inventor
• Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), painter, inventor
• Alvan Fisher (1792–1863), painter
• Susanna Paine (1792–1862), portrait artist
• James Bowman (c. 1793–1842), painter
• Thomas Doughty (1793–1856), painter
• Amasa Hewins (1795–1855), painter
• George Catlin (1796–1872), painter
• Asher Durand (1796–1886), painter
• John Neagle (1796–1865), painter
• Elizabeth Goodridge (1798–1882), painter of miniatures
• Titian Peale (1799–1885), painter

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
• Hiram Powers (1805–1873), sculptor

1806

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

1807

• William Sidney Mount (1807–1868), painter

1808

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

1809

• Moses Billings (1809–1884), portrait painter
• James Guy Evans (1809/1810–1859), painter
• George Winter, English-born portrait painter noted for his pictures of Potawatomi and Miami figures

1811

• George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), painter
• John William Casilear (1811–1893), painter
• William Page (1811–1885), painter

1812

• Jane Stuart (1812–1888), portrait painter

1813

• Joseph Goodhue Chandler (1813–1884), portrait painter
• Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888), lithographer
• George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), portrait painter
• Asahel Lynde Powers (1813–1843), portrait painter
• William Ranney (1813–1857), painter

1814

• Edward Bailey (1814–1903), American/Hawaiian painter

1815

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

1816

• Daniel DeWitt Tompkins Davie (1816–1877), photographer
• 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

1820

• Aramenta Dianthe Vail (1820–1888), painter
• John E. Weyss (1820–1903), artist and cartographer
• Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910), painter

1821

• Robert Duncanson (c. 1821–1872), painter, muralist
• Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906), Hawaiian-born painter and sketch artist

1822

• Mathew Brady (1822–1896), photographer

1823

• Daniel Folger Bigelow (1823–1910), painter
• Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), painter
• Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), painter
• William Hart (1823–1894), painter
• Thomas Waterman Wood (1823–1903), painter

1824

• William Morris Hunt (1824–1879), painter
• James Merritt Ives (1824–1895), lithographer
• Eastman Johnson (1824–1906), painter

1825

• Benjamin Paul Akers (1825–1861), sculptor
• Vincent Colyer (1825–1888), painter
• Jacob Guptil Fletcher (1825–1889), painter
• George Inness (1825–1894), painter
• William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874), sculptor

1826

• Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), painter

1827

• David Johnson (1827–1908), painter
• Francis Blackwell Mayer (1827–1899), 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

• Albert Fitch Bellows (1829–1883), painter
• Thomas Hill (1829–1908)
• Edward Moran (1829–1901), painter

1830

• Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), painter
• Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon (1830–1906), painter
• Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), photographer
• Granville Perkins (1830–1895), painter, engraver
• John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910), sculptor

1831

• Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (1831–1898), political portrait painter
• Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1831–1932), painter

1832

• Samuel Colman (1832–1920), painter, interior designer
• Daniel Charles Grose (1832–1900), painter
• William Savage (1832–1908), painter

1833

• Margarete Garvin Gillin (1833–1915), painter
• Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (1833–1889), painter, daguerreotyper, engraver, portraitist
• William Trost Richards (1833–1905), painter

1834

• Dwight Benton (1834–1903), painter
• Caspar Buberl (1834–1899), sculptor
• James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), painter, printmaker

1835

• William Stanley Haseltine (1835–1900), painter
• John LaFarge (1835–1910), painter, stained-glass window designer
• Edmund Darch Lewis (1835–1910), painter
• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), actress, painter and poet

1836

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

1837

• Robert Wilson Andrews (1837–1922)
• Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837–1908), painter
• Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837–1922), salon painter
• Thomas Moran (1837–1926), painter

1838

• Caroline Morgan Clowes (1838–1904), painter

1839

• Robert Crannell Minor (1839–1904), painter
• Henry Bacon (1839–1912), painter
• Arthur Quartley (1839–1886), painter
• Robert Wylie (1839–1877), painter

1840

• Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (1840–1879), artist
• Caroline Shawk Brooks (1840–1913), sculptor
• Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905), painter
• Thomas Hovenden (1840–1895), painter
• Thomas Nast (1840–1902), caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator

1841

• John Joseph Enneking (1841–1916), painter
• Edward Lamson Henry (1841–1919), painter
• Theodore Otto Langerfeldt (1841–1906), painter
• John Ferguson Weir (1841–1926), painter, sculptor

1842

• Willis Seaver Adams (1842–1921), painter
• Conrad Wise Chapman (1842–1910), war painter
• Preston Powers (1842–1904), sculptor

1843

• Alexander Wilson Drake (1843–1916), painter, wood engraver
• 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
• Henry Farrer (1844–1903), painter, printmaker
• Carl Gutherz (1844–1907), symbolist
• Olin Levi Warner (1844–1896), sculptor

1845

• Edmonia Lewis (1845–1911), sculptor

1846

• Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923), sculptor
• Francis Davis Millet (1846–1912), painter
• Julian Scott (1846–1901), painter and Civil War artist

1847

• Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), painter
• Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847–1928), painter
• Frederick Dielman (1847–1935), painter
• Irene E. Parmelee (1847–1934), portrait artist
• Vinnie Ream (1847–1914), sculptor
• Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917), painter
• T C Steele (1847–1926), painter

1848

• Frank Duveneck (1848–1919), painter
• William Harnett (1848–1892), painter
• Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933), painter
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), sculptor
• Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), artist and designer
• Charles Henry Francis Turner (1848–1908), painter

1849

• George Newell Bowers (1849–1909), painter
• William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), painter
• Frank C. Penfold (1849–1921), painter
• Jacob Riis (1849–1914), photographer
• Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921), painter
• Dwight William Tryon (1849–1925), painter
• Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum (1849–1925), illustrator, painter

1850

• Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), sculptor
• Paul E. Harney (1850–1915), artist
• George Hitchcock (1850–1913), painter
• Robert Koehler (1850–1917), painter
• Alfred Lambourne (1850–1926), painter

1851

• J. Ottis Adams (1851–1927), painter
• Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851–1912), painter
• Thomas Dewing (1851–1938), painter
• Arthur Burdett Frost (1851–1928), illustrator, graphic artist, comics writer, painter

1852

• Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), illustrator, painter
• James Carroll Beckwith (1852–1917), painter
• Charles Graham (1852–1911), illustrator, painter
• Alfred Richard Gurrey, Sr. (1852–1944), landscape painter
• Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photographer
• Theodore Robinson (1852–1896), painter
• J. Alden Weir (1852–1919), painter

1853

• William Turner Dannat (1853–1929), painter
• T. Alexander Harrison (1853–1930), painter
• John Francis Murphy (1853–1921), painter
• Howard Pyle (1853–1911), illustrator
• Henry Fitch Taylor (1853–1925), painter
• John Henry Twachtman (1853–1902), painter

1854

• William Henry Chandler (1854–1928), painter in pastels
• Hugo Anton Fisher (1854–1916), painter
• William Forsyth (1854–1935), painter
• Herbjørn Gausta (1854–1924), landscape artist
• L. Birge Harrison (1854–1929), painter
• George Inness, Jr. (1854–1926), painter
• Leonard Ochtman (1854–1935), painter
• John Frederick Peto (1854–1907), painter

1855

• Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), painter
• Jacob Fjelde (1855–1896), Norwegian-born American sculptor
• Claudine Raguet Hirst (1855–1942), still life painter
• James Edward Kelly (1855–1933), sculptor, illustrator
• Charles Henry Niehaus (1855–1935), sculptor
• Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855–1919), painter

1856

• Robert C. Barnfield (1856–1893), painter
• Colin Campbell Cooper (1856–1937), painter
• Kenyon Cox (1856–1919), painter
• Charles Harold Davis (1856–1933), painter
• John Haberle (1856–1933), painter
• Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942), painter
• John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), portrait artist

1857

• Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857–1932), painter
• Alice Pike Barney (1857–1931), painter
• Bruce Crane (1857–1937), painter
• Edward Wilson Currier (1857–1918), painter
• Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922), painter, printmaker
• Charles Warren Eaton (1857–1937), painter
• Emma B. King (1857–1933), impressionist
• Florence MacKubin (1857–1918), portrait painter
• George E. Ohr (1857–1918), ceramic potter
• Edward Clark Potter (1857–1923), sculptor
• Frank Raubicheck (1857–1952), painter
• John Vanderpoel (1857–1911), painter, graphics
• Mary Rogers Williams (1857–1907), painter

1858

• Herbert Adams (1858–1945), sculptor
• Joseph DeCamp (1858–1923), painter
• Francis Edwin Elwell (1858–1922), sculptor
• Frederick Gottwald (1858–1941), painter
• Charles S. Kaelin (1858–1929, painter
• Willard Metcalf (1858–1925), painter
• Henry Siddons Mowbray (1858–1928), painter
• Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II (1858–1923), painter and poet
• Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924), painter
• Henry Ward Ranger (1858–1916), painter
• William B. T. Trego (1858–1909), painter

1859

• William Bliss Baker (1859–1886), painter
• George Elbert Burr (1859–1939), painter, printmaker
• Walter Leighton Clark (1859–1935), painter, sculptor
• Childe Hassam (1859–1935), painter, printmaker
• Joseph Henry Sharp (1859–1953), painter
• Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), painter

1860

• William Jacob Baer (1860–1941), painter
• Carl Eytel (1862–1925), landscape painter, illustrator
• John Kane (1860–1934), painter
• Dodge MacKnight (1860–1950), painter
• Arthur Frank Mathews (1860–1945), painter
• Grandma Moses (1860–1961), painter
• Iris Nampeyo (c. 1860–1942), potter, ceramic artist
• Anna M. Sands (1860–1927/1940), painter
• Lorado Taft (1860–1936), sculptor

1861

• Dennis Miller Bunker (1861–1890), painter
• Theodore Earl Butler (1861–1936), painter
• Charles Courtney Curran (1861–1942), painter
• D. Howard Hitchcock (1861–1943), painter
• Florence Koehler (1861–1944)
• Wilton Lockwood (1861–1914), artist
• Clara Weaver Parrish (1861–1925), painter, printmaker, stained glass designer
• Frederic 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
• Alice De Wolf Kellogg (1862–1900), painter
• Hudson Mindell Kitchell (1862–1944), luminescent and tonalist landscapes
• Albert Pike Lucas (1862–1945), landscape, figure, and portrait
• Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947), painter
• Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862–1924), painter
• Robert Reid (1862–1929), painter and muralist
• Edmund C. Tarbell (1862–1938), painter

1863

• George Gray Barnard (1863–1938), sculptor
• Arthur B. Davies (1863–1928), painter, printmaker
• Frederick William MacMonnies (1863–1937), sculptor
• Verner Moore White (1863–1923), painter
• Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935), Illustrator

1864

• Charles Basing (1864–1933), artist
• George Henry Bogert (1864–1944), painter
• Henry Golden Dearth (1864–1918), painter
• Louis Eilshemius (1864–1941), painter
• William Frederic Ritschel (1864–1949), German American painter
• Charles Marion Russell (1864–1926), painter, sculptor
• Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), photographer
• Svend Rasmussen Svendsen (1864–1945), Norwegian American impressionist artist
• Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864–1940), painter

1865

• George Bridgman (1865–1943), painter
• Herbert A. Collins (1865–1937), landscape and portrait painter
• Thomas Cromwell Corner (1865–1938), portrait painter
• Leon Dabo (1865–1960), painter
• Frank Vincent DuMond (1865–1951), painter
• Robert Henri (1865–1929), painter
• Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865–1929), painter and potter

1866

• Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952), painter
• E. Irving Couse (1866–1935), painter, illustrator
• Helen Thomas Dranga (1866–1940), painter
• Jenny Eakin Delony (1866–1949), painter
• Emil Fuchs (1866–1929), Austrian-born painter, emigrated to US in 1915
• Arvid Nyholm (1866–1927), Swedish-American portrait and landscape artist
• Theodore Scott-Dabo (1866–1928), painter
• Henry Otto Wix (1866–1922), German-born American painter
• Art Young (1866–1943), cartoonist

1867

• Reynolds Beal (1867–1951), painter
• Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867–1938), painter
• Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), sculptor
• Harry Buckwalter (1867–1930), photographer, filmmaker
• Wickliffe Covington (1867–1938), painter
• Henry Brown Fuller (1867–1934), painter
• Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), graphic artist
• George Luks (1867–1933), painter
• Jerome Myers (1867–1940), painter
• Bela Lyon Pratt (1867–1917), sculptor
• William Sommer (1867–1949), painter
• Allen Butler Talcott (1867–1908), painter
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), architect, innovator

1868

• Solon Borglum (1868–1922), sculptor
• Merton Clivette (1868–1931), painter
• Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952), photographer
• Nellie Huntington Gere (1868–1949), painter and illustrator
• Alfred Henry Maurer (1868–1932), painter
• Bert Geer Phillips (1868–1956), painter
• Anne Louise Gregory Ritter (1868–1929), painter and ceramicist
• Anna Woodward (1868–1935), painter

1869

• Kate Carew (1869–1961), caricaturist
• Percy Gray (1869–1952), painter
• Mary Sheppard Greene (1869–1958), painter and illustrator
• Charles Hopkinson (1869–1962), painter
• Wilson Irvine (1869–1936), painter
• Xavier Timoteo Martinez (1869–1943), painter
• William McGregor Paxton (1869–1941), painter
• Edward Willis Redfield (1869–1965), painter
• Janet Scudder (1869–1940), sculptor
• Harriet "Hattie" Elizabeth Wilcox (1869–1943), ceramics artist

1870

• Thomas P. Barnett (1870–1929), painter
• Anna Richards Brewster (1870–1952), painter
• Alexander Stirling Calder (1870–1945), sculptor
• William Glackens (1870–1938), painter
• John Marin (1870–1953), painter, printmaker
• John T. McCutcheon (1870–1949), political cartoonist
• Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966), painter, illustrator
• Augustus Vincent Tack (1870–1949), painter
• Frederick Weygold (1870–1941), painter and photographer
• Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870–1952), sculptor
• Samuel Washington Weis (1870–1956), painter
• Enid Yandell (1870–1934), sculptor

1871

• Edith Woodman Burroughs (1871–1916), sculptor
• Angel De Cora (1871–1919), painter, illustrator
• Margaret Fernie Eaton (1871–1953), artist, book plate illustrator
• Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), printmaker
• Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871–1954), illustrator
• Albert Herter (1871–1950), artist and painter
• Granville Redmond (1871–1935), painter
• John French Sloan (1871–1951), painter
• Edward Charles Volkert (1871–1935), painter
• Clark Voorhees (1871–1933), painter

1872

• Charles Avery Aiken (1872–1965), painter, watercolorist
• Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872–1930), muralist
• Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872–1930), painter
• Edna Boies Hopkins (1872–1937), woodblock print artist
• Frederick Dana Marsh (1872–1961), illustrator
• George L. Viavant (1872–1925), acquascape artist
• Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955), sculptor

1873

• Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873–1961)
• Albert Henry Krehbiel (1873–1945), painter, muralist
• Ernest Lawson (1873–1939), painter
• Paul Mersereau (born 1873), painter
• Arthur Putnam (1873–1930), sculptor
• Juliet Thompson (1873–1956), painter
• Cordelia Wilson (1873–1953), painter

1874

• John Wolcott Adams (1874–1925), drawing
• Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874–1960), painter
• Franklin Booth (1874–1948), illustrator
• Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), painter
• Ira J. Deen (1874–1952), artist
• Harold Heartt Foley (1874–1923), painter, collagist, and illustrator
• Arnold Friedman (1874–1946), painter
• Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939), painter
• Charles R. Knight (1874–1953), dinosaur artist
• Violet Oakley (1874–1961), muralist
• Rose O'Neill (1874–1944), first comic strip artist
• Hans K. Schuler (1874–1951), sculptor

1875

• Ethel Blanchard Collver (1875–1955), Impressionist artist and teacher
• Alice Cooper (1875–1937), sculptor
• Maynard Dixon (1875–1946), painter
• Dulah Marie Evans (1875–1951), painter, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, etcher
• Charles Keck (1875–1951), sculptor
• Marion Wachtel (1875–1951), painter
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), sculptor

1876

• Alson S. Clark (1876–1949), painter
• Edith Dimock (1876–1955), painter
• Eulabee Dix (1878–1961), water colour portrait miniatures
• James Earle Fraser (1876–1953), sculptor
• Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt (1876–1962), painter of miniatures
• Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973), sculptor
• Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876–1952), painter
• Frederick Pawla (1876–1964), painter and muralist
• Boardman Robinson (1876–1952), Canadian American painter
• Paul R. Schumann (1876–1946), impressionist seascapes
• Everett Shinn (1876–1953), painter and illustrator
• Walter Ufer (1876–1936), printer, illustrator
• Bessie Wheeler (born 1876), painter

1877

• Eda Nemoede Casterton (1877–1969), painter
• Rinaldo Cuneo (1877–1939), painter
• Rudolph Dirks (1877–1968), cartoonist
• Paul Dougherty (1877–1947), painter
• Katherine S. Dreier (1877–1952), painter
• James Montgomery Flagg (1877–1960), illustrator, painter
• Edmund Greacen (1877–1949), painter
• Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), painter
• William Penhallow Henderson (1877–1943), painter and architect
• Walt Kuhn (1877–1949), painter
• Mary Elizabeth Price (1877–1965)
• Joseph Stella (1877–1946), painter
• Maurice Sterne (1877/78–1957), sculptor
• Mahonri Young (1877–1957), sculptor

1878

• Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878–1949), sculptor
• Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (1878–1942), sculptor
• Wilhelmina Weber Furlong (1878–1962), still life painter
• E. William Gollings (1878–1932), western painter
• Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939), sculptor
• Gus Mager (1878–1956), cartoonist, illustrator, painter
• Abraham Walkowitz (1878–1965), painter

1879

• Gifford Beal (1879–1956), painter
• Helena Smith Dayton (1879–1960), painter and sculptor
• Julian Martinez (1879–1943), potter, ceramist
• Charles Cary Rumsey (1879–1922), sculptor
• George Demont Otis (1879–1962), landscape artist
• Arthur Prince Spear (born 1879), imaginary and fantasy painter
• William Starkweather (1879–1969), impressionist painter
• Edward Steichen (1879–1973), photographer, painter
• Gunnar Widforss (1879–1934), painter specializing in National Park landscapes

1880

• Wilford Conrow (1880–1957), portrait painting
• Arthur Dove (1880–1946), painter
• Rufus J. Dryer (1880-1937), 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
• Chester Beach (1881–1956), sculptor
• Patrick Henry Bruce (1881–1936), painter
• Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961), modernist painter
• Allen Tupper True (1881–1955), painter, illustrator, muralist
• Max Weber (1881–1961), painter

1882

• George Bellows (1882–1925), painter, illustrator, printmaker
• Albert Bloch (1882–1961), painter
• Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952), painter
• John Covert (1882–1960), 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
• Julian Onderdonk (1882–1922), painter
• James Sessions (born 9/20/1882), artist
• Walter Pach (1883–1958), painter
• N.C. Wyeth (1882–1945), illustrator

1883

• Johann Berthelsen (1883–1972), painter
• Edward William Carlson (1883–1932), miniature portraitist
• Henry B. Christian (1883–1953), painter
• Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), photographer
• Jo Davidson (1883–1952), sculptor
• Charles Demuth (1883–1935), painter
• Rube Goldberg (1883–1970), cartoonist, inventor
• Donna N. Schuster (1883–1953), painter
• Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), painter
• Eugene Speicher (1883–1962), painter

1884

• Walter Emerson Baum (1884–1956), painter and art school founder
• Bessie Marsh Brewer (1884–1952), painter, printmaker
• Jose de Creeft (1884–1982), sculptor
• Guy Pène du Bois (1884–1958), painter
• Harvey Dunn (1884–1952), painter
• Samuel Halpert (1884–1930), painter
• William Victor Higgins (1884–1949), painter
• Leon Kroll (1884–1974), painter
• Robert Minor (1884–1952), political cartoonist
• Horatio Nelson Poole (1884–1949), painter and printmaker

1885

• Milton Avery (1885–1965), painter, printmaker
• Oscar Cesare (1885–1948), illustrator, cartoonist, painter
• Fred Ellis (1885–1965), political cartoonist
• E. Charlton Fortune (1885–1969), impressionist painter
• Paul Manship (1885–1966), sculptor
• Josephine Paddock (1885–1964)
• Jules Pascin (born Bulgaria 1885–1930), painter
• Sophy Regensburg (1885–1974), naïve painter
• Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones (1885–1968), painter
• Ralph Ward Stackpole (1885–1973), sculptor
• John Storrs (1885–1956), sculptor
• E. Oscar Thalinger (1885-1965), painter
• Nina B. Ward (1885–1944), painter

1886

• Pauline Boumphrey (1886–1959), sculptor
• Paul Burlin (1886–1969), painter
• Elias Goldberg (1886–1978), painter
• John R. Grabach (1886–1981), painter
• John D. Graham (1886–1961), painter
• Aldro Hibbard (1886–1972), painter
• Frederick Kann (1886–1965), painter
• Charles James Martin (1886–1955), painter
• Morgan Russell (1886–1953), painter
• Joseph Tepper (1886–1977), portrait painter and artist
• Edward Weston (1886–1958), photographer
• Mary Agnes Yerkes (1886–1989), painter

1887

• Sam Charles (1887–1949), painter
• Andrew Dasburg (1887–1979), painter
• Manierre Dawson (1887–1969), painter
• Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), painter, sculptor
• Louis Grell (1887–1960), painter, muralist
• Maria Martinez (1887–1980), potter, ceramist
• Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), painter
• John C. Poole (1887–1926), etcher and wood engraver
• Claggett Wilson (1887–1952), painter
• Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson) (1887–1968)
• William Zorach (1887–1966), sculptor

1888

• Josef Albers (1888–1976), painter
• William Spencer Bagdatopoulos (1888–1965), painter and commercial artist
• Arnold Franz Brasz (1888–1966), painter, sculptor, and printmaker
• Augustus Dunbier (1888–1977), painter
• Gerald Murphy (1888–1967), painter
• Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez (1888–1972), Native American artist
• William Robert Pearmain (1888–1912), painter
• Horace Pippin (1888–1946), painter
• Ruth Faison Shaw (1888–1969), painter

1889

• Maurice Becker (1889–1975), political cartoonist, illustrator
• Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), painter, muralist, printmaker
• James Daugherty (1889–1974), painter, illustrator
• Laura Gardin Fraser (1889–1966), sculptor
• Gleb Ilyin (1889–1968), portraiture and landscapes
• Geneva Mercer (1889–1984), sculptor
• Robert William Wood (1889–1979), painter

1890

• Grace Albee (1890–1985), printmaker
• Theresa Bernstein (1890–2002), artist, painter, writer
• Gerald Curtis Delano (1890–1972), painter
• Leo Friedlander (1890–1966), sculptor
• Frances Cranmer Greenman (1890–1981), portrait painter
• Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965), sculptor, designer
• Robert Laurent (1890–1970), sculptor
• Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890–1973), painter
• Jan Matulka (1890–1972), 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
• McClelland Barclay (1891–1942), illustrator, pin-up artist
• Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971), painter
• Arthur N. Christie (1891–1980), painter
• Edwin Dickinson (1891–1978), painter
• Robert Lee Eskridge (1891–1975), painter
• Genevieve Springston Lynch (1891–1960)
• Justin McCarthy (1891–1977), self-taught artist
• Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891–1978), painter
• Jennings Tofel (1891–1959)
• Grant Wood (1891–1942), painter

1892

• Ralph Pallen Coleman (1892–1968), painter and illustrator
• Hugo Gellert (1892–1985), illustrator and muralist
• Naomi Polk (1892–1984), American artist, watercolors and poet
• Augusta Savage (1892–1962), sculptor, teacher
• Vaclav Vytlacil (1892–1984), painter, teacher
• John Ellsworth Weis (1892–1962), painter
• Winslow Wilson (1892–1974), painter, teacher

1893

• Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), painter
• Rene Paul Chambellan (1893–1955), sculptor
• Pál Fried (1893–1976), oil painter, dancers, nudes, and portraits
• Wanda Gág (1893–1946), printmaker, illustrator
• George Albert Gale (1893–1951), nautical themed artist
• R. H. Ives Gammell (1893–1981), painter
• Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1893–1953), painter
• Bernard E. Peters (1893-1949), painter
• Abraham Rattner (1893–1978), painter

1894

• Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), painter
• Stuart Davis (1894–1964), painter
• Ernest Fiene (1894–1965), lithographer, printmaker
• Otto Kuhler (1894–1977), painter
• Lucile Lloyd (1894–1941), muralist
• Bashka Paeff (1894–1979), sculptor
• Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), painter, illustrator
• Amanda Snyder (1894–1980), painter, printmaker
• James Thurber (1894–1961), cartoonist

1895

• Talbert Abrams (1895–1990), photographer
• Frederick Cornelius Alston (1895–1987), painter
• Peggy Bacon (1895–1987), printmaker, painter, illustrator
• Lucile Blanch (1895–1981), painter
• Adolf Dehn (1895–1968), lithographer, illustrator
• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), architect, visionary
• Harry Gottlieb (1895–1993), painter, illustrator
• Regina Olson Hughes (1895–1993), botanical illustrator
• Millie Rose Lalk (1895–1943), painter
• Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), photographer
• John Allen Wyeth (1895–1981), painter

1896

• Arnold Blanch (1896–1968), painter, printmaker
• Allyn Cox (1896–1982), painter, muralist
• John Russell Fulton (1896–1979), painter, illustrator
• Morris Kantor (1896–1974), painter
• Barbara Latham (1896–1989), painter, printmaker, illustrator
• Eve Ryder (1896-1984), painter
• Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983), painter

1897

• James Billmyer (1897–1989), painter, illustrator
• Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), painter
• John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), painter, muralist, printmaker
• William Gropper (1897–1977), cartoonist, painter, muralist, printmaker
• Theodore Lukits (1897–1992), painter, muralist, illustrator, teacher
• Caroline Mytinger (1897–1980), painter
• Reuben Nakian (1897–1986), sculptor
• Dudley Pratt (1897–1975), sculptor
• Matthew E. Ziegler (1897-1981), painter, muralist

1898

• Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), photographer
• Samuel Adler (1898–1979), artist
• Dewey Albinson (1898–1971), artist
• Robert Brackman (1898–1980), painter
• Alexander Calder (1898–1976), sculptor
• Aaron Douglas (1899–1979), painter
• Elsie Driggs (1898–1992), painter
• Lorser Feitelson (1898–1978), painter
• Hyman William Katz (1898–1988), painter, printmaker
• Reginald Marsh (1898–1954), painter, printmaker
• John McLaughlin (1898–1976), painter
• Kay Sage (1898–1963), painter
• Ben Shahn (1898–1969), painter, printmaker, graphic artist

1899

• Eugène Berman (1899–1972), painter
• Francis Chapin (1899–1965), painter
• Gladys Emerson Cook (1899-1976), painter, illustrator
• De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965), painter
• Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), assemblage artist, sculptor
• Moses Soyer (1899–1974), painter
• Raphael Soyer (1899–1987), painter
• Bradley Walker Tomlin (1899–1955), painter