• Berlin Secession.
• Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts, a company of artists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement, is founded by sculptor Walter Gilbert in Britain.
• Käthe Kollwitz's cycle of lithographs and etchings The Weavers is first exhibited publicly.
• The term "Young Poland" is coined after a manifesto by Artur Górski, published in the Kraków newspaper Życie ("Life"), to signify the period of modernism in the Polish arts.
• Henri Matisse marries Amélie Noellie Parayre and, on the advice of Camille Pissarro, goes to London to study the paintings of J. M. W. Turner, continuing to Corsica.
• The Hope Collection of Pictures is sold in London for the sum of £121,550.^[1]

Paintings edit

• Edwin Austin Abbey – King Lear, Act I, Scene I
• José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior – The Inopportune
• Ivan Aivazovsky – Among Waves
• Teodor Axentowicz – Self-portrait
• Arnold Böcklin – Plague
• Edward Burne-Jones – The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (completed)
• John Collier – Godiva
• Luigi Crosio – Refugium Peccatorum Madonna
• Evelyn De Morgan – Helen of Troy
• Herbert James Draper – The Lament for Icarus
• Thomas Eakins – Salutat
• Paul Gauguin – The White Horse (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• J. W. Godward
  • At The Gate Of The Temple
  • Idle thoughts
  • On The Balcony (first version)
  • The Ring
• Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with young man reading
• Edward Robert Hughes – The Shrew Katherina
• Gustav Klimt
  • Music II
  • Pallas Athene
  • Flowing water
  • Portrait of Sonja Knips
  • Portrait of Helene Klimt
  • Fish Blood
• Anna Elizabeth Klumpke – Rosa Bonheur
• Henri Matisse – Le Mur Rose
• Edvard Munch – Metabolism
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano
• L. A. Ring – Ved frokostbordet og morgenaviserne ("At Breakfast")
• Therese Schwartze – Portrait of Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in her coronation robes
• Henry Ossawa Tanner – The Annunciation
• James Tissot – Self-portrait
• F. C. Yohn – Winter at Valley Forge - The Relief

Sculptures edit

• Arthur Beter – Dutchy
• John S. Conway – The Victorious Charge
• Reinhold Felderhoff – Diana
• Daniel Chester French – Statue of Rufus Choate

Other edit

• F. Holland Day
  • The Seven Last Words of Christ, a series of photographs
  • Study for the Crucifixion, a photograph
• Félix Vallotton – Intimités ("Intimacies"), a suite of woodcuts
• Mary Seton Watts – Watts Cemetery Chapel (Compton, Surrey, England), gesso interior decoration

January to June edit

• 28 January – Milan Konjović, Serbian painter (died 1993)
• 3 February – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (died 1976)
• 8 February – Jean Charlot, French painter and illustrator (died 1979)
• 14 March – Reginald Marsh, French-born American painter (died 1954)
• 6 April – Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter and model (suicide 1920)
• 16 May
  • Jean Fautrier, French painter, practitioner of tachisme (died 1964)
  • Tamara de Lempicka, born Maria Górska, Polish-born Art Deco painter (died 1980)
• 17 May – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (died 1992)
• 21 May
  • Armand Hammer, American art collector (died 1990)
  • John McLaughlin, American hard-edge painter (died 1976)
• 17 June – M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (died 1972)

July to December edit

• 2 July – Gen Paul, French painter (died 1975)
• 17 July – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (died 1991)^[2]
• 22 July – Alexander Calder, American sculptor and artist (died 1976)
• 30 July – Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (died 1986)
• 31 July – Doris Zinkeisen, Scottish-born theatrical designer and commercial artist (died 1991)
• 26 August – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (died 1979)
• 12 September – Arkady Shaikhet, Ukrainian-born Soviet documentary photographer (died 1959)
• 16 September – Leslie Garland Bolling, African American sculptor (died 1955)
• 25 September – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American artist and teacher (died 1980)
• 10 October
  • Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer (died 1989)
  • Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (died 1970)
• 21 November – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (died 1967)
• 6 December – Alfred Eisenstaedt, Prussian-born American photographer (died 1995)
• 10 December – Ivan Tabaković, Serbian painter (died 1977)
• date unknown – E. Chambré Hardman, British photographer (died 1988)

• 8 January – Achille Empéraire, French painter and friend of Paul Cézanne (born 1829)
• 25 February – Francis Frith, English topographical photographer (born 1822)
• 16 March – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator, of tuberculosis (born 1872)^[3]
• 24 March – J. L. K. van Dort, Ceylonese illustrator (born 1831)
• 18 April – Gustave Moreau, French Symbolist painter (born 1826)
• 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English Pre-Raphaelite artist (born 1833)
• 29 July – Arturo Michelena, Venezuelan painter (born 1863)
• 8 August – Eugène Boudin, French landscape painter (born 1824)
• 24 October – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (born 1824)
• date unknown - Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist (born 1843)