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Chronological history of the visual arts by year and decade
This page indexes the individual year in art pages; see also
art periods . This list is exclusively for the
visual arts ; for music, see
Timeline of musical events .
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2024 in art - Death of
Hartmut Ritzerfeld ,
Alexis Smith ,
Kishin Shinoyama ,
Brent Sikkema ,
Robert Whitman ,
Carl Andre ,
Ricardo Pascale ,
Brian Griffin ,
Antonio Paolucci ,
Helga Paris ,
Melvin Way ,
Andrew Crispo ,
A. Ramachandran ,
Günter Brus ,
Aleš Lamr ,
Marc Pachter ,
Steve Paxton .
Félix Aráuz ,
Iris Apfel ,
Pigcasso ,
Lucas Samaras ,
Akira Toriyama ,
Imogen Stuart ,
Robert Moskowitz .
Richard Serra ,
Katsura Funakoshi ,
Marian Zazeela ,
Quisqueya Henríquez ,
Gaetano Pesce ,
Italo Rota ,
Ziraldo ,
Patti Astor ,
Trina Robbins ,
Faith Ringgold ,
Jean-Marie Haessle
2023 in art - Death of
Marilyn Stafford ,
Zhou Lingzhao ,
Lyuben Zidarov ,
Karim Bennani ,
Michael Snow ,
George S. Zimbel ,
Hans Belting ,
Nicola Zamboni ,
Alfred Leslie ,
Jesse Treviño ,
Ángela Gurría ,
Ans Westra ,
Mary Bauermeister ,
Camille Souter ,
Rafael Viñoly ,
Lou Stovall ,
Piero Gilardi ,
Ian Falconer ,
Phyllida Barlow ,
Francisco Rodón ,
Shamim Sikder ,
James Harithas ,
Vivan Sundaram ,
Myriam Ullens ,
Neal Boenzi ,
Ted Bonin ,
Al Jaffee ,
John Olsen ,
Eberhard Kornfeld ,
Ed Koren ,
Harold Riley ,
Ju Ming ,
Yvonne Jacquette ,
Frank Kozik ,
Kenneth Anger ,
Dorothy Knowles ,
Jorrit Tornquist ,
Ilya Kabakov ,
Hans-Peter Feldmann ,
Françoise Gilot ,
Graziano Origa ,
Cora Cohen ,
Khosrow Hassanzadeh ,
Jan Sierhuis ,
Ales Pushkin ,
Fazil Najafov ,
Rubén Martínez Bulnes ,
Tony Bennett ,
Jesse Lott ,
Oswaldo Viteri ,
Giorgio Di Genova ,
Didier Lourenço ,
David Le Batard ,
Konrad Klapheck ,
Jamie Reid ,
Brice Marden ,
Claude Picasso ,
Mario Costa ,
Lisa Lyon ,
Fernando Botero ,
Erwin Olaf ,
Park Seo-bo ,
Gastón Ugalde ,
Juanita McNeely ,
Eduardo Arranz-Bravo ,
Ida Applebroog ,
Robert Irwin ,
Gord Smith ,
Joe Tilson ,
Radcliffe Bailey ,
Rob Krier ,
Larry Fink ,
William Anastasi ,
Wolfgang Hollegha ,
Paul Dibble ,
Vera Molnár ,
Graziella Magherini ,
Richard Hunt ,
Giovanni Anselmo ,
Imroz ,
William Pope.L ,
Martha Diamond
2022 in art - Death of
Craig Ruddy ,
Ricardo Bofill ,
Tova Berlinski ,
Alekos Fassianos ,
Hossein Valamanesh ,
Andrei Mudrea ,
James Bidgood ,
Dan Lacey ,
John Wesley ,
Carmen Herrera ,
John Scott ,
Dan Graham ,
Marino Golinelli ,
DeWain Valentine ,
Srihadi Soedarsono ,
Antonio Seguí ,
Nick Zedd ,
Conrad Janis ,
Albert Kresch ,
Budi Tek ,
Mira Calix ,
Ted Mooney ,
Patrick Demarchelier ,
Eleanor Munro ,
Donald Baechler ,
Jerry Uelsmann ,
Hermann Nitsch ,
Cynthia Plaster Caster ,
Lewis Stein ,
Marcus Leatherdale ,
Enoch Kelly Haney ,
Ron Galella ,
Suzi Gablik ,
Enrique Metinides ,
Knox Martin ,
Bob Neuwirth ,
Miss.Tic ,
David Datuna ,
Samella Lewis ,
Claude Rutault
Christopher Pratt ,
Jacques Villeglé ,
Paula Rego ,
Tarek Al-Ghoussein ,
Heidi Horten ,
Duncan Hannah ,
Juan Pablo Echeverri ,
Harvey Dinnerstein ,
Arnold Skolnick ,
Sam Gilliam ,
Margaret Keane ,
David Blackwood ,
Matt King ,
Lily Safra ,
Maya Attoun ,
Claes Oldenburg ,
Emilie Benes Brzezinski ,
Jennifer Bartlett ,
Mary Obering ,
Velichko Minekov ,
Issey Miyake ,
Natalia LL ,
Marta Palau Bosch ,
Dmitri Vrubel ,
Oliver Frey ,
Lily Renée ,
Charlie Finch ,
Jens Birkemose ,
Virginia Dwan ,
James Polshek ,
Jean-Luc Godard .
Roxanne Lowit ,
Brigida Baltar ,
Billy Al Bengston ,
Grace Glueck ,
Harold Garde ,
Angus Trumble ,
Jüri Arrak ,
Jagoda Buić ,
Peter Schjeldahl ,
Rodney Graham ,
Laila Shawa ,
Pierre Soulages ,
Nicholas Harding ,
Brian O'Doherty ,
Lee Bontecou ,
Hervé Télémaque ,
Tom Phillips ,
Ashley Bickerton ,
Larry Qualls ,
Ronald Sherr ,
Judith Lauand ,
Philip Pearlstein ,
Maya Widmaier-Picasso ,
Franz Gertsch ,
Dorothy Iannone ,
Arata Isozaki ,
Tony Vaccaro
2021 in art - Death of
Jan de Bie ,
Kim Tschang-yeul ,
Arik Brauer ,
Barry Le Va ,
Forrest Moses ,
Cindy Nemser ,
Bill Hammond ,
Luis Feito ,
James Bishop ,
Arturo Di Modica ,
Alan Bowness ,
Toko Shinoda ,
Barbara Ess ,
Duggie Fields ,
Elsa Peretti ,
Jean-Michel Sanejouand ,
Gianluigi Colalucci ,
Jean Dupuy ,
Mary Beth Edelson ,
Hans Rasmus Astrup ,
William T. Wiley ,
Eli Broad ,
Julião Sarmento ,
Susanna Heller ,
Richard Nonas ,
Alain Kirili ,
Ingvar Cronhammar ,
Roser Bru ,
Dani Karavan ,
Judith Godwin ,
Jane Kaufman ,
Douglas S. Cramer ,
Tomás Llorens Serra ,
Allen Midgette ,
Mogens Møller ,
Gérard Fromanger ,
Arnold Odermatt ,
Diego Cortez ,
Arturo Schwarz ,
Joseph Raffael ,
Christian Boltanski ,
Louise Fishman ,
Phillip King ,
Nancy Frankel ,
Ben Wagin ,
Yolanda López ,
Stanislav Hanzík ,
K. Schippers ,
Chuck Close ,
Yusuf Grillo ,
Billy Apple ,
Achille Pace ,
Lars Vilks ,
Julie L. Green ,
Margo Leavin ,
Paul Blanca ,
Manuel Neri ,
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu ,
Lía Bermúdez ,
Patrick Reyntiens ,
Iran Darroudi ,
Raoul Middleman ,
Bettina Grossman ,
Dave Hickey ,
Etel Adnan ,
Jimmie Durham ,
Mick Rock ,
Carlo Maria Mariani ,
Rita Letendre ,
Robert Bly ,
Virgil Abloh ,
Guillermo Roux ,
Lawrence Weiner ,
Eve Babitz ,
Richard Rogers ,
Wayne Thiebaud ,
Sabine Weiss
2020 in art - Death of
John Baldessari ,
Akbar Padamsee ,
André Lufwa ,
Oswald Oberhuber ,
James Mollison ,
Hester Diamond ,
Jason Polan .
Beverly Pepper ,
Anne Windfohr Marion ,
Jack Youngerman ,
Peter Dreher ,
Ulay ,
John Seward Johnson II ,
Wolf Kahn ,
Paul Kasmin ,
Maurice Berger ,
Idelle Weber ,
Dr. Evermor ,
Anne Hendricks Bass ,
David Driskell ,
Alexander Thynn ,
Helene Aylon ,
Daniel Greene ,
Mort Drucker ,
Gillian Wise ,
William H. Bailey ,
Glenna Goodacre ,
Markus Raetz ,
Peter Beard ,
Tina Girouard ,
Zarina ,
Germano Celant ,
Michael McClure ,
Iepe Rubingh ,
Cliff Eyland ,
Susan Rothenberg ,
Richard Anuszkiewicz ,
Emma Amos ,
Peter Alexander ,
Gracia Barrios ,
Christo ,
Manuel Felguérez ,
Luther Price ,
Anna Blume ,
Milton Glaser ,
Benedetto Robazza ,
Frank Popper ,
George Simon ,
Brigid Berlin ,
Keith Sonnier ,
Lotty Rosenfeld ,
Miodrag Živković ,
Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara ,
Frank Wright ,
William Arnett ,
Luchita Hurtado ,
Pierre-Yves Trémois ,
Fern Cunningham ,
Ron Gorchov ,
Mrinal Haque ,
Pedro de Oraá ,
Douglas MacDiarmid ,
Siah Armajani ,
Jürgen Schadeberg ,
Philippe Daverio ,
Pierre Nahon ,
Franco Maria Ricci ,
Donald Kendall ,
Robert Bechtle ,
Kenzo Takada ,
Geoffrey Dyer ,
Jean Cardot ,
Chris Killip ,
David Geiser ,
Lea Vergine ,
Diane Di Prima ,
Mohammed Melehi ,
Sindika Dokolo ,
Piero Simondo ,
Aldo Tambellini ,
Sheldon Solow ,
Daniel Cordier ,
Helen LaFrance ,
Suh Se-ok ,
Jackie Saccoccio ,
James Havard ,
Barbara Rose ,
David Medalla
2010s
2019 in art - Death of
Francine du Plessix Gray ,
John Mason ,
Jonas Mekas ,
Susan Hiller ,
Robert Ryman ,
Alessandro Mendini ,
Marella Angelli ,
Kevin Roche ,
Carolee Schneemann ,
Martín Chirino ,
Sir John Richardson ,
Okwui Enwezor ,
Luca Alinari ,
Barbara Hammer ,
Hedi Turki ,
Jacqueline Lichtenstein ,
Claude Lalanne ,
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian ,
Jayne Wrightsman ,
Mavis Pusey ,
Thomas Nozkowski ,
Lutz Bacher ,
Nobuo Sekine ,
Jamil Naqsh ,
I.M. Pei ,
Lawrence Carroll ,
Everett Kinstler ,
Tony DeLap ,
Joe Overstreet ,
Adela Neffa ,
Joyce Pensato ,
Maryon Kantaroff ,
Martin Roth ,
Suzan Pitt ,
Charles Ginnever ,
Robert Therrien ,
Gloria Vanderbilt ,
Peter Selz ,
Sascha Pohflepp ,
David Koloane ,
Leon Kossoff ,
Douglas Crimp ,
Steve Cannon ,
Frieder Burda ,
Marisa Merz ,
Carlos Cruz-Diez ,
Nancy Reddin Kienholz ,
Wang Guodong ,
Peter Lindbergh ,
Francisco Toledo ,
Robert Frank ,
Daniel Johnston ,
Huguette Caland ,
Matthew Wong ,
John Giorno ,
Ettore Spalletti ,
E. A. Carmean ,
Charles Jencks ,
Adolfo Mexiac ,
Stefan Edlis ,
Edward Clark ,
Huang Yong Ping ,
Gilberto Aceves Navarro ,
Rina Lazo ,
Manoucher Yektai ,
Johann Eyfells ,
May Stevens ,
Ken Heyman
n, Emily Mason ,
PHASE 2 ,
Panamarenko ,
Alasdair Gray ,
Syd Mead ,
Oliviero Leonardi
2018 in art - Death of
Mauro Staccioli ,
Betty Woodman ,
Vladimir Yankilevsky ,
Carlo Pedretti ,
Kynaston McShine ,
William Scharf ,
Ed Moses ,
Jack Whitten ,
Robert Pincus-Witten ,
Sonia Gechtoff ,
Frank Gaylord ,
Gillian Ayres ,
Marcia Hafif ,
Per Kirkeby ,
Tom Wolfe ,
Robert Indiana ,
Alan Bean ,
Gregg Juarez ,
Malcolm Morley ,
Irving Sandler ,
Michaele Vollbracht ,
David Goldblatt .
Sabina Ott ,
Krishna Reddy ,
Paul Taylor ,
Irving Petlin ,
Tchan Fou-li ,
Annette Michelson ,
Robert Venturi ,
Geta Brătescu ,
Henry Wessel Jr. ,
Jane Fortune ,
Helena Almeida ,
Milton Gendel ,.
Mel Ramos ,
Paul Allen ,
Jacques Monory ,
Harold Stevenson ,
Karl-Heinz Adler ,
Stan Lee ,
Lubomir Tomaszewski ,
Peter Peryer ,
Robert Morris ,
Vivian Lynn ,
Enrico Crispolti ,
Wendy Beckett ,
Jean Dumontier
2017 in art - Death of
John Berger ,
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon ,
Ciel Bergman ,
Charles Recher ,
Moshe Gershuni ,
Dore Ashton ,
Harvey Lichtenstein ,
Jannis Kounellis ,
Sofia Imber ,
Fritz Koenig ,
Ren Hang ,
Gustav Metzger ,
Howard Hodgkin ,
Trisha Brown ,
David Rockefeller ,
George Woodman ,
Mirella Bentivoglio ,
Julian Stanczak ,
James Rosenquist ,
Glenn O'Brien ,
Barkley L. Hendricks ,
Magdalena Abakanowicz ,
Vito Acconci ,
A. R. Penck ,
Michael Zwack ,
Jack Tilton ,
Felipe Ehrenberg ,
Marie Cosindas ,
Trento Longaretti ,
Edit DeAk ,
Khadija Saye ,
Olbram Zoubek ,
Hans Breder ,
José Luis Cuevas ,
Lala Rukh ,
Kenneth Jay Lane ,
Arlene Gottfried ,
John Ashberry ,
Arno Rink ,
Pierre Bergé ,
Pete Turner ,
David Shepherd ,
Eleanore Mikus ,
Robert Delpire ,
Holly Block ,
Fernando de Szyszlo ,
Richard Hambleton ,
Linda Nochlin ,
Trevor Bell ,
Frans Krajcberg ,
Enrico Castellani ,
Ivan Chermayeff ,
Lewis Manilow ,
Tim Rollins
2016 in art - Death of
David Bowie ,
Thornton Dial ,
Charles Garabedian ,
Douglas Haynes ,
Bernard Kirschenbaum ,
Zaha Hadid ,
Richard Smith ,
Charles Gatewood ,
Marisol Escobar ,
Louisa Chase ,
Bill Berkson ,
Kenworth Moffett ,
Tony Feher ,
Bill Cunningham ,
Ben Patterson ,
Billy Name ,
Nathan Lyons ,
Ralph Goings ,
Shirley Jaffe ,
Walter Darby Bannard ,
Elaine Lustig Cohen ,
Klaus Kertess ,
David Antin ,
Leonard Cohen ,
Kenneth Snelson ,
Tyrus Wong
2015 in art - Death of
Milton Hebald ,
Jane Wilson ,
Walter Liedtke ,
John C. Whitehead ,
Tomie Ohtake ,
Sheila Girling ,
Carel Visser ,
William King ,
Michael Graves ,
Bodys Isek Kingelez ,
Paule Anglim ,
Sargy Mann ,
Lars Tunbjörk ,
Judith Malina ,
Menashe Kadishman ,
Chris Burden ,
Rachel Rosenthal ,
Rosemarie Castoro ,
Mary Ellen Mark ,
Miriam Schapiro ,
David Aronson ,
Ingrid Sischy ,
Sally Gross ,
Melva Bucksbaum ,
Nelson Shanks ,
John Perreault ,
Brian Sewell ,
Paul Reed ,
Wojciech Fangor ,
Holly Woodlawn ,
George Earl Ortman ,
Ellsworth Kelly
2014 in art - Death of
R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. ,
Madeline Gins ,
Douglas Davis ,
René Ricard ,
Joan Mondale ,
Nancy Holt ,
Terry Adkins ,
Lyman Kipp ,
Leee Black Childers ,
Alan Davie ,
Maria Lassnig ,
Elaine Sturtevant ,
H. R. Giger ,
Robyn Denny ,
Ultra Violet ,
Jennifer Wynne Reeves ,
On Kawara ,
Otto Piene ,
Sam Hunter ,
Edward Leffingwell ,
Marjorie Strider ,
David Armstrong ,
Wynn Chamberlain ,
Jane Freilicher ,
Jake Berthot
2013 in art - Death of
Ted Godwin ,
Ada Louise Huxtable ,
Alden Mason ,
Richard Artschwager ,
William Perehudoff ,
Thomas McEvilley ,
Merton Simpson ,
Carlos Villa ,
Zao Wou Ki ,
David Hayes ,
Taylor Mead ,
Thomas M. Messer ,
Fred Mitchell ,
Ganesh Pyne ,
Sarah Charlesworth ,
Bert Stern ,
John B. Hightower ,
Ronnie Cutrone ,
Walter De Maria ,
Ruth Asawa ,
Stephen Antonakos ,
John Bellany ,
Jack Beal ,
Ellen Lanyon ,
Deborah Turbeville ,
Sir Anthony Caro ,
Arthur Danto ,
Lou Reed ,
Frank Lobdell ,
Chryssa
2012 in art - Death of
Jan Groover ,
Dorothea Tanning ,
Mike Kelley ,
Antoni Tàpies ,
Theophilus Brown ,
Anita Steckel ,
Kenneth Price ,
Hilton Kramer ,
Elizabeth Catlett ,
Louis le Brocquy ,
John Golding ,
Bram Bogart ,
Paul Jenkins ,
Georges Mathieu ,
LeRoy Neiman ,
Mary Fedden ,
Ivan Karp ,
Herbert Vogel ,
Karl Benjamin ,
Robert Hughes ,
Michael Asher ,
Will Barnet ,
William Turnbull ,
Jeffrey Potter ,
Edward Meneeley
2011 in art - Death of
B. H. Friedman ,
Ellen Stewart ,
Dennis Oppenheim ,
Françoise Cachin ,
Charles O. Perry ,
Roy Gussow ,
Alan Uglow ,
Suze Rotolo ,
Gabriel Laderman ,
Leo Steinberg ,
George Tooker ,
Stephen De Staebler ,
Hedda Sterne ,
John McCracken ,
Leonora Carrington ,
Claudio Bravo ,
M. F. Husain ,
Jack Smith ,
Thomas N. Armstrong III ,
Robert Miller ,
Cy Twombly ,
Lucian Freud ,
John Hoyland ,
Budd Hopkins ,
Jeanette Ingberman ,
Richard Hamilton ,
Stephen Mueller ,
Pat Passlof ,
Gerald Laing ,
John Chamberlain ,
Helen Frankenthaler
2010 in art - Death of
Kenneth Noland ,
Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal ,
Robert Natkin ,
Purvis Young ,
Deborah Remington ,
Giuseppe Panza ,
Avigdor Arikha ,
Craig Kauffman ,
Shusaku Arakawa ,
Dennis Hopper ,
Lester Johnson ,
Louise Bourgeois ,
Sigmar Polke ,
Paul Thiebaud ,
Doug Ohlson ,
Nicolas Carone ,
Corneille ,
Ralph T. Coe ,
Stephen Pace ,
Robert Goodnough ,
Sylvia Sleigh ,
Jack Levine ,
Nathan Oliveira ,
Nassos Daphnis ,
Don Van Vliet ,
Roy Neuberger
2000s
2009 in art – Death of
Coosje van Bruggen ,
Andrew Wyeth ,
Howard Kanovitz ,
Max Neuhaus ,
Ernest Trova ,
Hanne Darboven ,
Frederick Hammersley ,
Robert Colescott ,
Dash Snow ,
Merce Cunningham ,
Tony Rosenthal ,
Hyman Bloom ,
Barry Flanagan ,
Richard Merkin ,
Charles Seliger ,
Nancy Spero ,
Roy DeCarava ,
Robert Borgatta ,
Irving Kriesberg ,
Jeanne-Claude ,
Peter Forakis ,
Thomas Hoving
2008 in art – Death of
William Brice ,
Kahlil Gibran ,
Dorothy Podber ,
Enrico Donati ,
Paul Wonner ,
Robert Rauschenberg ,
Will Elder ,
Cornell Capa ,
John Plumb ,
Bruce Conner ,
Manny Farber ,
John Russell ,
Alain Jacquet ,
Grace Hartigan ,
Jan Krugier ,
Guy Peellaert ,
Willoughby Sharp ,
Robert Graham
2007 in art – Death of
Dan Christensen ,
Jules Olitski ,
Sol LeWitt ,
Jörg Immendorff ,
Salvatore Scarpitta ,
Elizabeth Murray ,
Edward Avedisian ,
André Emmerich ,
Lenore Tawney ,
R. B. Kitaj ,
Ileana Sonnabend ,
Paul Brach ,
Robert Kulicke ,
Michael Goldberg ,
Ismail Gulgee ,
Herman Rose
2006 in art – Death of
William Rubin ,
Mimmo Rotella ,
Nam June Paik ,
Allan Kaprow ,
Isaac Witkin ,
Karel Appel ,
Richard Mock ,
Jason Rhoades ,
Julio Galán ,
Marcia Tucker ,
Emilio Vedova ,
Robert Rosenblum ,
Larry Zox ,
Ruth Bernhard ,
2005 in art – Death of
Philip Johnson ,
David Whitney ,
Al Held ,
Eugene J. Martin ,
Walter Hopps ,
Philip Pavia ,
Neil Welliver ,
R. C. Gorman ,
Fritz Scholder ,
Clement Meadmore , and
Arman ;
Christo and wife
Jeanne-Claude create
The Gates in New York's
Central Park ;
2004 in art – Death of
Ward Jackson ,
Leon Golub ,
Henri Cartier-Bresson ,
Cleve Gray ,
Agnes Martin ,
Muriel Berman ,
Tom Wesselmann
2003 in art – Death of
Al Hirschfeld ,
Kirk Varnedoe ,
Wally Hedrick ,
Emerson Woelffer ,
Dorothy Miller ,
Lynn Chadwick
2002 in art – Death of
Inge Morath ,
Peter Voulkos ,
Jean-Paul Riopelle ,
Niki de Saint Phalle ,
George Rickey ,
Richard Lippold ,
Stan Rice
2001 in art – Death of
Fred Hughes ,
Balthus ,
David Sylvester ,
Mercedes Matter ,
O. Winston Link ,
Hollis Sigler
2000 in art – Death of
Louisa Matthíasdóttir ,
Edward Gorey ,
Jacob Lawrence ,
Stanley Boxer ,
Leonard Baskin ,
Gregory Gillespie ;
Hans Moller
1990s
1999 in art – Death of
Paul Cadmus ,
Patrick Heron ,
Leo Castelli ,
Nicholas Krushenick ,
Stephen Greene
1998 in art – Death of
Richard Bellamy ,
Dick Higgins ,
Wolf Vostell ,
John Krushenick ,
Chris Ofili wins the
Turner Prize
1997 in art – Death of
Willem de Kooning ,
Roy Lichtenstein ,
Sam Golden ,
Theodoros Stamos ,
Philip Berman
1996 in art – Death of
Duane Hanson ,
Dan Flavin ,
William Copley
1995 in art – Death of
Daniel Robbins ,
Charles Bell ,
Harry Shoulberg ,
Nancy Graves , ,
Al Hansen
1994 in art – Death of
Donald Judd ,
Robert Doisneau ,
Clement Greenberg ,
Henry Geldzahler ,
Anni Albers ,
Paul Delvaux ,
Sam Francis ,
Leigh Bowery
1993 in art – Death of
Hannah Wilke ,
Richard Diebenkorn ,
Robert De Niro, Sr. ,
Thomas Ammann ,
Leonard Bocour ;
Rachel Whiteread wins the
Turner Prize
1992 in art – Death of
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva ,
Francis Bacon ,
David Wojnarowicz ,
Joan Mitchell ,
John Cage ,
Peyo
1991 in art – Death of
Robert Motherwell ,
Jean Tinguely ,
Leland Bell ,
Dr. Seuss ,
Berenice Abbott
1990 in art – Death of
Henrietta Berk ,
Keith Haring ,
Erté ,
Joan Brown
1980s
1989 in art – Death of
Pierre Matisse ,
Robert Mapplethorpe ,
Salvador Dalí ,
Jay DeFeo ,
Sidney Janis
1988 in art – Death of
Ronald Bladen ,
Neil Williams ,
Isamu Noguchi ,
Louise Nevelson ,
Constantino Nivola ,
Jean-Michel Basquiat ,
Donald De Lue
1987 in art – Death of
Alexander Iolas ,
Andy Warhol ,
Jean Hélion ,
André Masson ,
Raphael Soyer
1986 in art – Death of
Edward Biberman ,
Georgia O'Keeffe ,
Henry Moore ,
Jane Frank
1985 in art – Death of
Marc Chagall ,
Jean Dubuffet ,
André Kertész ,
Ana Mendieta ;
Charles Saatchi 's collection opens to the public arousing interest in
Neo-expressionism
1984 in art – Death of
Jimmy Ernst ,
Hollis Frampton ,
Ansel Adams ,
Sir Roland Penrose ,
Lee Krasner ,
Brassaï ,
Edward James
1983 in art – Death of
Hergé ,
Chang Dai-chien ,
Kenneth Clark ,
Joan Miró
1982 in art – Death of
Wifredo Lam ,
Ben Nicholson
1981 in art – Death of
Francesca Woodman ,
Isaac Soyer ,
Max Spivak ,
Isaac Frenkel Frenel ; Birth of
Miru Kim
1980 in art – Death of
Cecil Beaton ,
Albert Kotin ,
Oskar Kokoschka ,
Philip Guston ,
Clyfford Still ,
Tony Smith ,
Graham Sutherland ,
Tamara de Lempicka ;
Pablo Picasso major retrospective exhibition at
Museum of Modern Art (
New York )
1970s
1979 in art – Death of
Nelson Rockefeller ,
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler ,
Peggy Guggenheim ,
Sonia Delaunay
1978 in art – Death of
Thomas B. Hess ,
Norman Rockwell ,
Giorgio de Chirico ,
Otto Kallir
1977 in art – Death of
Charles Alston ,
Lee Miller ,
Naum Gabo .
Centre Pompidou opens
1976 in art – Birth of
Jay Simeon ; Death of
Max Ernst ,
Alexander Calder ,
Paul Strand ,
Mark Tobey ,
Josef Albers ,
Man Ray ,
Imogen Cunningham ,
Edward Burra
1975 in art – Birth of
Alick Tipoti ; Death of
Thomas Hart Benton ,
Walker Evans ,
Barbara Hepworth
1974 in art – Death of
Adolph Gottlieb
1973 in art – Death of
Pablo Picasso ,
Edward Steichen ,
Stanton Macdonald-Wright ,
Robert Smithson ; the first
Whitney Biennial
1972 in art – Death of
M. C. Escher ,
Joseph Cornell
1971 in art – Death of
I. Rice Pereira
1970 in art – Birth of
Jenny Saville ; Death of
Rita Angus ,
Mark Rothko ,
Fritz Ascher ,
Eva Hesse ,
Roberto Longhi ,
Barnett Newman
1960s
1969 in art – Death of
Otto Dix ,
Ben Shahn ,
Mies van der Rohe ,
Walter Gropius , first
Lyrical Abstraction exhibition at the
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum marking a significant return to expressivity in painting
1968 in art – Death of
Marcel Duchamp ,
Kees van Dongen . Birth of
Jules Trobaugh
1967 in art – Death of
Edward Hopper ,
René Magritte ,
Ad Reinhardt
1966 in art – Death of
Alberto Giacometti ,
Hans Hofmann ,
Edward Le Bas , The second New York City
Armory Show 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering sponsored by E.A.T. –
Experiments in Art and Technology .
1965 in art – Death of
Milton Avery ,
David Smith (sculptor) ,
Le Corbusier ; Birth of
Damien Hirst and
Yushaev Zamir
1964 in art – Death of
Rico Lebrun ,
Giorgio Morandi ,
Stuart Davis
1963 in art – Death of
Georges Braque ;
Pop Art becomes increasingly popular; Birth of
Jon Coffelt ,
Marco Evaristti ,
Rachel Whiteread
1962 in art – Death of
Morris Louis ,
Franz Kline ,
Yves Klein , Birth of
John Currin ,
Gary Hume , International exhibition of The New Realists in
New York
1961 in art – Death of
Grandma Moses ,
Augustus John ; Birth of
Thomas Tulis
1960 in art – Death of
David Park and
Dean Cornwell ; Birth of
Jean-Michel Basquiat ,
Makoto Fujimura , and
David Neel . As public interest in
Abstract expressionism wanes,
Color Field painting,
Hard-edge painting , and
Minimalism become increasingly popular
1950s
1959 in art – Birth of
Caio Fonseca , Death of
Frank Lloyd Wright , Sir
Jacob Epstein
1958 in art –
Frank Stella begins black
pinstripe paintings; Birth of
Brian O'Connor (artist) and
Don Yeomans
1957 in art – Death of
David Bomberg ,
Diego Rivera ,
Jack Butler Yeats ; Birth of
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
1956 in art – Birth of
David D. Stern , Death of
Marie Laurencin ,
Jackson Pollock
1955 in art – Birth of
Beau Dick ,
Jeff Koons ,
Akira Toriyama ; Death of
Fernand Léger ,
Nicolas de Staël ,
Bradley Walker Tomlin ;
Jasper Johns completes
Flag , (American Flag Painting)
1954 in art – Death of
Henri Matisse ,
André Derain ,
Frida Kahlo , Birth of
David Wojnarowicz and
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
1953 in art – Death of
Raoul Dufy ,
John Marin ,
Francis Picabia ; Birth of
Gidansda Guujaaw
1952 in art – Jackson Pollock paints
Blue Poles , and Number Twelve (damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion, Albany, NY in 1961) an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both
Color Field painting and
Lyrical Abstraction
1951 in art – Birth of
Richard Hunt and
Joe Nalo ; Death of
Wols ,
Willem de Kooning paints Woman I, the
Ninth Street Show of 1951, NYC. A seminal event of
abstract expressionism .
1950 in art –
Jackson Pollock paints Autumn Rhythm
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1940s
1949 in art – Birth of
Ross Bleckner ,
Alberto Giacometti completes
Three Men Walking II
1948 in art – Birth of
Eric Fischl ,
Hollis Sigler , Death of
Arshile Gorky ,
George Ault
1947 in art – Birth of
Ronnie Landfield and
James Schoppert ; Death of
Pierre Bonnard ,
Wilhelm Uhde ,
Peggy Guggenheim closes
The Art of This Century gallery
1946 in art – Birth of
Robert Mapplethorpe ,
Kirk Varnedoe , and
Robert Davidson ; Death of
Arthur Dove
1945 in art – Birth of
Sean Scully ,
Peter Reginato , death of
René Gimpel
1944 in art – Birth of
Odd Nerdrum ,
Timothy Akis , and
Mathias Kauage ; Death of
Wassily Kandinsky ,
Piet Mondrian ,
Edvard Munch ,
Francis Bacon completes
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
1943 in art – Death of
Chaïm Soutine ,
Marsden Hartley ,
Camille Claudel ,
Maurice Denis ,
Beatrix Potter ,
Piet Mondrian completes
Broadway Boogie-Woogie
1942 in art – Death of
Séraphine Louis , Birth of
Dan Christensen and
Tony Hunt Sr. ;
Peggy Guggenheim opens
The Art of This Century gallery
1941 in art – Birth of
Bruce Nauman ,
Dale Chihuly , Death of
Robert Delaunay
1940 in art – Birth of
Mary Ellen Mark ,
Nancy Graves ,
Elizabeth Murray , Death of
Paul Klee ,
Édouard Vuillard
1930s
1939 in art – Birth of
Spider Martin
1938 in art – Birth of
Joan Brown ,
Brice Marden ,
Eugene J. Martin , and
Nathan Jackson ; Death of
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ,
William Glackens
1937 in art – Birth of
David Hockney ,
Ronald Davis ,
Larry Poons ,
Red Grooms ,
Robert Mangold ,
Larry Zox ,
Pablo Picasso paints
Guernica and
The Weeping Woman ; Death of
Joseph-Maurice Ravel , French composer and pianist
1936 in art – Birth of
Richard Estes ,
Eva Hesse ,
Frank Stella ,
1935 in art – Birth of
Jim Dine ,
Don McCullin , Death of
Charles Demuth ,
Paul Signac
1934 in art – Birth of
Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland
1933 in art – Birth of
Sam Gilliam ,
Yoko Ono ,
Franco Fontana ,
James Rosenquist ,
Dan Flavin
1932 in art – Birth of
Howard Hodgkin ,
Paul Caponigro ,
Nam June Paik ,
Wolf Vostell
1931 in art – Death of
Helmut Kolle , Births of
Frank Auerbach ,
Bridget Riley ,
Tom Wesselmann ,
Salvador Dalí paints
The Persistence of Memory
1930 in art – Birth of
Jasper Johns , Death of
Jules Pascin ,
Grant Wood paints
American Gothic
1920s
1929 in art – Death of
Louisine Havemeyer ,
Charles Grafly , Birth of
Jules Feiffer ,
Claes Oldenburg ,
Nicholas Krushenick ,
Diego Rivera marries
Frida Kahlo , the
Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City,
René Magritte produces
La trahison des images
1928 in art – Birth of
Andy Warhol ,
Arman ,
Yves Klein ,
Helen Frankenthaler ,
Donald Judd ,
Sol LeWitt
1927 in art – Death of
Paul César Helleu ,
Juan Gris ,
Osmar Schindler ,
Armand Guillaumin ,
Eugene Atget , Birth of
John Chamberlain ,
Wolf Kahn
1926 in art – Death of
Mary Cassatt ,
Claude Monet
1925 in art – Death of
George Bellows ; Birth of
Robert Rauschenberg ,
Joan Mitchell , and
Freda Diesing
1924 in art – Birth of
Kenneth Noland ,
André Emmerich ,
Michael Goldberg ,
George Segal
1923 in art – Death of
Elihu Vedder , Birth of
Marc Riboud ,
Sam Francis ,
Roy Lichtenstein ,
Marcel Duchamp completes
The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even
1922 in art – Birth of
Lucian Freud ,
Richard Diebenkorn ,
Paul Klee produces
Twittering Machine
1921 in art –
Piet Mondrian completes
Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
1920 in art – Birth of
Wayne Thiebaud ,
Gene Davis ,
Patrick Heron ,
Helmut Newton ,
Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal , and
Bill Reid ; Death of
Amedeo Modigliani
1910s
1919 in art – Death of
Pierre-Auguste Renoir ,
Ralph Albert Blakelock ,
Walter Gropius founds the
Bauhaus
1918 in art – Birth of
Elaine de Kooning ,
Jane Frank ; Death of
Gustav Klimt ,
Egon Schiele
1917 in art – Birth of
Jacob Lawrence ,
Andrew Wyeth ; Death of
Edgar Degas ,
Albert Pinkham Ryder ,
Marcel Duchamp produces
Fountain
1916 in art – Birth of
Louis le Brocquy and
Ellen Neel ; Death of
Thomas Eakins ;
Dadaism started in
Zürich
1915 in art – Birth of
Robert Motherwell ,
Sam Golden
1914 in art – Birth of
Nicolas de Staël ,
O. Winston Link
1913 in art – Birth of
Wols , Birth of
Robert Capa ,
Ad Reinhardt , The
Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
1912 in art – Birth of
Morris Louis ,
Robert Doisneau ,
Jackson Pollock ,
Agnes Martin ,
Tony Smith
1911 in art
1910 in art – Birth of
Franz Kline , Death of
Henri Rousseau ,
Winslow Homer
1900s
1909 in art – Death of
Pinckney Marcius-Simons , Birth of
Francis Bacon ,
Clement Greenberg ,
Henri Matisse completes
The Dance ,
Pablo Picasso and
Georges Braque jointly collaborate in the invention of
Analytic Cubism
1908 in art – Death of
Giovanni Fattori ,
Richard Gerstl , Birth of
Lee Krasner ,
Balthus ,
Henri Cartier-Bresson ,
Ashcan School first exhibit
1907 in art – Birth of
Frida Kahlo ,
Leo Castelli ,
Charles Alston ,
Lee Miller ;
Pablo Picasso paints
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1906 in art –
Henri Matisse paints
Le bonheur de vivre ; Death of
Paul Cézanne , Birth of
Philip Johnson ,
David Smith
1905 in art – Birth of
Ruth Bernhard ,
Barnett Newman ,
Fauvists first exhibit;
Henri Matisse paints
Woman with a Hat
1904 in art – Birth of
Arshile Gorky ,
Paul Cadmus ,
Clyfford Still ,
Willem de Kooning ,
Salvador Dalí
1903 in art – Birth of
Mark Rothko ,
Adolph Gottlieb ,
Graham Sutherland ,
Joseph Cornell , Death of
Paul Gauguin ,
Hans Gude ,
Camille Pissarro ,
James McNeill Whistler , First
Salon d'Automne
1902 in art – Birth of
Ansel Adams ,
I. Rice Pereira , Death of
Albert Bierstadt , Death of
James Tissot ,
Rodin 's
The Thinker cast
1901 in art – Birth of
Alberto Giacometti , Death of
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ,
Picasso's Blue Period begins
1900 in art – Birth of
Yves Tanguy , Death of
Frederic Edwin Church
1890s
1899 in art – Death of
Alfred Sisley , Birth of
Isaac Frenkel Frenel
1898 in art – Birth of
Alexander Calder ,
Henry Moore ,
René Magritte ,
Ben Shahn ,
Peggy Guggenheim , and
Carrie Bethel
1897 in art –
Paul Gauguin paints
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
1896 in art – Death of
John Everett Millais
1895 in art – Death of
Berthe Morisot
1894 in art – Birth of
James Thurber ,
Norman Rockwell , Death of
Gustave Caillebotte
1893 in art – Birth of
Joan Miró ,
Chaïm Soutine ,
Fritz Ascher ,
Edvard Munch completes
The Scream
1892 in art –
Paul Gauguin paints
When Will You Marry? ; Birth of
Stuart Davis
1891 in art – Death of
Georges-Pierre Seurat , Birth of
Max Ernst ,
Otto Dix ,
George Ault
1890 in art – Death of
Vincent van Gogh , Birth of
Giorgio Morandi ,
Paul Strand ,
Egon Schiele ,
Naum Gabo
1880s
1889 in art – Birth of
Thomas Hart Benton ,
Rodin 's
The Burghers of Calais cast
1888 in art – Birth of
Joseph Csaky ,
Josef Albers ,
Seán Keating ,
Giorgio de Chirico , Death of
James Jackson Jarves ;
Vincent van Gogh begins his
Sunflowers series; Sir
Lawrence Alma-Tadema paints
The Roses of Heliogabalus
1887 in art – Birth of
Georgia O'Keeffe ,
Marc Chagall ,
Marcel Duchamp ,
Le Corbusier ,
Juan Gris ,
Alexander Archipenko ,
Andrew Dasburg ,
August Macke , Death of
Hippolyte Bayard
1886 in art – Birth of
Diego Rivera ,
Oskar Kokoschka ,
Mies van der Rohe ,
Robert Antoine Pinchon ,
Clément Serveau
1885 in art – Birth of
Jules Pascin ,
Robert Delaunay ,
Sonia Delaunay ,
Roger de La Fresnaye
1884 in art – Birth of
Amedeo Modigliani and
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler ;
Georges Seurat paints
Bathers at Asnières ;
Juan Luna paints the
Spoliarium
1883 in art – Birth of
Jean Metzinger ,
Charles Demuth ,
Walter Gropius ,
Gino Severini , Death of
Gustave Doré ,
Édouard Manet
1882 in art – Birth of
Edward Hopper ,
George Bellows ,
Georges Braque ,
Auguste Herbin ,
Umberto Boccioni .
Édouard Manet paints
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
1881 in art – Birth of
Pablo Picasso ,
Fernand Léger ,
Henri Le Fauconnier ,
Carlo Carrà ,
Max Pechstein ,
Albert Gleizes
1880 in art – Birth of
Hans Hofmann ,
Jacob Epstein ,
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ,
André Derain ,
Arthur Dove ,
Tobeen . Death of
Anselm Feuerbach ;
Anton Mauve completes Changing Pasture ;
Black Hawk begins a series of 76
ledger drawings .
1870s
1879 in art – Birth of
Edward Steichen ,
Paul Klee , and
Mungo Martin ; Death of
Honoré Daumier ,
Thomas Couture ,
George Caleb Bingham ,
Joseph Severn ,
William Morris Hunt
1878 in art – Birth of
Augustus John ,
Mary Cassatt paints
Portrait of the Artist ,
James Whistler sues
John Ruskin for libel
1877 in art – Birth of
Marsden Hartley ,
Kees van Dongen , Death of
Gustave Courbet
1876 in art – Birth of
August Sander
1875 in art – Death of
Jean-François Millet ,
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1874 in art –
First Impressionist Exhibition is held in a private studio outside the official
Paris Salon
1873 in art –
Monet ,
Renoir ,
Pissarro , and
Sisley organize the
Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes ; Birth of
Willie Seaweed
1872 in art – Birth of
Piet Mondrian ,
Claude Monet paints
Impression, Sunrise
1871 in art – Birth of
Jack Butler Yeats , Death of
Paul Kane ,
Whistler's Mother
1870 in art – Birth of
William Glackens ,
John Marin , and
Lucy Telles
1860s
1850s
1840s
1830s
1820s
1810s
1800s
1790s
1780s
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1750s
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Pre 1000
10th Century AD
9th Century AD
8th Century AD
7th Century AD
6th Century AD
5th Century AD
4th Century AD
3rd Century AD
2nd Century AD
1st Century AD
1st Century BC
2nd Century BC
3rd Century BC
5th Century BC
6th Century BC
7th Century BC
8th Century BC
9th Century BC
10th Century BC
2nd Millennium BC in art
1050 BC – The
Dunaverney flesh-hook
1100 BC – The Stele of Untash Napirisha and the Chinese
Ritual wine server
1200 BC – Stone sculptures at
San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán
1264 BC – The
Abu Simbel temples are founded.
1300 BC – The
Caergwrle Bowl ; the
Treasure of Villena ; the
Nefertiti Bust ; the death mask and throne of
Tutankhamen ; the Statue of Queen Napir-Asu ; the
Houmuwu ding
1370 BC – The
Minoan Moulds of Palaikastro
1400 BC – Anon.,
Cosmetic Spoon: Young Girl Swimming ; The
Luxor Temple is built; the
Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut ; the
astronomical ceiling of Senemut Tomb ; statue of
Thutmose III is built;
La Parisienne , and the
Hagia Triada Sarcophagus of Minoan Crete; the
Trundholm sun chariot ; the
Langstrup belt plate
1450 BC – The
Bull-Leaping Fresco , the
Pylos Combat Agate , and the
Palaikastro Kouros
1500 BC – The
Mycenaean palace amphora with octopus ,
Mask of Agamemnon , the
Theseus Ring , the
Balkåkra Ritual Object , and the
Sword of Ommerschans
1550 BC –
Prince of the Lilies and the
Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a
1600 BC – The
Gold Diadem of Caravaca , the
Minoan snake goddess figurines , the
Minoan Bull-leaper , the
Vaphio cups , the
Da He ding , and the
Shi zun
1650 BC – The
Hüseyindede vases
1700 BC –
Poverty Point constructed in Louisiana; the
Akrotiri Boxer Fresco ; the
Rillaton Gold Cup
1750 BC – The
Hove amber cup
1760 BC – The
Pyramid of Khendjer
1791 BC – The
Pyramid of Ameny Qemau
1796 BC – The
Bust of Amenemhat V
1800 BC – The
Nebra Sky Disc , the
Sword of Jutphaas , the
Malia Pendant , the
Investiture of Zimri-Lim , the
Thun-Renzenbühl axe , the
Burney Relief , and the
potbelly sculptures of Pre-Olmec Mesoamerica.
1802 BC – The
Northern Mazghuna pyramid
1806 BC – The
Southern Mazghuna pyramid and the
Statue of Sobekneferu
1814 BC – The
Black Pyramid
1839 BC – The
Pyramid of Senusret III
1850 BC – The
Aegina Treasure
1860 BC – The
Pedestals of Biahmu
1878 BC – The
Pyramid of Senusret II
1895 BC – The
White Pyramid
1900 BC –
Karnak Temple Complex ; the
Mold gold cape ; the
Bush Barrow gold lozenge
1926 BC – The
Pyramid of Senusret I
1961 BC –
William the Faience Hippopotamus
1962 BC – The
Pyramid of Amenemhat I
2000 BC –
Cashtal yn Ard , the
Priest-King ,
Woman Riding Two Bulls , and the
Angono Petroglyphs in the Philippines
3rd Millennium BC in art
2049 BC –
Seahenge
2050 BC – The
Ziggurat of Ur , the
Stela of the Gatekeeper Maati , the
Limestone Statue of the Steward Mery , and the
Limestone Stela of Tjetji
2090 BC – The
Statue of Iddi-Ilum
2150 BC – The
Saint-Bélec slab
2184 BC – The
Pyramid of Pepi II
2200 BC – The
Statues of Gudea and the
Alaca Höyük bronze standards
2250 BC – The
Bassetki Statue and the
Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
2270 BC – The Statue of
Manishtushu
2278 BC – The
Pyramid of Merenre
2287 BC – The
Pyramid of Pepi I
2300 BC – The
Labbacallee wedge tomb , the
Senegambian stone circles , the
Hurrian foundation pegs , the
Dancing Girl , the
Anubanini rock relief , the
Pömmelte ring sanctuary , and the
Coggalbeg hoard
2333 BC – The
Pyramid of Teti
2345 BC – The
Pyramid of Unas
2350 BC – The
Pashupati Seal
2385 BC – The
Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi
2420 BC – The
Headless Pyramid
2430 BC – The
Pyramid of Nyuserre
2450 BC – The
Statuette of Neferefre and the
Pyramid of Neferefre
2455 BC – The
Pyramid of Neferirkare
2475 BC – The
Pyramid of Sahure
2490 BC – The
Pyramid of Userkaf
2500 BC – The
Statue of Ebih-Il ;
Silbury Hill is constructed; the
Kernosivsky idol ; the
Mastabat al-Fir'aun
2510 BC – The
Pyramid of Menkaure
2530 BC – The
Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan
2550 BC – The
Great Sphinx of Giza , the
Pyramid of Khafre ,
Khafre Enthroned , the
Lyres of Ur , and the
Bull Headed Lyre of Ur
2560 BC – The
Pyramid of Djedefre and the Sphinx of
Hetepheres II
2570 BC – The
Great Pyramid of Giza and the
Khufu Statuette
2575 BC – The
Red Pyramid
2600 BC –
Standard of Ur is created;
Stele of the Vultures ;
Ram in a Thicket ; the
Tell al-'Ubaid Copper Lintel ; the
Copper Bull ; the
Bent Pyramid
2630 BC – The
Layer Pyramid
2645 BC – The
Buried Pyramid
2670 BC – The
Pyramid of Djoser is built;
2800 BC – The
Vučedol dove
2900 BC – The
Tell Asmar Hoard and the
Stele of Ushumgal
2985 BC – The
MacGregor plaque
3000 BC –
Stonehenge ,
King Orry's Grave , and
Avebury are estimated to have been constructed; the
Sieben Steinhäuser stones are erected; cave paintings at
Dhambalin in Somalia; the
Guennol Lioness ; the Nevsha Stele
Neolithic
3100 BC –
Mask of Warka , earliest surviving depiction of human face is built; Proto-Elamite
Kneeling Bull with Vessel ; the
Battlefield Palette , the
Bull Palette , the
Hunters Palette , the
Blau Monuments , the
Scorpion Macehead , the
Narmer Palette and the
Narmer Macehead
3150 BC – The
Tarxien Temples are built.
3200 BC –
Newgrange and
Knowth are formed; the
Warka Vase
3300 BC – The Four Dogs Palette , the
Tell Brak Head , and the
Uruk Trough
3400 BC – The
Bronocice pot
3450 BC – The
Gebel el-Arak Knife
3500 BC – Rock paintings at
Laas Geel ; the
El-Amra clay model of cattel ; the
Nahal Mishmar hoard in the Levant;
Watson Brake in Louisiana
3600 BC – The
Mnajdra on the isle of
Malta ; The
Ġgantija temple on the island of
Gozo ; Rock art at
Züschen
3700 BC – The
Ħaġar Qim temple.
4000 BC – Rock paintings at
Twyfelfontein ;
Creevykeel Court Tomb in Ireland; Rock art at
Sabu-Jaddi
4200 BC –
Poulnabrone dolmen is erected in Ireland; the
Rock carvings at Alta are made
4500 BC – The
Carnac stones are erected in France.
4700 BC – The
Locmariaquer megaliths are erected in France.
4800 BC – The cairn of
Barnenez and the
Tumulus of Bougon
4900 BC – The
Goseck Circle
5000 BC –
Sydney rock engravings and the
Stone circles of Hong Kong
5500 BC – The
rock engravings of Oued Djerat
5700 BC – The
Goddess on the Throne
6000 BC – The
Bangudae Petroglyphs
7000 BC – Tradition of making
Plaster Skulls in
Jericho and
'Ain Ghazal in the Levant; rock paintings at the
Tibesti Mountains
7500 BC – Stone circle at
Nabta Playa
8000 BC – Paintings at
Roca dels Moros , the
Cueva de las Manos , and the
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica ; the rock paintings at
Tadrart Rouge , the
Coso Rock Art District , and the
Apollo 11 Cave ; the
Edakkal caves petroglyphs; the
Cooper Bison skull
9000 BC – Engraving of
Dabous Giraffes in
Niger ;
Göbekli Tepe ; the
Ain Sakhri figurine ; rock paintings at
Caverna da Pedra Pintada and the
Toquepala Caves ;
Wurdi Youang ;
Urfa Man ; the
Venus of Monruz
10,000 BC – The
Wolverine pendant of Les Eyzies ; First paintings at
Tassili n'Ajjer , the
Bhimbetka rock shelters ,
Tambun cave , and the
Gwion Gwion rock paintings ; the
Shigir Idol ; the
Robin Hood Cave Horse
Mesolithic
Upper Paleolithic
13,000 BC – Engravings in the
Cave of the Trois-Frères , most notably
The Sorcerer (cave art) ;
Swimming Reindeer
15,000 BC – Paintings created at
Lascaux and
Creswell Crags
16,000 BC –
Badanj Cave engravings
17,000 BC – Paintings at
Grotte de Gabillou
19,000 BC – Rock paintings at
Namadgi National Park
20,000 BC –
Bison Licking Insect Bite created at
la Madeleine in France;
Venus of Laussel ; The paintings at the
Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley ,
Siega Verde ,
Serra da Capivara , and the
Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve
21,000 BC – The
Venus figurines of Mal'ta and the
Venus of Buret'
22,000 BC – Cave paintings at
Tsodilo and the
Venus of Moravany
23,000 BC – The
Venus of Savignano
25,000 BC –
Venus of Brassempouy ; the cave paintings of
Pech Merle
26,000 BC – The
Venus of Lespugue
27,000 BC – The paintings at
Cosquer Cave .
28,000 BC –
Venus of Willendorf and the
Venus of Galgenberg ; the paintings at the
Caves of Arcy-sur-Cure ,
Gabarnmung , and
HaYonim Cave
29,000 BC – The
Venus of Dolní Věstonice
30,000 BC – paintings at
Chauvet Cave in France;
Löwenmensch figurine
35,600 BC – paintings at the
Cave of Altamira ; the
Venus of Hohle Fels
40,000 BC –
Mask of la Roche-Cotard created by
neanderthal ;
Pre-Estuarine Tradition begins at
Ubirr in northern Australia; cave paintings at
Lubang Jeriji Saléh and the
Caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst in Indonesia; the
Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave ; and the figurines from
Vogelherd Cave
45,000 BC – Rock paintings at
Murujuga
50,000 BC – The
Giant deer bone of Einhornhöhle
Middle Paleolithic
Lower Paleolithic