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Milestones: A Timeline of Gay and Lesbian Artists and History
It is, of course, impossible to create a truly comprehensive list of our artist ancestors. We can never know all the names of people who labored anonymously in ancient courts and over the centuries in cathedrals and town halls, in palaces and pavilions — but we can be sure, given the very nature of art, that vast numbers of them were what we now call "gay." This list constitutes a small but heartfelt act of gratitude and homage for what they did and what they have given us.
— Charles Leslie
The following timeline is a record of the history and influence of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered artists upon the world at large. It is a simple yet powerful list testifing to our existance. A few literary figures, composers, dancers and events are interspersed for continuity but this is mainly a list of visual artists.
The list is in order by date of birth with lesbians & women in red and gay men in blue. Please note that every name on this list is not necessarily gay but may be included as a timeline marker.
(This list is compiled and maintained by Wayne Snellen. Special thanks to Tee A. Corinne for sharing her list of lesbian artists with LLGAF and for her continuing support of this project. Also to Charles Leslie who has made many helpful suggestion. If you would like to be included email me. Be sure to specify your birthdate, nationality, and type of artist.)
For sources see bottom of page.
1000 B.C.E.
1 C.E. | 1300 | 1400
| 1500 | 1600 | 1700
| 1800 | 1850 | 1860
| 1870 | 1880 | 1890
1900 | 1910 | 1920
| 1930 | 1940 | 1950
| 1960 | 1970 | 1980
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Ancient |
30,000 B.C.E. |
Cave paintings at Lascaux, Venus of Willendorf and those ithyphallic figures |
| 4,000 B.C.E. | Sumerian writing appears | |
| 3,000 B.C.E. | Copper in wide use in Egypt & Near East | |
| 2900 - 2700 B.C.E. | Great Pyramids & Great Sphinx at Giza | |
| 2700 B.C.E. | Gilgamesh (Gilgamesh & Enkidu recorded c. 628 B.C.E.). In this legendary friendship many scholars see a homosexual subtext. | |
| 2460 B.C.E. | Niankhkhnum & Khnumhotep (two Egyptian lovers or brothers buried together) | |
| 2000 B.C.E. | Bronze Age in Europe | |
| 1500 B.C.E. | Stonehenge constructed in England | |
| 1390 - 1330 B.C.E. | Alabaster statue of Pharaoh Akhenaten (18th Dynasty) and Prince Smenkhcara. NOTE: Akhenaten, also called Nefer-Kheperu-Ra and husband of Queen Nefertiti commanded an unknown court sculptor to style Smenkhcara as "The Beloved of Akhnaten" and to render them in alabaster in a conjunction that is considerably more than fraternal and was indeed a jutaposition that was reserved for images of a husband and wife. |
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| 1000 B.C.E. | David, King of Israel (Some scholars see a homosexual subtext in the friendship between David & Jonathan, Ruth & Naomi, and, indeed, even between Jesus and John) | |
| 950 B.C.E. | Solomon's Temple built in Jerusalem | |
| 800 B.C.E. | Homeric epics Iliad & Odyssey recorded in Greece | |
| 776 B.C.E. | Olympic Games in Greece founded | |
| 753 B.C.E. | Rome founded by Romulus | |
| 612 - ? B.C.E. | Sappho, poet | |
| 525 B.C.E. | Buddha's Great Enlightenment | |
| Greek & Roman Classical | 322 - 443 B.C.E. | Pindar, Greek musician & poet |
| 450 - 420 B.C.E. | Polykleitos, referring to the Doryphoros Pliny stated, "he alone of human kind is deemed to have emboided the principles of his art in a single work." | |
| ca. 490 - 430 B.C.E. | Phidias, Greek sculptor, artistic director of the construction of the Parthenon | |
| 447 - 432 B.C.E. | Parthenon erected in Athens | |
| 375 - 340 B.C.E. | Praxiteles, Greek sculptor | |
| 399 B.C.E. | Death of Socrates | |
| fl. 390 B.C.E. | Lysippos, personal sculptor to Alexander the Great. | |
| (NOTE: The Greek artists Phidias, Polykleitos, Lysippos and Praxiteles, regardless of their own sexuality — and dozens of other artists, produced countless images of male lovers in which the Greek world was awash; e.g., innumerable bronzes and marbles of Zeus and Ganymede, Achilles and Patroklus, Herakles and Iolaus, Herakles and Hylas, Dionysius and Ampelos, Apollo and Hyakinthos, Orestes and Pylades, and Harmodius and Aristogeiton | ||
| 221 - 206 B.C.E. | Great Wall of China | |
| 65 - 5 B.C.E. | Horace, Greek poet, | |
| 38 B.C.E. | Laocoon | |
| 4 B.C.E. | Birth of Jesus of Nazareth | |
| 1 B.C.E. | Reclining Hermaphrodite, Greek | |
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| 32 C.E. | St. Peter (first Pope) | |
| 72 - 80 C.E. | Colosseum built in Rome | |
| 79 C.E. | Pompeii & Herculaneum buried by Mt. Vesuvius (many homoerotic scenes were painted on the walls of Pompeii | |
| 88 C.E. | Pope Clement I (first Pope for whom any reliable information is known) | |
| 105 C.E. | Invention of paper in China | |
| 117 - 138 C.E. | Hadrian & Antinuous, Emperor Hadrian in his agony of grief over the death of his young lover, the beautiful, Bythnian youth Antinuous, raised the boy to godhood. | |
| Throughout the Roman Empire hundreds of busts and full statues of Hadrian and Antinuous appeared. Although all the artists were not necessarily gay -- (but many surely were) -- all these busts and full statues were created to glorify and memorialize one of the great gay loves of history. | ||
| 140 C.E. | Venus of Milo, sculpture (rediscovered in 1820) | |
| 300 C.E. | Mayan Calendar | |
| 351 C.E. | Theodosius forbids the Olympic Games (approx.) | |
| 476 C.E. | Fall of Rome | |
| 523 - 537 C.E. | Hagia Sophia constructed in Constantinople | |
| 540 C.E. | Empress Theodora introduces long white dresses, purple cloaks, gold emproidery, tiaras, and pointed shoes | |
| 570 C.E. | Mohammad | |
| 658 - 680 C.E. | Caedmon, English poet | |
| 756 - 810 C.E. | Abu Nuwas, Arabian poet. Considered the greatest poet of his age in the Arab world and still revered although part of his work is now surpressed. One of the sections of his more than 5,000 surviving verses is devoted to "the love of youths." | |
| Byzantine | 800 C.E. | Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome |
| 801 C.E. | Charlemagne prohitits prostitution | |
| 932 - 953 C.E. | The "Nine Classics" were first printed from woodblocks in China | |
| 950 C.E. | The temples of Kahjuraho, an enigma to this day, they are covered with sculptural images of gods, goddesses and a sacred elite engaged in every manner of sexual congress including one strong image of a priest performing "auparishtaka", a sacred act of fellatio, on a visiting prince. | |
| 990 C.E. | Development of systematic musical notation | |
| 1048 - 1122 C.E. | Omar Khayyam, Persian poet & astronomer | |
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| Romanesque | 1054 | The Great Schism between Greek Orthodox & Roman Catholic churches |
| 1073 | Pope Gregory VII orders Sappho's works destroyed in public bonfires in Rome and Constantinople | |
| 1074 | Excommunication of married priests | |
| 1088 | Chung-Jen, Chinese painter & priest paints with India ink on silk | |
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| 1120 | Angkor Vat founded in Cambodia | |
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| Gothic | 1200 | University of Paris founded |
| 1215 | Magna Carta signed by King John of England | |
| 1240 - 1302 | Cimabue, Italian painter | |
| 1244 - 1314 | Jacques De Molay, 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templer. Burned at the stake for denying Christ and trampling on the Holy Cross but he steadfastly denounced the accusations that the Albigensian initiation ritual consisted of homosexual practices. | |
| 1250 | Oxford University founded | |
1267 - 1337 |
Giotto, Italian painter | |
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| Early Renaissance | 1305 - 1306 | Giotto paints frescoes in Arena Chapel, Padua |
| 1310 - 1321 | Dante writes Divine Comedy | |
| 1325 | Development of Noh plays in Japan | |
| 1350 | Black Plague throughout Europe | |
| 1350 | Boccaccio writes Decameron | |
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| 1420 | Oil paints came into general use | |
| 1421 | Peking established as capital of China | |
| 1431 | Joan of Arc burned at the stake at Rouen | |
| 1435 | Alberti writes della Pittura, treatise on Renaissance painting | |
| 1445-1510 | Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter | |
| 1452-1519 | Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter & scientist | |
| 1456 | Gutenberg prints Bible with movable type | |
| 1467 - 1516 | Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Italian, painter (student & lover of da Vinci) | |
| High Renaissance | 1475-1564 | Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor, architect, painter, poet |
| 1477-1549 | Giovanni Antonio Bazzi aka Il Sodoma, Italian painter | |
| 1465 | First printed music | |
| 1490 | Beginnings of ballet in Italian courts | |
| 1492 | Columbus reaches New World | |
| 1494-1557 | Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo, Italian painter | |
| 1498 | Savonarola burned at the stake in Florence (b. 1452) | |
| 1498 | Leonardo paints Last Supper in Milan | |
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| 1500-1571 | Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor, goldsmith, writer | |
| 1503-1572 | Agnolo Bronzino, painter | |
| 506 | "Laocoon" group unearthed in Rome | |
| 1511 | Vitruvius' De Architectura republished | |
| 1514 | Correggio discovers chiaroscuro | |
| 1519 - 1522 | Magellan circumnavigates the world | |
| Mannerism | 1529 | Women seen for first time on Italian stages |
| 1534 | Jesuit Order founded | |
| 1542 | Pope Paul III establishes Inquisition in Rome | |
| 1542 - 1543 | Portuguese first Europeans to visit Japan | |
| 1543 | Copernicus published theory that the planets orbit the sun | |
| 1558 | Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603) ascends the throne to became the queen of England | |
| 1550 | Vasari writes Lives of Artists | |
| 1573-1610 | Michelangelo da Caravaggio, painter | |
| 1564 - 1593 | Cristopher Marlowe, the greatest English playwrite before Shakespeare, "He who loves not tobacco and boys is a fool" | |
| 1564 - 1616 | William Shakespeare, the greatest English playwrte ever, and think of those sonnets to Master W.H...need I say more. In the 1640 edition John Benson changed all the "he" pronouns to read "she." | |
| 1588 | The defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English | |
| 1597 | Daphne, first opera, composed by Rinuccini and Peri | |
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| 1601 - 1602 | Shakespeare writes Hamlet | |
| 1602 - 1654 | Jerome Dusquesnoy, Flemish sculptor, executed for sodomy | |
| 1604 | Cervantes writes Don Quixote | |
| 1611 | King James Bible published | |
| 1619 | First Negro slaves in English North America | |
| 1620 | Pilgrims settle at Plymouth | |
| 1625 - 1689 | Kristina, (Queen of Sweden 1644 - 1654) | |
| 1626 | Peter Minuit buys Manhattan | |
| 1632 | Taj Mahal built | |
| 1642 | Rembrandt paints Nightwatch | |
| 1655 - 1743 | Vittore Ghislandi (Fra Galgario), Italian painter | |
| 1663 | Milton writes Paradise Lost | |
| 1669 | Palace of Versailles begun | |
| 1685 | Handel & Bach | |
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| Rococo | 1710 | Meissen produces first true porcelain in Europe |
| Fl. 1720 | Margaret Clap (known as Mother Clap). Ran the best known and most popular molly house in 18th c. London | |
| 1721 | Bach composes Brandenburg Concertos | |
| 1741 | Handel composes Messiah | |
| 1741 - 1825 | Henry Fuseli, Swiss artist, writer | |
| 1753 | Foundation of British Museum | |
| Neoclassism | 1755 - 1831 | Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor Butler |
| 1757-1822 | Antonio Canova, painter | |
| 1759 | Voltaire writes Candide | |
| 1767 - 1824 | Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, French painter | |
| 1769 | Watt invents steam engine | |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence | |
| 1779 - 1843 | Washington Allston, American painter | |
| 1789 | George Washington becomes President | |
| 1790 - 1833 | Goethe writes Faust | |
| 1793 | Grand Gallery of Louvre opened | |
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| Romanticism | c. 1800 - c. 1992 | Mary Ann Willson (Wilson), American painter, activist |
| 1805 - 1807 | Beethoven composed the Fifth Symphony | |
| 1809 - 1864 | Hippolyte Flandrin, French painter -- heterosexual -- but best known for his painting, "Nude Young Man Seated on a Rock" (1835/6), which became an icon of gay imagery after Wilhelm von Gloeden took a photograph of a young man in the identical pose around 1900. | |
| 1815 - 1882 | Emma Stebbins, sculptor | |
| 1818 | Byron begins Don Juan | |
| 1819 - 1892 | Walt Whitman, poet | |
| fl. 1810 - 1825 | Mary Ann Willson, American, drawing & watercolor | |
| 1821-1915 | Ann Whitney, sculptor | |
| 1822-1899 | Rosa (Marie Rosalie) Bonheur, French painter | |
| 1825-1895 | Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, -- considered the grandfather of gay liberation. | |
| Hudson River School | 1827-1910 | William Holman Hunt, painter |
| 1830 - 1908 | Harriet Hosmer, sculptor | |
| 1830-1919 | Emma Jane Gay, photographer | |
| Realism | 1835 - 1902 | Samuel Butler, British painter & writer |
| 1837-1913 | Okuhara Seiko, Japanese, poet & painter | |
| 1837 - 1887 | Hans von Marees, German painter | |
| 1840-1905 | Simeon Solomon, British painter | |
| 1845 - 1909 | Mary Edmonia Lewis, American sculptor, (may have been lesbian) | |
| 1843 - 1917 | Zahrtmann (Peter Henrik) Kristian, Danish painter | |
| 1844-1916 | Thomas Eakins, American painter | |
| 1844-1927 | Victorine Meurent, painter | |
| Pre-Raphaelites | 1848 - 1894 | Gustave Caillebotte, painter |
| 1849 - 1896 | Weiwha, Native American "berdache" (Zuni) | |
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| Arts & Crafts | 1852-1921 | Seisui, painter, (female) |
| 1852 - 1929 | Vincenzo Gemito, Italian sculptor | |
| 1852 - 1930 | Wilhelm von Pluchow, photographer | |
| 1854 - 1900 | Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, dramatist, wit | |
| 1856 - 1925 | John Singer Sargent, American painter | |
| 1856 - 1942 | Anna Klumpke, painter | |
| 1856 - 1931 | Wilhelm von Gloeden, German photographer | |
| 1850 - 1935 | Mary Lowndes, British, stained glass | |
| 1858 - 1927 | Louise Abbema, painter | |
| 1858 - 1927 | Henry Scott Tuke, British painter | |
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| 1860 | Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" published | |
| 1860 - 1913 | Frederick William Rolfe, British artist, writer | |
| 1861 - 1865 | American Civil War | |
| 1961 - 1935 | Dorothy Kate Richmond, New Zealand, painter | |
| 1861-1943 | Edith S. Watson, photographer | |
| 1861-1951 | Ethel Walker, painter | |
| 1862 - 1915 | Eugene Jansson, Swedish painter | |
| 1862-1928 | Loie Fuller (The Electric Fairy), dancer | |
| Impressionism | 1863 | "Salon des Refuses" in Paris |
| 1863 - 1929 | Carl von Platen, Swedish photographer | |
| 1863-1937 | Charles Shannon, painter (partner of Charles Ricketts) | |
| 1864-1933 | Fred Holland Day, American photographer | |
| 1864-1952 | Frances Benjamin Johnston, photographer | |
| 1865 | Yale University opens first Dept. of Fine Arts in U.S. | |
| 1865 - 1941 | Elizavera Kruglikova, Russian, printmaker (painter?) | |
| 1865-1950 | Elsie De Wolfe (Lady Mendl), American interior designer | |
| 1866-1931 | Charles Ricketts (partner of Charles Shannon), painter | |
| 1866-1952 | Alice Austen, photographer | |
| 1867 - 1948 | Dora Ohlfsen, Australian sculptor | |
| 1867 | Karl Heinrich Ulrichs made a speech urging the repeal of sodomy laws in Germany | |
| 1876-1939 | Gwen John, painter, , bisexual | |
| 1869-1929 | La Goulue (Louise Weber), dancer | |
| 1869-1947 | Frances Hodgkins, painter | |
| 1969 - 1951 | Andre Gide, French, author & Nobel Prize winner | |
| 1869-1958 | Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, architect | |
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1870 - 1925 |
Magnus Enckell,
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| 1870-1949 | Etta Cone, collector, amateur photographer | |
| 1872 - 1929 | Sergi Diaghilev, dance producer | |
| 1872 - 1942 | Elisar von Kupffer, German painter and poet | |
| 1872 - 1898 | Aubrey Beardsley, painter | |
| 1873 - 1962 | Ethel Sands, painter | |
| 1874 - 1951 | J(oseph) C(hristian) Leyendecker, German-American painter, illustrator | |
| 1874 - 1961 | Violet Oakley, American, painter, illustrator | |
| 1874 - 1970 | Romaine Brooks, American painter | |
| 1875 | The "Hermes" of Praxiteles found at Olympia, Greece | |
| 1876 - 1972 | Natalie Clifford Barney, amateur photographer | |
| 1877 - 1943 | Marsden Hartley, American painter | |
| 1878 - 1939 | Kuz'ma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkim, Russian, painter | |
| ca. 1878 - | Evelyn Wyld, designer | |
| 1878 - 1939 | Jessie Lillian Buckland, photographer | |
| 1878 - 1976 | Eileen Gray, architect, designer | |
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| Post-Impressionism | 1880 | Metropolitian Museum of Art opened |
| Nabis | 1880 - 1964 | Carl Van Vechten, American photographer, writer, |
| ca. 1881 - 1964 | Kate Weatherby | |
| Fauvism | 1881?-1968 | Florence Wyle, sculptor |
| 1882 - 1973 | Evelyn Wyld, designer | |
| 1883 - 1935 | Charles Demuth, American painter | |
| 1884 - 1937 | Glyn Philpot, English, painter | |
| 1885 - 1965 | GAN (Gosta Adrian Nilsson), Swedish painter | |
| ca. 1885 - 1952 | Margarethe Mather, photographer | |
| 1885 - 1956, | Marie Laurencan, painter, bisexual | |
| 1883 - 1964 | Jane Heap, wrote about art & owned gallery | |
| 1885 - 1975 | Clara Sipprell, American photographer | |
| 1885 - 1978 | Duncan Grant, British painter | |
| 1886 - 1931 | Lili Elbe (Einar Wegener), Danish painter, | |
| 1886 - 1972 | Ella Louise Naper (nee Champion), bisexual | |
| 1887 - 1963 | Una Troubridge, born Una Elena Taylor, Lady Troubridge, sculptor | |
| 1887 - 1966 | Malvina Hoffman, sculptor | |
| 1887? - 1968 | Frances Loring, sculptor | |
| 1894 - 1970 | Mariette Lydis, Vienna-born painter, bisexual | |
| 1888 - 1989 | Eleanor Raymond, architect | |
| 1887 - 1986 | Georgia O'Keeffe, American, painter | |
| 1889 - 1957 | James Whale, British film director | |
| 1889 - 1963 | Jean Cocteau, French painter, writer, filmmaker | |
| 1889 - 1978 | Hannah Hoch, German collagist, bisexual | |
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| Art Nouveau | 1890-1950 | Vaslav Nijinsky, dancer |
| 1890 - 1976 | Jeanne Mammen, German illustrator | |
| 1891-1956, | Cecile Walton, painter, bisexual | |
| 1891-1979 | Laura Gilpin, American photographer | |
| 1892 - 1953 | Hubert Stowitts, painter | |
| 1892-1982 | Djuna Barnes, painter | |
| 1892 - 1990 | Erte (Romain de Tirtoff), Russian-French designer, artist | |
| Modernism | 1893 | New Zealand gives women the right to vote -- USA not until 1919 |
| 1893-1968 | Mercedes De Acosta, amateur photographer | |
| 1894 - 1954 | Claude Cahun (Lucy Renee Matilde Schwob) French photographer | |
| 1894-1972 | Violet Keppel Trefusis, drawings | |
| 1894 - 1996 | Eyre de Lanux, American designer, (bisexual) | |
| 1895 - 1943 | Willem Arondeus, Dutch painter | |
| 1895 - 1957 | Ottone Rosai, Italian painter | |
| 1895-1978 | Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein), British painter | |
| Ashcan School | 1896 | "Die Jugend" & "Simplicissimus" important German art magazines first appear |
| 1897 | Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee
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| 1896 - 1956 | Filippo De Pisis, Italian painter | |
| 1897 - 1985 | Germaine Krull, photographer, (bisexual) | |
| 1898-1978 | Dorothy Hepworth, painter | |
| 1898?-1980 | Tamara De Lempicka, Polish painter, (bisexual) | |
| 1898-1957 | Pavel Tchelitchew, Russian painter, stage designer | |
| 1898 - 1977 | Ellis Wilson, African American painter | |
| 1898-1991 | Berenice Abbott, photographer, bi | |
| 1899-1965 | Elizabeth McCausland, critic | |
| 1899 - 1970 | Sir William Dobell, Australian painter | |
| 1899 - 1983 | George Cukor, American theater and film director | |
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| 1900 - 1935 | Rene Crevel, French Dadaist | |
| 1901-1970 | Thelma Wood, sculptor | |
| 1900-1971 | Patricia Preece, painter |
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| 1897-1979 | Dorothy Arzner, film director | |
| 1900-1982 | Betty Parsons, painter, art dealer | |
| 1900-1988 | Louise Nevelson, sculptor, bi | |
| 1900 - 1991 | Arno Breker, German sculptor | |
| 1901 - 1979 | Sir Norman Hartnell, British fashion designer and designer to the Queen and Queen Mother | |
| 1901 - 1979 | Beauford Delaney, American painter | |
| 1901 - 1989 | James Richmond Barthe, sculptor | |
| 1902 - 1949 | Christian Berard, French | |
| 1902 - 1972 | John Banting, British painter | |
| 1903 - 1957 | George Quaintance, American painter | |
| 1903 - 1975 | Herbert List, German photographer | |
| 1903 - 1996 | Count Eigil Knuth, Danish sculptor & explorer-archeologist | |
| 1904 - 1978 | Oliver Messel, British stage designer, artist | |
| 1904-1980 | Cecil Beaton, British photographer | |
| 1904 - 1990 | Angus McBean, British photographer | |
| 1904 - 1994 | Tatsuji Okawa, Japanese, painter | |
| 1904-1999 | Paul Cadmus, American painter | |
| Expressionism | 1905 | First regular cinema established in Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| 1905 - 1976 | Edward Burra, British painter | |
| 1905 - 1994 | Robert Medley, British set designer | |
| 1905 - 1988 | Jared French, American painter | |
| 1905 - | Ruth Bernhard, photographer, bisexual | |
| 1906 - 1976 | Luchino Visconti, Italian filmmaker & opera director | |
| 1906 - 1977 | John Beresford Fowler, British interior decorator | |
| 1906 - 1982 | Walter Battiss, So African | |
| 1906 - 1987 | Richard Bruce Nugent, American artist, writer | |
| 1906 - | Philip (Cortelyou) Johnson, American architect | |
| 1907 | Picasso's "Demoiselles d'Avignon" | |
| 1907 - 1954 | Frida Kahlo, Mexican Jewish painter, (bisexual) | |
| Cubism | 1907-1955 | George Platt Lynes, American photographer |
| 1907 - 1974 | Bruce of Los Angeles (Bruce Harry Bellas), American photographer | |
| 1907 - 1996 | Lincoln Kirstein, American art patron, writer, impresario | |
| 1908 - 1996 | Leonor Fini, Argentine-Italian artist, (bisexual) | |
| 1908 - 1999 | Quentin Crisp, British writer and public figure (attended many of LLGAF's openings) | |
| 1908 - 2000 | Gisele Freund, photographer | |
| 1909-1992 | Francis Bacon, British painter | |
| 1909 - 1999 | Horst (Horst P. Horst), German photographer | |
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| 1910 - 1957 | George Quaintance, painter | |
| 1910 - 1989 | Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter | |
| Der Blaue Reiter | 1911 - 1975 | Alexis Preller, South African, painter |
| 1912- 1992 | John Cage, American musician | |
| 1912 - 1977 | Keith Vaughan, English painter | |
| 1912 - 2004 | Agnes Martin, American painter | |
| 1911 - 1999 | Lon of New York (Alonzo Hanagan), photographer | |
| 1913 - 1999 | James Broughton, American filmaker | |
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| 1913 | The Armory Show in New York | |
| 1914 - 1918 | World War I | |
| 1915 - 1989 | Donald Friend, Australian painter, illustrator, writer | |
| ca. 1915 - | Go Hirano, Japanese, painter | |
| 1916-1982 | Martin Battersby, painter | |
| Dada | 1916 - 1986 | Brion Gysin, English Surrealist |
| 1916 - 1989 | Neel Bate aka Blade, American painter, illustrator | |
| 1916 - 1990 | Alfonso Ossorio, Flipino American painter and assemblagist | |
| 1917 - 1957 | John Minton, British painter, illustrator | |
| De Stijl | 1917 - 1983 | Lloyd Lozes Goff, American painter |
| 1917 - 2002 | Mary Meigs, painter | |
| 1918 - 1963 | Sonia Sekula, painter | |
| 1918 - 2003 | Rollie McKenna, photographer | |
| 1918 - | Bernard Perlin, American painter | |
| Bauhaus | 1919 - 1998 | Bill Ward, painter, illustrator |
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| Surrealism | 1920-1991 | Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen), Finnish painter, illustrator |
| 1920 - 2003 | Robert Blackburn, African American printmaker | |
| Art Deco | 1920 - | Peter Flinsch, German/Canadian, painter |
| 1920 - | George Tooker, American painter | |
| Harlem Renaissance | 1921-1963 | Joan Eardley, painter |
| 1921 - 1989 | Goh Mishima, Japanese, painter | |
| 1921 - | Jeffrey Smart, Australian painter | |
| 1922 - 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian filmaker | |
| 1922-1996 | Nell Blaine, painter, bi | |
| 1922 - 2002 | Darold Perkins (aka Perk), American painter | |
| 1922 - 1992 | Bob Mizer (Athletic Model Guild, AMG), photographer | |
| 1923 - | Ruth Mountaingrove, photographer | |
| 1923 - 1995 | Avel C. deKnight, African American painter | |
| 1923 - 2002 | Larry Rivers, American painter (bi?) | |
| 1923 - | Ellsworth Kelly, American painter | |
| 1924 - 1988 | Goh Mishima, Japanese illustrator (1921? - 1983?) | |
| 1924 - 2006 | Arlene Raven, American, a pioneering historian & advocate of women's art | |
| 1924 - | Kendall Shaw, painter | |
| 1925 - 1970 | Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer | |
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| ca. 1925 - | Rita Hammond, photographer | |
| 1925- | Robert Rauschenberg, American painter | |
| 1926 - 1994 | Philip Osborne, British painter | |
| 1927 - 1995 | Ray Johnson, American collagist | |
| 1928 | "The Well of Loneliness" by Radycliffe Hall published | |
| 1928 - | Cy Twombly, American painter | |
| 1928 - | Robert Indiana (Robert Clark), American painter | |
| ca. 1928 - 1973 | Tamotsu Yato, Japanese, photographer | |
| 1928 - 1987 | Andy Warhol, American painter, printmaker, filmmaker | |
| 1928 - 1989 | Gerhardt Liebmann, photographer | |
| 1929 | Museum of Modern Art opens | |
| 1929 | Stock market crash | |
| 1929 - 1982 | John Button, American painter | |
| 1929 - 1990 | Frank Weber aka Bastille, American, illustrator & painter | |
| 1929 - | Kenneth Anger (Kenneth Wilber Anglemyer), American filmmaker | |
| 1929 - | Betty Dodson,(bisexual) | |
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Gandhi (Mohandas K. Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi) |
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| 1930 - 1992 | Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer | |
| 1930- | Jasper Johns, American painter | |
| 1930 - | George Dureau, American photographer, painter | |
| 1930 - | Kay Tobin (Kay Lahusen), American photographer | |
| 1930 - | Roy Blakey, American photographer | |
| 1931 - | Geoffrey Hendricks, mixed media | |
| 1932 - 1989 | Jack Smith, American film & performance artist | |
| 1932 - | Sir Howard Hodgkin, British painter | |
| 1932 - | Duane Michals, American photographer | |
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