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200+ Famous Artist Birthdays

Artist Birthdays

Kids love to celebrate birthdays, so what better time to introduce a new artist than on (or near) that artist’s birthday? My “Artist Birthdays” list will help you plan all your artist-inspired lessons. Plus, I’ve added links to more pages with helpful info and lesson plans on Teach Kids Art

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(Artists pictured at top of post… top row, L to R: Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso; bottom row, L to R: Frida Kahlo, Leonardo DaVinci, M.C. Escher)

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JANUARY Artist Birthdays

01 – Clementine Hunter (1887-1988)
01 – Alfred Steiglitz (1864-1446)
04 – Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)
05 – Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
10 – Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)
12 – John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
14 – Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
19 – Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Lessons inspired by Paul Cezanne on Teach Kids Art
21 – Jeff Koons (1955)
23 – Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
24 – Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
28 – Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Lessons inspired by Jackson Pollock on Teach Kids Art
28 – Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022)
29 – Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
29 – Peter Voulkos (1924-2002)

FEBRUARY Artist Birthdays

01 – Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
01 – Takashi Murakami (1962)
02 Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913)
Lessons inspired by Jose Guadalupe Posada on Teach Kids Art
03 Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
04 – Fernand Leger (1881-1955)
08 – Franz Marc (1880-1916)
09 – Robert Morris (1931-2018)
12 – Max Beckmann (1884-1950)
13 – Grant Wood (1891-1942)
Lessons inspired by Grant Wood on Teach Kids Art
18 – Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)
20 – Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
22 – Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860)
24 – Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
25 – Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

MARCH Artist Birthdays

(March is Youth Art Month!)
02 – Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel (1904-1991)
Lessons inspired by Dr. Seuss on Teach Kids Art
06 – Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)
07 – Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Lessons inspired by Piet Mondrian on Teach Kids Art
09 – David Smith (1906-1965)
12 – Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989)
13 – George Rodrigue (1944-2013)
21 – Hans Hoffman (1880-1966)
22 – Yayoi Kusama (1929)
23 – Juan Gris (1887-1927)
24 – William Morris (1834-1896)
24 – Edward Weston (1886-1958)
30 – Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
30 – Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Lessons inspired by Vincent van Gogh on Teach Kids Art

APRIL Artist Birthdays

02 – Max Ernst (1891-1976)
04 – Edward Hicks (1780-1849)
05 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593)
05 – Jean Fragonard (1732-1806)
06 – Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520)
09 – Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)
12 – Robert Delaunay (1885-1941)
Lessons inspired by Robert Delaunay on Teach Kids Art
15 – Thomas Hart Benton (1889 – 1975)
15 – Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Lessons inspired by Leonardo da Vinci on Teach Kids Art
20 – Joan Miro (1893-1983)
Lessons inspired by Joan Miro on Teach Kids Art
21 – Francesco de Mura (1696-1782)
23 – Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
24 – Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
24 – Bridget Riley (1931)
Lessons inspired by Bridget Riley on Teach Kids Art
26 – John James Audubon (1785-1851)
26 – Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
28 – Yves Klein (1928-1962)

MAY Artist Birthdays

04 – Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Lessons inspired by Keith Haring on Teach Kids Art
06 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
09 – Francois Pompon (1855-1933)
Lessons inspired by Francois Pompon on Teach Kids Art
11 – Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Lessons inspired by Salvador Dali on Teach Kids Art
12 – Frank Stella (1936-2024)
13 – Georges Braque (1882-1963)
14 – Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
15 Jasper Johns (1930)
Lessons inspired by Jasper Johns on Teach Kids Art
21 – Albrecht Dürer (1472-1528)
21 – Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
22 – Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
23 – Franz Kline (1910-1962)
26 – Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
27 – Georges Rouault (1871-1958)
31 – Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)

JUNE Artist Birthdays

06 – Diego Velazquez (1599-1660)
06 – John Trumbull (1756-1843)
07 – Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
07 – Damien Hirst (1965)
08 – Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
10 – André Derain (1880-1954)
10 – Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
10 – Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)
11 – John Constable (1776-1837)
11 – Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
13 – Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935-2020)
16 – Jim Dine (1935)
Lessons inspired by Jim Dine on Teach Kids Art
17 – M.C. Escher (1898-1972)
Lessons inspired by M.C. Escher on Teach Kids Art
25 – Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)
25 – Robert Henri (1865-1929)
25 – Eric Carle (1929-2021)
Lessons inspired by Eric Carle on Teach Kids Art
28 – Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

JULY Artist Birthdays

03 – John Singleton Copely (1738-1815)
03 – Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
05 – Chuck Close (1940-2021)
06 – Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Lessons inspired by Frida Kahlo on Teach Kids Art
06 – Jamie Wyeth (1946)
07 – Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Lessons inspired by Marc Chagall on Teach Kids Art
08 – Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)
08 – Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)
09 – David Hockney (1937)
10 – Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
10 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
10 – Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
11 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593)
11 – James Abbott McNeil Whistler (1834-1903)
12 – Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920)
Lessons inspired by Modigliani on Teach Kids Art
12 – Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
14 – Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Lessons inspired by Gustav Klimt on Teach Kids Art
15 – Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
19 – Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
22 – Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
22 – Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Lessons inspired by Alexander Calder on Teach Kids Art
24 – Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)
25 – Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
26 – Andy Goldsworthy (1956)
Lessons inspired by Andy Goldsworthy on Teach Kids Art
28 – Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
28 – Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
29 – Jenny Holzer (1950)
30 – Henry Moore (1898-1986)

AUGUST Artist Birthdays

01 – Arthur Dove (1880-1946)
02 – John Sloan (1871-1951)
05 – Tom Thomson (1877-1917)
06 – John Robertson Reid (1851-1926)
06 – Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Lessons inspired by Andy Warhol on Teach Kids Art
07 – Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
09 – Pierre-Étienne Monnot (1657-1733)
15 – Leonard Baskin (1922-2000)
17 – Larry Rivers (1923-2002)
19 – Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
21 – Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)
22 – Archibald Willard (1836-1918)
25 – Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012)
27 – Man Ray (1890-1976)
29 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
30 – Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

SEPTEMBER Artist Birthdays

(International Dot Day September 15th)

01 – Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953)
02 – Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
07 – Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma Moses) (1860-1961)
07 – Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
12 – Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
13 – Robert Indiana (1928-2018)
13 – Anne Geddes (1956)
15 – Jean Hans Arp (1886-1966)
18 – José de Rivera (1904-1985)
20 – Dale Chihuly (1941)
Lessons inspired by Dale Chihuly on Teach Kids Art
22 – Alma Thomas (1891-1978)
23 – Louise Nevelson (1900-1988)
Lessons inspired by Louise Nevelson on Teach Kids Art
25 – Mark Rothco (1903-1970)
26 – Theodore Gericault (1791-1824)
27 – Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
29 – Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) (1571-1610)

OCTOBER Artist Birthdays

02 – Annie Leibovitz (1949)
03 – Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947)
04 – Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)
04 – Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
06 – Romero Britto (1963)
Lessons inspired by Romero Britto on Teach Kids Art
08 – Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)
10 – Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
10 – Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
11 – George Ault (1891-1948)
12 – Al Held (1928-2005)
12 – Guido Molinari (1933-2004)
19 – Peter Max (1937)
21 – Mary Blair (1911-1978)
22 – N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945)
22 – Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
25 – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Lessons inspired by Pablo Picasso on Teach Kids Art
27 – Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
30 – Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
31 – Johannes (Jan) Vermeer (1632-1675)
31 – Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

NOVEMBER Artist Birthdays

02 – Jean Baptiste Chardin (1699-1779)
03 – Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
04 – Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656)
Lessons inspired by Gerard van Honthorst on Teach Kids Art
04 – Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
05 – Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918)
08 – Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
10 – William Hogarth (1697-1764)
11 – Paul Signac (1863-1935)
11 –  Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
11 – Roberto Matta (1911-2002)
12 – Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
14 – Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Lessons inspired by Claude Monet on Teach Kids Art
14 – Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979)
Lessons inspired by Sonia Delaunay on Teach Kids Art
14 – John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)
15 – Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
Lessons inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe on Teach Kids Art
15 – Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021)
19 – Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665)
21 – René Magritte (1898-1967)
Lessons inspired by Rene Magritte on Teach Kids Art
23 – José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949)
24 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
25 – Maurice Denis (1870-1943)
26 – Charles Schulz (1922-2000)
26 – George Segal (1924-2000)
28 – William Blake (1757-1827)

DECEMBER Artist Birthdays

01 – Marie Tussaud (1761-1850)
02 – Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Lessons inspired by Georges Seurat on Teach Kids Art
03 – Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
06 – Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870)
07 – Stuart Davis (1892-1964)
08 – Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
12 – Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
12 – Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)
13 – Emily Carr (1871-1945)
15 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000)
16 – Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Lessons inspired by Wassily Kandinsky on Teach Kids Art
18 – Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Lessons inspired by Paul Klee on Teach Kids Art
22 – Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
23 – John Marin (1870-1953)
24 – Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
31 – Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Lessons inspired by Henri Matisse on Teach Kids Art
31 – Laurel Burch (1945-2007)
Lessons inspired by Laurel Burch on Teach Kids Art

EXACT DATE OF BIRTH UNKNOWN:

Giotto di Bondone (1266/1267-1337)
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio) (1488/1490-1576)

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