List of centenarians (artists)
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The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as artists – known for reasons other than their longevity
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| Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manuel Álvarez Bravo Manuel Álvarez Bravo Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican photographer.Álvarez Bravo was born in Mexico City on February 4, 1902. He came from a family of artists and writers, and met several other prominent artists who encouraged his work when he was young, including Tina Modotti and Diego Rivera... |
1902–2002 | 100 | Mexican photographer |
| Will Barnet Will Barnet Will Barnet is an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds.-Biography:... |
1911 – | American painter and printmaker | |
| Harland Bartholomew Harland Bartholomew Harland Bartholomew was an American urban planner. Although a civil engineer by training and disposition, Harland's career started just as the automobile production was about to take off, industrial development was booming and urban populations grew... |
1889–1989 | 100 | American urban planner Urban planner An urban planner or city planner is a professional who works in the field of urban planning/land use planning for the purpose of optimizing the effectiveness of a community's land use and infrastructure. They formulate plans for the development and management of urban and suburban areas, typically... |
| Ruth Bernhard Ruth Bernhard Ruth Bernhard was an American photographer.-Early life:Bernhard was born in Berlin and studied at the Berlin Academy of Art from 1925–27. Bernhard's father, Lucian Bernhard, was known for his poster and typeface design.-Photography career:In 1927 Bernhard moved to New York City, where her... |
1905–2006 | 101 | German-American photographer |
| Sorcha Boru Sorcha Boru Sorcha Boru was the assumed or studio name of Claire Everett Stewart, a potter and ceramic sculptor. Most of her works include small items such as figurines, vases, planters and salt and pepper shakers, mostly done in the art deco style... |
1900–2006 | 105 | American potter Pottery Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery . Pottery also refers to the art or craft of the potter or the manufacture of pottery... |
| Frank Leonard Brooks Frank Leonard Brooks -Biography:Born in London, England, Brooks arrived in Canada in 1912. Primarily self-taught, he did study at the Ontario College of Art and taught at the Central Technical School. He became an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1939.... |
1911–2011 | Canadian artist | |
| John Chessell Buckler John Chessell Buckler John Chessell Buckler was a British architect, the eldest son of the architect John Buckler. J.C. Buckler initially worked with his father before working for himself. His work included restorations of country houses and at the University of Oxford.-Career:Buckler received art lessons from the... |
1793–1894 | 100 | British architect Architect An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the... |
| Frederick Carder Frederick Carder Frederick Carder was an American artist and glassmaker. He was born in Staffordshire, England and attended Stourbridge School of Art and the Dudley Mechanic Institute, he later worked in Wordsley. In 1960, Alfred University honored Carder with an honorary doctorate degree.Frederick Carder married... |
1863–1963 | 100 | British-born American glassmaker and artist |
| Huguette M. Clark Huguette M. Clark Huguette Marcelle Clark , was the youngest daughter of former U.S. Senator and industrialist William A. Clark. She lived a reclusive life after 1930 and her activities were virtually unknown to the public. Upon her death in 2011, Clark left behind a vast fortune, most of which was donated to charity... |
1906–2011 | 104 | American artist and heiress |
| Alphaeus Philemon Cole Alphaeus Philemon Cole Alphaeus Philemon Cole was an American artist, engraver and etcher. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and died in New York City. He was the son of noted engraver Timothy Cole... |
1876–1988 | 112 | American painter |
| Robert Couturier | 1905–2008 | 103 | French sculptor |
| Sylvia Daoust Sylvia Daoust Sylvia Daoust, CM, CQ , born in Montreal, was one of the first female sculptors in Quebec. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal , but also studied in Europe... |
1902–2004 | 102 | Canadian sculptor |
| Boris Yefimov | 1899/1900–2008 | 108/109 | Russian cartoonist Cartoonist A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising... |
| Hans Erni Hans Erni Hans Erni is a Swiss painter, designer and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, he is known in particular for illustrating postage stamps, activism, lithographs for the Swiss Red Cross, and participation on the Olympic Committee. The Hans Erni Museum, situated in the grounds of the Swiss Museum of... |
1909 – | Swiss painter and sculptor | |
| Moisey Feigin Moisey Feigin Moisey Aleksandrovich Feigin was a Russian artist of Jewish extraction. Feigin held the Guinness World Records for the world's oldest professional working artist until his death in 2008 at the age of 103.... |
1904–2008 | 103 | Russian artist |
| Hannah Frank Hannah Frank Hannah Frank was an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland.Hannah was the daughter of a Jewish Russian refugee, Charles Frank, a notable camera maker, and grew up in the Laurieston district of the Gorbals. She studied art at the University of Glasgow... |
1908–2008 | 100 | Scottish sculptor |
| Margaret Gardiner Margaret Gardiner (artist) Margaret Gardiner was a radical modern British artist and resident of Hampstead, London, from 1932, where she was also a left wing political activist. She was also for a time the partner of Professor John Desmond Bernal the eminent scientist and political activist... |
1904–2005 | 100 | British artist and political activist |
| Rupprecht Geiger Rupprecht Geiger Rupprecht Geiger was an abstract painter and sculptor from Munich, Germany. He is perhaps best known for his color field paintings and for his passion for the color red.- Life and work :... |
1908–2009 | 101 | German painter |
| Temima Gezari Temima Gezari Temima Gezari was an American artist and art educator. Her life's work in painting and sculpture is presented in the photographic retrospective The Art of Temima Gezari, edited by her son, Daniel Gezari.... |
1905–2009 | 103 | Russian-American artist and arts educator |
| Bruno Giacometti Bruno Giacometti Bruno Giacometti is a Swiss architect and the brother of the artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti. He is among the most notable post-World War II architects in Switzerland.... |
1907 – | Swiss architect | |
| Kathleen Hale Kathleen Hale Kathleen Hale was a British artist, illustrator, and children's author. She is best remembered for her series of books about Orlando the Marmalade Cat.... |
1898–2000 | 101 | British illustrator Illustrator An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text... |
| Mary Rockwell Hook Mary Rockwell Hook Mary Rockwell Hook was an American architect and a pioneer for women in architecture. She designed throughout the United States.... |
1877–1978 | 101 | American architect |
| Clementine Hunter Clementine Hunter Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American folk artist from the Cane River region in Louisiana. She was born on a plantation said to be the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin worked as a farm hand, never learning to read or write... |
1886/87–1988 | 100/101 | American folk artist |
| Ion Irimescu Ion Irimescu Acad. Prof. Dr. Honoris Causa Ion Irimescu was one of Romania's greatest sculptors and sketchers as well as a Member of the Romanian Academy. In 2001 he was awarded the Prize of Excellence for Romanian Culture... |
1903–2005 | 102 | Romanian sculptor and sketcher |
| Max Kahn Max Kahn Max Kahn was a lithographer, painter and sculptor born in Slonim, Belarus in 1902. He worked until age 100 and died in 2005 at the age of 103... |
1902–2005 | 103 | Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,... sian-American lithographer Lithography Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface... , sculptor and painter |
| Motoichi Kumagai | 1909–2010 | 101 | Japanese photographer and illustrator |
| Eyre de Lanux Eyre de Lanux Eyre de Lanux, born Elizabeth Eyre, , was an American artist, writer, and art deco designer who created lacquered furniture and geometric patterned rugs in Paris during the 1920s... |
1894–1996 | 102 | American artist |
| Ulrich Leman Ulrich Leman Ulrich Leman was a German painter.Born in Düsseldorf, he became interested in painting at an early age and in 1919 he co-founded the group "The Young Rheinland" with other young painters of the day, including Otto Dix and Gert Heinrich Wollheim.During the early 1920s Ulrich Leman was a... |
1885–1988 | 102 | German painter |
| Stanley Cornwell Lewis Stanley Cornwell Lewis Stanley Cornwell Lewis MBE was a British portrait painter and illustrator.Lewis was born in Wales and studied at the Newport School of Art in Wales from 1923 to 1926. He was then awarded a place at the Royal College of Art where he studied from 1926 until 1930... |
1905–2009 | 103 | Welsh Wales Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²... illustrator and artist |
| Leonard Long Leonard Long Leonard Hugh Long OAM is an Australian painter of the Australian School of landscape painters.Born the son of a baker on 25 April 1911 in Summer Hill, New South Wales, Long is an Australian landscape artist in oils. He was raised in Mittagong on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales and... |
1911 – | Australian landscape painter | |
| Tamás Lossonczy Tamás Lossonczy Tamás Lossonczy was a Hungarian abstract painter born in Budapest. He is considered by many critics to be one of the leading figures of modern art in Hungary of the 20th century.... |
1904–2009 | 105 | Hungarian painter |
| Louis Maurer Louis Maurer Louis Maurer was a German-born American lithographer, and the father of the American painter Alfred Henry Maurer... |
1832–1932 | 100 | American lithographer and printer |
| Doris McCarthy Doris McCarthy Doris McCarthy, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian artist specializing in abstracted landscapes.Born in Calgary, Alberta, McCarthy attended the Ontario College of Art from , where she was awarded various scholarships and prizes... |
1910–2010 | 100 | Canadian painter |
| Donal McLaughlin Donal McLaughlin Donal McLaughlin was an American architect who played a major role in the design of the Flag of the United Nations.-Early life and education:... |
1907–2009 | 102 | American architect who helped design the Flag of the United Nations Flag of the United Nations The flag of the United Nations was adopted on October 20, 1947, and consists of the official emblem of the United Nations in white on a blue background. The emblem's design is described as:... |
| Ursula Mommens Ursula Mommens Ursula Frances Elinor Mommens was a British potter. Mommens studied at the Royal College of Art, under William Staite Murray, and later worked with Michael Cardew at Winchcombe Pottery and Wenford Bridge Pottery.She was the daughter of Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell... |
1908–2010 | 101 | British potter |
| Grandma Moses Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Moses , better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. Although her family and friends called her either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses,"... |
1860–1961 | 101 | American folk artist |
| Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is a Brazilian architect specializing in international modern architecture... |
1907 – | Brazilian modernist architect | |
| Johan Nordhagen Johan Nordhagen Johan Nordhagen was a Norwegian painter and artist.-Childhood:Johan Nordhagen grew up in the cotters place of Nordhagen under the farm of Flisaker. His father was from Grue, and had his relatives in Finland. He worked as a cartwheel-maker. His mother Ahlis was from Veldre... |
1856–1956 | 100 | Norwegian artist |
| Kazuo Ohno Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh. It was written of him that his very presence was an "artistic fact."... |
1906–2010 | 103 | Japanese dancer |
| Togyu Okumura | 1889–1990 | 101 | Japanese painter of the nihonga Nihonga or literally "Japanese-style paintings" is a term used to describe paintings that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials... style of watercolour painting |
| Katherine Plunket Katherine Plunket Katherine Plunket was an Irish aristocrat from County Louth, a prolific botanical artist and the oldest person in Irish history... |
1820–1932 | 111 | Irish botanic artist and noblewoman |
| Don Potter Don Potter Donald Steele Potter , was an English sculptor, wood carver, potter and teacher.-Early life:Don Potter was born in Newington, near Sittingbourne, Kent, the son of a school teacher, and attended a private school... |
1902–2004 | 102 | British sculptor and potter |
| Mirko Rački Mirko Racki Mirko Rački was a Croatian painter.Rački was born in Novi Marof, and graduated from the Teacher's Academy in Zagreb. He then went to the private art school of H. Strehblow in Vienna, then studied at the Academy in Prague under Vlaho Bukovac and in Vienna under W. Unger... |
1879–1982 | 102 | Croatian painter |
| Eleanor Raymond Eleanor Raymond Eleanor Raymond was an American architect who built and designed the first occupied, solar-powered house in the United States.-Early life:... |
1887–1989 | 102 | American architect |
| Marie Lucas Robiquet Marie Lucas Robiquet Marie Elisabeth Aimée Lucas-Robiquet was a French Orientalist artist who enjoyed over forty years of artistic honour and success within the highly acclaimed Salon of the Société des Artistes Français.... |
1858–1959 | 100/101 | French artist |
| Andrée Ruellan Andrée Ruellan Andrée Ruellan was an American painter, known for her depictions of everyday scenes in New York and the American South.... |
1905–2006 | 101 | American painter |
| Abolhassan Khan Sadighi Abolhassan Khan Sadighi Abolhassan Sadighi was one of the most prominent Iranian sculptors and painters and was known as the Master Sadighi.-Biography:... |
1894–1995 | 100/101 | Iranian sculptor and painter |
| Viktor Schreckengost Viktor Schreckengost Viktor Schreckengost was a noted American industrial designer and teacher, sculptor, and artist. His wide-ranging work included noted pottery designs, industrial design, bicycle design and seminal research on radar feedback... |
1906–2008 | 101 | American artist and industrial design Industrial design Industrial design is the use of a combination of applied art and applied science to improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of a product, but it may also be used to improve the product's marketability and production... er |
| Bernarda Bryson Shahn Bernarda Bryson Shahn Bernarda Bryson Shahn was an American painter, lithographer and widow of renowned artist Ben Shahn, who wrote and illustrated children's books including "The Zoo of Zeus" and "Gilgamesh."... |
1903–2004 | 101 | American painter, lithographer and widow of artist Ben Shahn Ben Shahn Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.-Biography:... |
| Koloman Sokol Koloman Sokol Koloman Sokol was one of the most prominent Slovak painters, graphic artists and illustrators... |
1902–2003 | 100 | Slovakian painter and graphic artist Graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and... |
| Count Louis Sparre Louis Sparre Count Pehr Louis Sparre was a Swedish painter, designer and draughtsman, most noted for his early work in the Finnish national romanticism and jugend styles... |
1863–1964 | 101 | Swedish painter, designer and Finnish film pioneer |
| Olin Stephens Olin Stephens Olin James Stephens II was an American yacht designer of the 20th century. Stephens was born in New York, but spent his summers with his brother Rod, learning to sail on the New England coast. He also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a term.Stephens' name had a long history... |
1908–2008 | 100 | American yacht Yacht A yacht is a recreational boat or ship. The term originated from the Dutch Jacht meaning "hunt". It was originally defined as a light fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch navy to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries... designer |
| Hedda Sterne Hedda Sterne Hedda Sterne was an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and others... |
1910–2011 | 100 | Romanian-American painter and printmaker |
| Dorothea Tanning Dorothea Tanning Dorothea Tanning is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.-Biography:... |
1910 – | American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer | |
| Lenore Tawney Lenore Tawney Lenore Tawney was an American artist who became an influential figure in the development of fiber art.... |
1907–2007 | 100 | American fiber artist |
| A. Hays Town A. Hays Town A. Hays Town was an American architect whose career spanned over sixty-five years. While Town designed commercial and governmental buildings in the style of modern architecture for the first forty years of his career, he became best known for his residential architecture, which was heavily... |
1903–2005 | 101 | American architect |
| Jack Turner | 1889–1989 | 100 | Canadian photographer |
| Unichi Hiratsuka | 1895–1997 | 102 | Japanese wood carver and leader of the Sōsaku hanga Sosaku hanga was an art movement in early 20th-century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods. It advocated the principles of "self-drawn" , "self-carved" and "self-printed" art, stressing the artist, motivated by a desire for self-expression, as the sole creator... movement |
| Josefina de Vasconcellos Josefina de Vasconcellos Josefina Alys Hermes de Vasconcellos was an English sculptor of Brazilian origin. She was at one time the world's oldest living sculptor. She lived in Cumbria much of her working life... |
1904–2005 | 100 | Brazilian-British sculptor |
| Beta Vukanović Beta Vukanovic Beta Vukanović was a Serbian painter and centenarian. Born in Bamberg, Germany to a Serbian family, Vukanovic initially studied painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. She also worked with Anton Ažbe. From 1898 she lived mostly in Belgrade... |
1872–1972 | 100 | Serbian painter |
| Martha Walter Martha Walter Martha Walter was an American impressionist painter.Walter was a Philadelphia native. She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, where she was taught by William Merritt Chase. She won the school's Toppan Prize and Cresson Traveling Scholarship... |
1875–1976 | 100 | American impressionist Impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s... painter |
| Seema Aissen Weatherwax Seema Aissen Weatherwax Seema Aissen Weatherwax was a Ukrainian-born American photographer.She was born in Ukraine, then under the Russian Czar, to Avram and Reva Aissen. She was the second of three girls. The family emigrated to England in 1912, then Boston in 1922, where the young Seema Aissen found her first job... |
1905–2006 | 100 | Ukrainian-American photographer |
| Richard K. Webel Richard K. Webel Richard K. Webel was a renowned American landscape architect.-Career:Webel was co-head of Innocenti & Webel, founded in 1931 with Umberto Innocenti.... |
1900–2000 | 100 | American landscape architect and designer |
| Martin J. Weber Martin J. Weber Martin J. Weber was the inventor of the graphic arts technique known as posterization.-Biography:He was born in 1905 in New York City. In 1962 he designed a 4-cent United States stamp commemorating Dag Hammarskjöld.... |
1905–2007 | 102 | American graphic artist Graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and... |
| Tyrus Wong Tyrus Wong Tyrus Wong is a Chinese-American painter, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer, designer and kite maker. As film production illustrator in the film industry, Wong has worked for Disney and Warner Bros.. Wong's most famous work was for the Disney animated classic, Bambi.-Early life:Wong was born in... |
1910 – | Chinese artist | |
| Beatrice Wood Beatrice Wood Beatrice Wood was an American artist and studio potter, who late in life was dubbed the "Mama of Dada," and served as a partial inspiration for the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic... |
1893–1998 | 105 | American artist and ceramist Ceramic art In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as... |
| Ogura Yuki Ogura Yuki was a nihonga painter in Shōwa period Japan. Her maiden name was Mizoguchi Yuki. She was known for her bijinga.-Biography:Ogura was born in Ōtsu city, Shiga prefecture and graduated from the Nara Women's Normal School... |
1895–2000 | 105 | Japanese painter |
| Eva Zeisel Eva Zeisel Eva Striker Zeisel is a Hungarian-born industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships... |
1906 – | Hungarian industrial designer | |
| Milford Zornes Milford Zornes James Milford Zornes was an American watercolor artist and teacher.-Biography:Milford Zornes was born in rural western Oklahoma, a few miles from the small town of Camargo. His father found farming and stock raising in the area difficult, and when young Milford was seven moved the family to Boise,... |
1908–2008 | 100 | American watercolor artist and teacher |