Editing Timeline of art (section)

== 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 ''[[:File:Mary Cassatt-Selfportrait.jpg|Portrait of the Artist]]'', [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler|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]]''' – [[Claude Monet|Monet]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]], [[Camille Pissarro|Pissarro]], and [[Alfred Sisley|Sisley]] organize the ''[[Impressionism#Beginnings|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]]