The English artist John White paints the everyday life of the Secotan Indians of America

In Brook Watson and the Shark John Singleton Copley creates the most intensely dramatic of his modern history paintings

With Kaaterskill Falls 26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting

A school of landscape painting emerges in New York, with emphasis on the scenery of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains

US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject, Prisoners from the Front

US artist Thomas Eakins' depiction of the gruesome aspect of surgery, in his portrait of Dr Gross, offends many viewers

House by the Railroad, by US painter Edward Hopper, introduces a new style of urban realism

American naïve painter Grandma Moses has her first exhibition in a local drug store at the age of 78

A new style of American painting, involving artists such as Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, is given the name Abstract Expressionism

US artist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings cause a stir in New York

US abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning exhibits his series Women nos I-VI, on which he has been working since 1938

Andy Warhol creates a stir when his paintings of Campbell's soup cans are exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles

An exhibition in New York, 'The Responsive Eye', puts op art on the map

Leading New York Graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat dies of an overdose