Events from the year 1905 in art.

• Summer – Henri Matisse and André Derain work together in the French Mediterranean village of Collioure.
• October – Salon d'Automne in Paris: the vivid colors used by Matisse and others lead the critic Louis Vauxcelles to describe their works derisively as les Fauves ("the wild beasts"), marking the start of Fauvism.
• Die Brücke group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden.
• Léon Bonnat succeeds Paul Dubois as director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
• Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen open the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (later known as 291) photo art gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
• Opening of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina.
• Jacob Epstein establishes his studio in London.

• Anna Ancher – Harvesters
• Umberto Boccioni – Self-portrait
• Gustaf Cederström – Victory at Narva
• Evelyn De Morgan – Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund
• Jacob Epstein – Mrs Epstein Leaning on One Hand (portrait bust)
• Florence Fuller – A Golden Hour
• J. W. Godward
  • Flabellifera
  • A Greek Beauty
  • Mischief
  • A Roman Matron
• Gustav Klimt - Birch Forrest^[1]
• Maximilien Luce – A Street in Paris in May 1871
• Konstantin Makovsky – Christmastide Divination (approximate year)
• Henri Matisse
  • Landscape at Collioure
  • The Open Window, Collioure
  • Still Life with Geraniums
  • Les toits de Collioure
  • Portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line)
  • Woman with a Hat
• Jean Metzinger – Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape
• Charles Mulligan – Statue of William McKinley (Chicago)
• Elisabet Ney
  • Sam Houston (sculpture)
  • Statue of Stephen F. Austin
  • Lady Macbeth (sculpture)
• Richard Norris-
  • Pocahontas
• Pablo Picasso
  • Family of Saltimbanques
  • Garçon à la pipe
  • Les Noces de Pierrette
  • Portrait of Madame Canals (Musée Picasso, Paris)
  • Woman with a Fan (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• Henri Rousseau – The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
• Marianne Stokes – Hungarian portrait
• Abanindranath Tagore
  • Bharat Mata
  • Dancing Girl
• John Singer Sargent - Lady Warwick and her Son
• Frank Teich – Statue of Richard W. Dowling (sculpture, Houston)

• January 29 – Barnett Newman, American artist (d. 1970)
• February 1 – Doris Lee, American painter (d. 1983)
• February 4 – Jared French, American painter (d. 1988)
• March 9 – Félix Labisse, French painter and designer (d. 1982)
• May 5 – Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (d. 1986)
• April 6 – Andrée Ruellan, American painter (d. 2006)
• May 10 – Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican-American painter and illustrator (d. 1998)
• May 12 – Leonard Bahr, American portrait and mural painter (d. 1990)
• May 15 – Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter and sculptor (d. 1976)
• June 5 – Wayne Boring, American illustrator (d. 1987)
• June 24 – Rex Whistler, English painter (k. 1944)
• June 28 – Rowland Hilder, American-born English landscape painter (d. 1993)
• July 4? – Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (d. 1973)
• July 6 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (d. 1982)
• July 8 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and animation director (d. 1997)
• August 12 – Stevan Bodnarov, Serbian sculptor and painter (d. 1993)
• September 5 – Todd Webb, American photographer (d. 2000)
• October 14 – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (d. 2006)
• November 1 – Paul-Émile Borduas, French Canadian abstract painter (d. 1960)
• November 3 – Lois Mailou Jones, African American painter (d. 1998)
• December 22 – James A. Porter, African American painter and art historian (d. 1970)
• date unknown
  • Elwin Hawthorne, English painter (d. 1954)
  • Walter Pritchard, Scottish stained glass artist, mural painter and sculptor (d. 1977)

• January 5 – Rudolf Koller, Swiss painter (b. 1828)
• January 13 – Robert Swain Gifford, American landscape painter (b. 1840)
• January 19 – George Henry Boughton, American painter (b. 1834)
• January 21 – Robert Brough, Swiss painter (b. 1872)
• January 23 – Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Portuguese painter, sculptor and caricaturist (b. 1846)
• February 1 – Oswald Achenbach, German landscape painter (b. 1827)
• February 9 – Adolph von Menzel, German painter and engraver (b. 1815)
• March 1 – Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, French sculptor (b. 1822)
• March 3 – William Brassington, New Zealand sculptor and ornamental mason (b. c.1837)
• April 4 – Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
• May 23 – Paul Dubois, French painter and sculptor (b. 1829)
• July 23 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter (b. 1829)
• August 5 (or 6) – Anton Ažbe, Slovene realist painter and art teacher (b. 1862)
• August 18 – Albert Edelfelt, Finnish painter (b. 1854)
• August 19 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (b. 1825)
• September 14 – Odoardo Borrani, Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli (b. 1833)
• October 2 – Alexander Seik, Czech painter and photographer (b. 1824)
• November 8 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian post-Impressionist painter (b. 1870) (heart attack)
• November 17 – Gustave Crauck, French sculptor (b. 1827)
• December 4 – Henry Hugh Armstead, English sculptor and illustrator (b. 1828)
• December 16 – Alfred Walter Williams, English landscape painter (b. 1824)
• date unknown – Emma Brownlow, English-born genre painter (b. c.1832)