1904 in art
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Events from the year 1904 in art.
Events
- April
- Octavian Smigelschi is selected to paint the interior decoration of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sibiu.
- George Frederic Watts (dies 1 July) opens the Watts Gallery in the English village of Compton, Guildford, for the display of his work.
- November â The Potters (artists group) is formed by female artists in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Start of Picasso's Rose Period.
- Georges Braque leaves the Academie Humbert.
- Mary Cassatt is awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her services to the arts.[1]
- British Impressionist painter Wilfrid de Glehn marries American portrait painter Jane Erin Emmet.
- Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, designed by Ernst von Ihne and noted for its Skulpturensammlung, is completed.
Works
Paintings
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema â The Finding of Moses
- Paul Cézanne
- Mikalojus Konstantinas Äiurlionis â A Day
- Walter Dexter â The Carpenter's Workshop
- Herbert James Draper â The Golden Fleece
- Florence Fuller â Summer Breezes
- J. W. Godward
- Dolce far Niente (second version)
- In The Days Of Sappho
- A Melody
- Thomas Cooper Gotch â Innocence
- Vilhelm Hammershøi â Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back
- Winslow Homer â Kissing the Moon
- Gwen John â Dorelia in a Black Dress
- Edmund Leighton â Vox Populi ("'A little prince likely in time to bless a royal throne")
- Niels Moeller Lund â The Heart of the Empire
- Frederick McCubbin â The Pioneer (triptych)
- Herbert MacNair â The Gift of Doves
- Henri Matisse â Luxe, Calme et Volupté
- William Nicholson â portrait of J. M. Barrie
- Pablo Picasso
- Ilya Repin â Portrait of Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev
- Franz Roubaud â The Siege of Sevastopol Panorama
- John Singer Sargent â Mrs Wertheimer
- Pavel Shtronda â Theotokos of Port Arthur
- Enrique Simonet â The Judgement of Paris
- Max Slevogt â Portrait of the Dancer Anna Pavlova
- Allen Butler Talcott â Lyme Meadow (approx. date)
- Viktor Vasnetsov â The Last Judgement (for St. George's Cathedral, Gus-Khrustalny, Russia)
- Maurice de Vlaminck â Sous bois
Photographs
Sculptures
- Daniel Chester French
- Colonel James Anderson Monument (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
- Statue of William Francis Bartlett (Massachusetts State House, Boston)
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll â Memorial to Colonial soldiers who fell during the Boer War, in St Paul's Cathedral, London[3]
- Hermon Atkins MacNeil â Coming of the White Man (Portland, Oregon)
- Rudolf and Wolfgang Siemering â Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial (Berlin)
- Antonio Sciortino â Les Gavroches
Stained-glass windows
Architecture
- Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (demolished 1950)
Exhibitions
- 12 Aprilâ14 July â "French Primitives", an exhibition of pre-Renaissance French art at the Louvre's Pavillon de Marsan and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.[4]
- 9 Mayâ4 June â Claude Monet, "Views of the Thames in London" at the Galeries Durand-Ruel in Paris.[5]
Births
January to June
- 8 January â Peter Arno, American cartoonist (d. 1968).
- 13 January â Oliver Messel, English stage designer (d. 1978).
- 14 January â Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (d. 1980).
- 22 January â Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (d. 1988).
- 6 February â Dorothy Canning Miller American curator (d. 2003).
- 22 February â Peter Hurd, American artist (d. 1984).
- 27 February - Yi Eungro, South korea Abstract artist (d.1989)
- 2 March â Theodor Seuss Geisel, American illustrator (d. 1991).
- 17 March â Chaim Gross, Austrian American sculptor (d. 1991).
- 31 March â ÄorÄe AndrejeviÄ Kun, Serbian painter (d. 1964).
- 4 April - Ulayu Pingwartok, Canadian Inuk artist
- 15 April
- Mary Adshead, English painter (d. 1995).[6]
- Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born abstract expressionist painter (d. 1948).
- 21 April
- Jean Hélion, French painter (d. 1987).
- Gabriel Loire, French stained glass artist (d. 1996).
- 24 April â Willem de Kooning, Dutch abstract expressionist painter (d. 1997).
- 2 May â Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (d. 1983).
- 11 May â Salvador DalÃ, Spanish surrealist artist (d. 1989).
- 8 June â Alice Rahon, French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter (d. 1987).
- 14 June â Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 1971).
July to December
- 18 July â Stella Skopal, Croatian sculptor (d. 1992)[7]
- 2 August â Reg Parlett, English comics artist (d. 1991).
- 11 September â Daniel Brustlein, Alsatian-born illustrator (d. 1996).
- 23 October â Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1993).
- 3 November â Emerik FejeÅ¡, Hungarian and Serbian painter (d. 1969).
- 13 November â Stephen Bone, English painter (d. 1958).
- 17 November â Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (d. 1988).
- 18 November â Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian-American painter (d. 1990)
- 22 November â Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican caricaturist and painter (d. 1957).
- 30 November â Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d. 1980).
- 11 December â Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter (k. 1944).
- 17 December â Paul Cadmus, American painter (d. 1999).
- 21 December â Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass artist and writer (d. 2001).
Full date unknown
- Joseph Delaney, African American painter (d. 1991).
- Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter (d. 1974).
Deaths
- January 8 â Alfred Felton, art collector (b. 1831)
- January 9 â Konrad Grob, painter (b. 1828)
- January 10 â Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
- February 4 â Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver (b. 1819)
- May 6 â Franz von Lenbach, painter (b. 1836)
- May 8 â Eadweard Muybridge, photographer (b. 1830)
- June 20 â Frederic Sandys, painter (b. 1829)
- July 1 â George Frederic Watts, painter and sculptor (b. 1817)
- August 25 â Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
- September 3 â James Archer, portrait painter (b. 1823)
- September 4 â Martin Johnson Heade, painter (b. 1819)
- September 23
- Ãmile Gallé, artist in glass (b. 1846)
- George Anderson Lawson, sculptor (b. 1832)
- October 4 â Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (b. 1834)
- October 13 â Károly Lotz, painter (b. 1833)
- December 7 â Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (b. 1843)
- December 30 â John Horbury Hunt, architect (b. 1838)
- date unknown â Edwin Hayes, marine watercolourist (b. 1819)