411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
1903 in art
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
none
1903 art
Events from the year 1903 in art.
Events
May 4 – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1903 opens at Burlington House in London1903 The Prodigal Daughter and the Problem Picture https://chronicle250.com/1903#catalogue 2026-10-10 chronicle250.com
June 3 – Laura Johnson marries Harold Knight.
Isadora Duncan develops free dance, a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
With the support of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jacques Villon, Auguste Rodin and others, the first Salon d'Automne opens in Paris as a reaction to the conservatism of the Paris Salon.
Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann found the Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna.
Frederic Dorr Steele produces his first illustrations for Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in the United States, for Collier's Weekly.
Bernard Berenson publishes The Drawings of the Florentine Painters.
Anna Muthesius publishes Das Eigenkleid der Frau.
Works
thumb|300px|Wassily Kandinsky – Der Blaue Reiter
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Silver Favourites
John Collier – Lewis Waller as Monsieur BeaucaireLewis Waller (1860–1915), as Monsieur Beaucaire (from 'Monsieur Beaucaire' by André Messager) Art UK https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lewis-waller-18601915-as-monsieur-beaucaire-from-monsieur-beaucaire-by-andre-messager-58706 https://web.archive.org/web/20250428161002/https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lewis-waller-18601915-as-monsieur-beaucaire-from-monsieur-beaucaire-by-andre-messager-58706 2026-10-10 2025-04-28
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge – 16 paintings in Dogs Playing Poker series
Pompeo Coppini – Confederate Soldiers monument, Texas State Capitol
Evelyn De Morgan – The Love Potion
Frederick H. Evans – A Sea of Steps (from series of platinum prints of photographs of Wells Cathedral)
Gebhard Fugel and assistants – Panorama of the Crucifixion of Christ (Altötting, Bavaria)
Jean-Léon Gérôme – Metallurgical Worker and Metallurgical Sciencehttps://www.wfmz.com/features/historys-headlines/historys-headlines-the-art-in-steelmaking/article_5fff0fd9-9902-519c-aa44-3d6c00933d44.html History's Headlines: The Art in Steelmaking Frank Whelan Wfmz.com 13 December 2016 13 November 2021
J. W. Godward
Amaryllis
The Old, Old Story
The Rendezvous
Summer Flowers
Wassily Kandinsky – The Blue Rider
Paul Klee – Inventionen (Inventions) series of etchings, including Jungfrau im Baum (Virgin in a Tree) and Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich (Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank)
Peder Severin Krøyer – Sankthansbål på Skagen strand
Henry Herbert La Thangue – Mowing Bracken
Margaret MacDonald – Opera Of The Winds (gesso panel)
Jacek Malczewski
Polish Hamlet. Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski
Triptych: Law, Motherland, Art (National Museum, Wrocław)
Paula Modersohn-Becker – The Old Farmer
Edvard Munch
The Brooch, Eva Mudocci (lithograph)
Dr. Linde's Sons
Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand
Self-Portrait in Hell
Village in Moonlight
Elisabet Ney – Statue of Albert Sidney Johnston (Texas State Cemetery) (sculpture and mausoleum)
Pablo Picasso – paintings from artist's Blue Period
Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto
Tête de femme
The Tragedy
La vie
Vieux guitariste aveugle (The Old Guitar Player)
Camille Pissarro – Self-portrait (Tate Gallery)
Sir Edward Poynter – The Cave of the Storm Nymphs (private collection)
Tom Roberts – The Big Picture (formally, The Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by H.R.H. The Duke of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V), May 9, 1901)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens – Henry W. Maxwell Memorial
John Singer Sargent – Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel
Hugo Simberg – The Wounded Angel
Max Slevogt – The Singer Francisco D'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera ("The Black d'Andrade")
August Strindberg – Staden
Abbott Handerson Thayer – Stevenson Memorial
Félix Vallotton – The Five Painters
J. W. Waterhouse
Boreas
Echo and Narcissus
Category:1903 sculptures
Births
January to June
January – Guan Zilan, Chinese avant-garde painter (d. 1986)
January 10 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist (d. 1975)Whitman Alden Barbara Hepworth Dies in Fire at Cornwall Studio https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/21/archives/barbara-hepworth-dies-in-fire-at-cornwall-studio-a-sense-of-flow.html The New York Times 4 January 2020 21 May 1975
January 19 – Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, British politician, art collector and philanthropist and honorary Irish citizen (d. 1994)
March 7 – Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist (d. 1970)
March 10 – Edward Bawden, English artist and illustrator (d. 1989)
March 14
Richard Eurich, English sea- and landscape painter (d. 1992)
Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (d. 1974)
April 3 – Lola Álvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer (d. 1993)
April 16 – Thomas Hennell, English painter (k. 1945)
May 7 – Paul Ninas, American painter (d. 1964)
June 6 – Ceri Richards, Welsh painter (d. 1971)
June 15 – Victor Brauner, Romanian painter (d. 1966)
June 21 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
July to December
July 13 – Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historian (d.1983)
July 16 – Tore Asplund, Swedish-born American painter (d.1977)
July 21 – Roy Neuberger, American art collector and patron (d.2010)
July 22 – Eric Ravilious, English artist (d.1942)
August 14 – Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch magic realist painter (d.1995)
August 24 – Graham Sutherland, English artist (d.1980)
September 16 – Karl Zerbe, German-born painter (d.1972)
September 20 – Gertrud Arndt, German photographer (d.2000)
September 25 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (d.1970)
September 29 – Walter Inglis Anderson, American painter (d.1965)
October 15 – Otto Bettmann, German-born image archivist (d.1998)
October 22 – Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (d.1976)
October 24 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (d.1999)
October 25 – Harry Shoulberg, American expressionist painter] (d.1995)
November 3 – Walker Evans, American photographer (d.1975)
December 13 – John Piper, English painter (d.1992)
December 24 – Joseph Cornell, American artist and sculptor (d.1972)
December 30 – Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter (d.1962)
date unknown – Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (d.1983)
Deaths
January 5 – Eleuterio Pagliano, Italian painter (b. 1826)
January 24 – Charles Wynne Nicholls, genre painter (b. 1831)
March 10 – Sophie Gengembre Anderson, genre painter (b. 1843)
April 24 – Walter Osborne, Irish impressionist painter (b.1859)
May 9 – Paul Gauguin, painter (b. 1848)
June 8 – Robert Frederick Blum, American illustrator and lithographer (b. 1857)
July 14 – James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher (b. 1834)
August 17 – Hans Gude, painter (b. 1825)Haverkamp Frode Gude, Hans Fredrik Hans Gude January 1992 Aschehoug Oslo Norwegian 82-03-17072-2 29047091 60
September 13 – Carl Schuch, painter (b. 1846)
October 18 – John Callcott Horsley, painter (b. 1817)
October 26 – János Fadrusz, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1858)
November 12 or 13 – Camille Pissarro, Impressionist painter (b. 1830)
References
Category:Years of the 20th century in art
Category:1900s in art