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1904 art
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 – 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.Marlowe Lara France's forgotten impressionist: The art of Mary Cassatt https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/france-s-forgotten-impressionist-the-art-of-mary-cassatt-1.3512408 The Irish Times 21 February 2020 en
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
thumb|right|300px|Henri Matisse, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904, Musée d'Orsay
Paintings
Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Finding of Moses
Paul Cézanne
Mont Sainte-Victoire (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noirhttps://news.artnet.com/market/secret-100-million-cezanne-sale-in-detroit-204252 Secret $100 Million Cézanne Sale in Detroit 19 December 2014
Lady in Blue
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis – A Day
Walter Dexter – The Carpenter's Workshop
Herbert James Draper – The Golden Fleece
Florence Fuller – Summer Breezes
J. W. Godward
Dolce far Niente (second version)
In The Days Of Sappho
A Melody
Thomas Cooper Gotch – Innocence
Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back
Winslow Homer – Kissing the Moon
Gwen John – Dorelia in a Black Dress
Edmund Leighton – Vox Populi ("'A little prince likely in time to bless a royal throne")
Niels Moeller Lund – The Heart of the Empire
Frederick McCubbin – The Pioneer (triptych)
Herbert MacNair – The Gift of Doves
Henri Matisse – Luxe, Calme et Volupté
William Nicholson – portrait of J. M. Barrie
Pablo Picasso
The Actor
Portrait of Suzanne Bloch
Ilya Repin – Portrait of Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev
Franz Roubaud – The Siege of Sevastopol Panorama
John Singer Sargent – Mrs Wertheimer
Pavel Shtronda – Theotokos of Port Arthur
Enrique Simonet – The Judgement of Paris
Max Slevogt – Portrait of the Dancer Anna Pavlova
Allen Butler Talcott – Lyme Meadow (approx. date)
Viktor Vasnetsov – The Last Judgement (for St. George's Cathedral, Gus-Khrustalny, Russia)
Maurice de Vlaminck – Sous bois
Photographs
Edward Steichen
The Flatiron Building
The Pond—Moonlight
Sculptures
Category:1904 sculptures
Daniel Chester French
Colonel James Anderson Monument (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Statue of William Francis Bartlett (Massachusetts State House, Boston)
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll – Memorial to Colonial soldiers who fell during the Boer War, in St Paul's Cathedral, LondonMark Stocker Louise, Princess, duchess of Argyll (1848–1939) 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34601 2012-04-10 10.1093/ref:odnb/34601
Hermon Atkins MacNeil – Coming of the White Man (Portland, Oregon)
Rudolf and Wolfgang Siemering – Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial (Berlin)
Antonio Sciortino – Les Gavroches
Stained-glass windows
Tiffany Studio – Angel of the Resurrection
Architecture
Category:1904 architecture
Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (demolished 1950)
Exhibitions
12 April–14 July – "French Primitives", an exhibition of pre-Renaissance French art at the Louvre's Pavillon de Marsan and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.Dempsey Amy Styles, Schools and Movements: An Encyclopedic Guide to Modern Art 66–69 Thames & Hudson London 2002
9 May–4 June – Claude Monet, "Views of the Thames in London" at the Galeries Durand-Ruel in Paris.Exhibition catalogue. Vues de la Tamise à Londres.
Births
January to June
8 January – Peter Arno, American cartoonist (d. 1968).
13 January – Oliver Messel, English stage designer (d. 1978).
14 January – Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (d. 1980).
22 January – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (d. 1988).
6 February – Dorothy Canning Miller American curator (d. 2003).
22 February – Peter Hurd, American artist (d. 1984).
27 February - Yi Eungro, South korea Abstract artist (d.1989)
2 March – Theodor Seuss Geisel, American illustrator (d. 1991).
17 March – Chaim Gross, Austrian American sculptor (d. 1991).
31 March – Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Serbian painter (d. 1964).
4 April - Ulayu Pingwartok, Canadian Inuk artist
15 April
Mary Adshead, English painter (d. 1995).OBITUARY: Mary Adshead https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-adshead-1599840.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-adshead-1599840.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent 21 February 2020 en 7 September 1995
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 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch abstract expressionist painter (d. 1997).
2 May – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (d. 1983).
11 May – Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist (d. 1989).
8 June – Alice Rahon, French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter (d. 1987).
14 June – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 1971).
July to December
18 July – Stella Skopal, Croatian sculptor (d. 1992)http://www.ulupuh.hr/hr/izdavackadjelatnost.asp?id=825 Marina Baričević: Stella Skopal https://web.archive.org/web/20170607182840/http://www.ulupuh.hr/hr/izdavackadjelatnost.asp?id=825 7 June 2017 ULUPUH 16 June 2009 hr 16 December 2022
2 August – Reg Parlett, English comics artist (d. 1991).
11 September – Daniel Brustlein, Alsatian-born illustrator (d. 1996).
23 October – Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1993).
3 November – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (d. 1969).
13 November – Stephen Bone, English painter (d. 1958).
17 November – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (d. 1988).
18 November – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian-American painter (d. 1990)
22 November – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican caricaturist and painter (d. 1957).
30 November – Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d. 1980).
11 December – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter (k. 1944).
17 December – Paul Cadmus, American painter (d. 1999).
21 December – 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 – Alfred Felton, art collector (b. 1831)
January 9 – Konrad Grob, painter (b. 1828)
January 10 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
February 4 – Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver (b. 1819)
May 6 – Franz von Lenbach, painter (b. 1836)
May 8 – Eadweard Muybridge, photographer (b. 1830)
June 20 – Frederic Sandys, painter (b. 1829)
July 1 – George Frederic Watts, painter and sculptor (b. 1817)
August 25 – Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
September 3 – James Archer, portrait painter (b. 1823)
September 4 – Martin Johnson Heade, painter (b. 1819)
September 23
Émile Gallé, artist in glass (b. 1846)
George Anderson Lawson, sculptor (b. 1832)
October 4 – Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (b. 1834)
October 13 – Károly Lotz, painter (b. 1833)
December 7 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (b. 1843)
December 30 – John Horbury Hunt, architect (b. 1838)
date unknown – Edwin Hayes, marine watercolourist (b. 1819)
References
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