1894 in art
The year 1894 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- February – Oscar Wilde's play Salome is first published in English, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
- April – The Yellow Book begins publication by John Lane and Elkin Mathews – The Bodley Head in London.
- June 5 – Opening of Racławice Panorama in Lwów.
- August 23 – Jack Butler Yeats marries fellow artist Mary Cottenham White.
- The Della Robbia Pottery is established as part of the Arts and Crafts movement by Harold Rathbone and Conrad Dressler in Birkenhead, England.
- Lucien Pissarro sets up the Eragny Press in England.
- Bernard Berenson publishes The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, with an Index to their Works.
Works
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Spring
- Charles Burton Barber
- * Queen Victoria with John Brown
- * Suspense
- Aubrey Beardsley
- *
- * Illustrations to Oscar Wilde's Salome
- Olga Boznańska – Girl with Chrysanthemums
- Edward Burne-Jones
- * Love Among the Ruins
- * – Holy Grail tapestries
- Gustave Caillebotte – The garden of the Petit Gennevilliers in winter
- Gustaf Cederström – Among the Homeless
- Paul Cézanne – Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier
- Herbert Dicksee – Silent Sympathy
- Árpád Feszty – Arrival of the Hungarians
- Paul Gauguin
- * Breton Peasants
- * Oviri
- J. W. Godward – A Priestess
- Thomas Cooper Gotch – The Child Enthroned
- Paja Jovanović – The Takovo Uprising
- Max Liebermann – Der Garten des Waisenhauses in Amsterdam
- Maximilien Luce –
- Frederick William MacMonnies – Bacchante and Infant Faun
- Jacek Malczewski – Melancholia
- Henri Matisse – Woman Reading
- Claude Monet – Rouen Cathedral (The Portal, Morning Sun; Harmony in Blue)
- Edvard Munch
- * Anxiety
- * Puberty
- * Love and Pain
- Ernest Normand – The White Slave
- Władysław Podkowiński – Ecstasy
- Edward Poynter – Barine
- Henrietta Rae – Psyche at the Throne of Venus
- Tom Roberts – The Golden Fleece
- Georges Rochegrosse – The Knight of the Flowers
- Aleksander Sochaczewski – Farewell Europe!
- Solomon Joseph Solomon – Mrs Patrick Campbell as Paula Tanqueray
- Marie Spartali Stillman
- * Love Sonnets
- * A Rose from Armida's Garden
- Henry Ossawa Tanner – The Thankful Poor
- James Tissot
- * The Adoration of the Shepherds
- * What Our Lord Saw from the Cross
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Woman Pulling Up Her Stocking
- Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller – J. Marion Sims
- Fritz von Uhde – Noli me tangere
- Theodoor Verstraete – Spring in Schoore
- Stanisław Wyspiański – ''Planty Park at Dawn''
Births
- 9 January – Reg Gammon, English painter and illustrator
- 8 March – Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor
- 17 March – Meredith Frampton, English portrait painter
- 10 April – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter
- 19 April – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism
- 22 April – Evie Hone, Irish painter and stained glass artist
- 27 April – George Petty, American pin-up artist
- 17 May – Zora Petrović, one of the most significant representatives of Expressionism of color in Serbian art between two wars
- 6 June – Arthur Szyk, Polish-born illustrator and political artist
- 13 June – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter
- 28 June – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter
- 2 July – André Kertész, Hungarian-born photographer
- 14 July – Dave Fleischer, Austrian-American animator, film director, and film producer
- 26 August – Gala Dalí, model and wife of Salvador Dalí
- 3 September – André Hébuterne, French painter
- 7 October – Doris Huestis Speirs, Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet
- 8 October – Risto Stijović, Serbian sculptor
- 14 October – E. E. Cummings, American poet and painter
- 4 November – Chafik Charobim, Egyptian painter
- 8 November – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator
- 8 December – James Thurber, American cartoonist
- 27 December – Annot, German painter date unknown
- * Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor and painter
- * Ovartaci, born Louis Marcussen, Danish outsider artist
Deaths
- January 3 – Gustav Fabergé, German jeweler
- January 10 – Carl Werner, German watercolour painter
- January 29 – Armand Gautier, French painter
- February 13 – Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter
- February 21 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and arts patron
- April 12 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter
- April 27 – Charles Laval, French painter
- June 17 – William Hart, Scottish American landscape painter
- July 1 – Jean-Joseph Carriès, French sculptor and ceramicist
- July 25 – Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor
- August 5 – Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter
- August 30 – Joseph Robinson Kirk, Irish sculptor
- September 26 – Launt Thompson, Irish sculptor date unknown – Charles Burton Barber, English genre painter