1904 in 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 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.
- 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 – The Finding of Moses
- Paul Cézanne
- * Mont Sainte-Victoire
- * La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir
- * 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
- * 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
- Niels Moeller Lund – The Heart of the Empire
- Frederick McCubbin – The Pioneer
- 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 –
- 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
- Viktor Vasnetsov – The Last Judgement
- Maurice de Vlaminck – ''Sous bois''
Photographs
Sculptures
- Daniel Chester French
- *Colonel James Anderson Monument
- *Statue of William Francis Bartlett
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll – Memorial to Colonial soldiers who fell during the Boer War, in St Paul's Cathedral, London
- Hermon Atkins MacNeil – Coming of the White Man
- Rudolf and Wolfgang Siemering – Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial
- Antonio Sciortino – ''Les Gavroches''
Stained-glass windows
Architecture
- Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
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.
- 9 May–4 June – Claude Monet, "Views of the Thames in London" at the Galeries Durand-Ruel in Paris.
Births
January to June
- 8 January – Peter Arno, American cartoonist.
- 13 January – Oliver Messel, English stage designer.
- 14 January – Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer.
- 22 January – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist.
- 6 February – Dorothy Canning Miller American curator.
- 22 February – Peter Hurd, American artist.
- 27 February - Yi Eungro, South korea Abstract artist
- 2 March – Theodor Seuss Geisel, American illustrator.
- 17 March – Chaim Gross, Austrian American sculptor.
- 31 March – Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Serbian painter.
- 4 April - Ulayu Pingwartok, Canadian Inuk artist
- 15 April
- * Mary Adshead, English painter.
- * Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born abstract expressionist painter.
- 21 April
- * Jean Hélion, French painter.
- * Gabriel Loire, French stained glass artist.
- 24 April – Willem de Kooning, Dutch abstract expressionist painter.
- 2 May – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist.
- 11 May – Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist.
- 8 June – Alice Rahon, French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter.
- 14 June – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist.
July to December
- 18 July – Stella Skopal, Croatian sculptor
- 2 August – Reg Parlett, English comics artist.
- 11 September – Daniel Brustlein, Alsatian-born illustrator.
- 23 October – Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter.
- 3 November – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter.
- 13 November – Stephen Bone, English painter.
- 17 November – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect.
- 18 November – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian-American painter
- 22 November – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican caricaturist and painter.
- 30 November – Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter.
- 11 December – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter.
- 17 December – Paul Cadmus, American painter.
- 21 December – Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass artist and writer.
Full date unknown
- Joseph Delaney, African American painter.
- Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter.
Deaths
- January 8 – Alfred Felton, art collector
- January 9 – Konrad Grob, painter
- January 10 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor
- February 4 – Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver
- May 6 – Franz von Lenbach, painter
- May 8 – Eadweard Muybridge, photographer
- June 20 – Frederic Sandys, painter
- July 1 – George Frederic Watts, painter and sculptor
- August 25 – Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer
- September 3 – James Archer, portrait painter
- September 4 – Martin Johnson Heade, painter
- September 23
- * Émile Gallé, artist in glass
- * George Anderson Lawson, sculptor
- October 4 – Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor
- October 13 – Károly Lotz, painter
- December 7 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia
- December 30 – John Horbury Hunt, architect date unknown – Edwin Hayes, marine watercolourist