1905 in art

Events from the year 1905 in art.

Events

April – French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel opens the first major exhibition in Britain of Impressionist paintings, at the Grafton Galleries in London. With 315 works, it is the largest exhibition of Impressionism ever staged, including many works by Degas, but, although critically acclaimed, there are no sales.
Summer – Henri Matisse and André Derain work together in the French Mediterranean village of Collioure.
October – Salon d'Automne in Paris: the vivid colors used by Matisse and others lead the critic Louis Vauxcelles to describe their works derisively as les Fauves, marking the start of Fauvism.
Die Brücke group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden.
Léon Bonnat succeeds Paul Dubois as director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen open the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession photo art gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Opening of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jacob Epstein establishes his studio in London.

Works

[Image:Matisse-Open-Window.jpg|thumb|300px|Matisse – The Open Window]

Anna Ancher – Harvesters
Umberto Boccioni – Self-portrait
Gustaf Cederström – Victory at Narva
Evelyn De Morgan – Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund
Jacob Epstein – Mrs Epstein Leaning on One Hand
Florence Fuller – A Golden Hour
J. W. Godward
* Flabellifera
* A Greek Beauty
* Mischief
* A Roman Matron
Gustav Klimt - Birch Forrest
Maximilien Luce – A Street in Paris in May 1871
Konstantin Makovsky – Christmastide Divination
Henri Matisse
* Landscape at Collioure
* The Open Window, Collioure
* Still Life with Geraniums
* Les toits de Collioure
* Portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line)
* Woman with a Hat
Jean Metzinger – Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape
Charles Mulligan – Statue of William McKinley
Elisabet Ney
* Sam Houston
* Statue of Stephen F. Austin
* Lady Macbeth
Richard Norris-
* Pocahontas
Pablo Picasso
* Family of Saltimbanques
* Garçon à la pipe
* Les Noces de Pierrette
* Portrait of Madame Canals
* Lady with a Fan
Henri Rousseau – The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
Marianne Stokes – Hungarian portrait
Abanindranath Tagore
* Bharat Mata
* Dancing Girl
John Singer Sargent - Lady Warwick and her Son
Frank Teich – Statue of Richard W. Dowling

Births

January 29 – Barnett Newman, American artist
February 1 – Doris Lee, American painter
February 4 – Jared French, American painter
March 9 – Félix Labisse, French painter and designer
May 5 – Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist
April 6 – Andrée Ruellan, American painter
May 10 – Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican-American painter and illustrator
May 12 – Leonard Bahr, American portrait and mural painter
May 15 – Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter and sculptor
June 5 – Wayne Boring, American illustrator
June 24 – Rex Whistler, English painter
June 28 – Rowland Hilder, American-born English landscape painter
July 4? – Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist
July 6 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect
July 8 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and animation director
August 12 – Stevan Bodnarov, Serbian sculptor and painter
September 5 – Todd Webb, American photographer
October 14 – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer
November 1 – Paul-Émile Borduas, French Canadian abstract painter
November 3 – Lois Mailou Jones, African American painter
December 22 – James A. Porter, African American painter and art historian date unknown
* Elwin Hawthorne, English painter
* Walter Pritchard, Scottish stained glass artist, mural painter and sculptor

Deaths

January 5 – Rudolf Koller, Swiss painter
January 13 – Robert Swain Gifford, American landscape painter
January 19 – George Henry Boughton, American painter
January 21 – Robert Brough, Swiss painter
January 23 – Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Portuguese painter, sculptor and caricaturist
February 1 – Oswald Achenbach, German landscape painter
February 9 – Adolph von Menzel, German painter and engraver
March 1 – Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, French sculptor
March 3 – William Brassington, New Zealand sculptor and ornamental mason
April 4 – Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter and sculptor
May 23 – Paul Dubois, French painter and sculptor
July 23 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter
August 5 – Anton Ažbe, Slovene realist painter and art teacher
August 18 – Albert Edelfelt, Finnish painter
August 19 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter
September 14 – Odoardo Borrani, Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli
October 2 – Alexander Seik, Czech painter and photographer
November 8 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian post-Impressionist painter
November 17 – Gustave Crauck, French sculptor
December 4 – Henry Hugh Armstead, English sculptor and illustrator
December 16 – Alfred Walter Williams, English landscape painter date unknown – Emma Brownlow, English-born genre painter