1904 in art

The year 1904 in art involved some significant events and new works.

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.^[1]
• 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

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)
  • Woman 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
• 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

• Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll – Memorial to Colonial soldiers who fell during the Boer War, in St Paul's Cathedral, London^[2]
• Hermon Atkins MacNeil – Coming of the White Man (Portland, Oregon)
• Rudolf and Wolfgang Siemering – Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial (Berlin)
• Antonio Sciortino – Les Gavroches

Architecture

• Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (demolished 1950)

Exhibitions

• "French Primitives", an exhibition of pre-Renaissance French art in Paris.^[3]

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).
• 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).^[4]
  • 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).
• 14 June – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 1971).

July to December

• 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)

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