1903 in art

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List of years in Art

Contents 1 Events 2 Works 2.1 Paintings 2.2 Etchings 2.3 Sculptures 3 Births 3.1 January to June 3.2 July to December 4 Deaths 5 References

Events

• Isadora Duncan develops free dance, a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
• With the support of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jacques Villon, Auguste Rodin and others, the first Salon d'Automne opens in Paris as a reaction to the conservatism of the Paris Salon.
• Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann found the Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna.
• Laura Johnson marries Harold Knight.

Works

Paintings

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Silver Favourites
• Cassius Coolidge produces several of his Dogs Playing Poker series of paintings.
• During what's known as his "Blue Period", Pablo Picasso paints Tête de femme, Vieux guitariste aveugle (The Old Guitar Player), The Tragedy, and La vie, among others.
• Wassily Kandinsky - The Blue Rider
• Peder Severin Krøyer - Sankthansbål på Skagen strand
• Tom Roberts - The Big Picture—formally known as The Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by H.R.H. The Duke of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V), May 9, 1901

Etchings

• Paul Klee - Inventionen (Inventions) series, including Jungfrau im Baum (Virgin in a Tree) and Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich (Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank)

Sculptures

• Pompeo Coppini - Confederate Soldiers monument, Texas State Capitol

Births

January to June

• 10 January - Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist (d.1975)
• 19 January - Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, British politician, art collector and philanthropist and honorary Irish citizen (d.1994)
• 10 March - Edward Bawden, English artist and illustrator (d.1989)
• 14 March - Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (d.1974)
• 16 April - Thomas Hennell, British painter (d.1945)
• 6 June - Ceri Richards, Welsh painter (d.1971)
• 15 June - Victor Brauner, Romanian painter (d.1966)
• 21 June - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d.2003)

July to December

• 13 July - Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historian (d.1983)
• 21 July - Roy Neuberger, art collector and supporter
• 22 July - Eric Ravilious, English artist (d.1942)
• 24 August - Graham Sutherland, English artist (d.1980)
• September 16 - Karl Zerbe, painter (d.1972)
• September 25 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (d.1970)
• September 29 - Walter Inglis Anderson, painter (d.1965)
• October 22 - Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (d.1976)
• October 24 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (d.1999)
• October 25 - Harry Shoulberg, American expressionist painter] (d.1995)
• November 3 - Walker Evans, American photographer (d.1975)
• December 13 - John Piper, English painter (d.1992)
• December 24 - Joseph Cornell, American artist and sculptor (d.1972)
• December 30 - Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter (d.1962)
• date unknown - Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (d.1983)

Deaths

• January 5 - Eleuterio Pagliano, Italian painter (b. 1826)
• March 10 - Sophie Gengembre Anderson, genre painter (b. 1843)
• May 9 - Paul Gauguin, painter (b. 1848)
• June 8 - Robert Frederick Blum, American illustrator and lithographer (b. 1857)
• July 14 - James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher (b. 1834)
• August 17 - Hans Gude, painter (b. 1825)^[1]
• September 13 - Carl Schuch, painter (b. 1846)
• October 18 - John Callcott Horsley, painter (b. 1817)
• October 26 - János Fadrusz, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1858)
• November 12 or 13 - Camille Pissarro, Impressionist painter (b. 1830)
• date unknown - Charles Wynne Nicholls, genre painter (b. 1831)

References