1893 in art

May 1: World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago) with Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking man-made lake.

Events

• May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the Exposition.
• June 14 - Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford, designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford.
• June 29 - Unveiling of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus in London, with a gilded aluminium statue of Anteros, designed by Alfred Gilbert.^[1]
• Ford Madox Brown completes painting the The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall (England).
• The National Sculpture Society is founded in the United States.
• Alois Riegl's Stilfragen: Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik is published in Berlin.
• Henri Rousseau gives up his job as a Paris toll collector and moves to a studio in Montparnasse where he lives and paints full-time.

Exhibitions

• December - Unter den Linden in Berlin holds an exhibition of Edvard Munch's work, including six paintings entitled Study for a Series: Love, beginning his Frieze of Life cycle.

Works

Edvard Munch - The Scream 1893

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Unconscious Rivals
• Léon Bakst - Self-portrait
• Aubrey Beardsley - Illustrations to Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (J. M. Dent)
• Henrique Bernardelli - Messalini
• Olga Boznańska - Self-portrait
• Edgar Bundy - Antonio Stradivari at work in his studio
• Edward Burne-Jones - Love Among the Ruins
• Mary Cassatt - The Child's Bath
• Paul Cézanne - Basket of Apples
• Frank Dicksee - The Funeral of a Viking
• Paul Gauguin - Portrait of the artist in a hat
• J. W. Godward
  • A Priestess (nude version)
  • Reflections
  • Yes Or No
• Félix Resurrección Hidalgo - Adios del Sol
• Winslow Homer - The Fox Hunt
• Paul Jamin - Brennus and His Share of the Spoils
• Peder Severin Krøyer - Sommeraften ved Skagen Sønderstrand med Anna Ancher og Marie Krøyer
• Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne - Statue of her mother Queen Victoria, in Kensington Gardens, London^[2]
• Albert Joseph Moore
  • An Idyll
  • The Loves of the Winds and the Seasons
• Edvard Munch
  • Death in the Sickroom
  • The Scream
  • Starry Night
• Władysław Podkowiński - Frenzy of Exultations
• Odilon Redon - Sita (pastel)
• Alfred Stieglitz - photographs
  • The Terminal
  • Winter – Fifth Avenue
• Franz Stuck - The Sin
• Joseph-Noël Sylvestre - François Rude working on the Arc de Triomphe
• Abbott Handerson Thayer - The Virgin
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Jane Avril (poster)
• Henry Scott Tuke - August Blue
• Raja Ravi Varma - There Comes Papa
• Stanisław Wyspiański - Self-portrait

Births

January to June

• January 13 - Chaim Soutine, painter (died 1943)
• March 3
  • Ivon Hitchens, English painter (died 1979)
  • Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (died 1998)
• March 11 - Wanda Gag, children's author and artist (died 1946)
• March 29 - Dora Carrington, painter and designer (died 1932)
• April 9 - Charles E. Burchfield, American scene painter (died 1967)
• April 11 - John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (died 1978)
• April 20 - Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (died 1983)
• May 16 - Stella Bowen, painter (d.1947)

July to December

• July 3 - Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (died 1976)
• July 8 - Abraham Rattner, painter and camouflage specialist (died 1978)
• July 26 - George Grosz, painter and draftsman (died 1959)
• September 15 - Rene Paul Chambellan, sculptor (died 1955)
• October 1 - Marianne Brandt, painter, sculptor and designer (died 1983)
• October 8 - Orovida Camille Pissarro, English painter and etcher (died 1968)
• October 9 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (died 1945)
• November 19 - Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, British intelligence officer, mountaineer and painter (died 1986)
• December - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (died 1979)
• December 29 - Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (died 1968)
• Date unknown:
  • Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor (died 1960).

Deaths

• January 30 - Prince Grigory Gagarin, soldier and painter (born 1811)
• February 21 - John Pettie, painter (born 1839)
• March 16 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (born 1844)
• April 6 - George Vicat Cole, painter (born 1833)
• September 25 - Albert Joseph Moore, painter (born 1841)
• October 6 - Ford Madox Brown, painter (born 1821)
• October 10 - Barthélemy Menn, painter and draughtsman (born 1811)
• October 29 - Gustav Mützel, animal painter (born 1839)
• December 23 - Gunnar Berg, Norwegian painter (born 1863)
• date unknown - Gustav Fabergé, jeweler (born 1814)

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