1904 in art

Events

• 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.

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)
• 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
• Gwen John - Dorelia in a Black Dress
• Edmund Leighton - Vox Populi ("'A little prince likely in time to bless a royal throne")
• 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
• Franz Roubaud - The Siege of Sevastopol Panorama
• John Singer Sargent - Mrs Wertheimer
• Pavel Shtronda - Theotokos of Port Arthur
• Enrique Simonet - The Judgement of Paris
• 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^[1]

Architecture

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

Exhibitions

• "French Primitives", an exhibition of pre-Renaissance French art in Paris.^[2]

Births

January to June

• 8 January - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (d. 1968).
• 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)
• 15 April
  • Mary Adshead, English painter (d. 1995)
  • Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born abstract expressionist painter (d. 1948)
• April 21
  • 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).
• 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).
• 23 October - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1993).
• 17 November - Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (d. 1988).
• 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).
• Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (d. 1969)

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)
• 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)
• 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
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver (b. 1819)
  • Edwin Hayes, marine watercolourist (b. 1819)

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