2004 in art

The year 2004 in art involved some significant events and new art works.

Events

• 24 May – A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists.

Works

• David Backhouse – Animals in War Memorial (London)
• Rachel Joynt – Noah's Egg (sculpture at Veterinary Sciences Centre, University College Dublin in Ireland)
• Cornelia Parker – Perpetual Canon (installation)
• Artworks at Millennium Park in Chicago, United States:
  • Anish Kapoor – Cloud Gate
  • Jaume Plensa – Crown Fountain^[1][2][3]

Awards

• Archibald Prize – Craig Ruddy, David Gulpilil, two worlds
• Beck's Futures – Saskia Olde Wolbers
• Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration – Mordicai Gerstein, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
• En Foco's New Works Photography Award – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
• Hugo Boss Prize- Rirkrit Tiravanija
• Wynne prize – George Tjungurrayi, Untitled

Exhibitions

• Edward Delaney retrospective – Royal Hibernian Academy
• Erich Heckel – His Work in the 1920s, Brücke Museum, Berlin
• Paul Henry at the National Gallery of Ireland
• Edward Hopper at the Tate Gallery, London
• "Drawings of Jim Dine" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Deaths

January to March

• 4 January – Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (b.1933)
• 9 January – Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic (b.1924)
• 7 February – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (b.1923)
• 4 March – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (b.1953)
• 12 March - Milton Resnick, American Painter (b. 1917)
• 13 March – René Laloux, French animator and film director (b.1929)

April to June

• 1 April – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (b.1920)
• 25 April – Jacques Rouxel, French animator (b.1931).
• 12 May – Syd Hoff, American children’s book author and cartoonist (b.1912)
• 28 May – Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (b.1921)
• 11 June – Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b.1946)
• 15 June – Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (b.1933)

July to September

• 2 July – John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (b.1919)
• 19 July – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b.1902)
• 3 August – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b.1908)
• 4 August – Cécile Guillame, first woman to engrave a French postal stamps (b.1933).
• 8 August – Leon Golub, American painter (b.1922).
• 8 September – Frank Thomas, American animator (b.1912)
• 19 September – Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1933)

October to December

• 1 October – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b.1923).
• 13 October – Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (b.1932).
• 15 October – Irv Novick, American comic book artist (b.1916).
• 13 November – Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (b.1916)
• 19 November
  • Trina Schart Hyman, American illustrator of children's books (b.1939).
  • Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b.1914)
• 9 December – Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (b.1955).
• 16 December – Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (b.1912).
• 17 December – Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (b.1931).
• December – Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1918).

See also

• List of years in art

References