1905 in art
Events
- Summer – Henri Matisse and André Derain work together in the French Mediterranean village of Collioure.
- October – Salon d'Automne in Paris: the vivid colors used by Matisse and others lead the critic Louis Vauxcelles to describe their works derisively as les Fauves ("the wild beasts"), marking the start of Fauvism.
- Die Brücke group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden.
- Léon Bonnat succeeds Paul Dubois as director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
- Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen open the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (later known as 291) photo art gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
- Opening of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina.
- Jacob Epstein establishes his studio in London.
Works
Matisse – The Open Window
- Anna Ancher – Harvesters
- Umberto Boccioni – Self-portrait
- Gustaf Cederström – Victory at Narva
- Evelyn De Morgan – Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund
- Jacob Epstein – Mrs Epstein Leaning on One Hand (portrait bust)
- Florence Fuller – A Golden Hour
- J. W. Godward
- Flabellifera
- A Greek Beauty
- Mischief
- A Roman Matron
- Konstantin Makovsky – Christmastide Divination (approximate year)
- Henri Matisse
- Jean Metzinger – Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape
- Elisabet Ney
- Sam Houston (sculpture)
- Stephen F. Austin (sculpture)
- Lady Macbeth (sculpture)
- Pablo Picasso
- Family of Saltimbanques
- Garçon à la pipe
- Les Noces de Pierrette
- Portrait of Madame Canals (Musée Picasso, Paris)
- Woman with a Fan (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
- Henri Rousseau – The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
- Marianne Stokes – Hungarian portrait
- Abanindranath Tagore
- Bharat Mata
- Dancing Girl
- Frank Teich – Statue of Richard W. Dowling (sculpture, Houston)
Births
- January 29 – Barnett Newman, American artist (d. 1970)
- February 1 – Doris Lee, American painter (d. 1983)
- February 4 – Jared French, American painter (d. 1988)
- March 9 – Félix Labisse, French painter and designer (d. 1982)
- May 5 – Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (d. 1986)
- April 6 – Andrée Ruellan, American painter (d. 2006)
- May 10 – Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican-American painter and illustrator (d. 1998)
- May 12 – Leonard Bahr, American portrait and mural painter (d. 1990)
- May 15 – Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter and sculptor (d. 1976)
- June 24 – Rex Whistler, English painter (k. 1944)
- June 28 – Rowland Hilder, American-born English landscape painter (d. 1993)
- July 4? – Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (d. 1973)
- July 6 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (d. 1982)
- July 8 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and animation director (d. 1997)
- August 12 – Stevan Bodnarov, Serbian sculptor and painter (d. 1993)
- October 14 – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (d. 2006)
- November 1 – Paul-Émile Borduas, French Canadian abstract painter (d. 1960)
- November 3 – Lois Mailou Jones, African American painter (d. 1998)
- December 22 – James A. Porter, African American painter and art historian (d. 1970)
- date unknown
- Elwin Hawthorne, English painter (d. 1954)
- Walter Pritchard, Scottish stained glass artist, mural painter and sculptor (d. 1977)
Deaths
- January 5 – Rudolf Koller, Swiss painter (b. 1828)
- January 13 – Robert Swain Gifford, American landscape painter (b. 1840)
- January 19 – George Henry Boughton, American painter (b. 1834)
- January 21 – Robert Brough, Swiss painter (b. 1872)
- January 23 – Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Portuguese painter, sculptor and caricaturist (b. 1846)
- February 1 – Oswald Achenbach, German landscape painter (b. 1827)
- February 9 – Adolph von Menzel, German painter and engraver (b. 1815)
- March 1 – Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, French sculptor (b. 1822)
- March 3 – William Brassington, New Zealand sculptor and ornamental mason (b. c.1837)
- April 4 – Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
- May 23 – Paul Dubois, French painter and sculptor (b. 1829)
- July 23 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter (b. 1829)
- August 5 (or 6) – Anton Ažbe, Slovene realist painter and art teacher (b. 1862)
- August 18 – Albert Edelfelt, Finnish painter (b. 1854)
- August 19 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (b. 1825)
- September 14 – Odoardo Borrani, Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli (b. 1833)
- October 2 – Alexander Seik, Czech painter and photographer (b. 1824)
- November 8 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian post-Impressionist painter (b. 1870) (heart attack)
- November 17 – Gustave Crauck, French sculptor (b. 1827)
- December 4 – Henry Hugh Armstead, English sculptor and illustrator (b. 1828)
- December 16 – Alfred Walter Williams, English landscape painter (b. 1824)
- date unknown – Emma Brownlow, English-born genre painter (b. c.1832)
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