1904 in art

The year 1904 in art involved some significant events and new works.

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Events

• April
  • Octavian Smigelschi is selected to paint the interior decoration of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sibiu.
  • George Frederic Watts (dies 1 July) opens the Watts Gallery in the English village of Compton, Guildford, for the display of his work.
• November – The Potters (artists group) is formed by female artists in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 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.[1]
• British Impressionist painter Wilfrid de Glehn marries American portrait painter Jane Erin Emmet.
• Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, designed by Ernst von Ihne and noted for its Skulpturensammlung, is completed.

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)
• Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis – A Day
• 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
• Thomas Cooper Gotch – Innocence
• Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back
• Gwen John – Dorelia in a Black Dress
• Edmund Leighton – Vox Populi ("'A little prince likely in time to bless a royal throne")
• Niels Moeller Lund – The Heart of the Empire
• 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
• Ilya Repin – Portrait of Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev
• Franz Roubaud – The Siege of Sevastopol Panorama
• John Singer Sargent – Mrs Wertheimer
• Pavel Shtronda – Theotokos of Port Arthur
• Enrique Simonet – The Judgement of Paris
• Max Slevogt – Portrait of the Dancer Anna Pavlova
• 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[2]
• Hermon Atkins MacNeil – Coming of the White Man (Portland, Oregon)
• Rudolf and Wolfgang Siemering – Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial (Berlin)
• Antonio Sciortino – Les Gavroches

Architecture

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

Exhibitions

• "French Primitives", an exhibition of pre-Renaissance French art in Paris.[3]

Births

January to June

• 8 January – Peter Arno, American cartoonist (d. 1968).
• 13 January – Oliver Messel, English stage designer (d. 1978).
• 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).[4]
  • Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born abstract expressionist painter (d. 1948).
• 21 April
  • 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).
• 2 May – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (d. 1983).
• 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).
• 11 September – Daniel Brustlein, Alsatian-born illustrator (d. 1996).
• 23 October – Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1993).
• 3 November – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (d. 1969).
• 13 November – Stephen Bone, English painter (d. 1958).
• 17 November – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (d. 1988).
• 18 November – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian-American painter (d. 1990)
• 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).

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)
• February 4 – Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver (b. 1819)
• 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)
  • George Anderson Lawson, sculptor (b. 1832)
• 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 – Edwin Hayes, marine watercolourist (b. 1819)

References

1. Marlowe, Lara. "France's forgotten impressionist: The art of Mary Cassatt". The Irish Times. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
2. Stocker, Mark (2004). "Louise, Princess, duchess of Argyll (1848–1939)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34601. Retrieved 2012-04-10. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
3. Dempsey, Amy (2002). Styles, Schools and Movements: An Encyclopedic Guide to Modern Art. London: Thames & Hudson. pp. 66–69.
4. "OBITUARY: Mary Adshead". The Independent. 7 September 1995. Retrieved 21 February 2020.