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Events from the year '''1904 in art'''.
==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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Marlowe |first1=Lara |title=France's forgotten impressionist: The art of Mary Cassatt |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/france-s-forgotten-impressionist-the-art-of-mary-cassatt-1.3512408 |newspaper=The Irish Times |accessdate=21 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref> * 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== [[Image:Matisse-Luxe.jpg|thumb|right|300px|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) ** ''La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.artnet.com/market/secret-100-million-cezanne-sale-in-detroit-204252 | title=Secret $100 Million Cézanne Sale in Detroit | date=19 December 2014 }}</ref> ** ''Lady in Blue'' * 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'' * Winslow Homer – ''Kissing the Moon'' * 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 – ''[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-mrs-wertheimer-n03706 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=== {{See also|Category:1904 sculptures}} * Daniel Chester French **Colonel James Anderson Monument (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) **Statue of William Francis Bartlett (Massachusetts State House, Boston) * Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll – Memorial to Colonial soldiers who fell during the Boer War, in St Paul's Cathedral, London<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Mark|last=Stocker|title=Louise, Princess, duchess of Argyll (1848–1939)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34601|accessdate=2012-04-10|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34601}} </ref> * Hermon Atkins MacNeil – ''Coming of the White Man'' (Portland, Oregon) * Rudolf and Wolfgang Siemering – Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial (Berlin) * Antonio Sciortino – ''Les Gavroches''
===Stained-glass windows=== * Tiffany Studio – ''Angel of the Resurrection''
===Architecture=== {{See also|Category:1904 architecture}} * Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (demolished 1950)
==Exhibitions== * 12 April–14 July – "French Primitives", an exhibition of pre-Renaissance French art at the Louvre's Pavillon de Marsan and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.<ref name=dempsey>{{cite book|last=Dempsey|first=Amy|title=Styles, Schools and Movements: An Encyclopedic Guide to Modern Art|pages=66–69|publisher=Thames & Hudson|location=London|year=2002}}</ref> * 9 May–4 June – Claude Monet, "Views of the Thames in London" at the Galeries Durand-Ruel in Paris.<ref>Exhibition catalogue. ''Vues de la Tamise à Londres''.</ref>
==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). * 27 February - Yi Eungro, South korea Abstract artist (d.1989) * 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). *4 April - Ulayu Pingwartok, Canadian Inuk artist * 15 April ** Mary Adshead, English painter (d. 1995).<ref>{{cite web |title=OBITUARY: Mary Adshead |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-adshead-1599840.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mary-adshead-1599840.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |accessdate=21 February 2020 |language=en |date=7 September 1995}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ** 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). * 8 June – Alice Rahon, French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter (d. 1987). * 14 June – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 1971).
===July to December=== * 18 July – Stella Skopal, Croatian sculptor (d. 1992)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ulupuh.hr/hr/izdavackadjelatnost.asp?id=825 |title=Marina Baričević: Stella Skopal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607182840/http://www.ulupuh.hr/hr/izdavackadjelatnost.asp?id=825 |archive-date=7 June 2017 |author=ULUPUH |date=16 June 2009 |language=hr |access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref> * 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)
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