Editing 1903 in art

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Events from the year '''1903 in art'''.

==Events==
* [[June 3]] – [[Laura Knight|Laura Johnson]] marries [[Harold Knight (artist)|Harold Knight]].
* [[Isadora Duncan]] develops [[free dance]], a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]].
* With the support of [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], [[Jacques Villon]], [[Auguste Rodin]] and others, the first [[Salon d'Automne]] opens in [[Paris]] as a reaction to the conservatism of the [[Paris Salon]].
* [[Koloman Moser]] and [[Josef Hoffmann]] found the [[Wiener Werkstätte]] in Vienna.
* [[Frederic Dorr Steele]] produces his first illustrations for [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories in the [[United States]], for ''[[Collier's Weekly]]''.
* [[Bernard Berenson]] publishes ''The Drawings of the Florentine Painters''.
* [[:de:Anna Muthesius|Anna Muthesius]] publishes ''Das Eigenkleid der Frau''.

==Works==
[[File:Wassily Kandinsky, 1903, The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), oil on canvas, 52.1 x 54.6 cm, Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Wassily Kandinsky]] – ''[[The Blue Rider (Kandinsky painting)|Der Blaue Reiter]]'']]
* Sir [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] – ''Silver Favourites''
* [[Cassius Marcellus Coolidge]] – 16 paintings in ''[[Dogs Playing Poker]]'' series
* [[Pompeo Coppini]] – Confederate Soldiers monument, Texas State Capitol
* [[Evelyn De Morgan]] – ''[[The Love Potion]]''
* [[Frederick H. Evans]] – ''[[:File:A Sea Of Steps -- Wells Cathedral LACMA M.2008.40.736 (1 of 3).jpg|A Sea of Steps]]'' (from series of [[platinum print]]s of photographs of [[Wells Cathedral]])
* [[Gebhard Fugel]] and assistants – ''[[:de:Panorama Kreuzigung Christi|Panorama of the Crucifixion of Christ]]'' ([[Altötting]], Bavaria)
* [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]] – [[Metallurgical Worker and Metallurgical Science|''Metallurgical Worker'' and ''Metallurgical Science'']]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wfmz.com/features/historys-headlines/historys-headlines-the-art-in-steelmaking/article_5fff0fd9-9902-519c-aa44-3d6c00933d44.html|title=History's Headlines: The Art in Steelmaking|first=Frank|last=Whelan|website=Wfmz.com|date=13 December 2016 |access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref>
* [[John William Godward|J. W. Godward]]
** ''Amaryllis''
** ''[[:File:Godward The Old Old Story 1903.jpg|The Old, Old Story]]''
** ''The Rendezvous''
** ''[[:File:Godward Summer Flowers 1903.jpg|Summer Flowers]]''
* [[Wassily Kandinsky]] – ''The Blue Rider''
* [[Paul Klee]] – ''Inventionen'' (''Inventions'') series of [[etching]]s, including ''Jungfrau im Baum'' (''Virgin in a Tree'') and ''Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich'' (''Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank'')
* [[Peder Severin Krøyer]] – ''Sankthansbål på Skagen strand''
* [[Henry Herbert La Thangue]] – ''[[:File:Moving Bracken by H H La Thangue, 1903, Guildhall Gallery, London.JPG|Mowing Bracken]]''
* [[Margaret MacDonald (artist)|Margaret MacDonald]] – ''[[:File:Margaret MacDonald - Opera Of The Winds 1903.jpg|Opera Of The Winds]]'' ([[gesso]] panel)
* [[Jacek Malczewski]]
** ''[[Polish Hamlet. Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski]]''
** [[Triptych]]: ''[[:File:Malczewski Jacek Prawo.jpg|Law]]'', ''[[:File:Malczewski Jacek Ojczyzna.jpg|Motherland]]'', ''[[:File:Sztuka.jpg|Art]]'' ([[National Museum, Wrocław]])
* [[Paula Modersohn-Becker]] – ''The Old Farmer''
* [[Edvard Munch]]
** ''[[:File:Edvard Munch - The Brooch. Eva Mudocci - Google Art Project.jpg|The Brooch, Eva Mudocci]]'' (lithograph)
** ''Dr. Linde's Sons''
** ''[[:File:Edvard Munch - Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand - Google Art Project.jpg|Four Girls in Åsgårdstrand]]''
** ''[[:File:Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait in Hell - Google Art Project.jpg|Self-Portrait in Hell]]''
** ''Village in Moonlight''
* [[Elisabet Ney]] – [[Statue of Albert Sidney Johnston (Texas State Cemetery)]] (sculpture and mausoleum)
* [[Pablo Picasso]] – paintings from artist's [[Picasso's Blue Period|Blue Period]]
**''[[Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto]]'' 
**''Tête de femme''
**''The Tragedy''
**''La vie''
**''Vieux guitariste aveugle'' (''The Old Guitar Player'')
* [[Camille Pissarro]] – ''[[:File:Camille Pissarro 038.jpg|Self-portrait]]'' ([[Tate Gallery]])
* Sir [[Edward Poynter]] – ''[[The Cave of the Storm Nymphs]]'' (private collection)
* [[Tom Roberts]] – ''[[The Big Picture (painting)|The Big Picture]]'' (formally, ''The Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by H.R.H. The Duke of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V), May 9, 1901'')
* [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]] – [[Henry W. Maxwell Memorial]]
* [[John Singer Sargent]] – ''[[Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel]]''
* [[Hugo Simberg]] – ''[[The Wounded Angel]]''
* [[Max Slevogt]] – ''[[:File:Francisco D'Andrade as Don Giovanni by Max Slevogt, 1903.jpg|The Singer Francisco D'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera]]'' ("The Black d'Andrade")
* [[August Strindberg]] – ''[[:File:The Town, 1903.jpg|Staden]]''
* [[Abbott Handerson Thayer]] – ''[[Stevenson Memorial]]''
* [[Félix Vallotton]] – ''The Five Painters''
* [[J. W. Waterhouse]]
** ''[[Boreas (Waterhouse painting)|Boreas]]''
** ''[[Echo and Narcissus (Waterhouse painting)|Echo and Narcissus]]''

{{See also|Category:1903 sculptures}}

==Births==
===January to June===
* January – [[Guan Zilan]], [[Chinese people|Chinese]] avant-garde [[Painting|painter]] (d. [[1986 in art|1986]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Barbara Hepworth]], [[English people|English]] [[Sculpture|sculptor]] and [[artist]] (d. [[1975 in art|1975]])<ref>{{cite news|last1=Whitman |first1=Alden |title=Barbara Hepworth Dies in Fire at Cornwall Studio |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/21/archives/barbara-hepworth-dies-in-fire-at-cornwall-studio-a-sense-of-flow.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=4 January 2020 |date=21 May 1975}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – [[Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet]], [[British people|British]] [[politician]], art collector and [[philanthropy|philanthropist]] and [[Irish nationality law#Honorary|honorary Irish citizen]] (d. [[1994 in art|1994]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Maud Lewis]], [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[folk artist]] (d. [[1970 in art|1970]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Edward Bawden]], English artist and illustrator (d. [[1989 in art|1989]])
* [[March 14]]
** [[Richard Eurich]], English sea- and landscape painter (d. [[1992 in art|1992]])
** [[Adolph Gottlieb]], [[Americans|American]] [[abstract expressionist]] painter and sculptor (d. [[1974 in art|1974]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Lola Álvarez Bravo]], Mexican photographer (d. [[1993 in art|1993]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Thomas Hennell]], English painter (k. [[1945 in art|1945]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Paul Ninas]], American painter (d. [[1964 in art|1964]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Ceri Richards]], [[Wales|Welsh]] painter (d. [[1971 in art|1971]])
* [[June 15]] – [[Victor Brauner]], [[Romania]]n painter (d. [[1966 in art|1966]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Al Hirschfeld]], American [[caricaturist]] (d. [[2003 in art|2003]])

===July to December===
* [[July 13]] – [[Kenneth Clark]], English author, museum director, broadcaster and [[Art history|art historian]] (d.[[1983 in art|1983]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Tore Asplund]], Swedish-born American painter (d.[[1977 in art|1977]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Roy Neuberger]], American art collector and patron (d.[[2010 in art|2010]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Eric Ravilious]], English artist (d.[[1942 in art|1942]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Lodewijk Bruckman]], Dutch [[Magic realism|magic realist]] painter (d.[[1995 in art|1995]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Graham Sutherland]], English artist (d.[[1980 in art|1980]])
* [[September 16]] – [[Karl Zerbe]], German-born painter (d.[[1972 in art|1972]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Gertrud Arndt]], German photographer (d.[[2000 in art|2000]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Mark Rothko]], [[Latvia]]n-born American painter and [[printmaker]] (d.[[1970 in art|1970]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Walter Inglis Anderson]], American painter (d.[[1965 in art|1965]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Otto Bettmann]], German-born image archivist (d.[[1998 in art|1998]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Zlatyu Boyadzhiev]], [[Bulgaria]]n painter (d.[[1976 in art|1976]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Charlotte Perriand]], [[France|French]] [[architect]] and [[designer]] (d.[[1999 in art|1999]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Harry Shoulberg]], American [[expressionist]] painter] (d.[[1995 in art|1995]])
* [[November 3]] – [[Walker Evans]], American photographer (d.[[1975 in art|1975]])
* [[December 13]] – [[John Piper (artist)|John Piper]], English painter (d.[[1992 in art|1992]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Joseph Cornell]], American artist and sculptor (d.[[1972 in art|1972]])
* [[December 30]]  – [[Candido Portinari]], Brazilian painter (d.[[1962 in art|1962]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Bernard Lamotte]], French illustrator, painter and muralist (d.[[1983 in art|1983]])

==Deaths==
* [[January 5]] – [[Eleuterio Pagliano]], [[Italians|Italian]] painter (b. [[1826 in art|1826]])
* [[January 24]] – [[Charles Wynne Nicholls]], genre painter (b. [[1831 in art|1831]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Sophie Gengembre Anderson]], genre painter (b. [[1843 in art|1843]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Walter Osborne]], [[Irish people|Irish]] impressionist painter (b.[[1859 in art|1859]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Paul Gauguin]], painter (b. [[1848 in art|1848]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Robert Frederick Blum]], American illustrator and lithographer (b. [[1857 in art|1857]])
* [[July 14]] – [[James McNeill Whistler]], American painter and etcher (b. [[1834 in art|1834]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Hans Gude]], painter (b. [[1825 in art|1825]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Haverkamp|first=Frode|author2=Gude, Hans Fredrik|title=Hans Gude|date=January 1992|publisher=[[Aschehoug]]|location=[[Oslo]]|language=Norwegian|isbn=82-03-17072-2|oclc=29047091|page=60}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] – [[Carl Schuch]], painter (b. [[1846 in art|1846]])
* [[October 18]] – [[John Callcott Horsley]], painter (b. [[1817 in art|1817]])
* [[October 26]] – [[János Fadrusz]], Hungarian sculptor (b. [[1858 in art|1858]])
* [[November 12]] or 13 – [[Camille Pissarro]], Impressionist painter (b. [[1830 in art|1830]])

==References==
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