Editing 1904 in art

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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 Emmet de Glehn|Jane Erin Emmet]].
* [[Bode Museum|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 (Alma-Tadema painting)|The Finding of Moses]]''
* [[Paul Cézanne]] 
** ''[[Mont Sainte-Victoire (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_(C%C3%A9zanne)|Lady in Blue]]''
* [[Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis]] – ''[[:File:Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis - DAY - 1904 - 5, Varsuva.jpg|A Day]]''
* [[Walter Dexter (British artist)|Walter Dexter]]  – ''The Carpenter's Workshop''
* [[Herbert James Draper]] – ''The Golden Fleece''
* [[Florence Fuller]] – ''Summer Breezes''
* [[John William Godward|J. W. Godward]]
** ''[[:File:Sweet Nothings by Godward.jpg|Dolce far Niente]]'' (second version)
** ''[[:File:Godward-In the Days of Sappho-1904.jpg|In The Days Of Sappho]]''
** ''A Melody''
* [[Thomas Cooper Gotch]] – ''[[:File:Innocence, c 1904, watercolour by Thomas Cooper Gotch.jpg|Innocence]]''
* [[Vilhelm Hammershøi]] – ''[[Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back]]''
* [[Winslow Homer]] – ''[[:File:Winslow Homer - Kissing the Moon.jpg|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]] – ''[[:File:The Heart of the Empire, Niels Moeller Lund, 1904.JPG|The Heart of the Empire]]''
* [[Frederick McCubbin]] – ''[[The pioneer (painting)|The Pioneer]]'' ([[triptych]])
* [[Herbert MacNair]] – ''[[:File:MacNair, The Gift of Doves.jpg|The Gift of Doves]]''
* [[Henri Matisse]] – ''[[Luxe, Calme et Volupté]]''
* [[William Nicholson (artist)|William Nicholson]] – portrait of [[J. M. Barrie]]
* [[Pablo Picasso]]
** ''[[The Actor (painting)|The Actor]]''
** ''[[Portrait of Suzanne Bloch]]''
* [[Ilya Repin]] – ''[[:File:Andreyev by Repin.jpg|Portrait of Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev]]''
* [[Franz Roubaud]] – ''[[:File:Panorama1854-1855.jpg|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]] – ''[[:File:Enrique Simonet – El Juicio de Paris – 1904.jpg|The Judgement of Paris]]''
* [[Max Slevogt]] – ''[[:File:Max Slevogt - Portrait of the Dancer Anna Pawlowa - Google Art Project.jpg|Portrait of the Dancer Anna Pavlova]]''
* [[Allen Butler Talcott]] – ''[[:File:Lyme Meadow, Allen Butler Talcott.jpg|Lyme Meadow]]'' (approx. date)
* [[Viktor Vasnetsov]] – ''[[:File:The Last Judgement – Vasnetsov.jpg|The Last Judgement]]'' (for St. George's Cathedral, [[Gus-Khrustalny (town)|Gus-Khrustalny]], [[Russia]])
* [[Maurice de Vlaminck]] – ''Sous bois''

===Photographs===
* [[Edward Steichen]]
** ''[[:File:Steichen flatiron.jpg|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 [[Second Boer War|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 Siemering|Rudolf]] and Wolfgang Siemering – [[Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial]] (Berlin)
* [[Antonio Sciortino]] – ''[[Les Gavroches]]''

===Stained-glass windows===
* [[Tiffany Studio]] – ''[[Angel of the Resurrection (Tiffany Studios stained glass window)|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 [[Paul Durand-Ruel|Durand-Ruel]] in [[Paris]].<ref>Exhibition catalogue. ''Vues de la Tamise à Londres''.</ref>

==Births==
===January to June===
* [[8 January]] – [[Peter Arno]], [[Americans|American]] cartoonist (d. [[1968 in art|1968]]).
* [[13 January]] – [[Oliver Messel]], [[English people|English]] [[stage design]]er (d. [[1978 in art|1978]]).
* [[14 January]] – [[Cecil Beaton]], English [[photographer]] and stage and [[costume designer]] (d. [[1980 in art|1980]]).
* [[22 January]] – [[Kimon Evan Marengo]], [[Egypt]]ian-born [[United Kingdom|British]] cartoonist (d. [[1988 in art|1988]]).
* [[6 February]] – [[Dorothy Canning Miller]] American curator (d. [[2003 in art|2003]]).
* [[22 February]] – [[Peter Hurd]], American [[artist]] (d. [[1984 in art|1984]]).
* [[27 February]] - [[Yi Eungro]], South korea [[Abstract art|Abstract]] artist (d.1989)
* [[2 March]] – [[Theodor Seuss Geisel]], American illustrator (d. [[1991 in art|1991]]).
* [[17 March]] – [[Chaim Gross]], [[Austrian American]] sculptor (d. 1991).
* [[31 March]] – [[Đorđe Andrejević Kun]], [[Serbian people|Serbian]] [[Painting|painter]] (d. [[1964 in art|1964]]).
*[[April 4|4 April]] - [[Ulayu Pingwartok]], Canadian Inuk artist
* [[15 April]]
** [[Mary Adshead]], English painter (d. [[1995 in art|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]], [[Armenia]]n-born abstract expressionist painter (d. [[1948 in art|1948]]).
* [[21 April]]
** [[Jean Hélion]], [[French people|French]] painter (d. [[1987 in art|1987]]).
** [[Gabriel Loire]], French [[stained glass]] artist (d. [[1996 in art|1996]]).
* [[24 April]] – [[Willem de Kooning]], [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[abstract expressionist]] painter (d. [[1997 in art|1997]]).
* [[2 May]] – [[Bill Brandt]], German-born British [[List of photographers|photographer]] and [[Photojournalism|photojournalist]] (d. [[1983 in art|1983]]).
* [[11 May]] – [[Salvador Dalí]], [[Spaniards|Spanish]] [[surrealist]] artist (d. [[1989 in art|1989]]).
* [[8 June]] – [[Alice Rahon]], French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter (d. [[1987 in art|1987]]).
* [[14 June]] – [[Margaret Bourke-White]], American photographer and photojournalist (d. [[1971 in art|1971]]).

===July to December===
* [[2 August]] – [[Reg Parlett]], English comics artist (d. [[1991 in art|1991]]).
* [[11 September]] – [[Daniel Brustlein]], Alsatian-born illustrator (d. [[1996 in art|1996]]).
* [[23 October]] – [[Svetoslav Roerich]], [[Russia]]n painter (d. [[1993 in art|1993]]).
* [[3 November]] – [[Emerik Feješ]], Hungarian and Serbian painter (d. [[1969 in art|1969]]).
* [[13 November]] – [[Stephen Bone]], English painter (d. [[1958 in art|1958]]).
* [[17 November]] – [[Isamu Noguchi]], [[Japanese American]] artist and [[Landscape architecture|landscape architect]] (d. [[1988 in art|1988]]).
* [[18 November]] – [[Jean Paul Lemieux]], Canadian-American painter (d. [[1990 in art|1990]])
* [[22 November]] – [[Miguel Covarrubias]], [[Mexican people|Mexican]] caricaturist and painter (d. [[1957 in art|1957]]).
* [[30 November]] – [[Clyfford Still]], American [[Abstract Expressionism|Abstract Expressionist]] [[Painting|painter]] (d. [[1980 in art|1980]]).
* [[11 December]] – [[Felix Nussbaum]], [[Germans|German]] [[Jews|Jewish]] [[Surrealism|surrealist]] painter (k. [[1944 in art|1944]]).
* [[17 December]] – [[Paul Cadmus]], American painter (d. [[1999 in art|1999]]).
* [[21 December]] – [[Jean René Bazaine]], French painter, stained glass artist and writer (d. [[2001 in art|2001]]).

===Full date unknown===
* [[Joseph Delaney (artist)|Joseph Delaney]], [[African American]] painter (d. [[1991 in art|1991]]).
* [[Juan Bautista Garcia]], [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] painter (d. [[1974 in art|1974]]).

==Deaths==
* [[January 8]] – [[Alfred Felton]], art collector (b. [[1831 in art|1831]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Konrad Grob]], painter (b. [[1828 in art|1828]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]], painter and sculptor (b. [[1824 in art|1824]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Marie Firmin Bocourt]], nature artist and engraver (b. [[1819 in art|1819]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Franz von Lenbach]], painter (b. [[1836 in art|1836]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Eadweard Muybridge]], photographer (b. [[1830 in art|1830]])
* [[June 20]] – [[Frederic Sandys]], painter (b. [[1829 in art|1829]])
* [[July 1]] – [[George Frederic Watts]], painter and sculptor (b. [[1817 in art|1817]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Henri Fantin-Latour]], painter and lithographer (b. [[1836 in art|1836]])
* [[September 3]] – [[James Archer (artist)|James Archer]], portrait painter (b. [[1823 in art|1823]])
* [[September 4]] – [[Martin Johnson Heade]], painter (b. [[1819 in art|1819]])
* [[September 23]]
** [[Émile Gallé]], artist in glass (b. [[1846 in art|1846]])
** [[George Anderson Lawson]], sculptor (b. [[1832 in art|1832]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Frédéric Bartholdi]], sculptor (b. [[1834 in art|1834]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Károly Lotz]], painter (b. [[1833 in art|1833]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Adolf Waldinger]], [[Painting|painter]] from [[Osijek]], [[Croatia]] (b. [[1843 in art|1843]])
* [[December 30]] – [[John Horbury Hunt]], architect (b. [[1838 in art|1838]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Edwin Hayes]], marine watercolourist (b. 1819)

==References==
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