1887 in art
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The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" (included in his Claims of Decorative Art, printed later).
- Charles Lang Freer’s first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Works
- Thomas Shields Clarke - A Fool's Fool
- Jean-Léon Gérôme - Omphale
- Edward John Gregory - Marooning
- Valentin Serov - The Girl with Peaches
[edit] Births
- January 3 - August Macke, Expressionist painter (d. 1914)
- March 23 - Juan Gris, painter and sculptor (d. 1927)
- March 25 - Josef Čapek, painter (d. 1945)
- May 30 - Alexander Archipenko, sculptor (d. 1964)
- June 20 - Kurt Schwitters, Dadaist painter and writer (d. 1948)
- July 7 - Marc Chagall, Surrealist painter (d. 1985)
- July 28 - Marcel Duchamp, influential artist (d. 1968)
- October 6 - Le Corbusier, architect and painter (d. 1965)
- October 9 - Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, painter (d. 1946)
- November 1 - L. S. Lowry, painter of industrial landscapes (d. 1976)
- November 15 - Georgia O'Keeffe, painter (d. 1986)
- date unknown - Leo Michelson, painter and sculptor of the École de Paris (d. 1978)
- date unknown - Jacob Steinhardt, painter and woodcut artist (d. 1968)
[edit] Deaths
- March 24 - Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic (b. 1837)
- August 19 - Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (b. 1804)
- Philipp Veit, German Romantic painter (b. 1793)

