1904 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• Georges Braque leaves the Academie Humbert.
• Mary Cassatt is awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her services to the arts.

Works

Henri Matisse, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904, Musée National d'Art Moderne.

Paintings

See also: Category:1904 paintings

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Finding of Moses
• Frederick McCubbin - The pioneer
• Henri Matisse - Luxe, Calme et Volupté

Architecture

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

Births

January to June

• 8 January - Peter Arno, cartoonist (d.1968).
• 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).
• 17 March - Chaim Gross, sculptor (d.1991).
• 15 April
  • Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born abstract expressionist painter (d. 1948)
  • Mary Adshead, English painter (d. 1995)
• April 21
  • 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).
• 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).
• 23 October - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (d.1993).
• 17 November - Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (d.1988).
• 22 November - Miguel Covarrubias, caricaturist and painter (d.1957).
• 30 November - Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d.1980).
• 17 December - Paul Cadmus, American painter (d.1999).
• 21 December - Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass window designer and writer (d.2001).

Full date unknown

• Joseph Delaney, 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)
• 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)
• 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
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver (b. 1819)