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Overview of the events of 1898 in art
Events
Works
Paintings
Sculptures
Other
- F. Holland Day
- The Seven Last Words of Christ, a series of photographs
- Study for the Crucifixion, a photograph
- Félix Vallotton – Intimités ("Intimacies"), a suite of woodcuts
Births
January to June
July to December
- 2 July – Gen Paul, French painter (died 1975)
- 17 July – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (died 1991)
- 22 July – Alexander Calder, American sculptor and artist (died 1976)
- 30 July – Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (died 1986)
- 31 July – Doris Zinkeisen, Scottish-born theatrical designer and commercial artist (died 1991)
- 26 August – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (died 1979)
- 12 September – Arkady Shaikhet, Ukrainian-born Soviet documentary photographer (died 1959)
- 16 September – Leslie Garland Bolling, African American sculptor (died 1955)
- 25 September – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American artist and teacher (died 1980)
- October 10
- November 21 – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (died 1967)
- December 10 - Ivan Tabaković, Serbian painter (died 1977)
- date unknown - E. Chambré Hardman, British photographer (died 1988)
Deaths
- 8 January - Achille Empéraire, French painter and friend of Paul Cézanne (born 1829)
- 25 February – Francis Frith, photographer (born 1822)
- 16 March – Aubrey Beardsley, painter and illustrator (born 1872)
- 24 March – J. L. K. van Dort, Ceylonese illustrator (born 1831)
- 18 April – Gustave Moreau, Symbolist painter (born 1826)
- 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Pre-Raphaelite artist (born 1833)
- 29 July – Arturo Michelena, painter (born 1863)
- 8 August – Eugène Boudin, painter (born 1824)
- 24 October – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (born 1824)
- date unknown - Giulio Salviati, glassmaker and mosaicist (born 1843)