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1904 in art
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July 19, 2025
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Events
Works
Paintings
Photographs
Sculptures
Stained-glass windows
Architecture
Exhibitions
Births
January to June
July to December
Full date unknown
Deaths
References
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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.
[
1
]
British Impressionist painter
Wilfrid de Glehn
marries American portrait painter
Jane Erin Emmet
.
Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum
,
Berlin
, designed by
Ernst von Ihne
and noted for its
Skulpturensammlung
, is completed.
Works
Henri Matisse
,
Luxe, Calme et Volupté
, 1904,
Musée d'Orsay
Paintings
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
–
The Finding of Moses
Paul Cézanne
Mont Sainte-Victoire
(
Philadelphia Museum of Art
)
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir
[
2
]
Lady in Blue
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
–
A Day
Walter Dexter
–
The Carpenter's Workshop
Herbert James Draper
–
The Golden Fleece
Florence Fuller
–
Summer Breezes
J. W. Godward
Dolce far Niente
(second version)
In The Days Of Sappho
A Melody
Thomas Cooper Gotch
–
Innocence
Vilhelm Hammershøi
–
Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back
Winslow Homer
–
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
–
The Heart of the Empire
Frederick McCubbin
–
The Pioneer
(
triptych
)
Herbert MacNair
–
The Gift of Doves
Henri Matisse
–
Luxe, Calme et Volupté
William Nicholson
– portrait of
J. M. Barrie
Pablo Picasso
The Actor
Portrait of Suzanne Bloch
Ilya Repin
–
Portrait of Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev
Franz Roubaud
–
The Siege of Sevastopol Panorama
John Singer Sargent
–
Mrs Wertheimer
Pavel Shtronda –
Theotokos of Port Arthur
Enrique Simonet
–
The Judgement of Paris
Max Slevogt
–
Portrait of the Dancer Anna Pavlova
Allen Butler Talcott
–
Lyme Meadow
(approx. date)
Viktor Vasnetsov
–
The Last Judgement
(for St. George's Cathedral,
Gus-Khrustalny
,
Russia
)
Maurice de Vlaminck
–
Sous bois
Photographs
Edward Steichen
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
Boer War
, in
St Paul's Cathedral
, London
[
3
]
Hermon Atkins MacNeil
–
Coming of the White Man
(Portland, Oregon)
Rudolf
and Wolfgang Siemering –
Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial
(Berlin)
Antonio Sciortino
–
Les Gavroches
Stained-glass windows
Tiffany Studio
–
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
.
[
4
]
9 May
–
4 June
–
Claude Monet
, "Views of the Thames in London" at the Galeries
Durand-Ruel
in
Paris
.
[
5
]
Births
January to June
8 January
–
Peter Arno
,
American
cartoonist (d.
1968
).
13 January
–
Oliver Messel
,
English
stage designer
(d.
1978
).
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
).
27 February
-
Yi Eungro
, South korea
Abstract
artist (d.1989)
2 March
–
Theodor Seuss Geisel
, American illustrator (d.
1991
).
17 March
–
Chaim Gross
,
Austrian American
sculptor (d. 1991).
31 March
–
Đorđe Andrejević Kun
,
Serbian
painter
(d.
1964
).
4 April
-
Ulayu Pingwartok
, Canadian Inuk artist
15 April
Mary Adshead
, English painter (d.
1995
).
[
6
]
Arshile Gorky
,
Armenian
-born abstract expressionist painter (d.
1948
).
21 April
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
).
2 May
–
Bill Brandt
, German-born British
photographer
and
photojournalist
(d.
1983
).
11 May
–
Salvador Dalí
,
Spanish
surrealist
artist (d.
1989
).
8 June
–
Alice Rahon
, French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter (d.
1987
).
14 June
–
Margaret Bourke-White
, American photographer and photojournalist (d.
1971
).
July to December
18 July
–
Stella Skopal
, Croatian sculptor (d.
1992
)
[
7
]
2 August
–
Reg Parlett
, English comics artist (d.
1991
).
11 September
–
Daniel Brustlein
, Alsatian-born illustrator (d.
1996
).
23 October
–
Svetoslav Roerich
,
Russian
painter (d.
1993
).
3 November
–
Emerik Feješ
, Hungarian and Serbian painter (d.
1969
).
13 November
–
Stephen Bone
, English painter (d.
1958
).
17 November
–
Isamu Noguchi
,
Japanese American
artist and
landscape architect
(d.
1988
).
18 November
–
Jean Paul Lemieux
, Canadian-American painter (d.
1990
)
22 November
–
Miguel Covarrubias
,
Mexican
caricaturist and painter (d.
1957
).
30 November
–
Clyfford Still
, American
Abstract Expressionist
painter
(d.
1980
).
11 December
–
Felix Nussbaum
,
German
Jewish
surrealist
painter (k.
1944
).
17 December
–
Paul Cadmus
, American painter (d.
1999
).
21 December
–
Jean René Bazaine
, French painter, stained glass artist and writer (d.
2001
).
Full date unknown
Joseph Delaney
,
African 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
)
February 4
–
Marie Firmin Bocourt
, nature artist and engraver (b.
1819
)
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
)
George Anderson Lawson
, sculptor (b.
1832
)
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
–
Edwin Hayes
, marine watercolourist (b. 1819)
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↑
Marlowe, Lara.
"France's forgotten impressionist: The art of Mary Cassatt"
.
The Irish Times
. Retrieved
21 February
2020
.
↑
"Secret $100 Million Cézanne Sale in Detroit"
. 19 December 2014.
↑
Stocker, Mark (2004).
"Louise, Princess, duchess of Argyll (1848–1939)"
.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online
ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi
:
10.1093/ref:odnb/34601
. Retrieved
2012-04-10
.
(Subscription or
UK public library membership
required.)
↑
Dempsey, Amy (2002).
Styles, Schools and Movements: An Encyclopedic Guide to Modern Art
. London: Thames & Hudson. pp.
66–
69.
↑
Exhibition catalogue.
Vues de la Tamise à Londres
.
↑
"OBITUARY: Mary Adshead"
.
The Independent
. 7 September 1995.
Archived
from the original on 2022-05-01
. Retrieved
21 February
2020
.
↑
ULUPUH (16 June 2009).
"Marina Baričević: Stella Skopal"
(in Croatian). Archived from
the original
on 7 June 2017
. Retrieved
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2022
.
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