1904 in art

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

*Larkin Administration Building (demolished 1950), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
*Henri Matisse - "Luxe, Calme et Volupté"

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).
*22 February - Peter Hurd, American artist (d.1984).
*17 March - Chaim Gross, sculptor (d.1991).
*15 April - Arshile Gorky, abstract expressionist painter (d. 1948).
*21 April - Jean Hélion, French painter (d.1987).
*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

*Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter (d.1974).
*Gabriel Loire, French stained glass artist (d.1996).

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 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)
* James Archer, portrait painter (b. 1823)
* Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver (b. 1819)
* John Horbury Hunt, architect (b. 1838)