title: 1904 in art
text: # 1904 in art
  
  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.
  * 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
  
  ### 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
     * 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
  
  * 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
  * 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
  
  * Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (demolished 1950)
  
  ## Exhibitions
  
  * "French Primitives", an exhibition of pre-Renaissance French art in Paris.
  
  ## 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).
     * 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
  
  * 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)
  