1894 in art

The year 1894 in art involved some significant events.

Events

 * February – Oscar Wilde's play Salome is first published in English, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
 * April – The Yellow Book (edited by Henry Harland with Aubrey Beardsley as art editor) begins publication by John Lane and Elkin Mathews – The Bodley Head in London.
 * June 5 – Opening of Racławice Panorama in Lwów.
 * August 23 – Jack Butler Yeats marries fellow artist Mary Cottenham White.
 * The Della Robbia Pottery is established as part of the Arts and Crafts movement by Harold Rathbone and Conrad Dressler in Birkenhead, England.
 * Lucien Pissarro sets up the Eragny Press in England.
 * Bernard Berenson publishes The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, with an Index to their Works.

Works

 * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Spring (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
 * Charles Burton Barber
 * Queen Victoria with John Brown
 * Suspense
 * Aubrey Beardsley
 * Self-portrait in bed (line block print)
 * Illustrations to Oscar Wilde's Salome
 * Olga Boznańska – Girl with Chrysanthemums
 * Edward Burne-Jones
 * Love Among the Ruins (copy in oils)
 * (with John Henry Dearle and William Morris) – Holy Grail tapestries (original versions completed)
 * Gustave Caillebotte – The garden of the Petit Gennevilliers in winter
 * Gustaf Cederström – Among the Homeless
 * Paul Cézanne – Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier
 * Herbert Dicksee – Silent Sympathy
 * Árpád Feszty – Arrival of the Hungarians (cyclorama)
 * Paul Gauguin
 * Breton Peasants (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * Oviri (ceramic sculpture, original cast in Musée d'Orsay)
 * J. W. Godward – A Priestess
 * Thomas Cooper Gotch – The Child Enthroned
 * Paja Jovanović – The Takovo Uprising
 * Max Liebermann – Der Garten des Waisenhauses in Amsterdam
 * Maximilien Luce – Port of London, Night
 * Frederick William MacMonnies – Bacchante and Infant Faun (bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
 * Jacek Malczewski – Melancholia
 * Henri Matisse – Woman Reading
 * Claude Monet – Rouen Cathedral (The Portal, Morning Sun; Harmony in Blue) (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * Edvard Munch
 * Anxiety (Munch Museum, Oslo)
 * Puberty (National Gallery, Oslo)
 * Love and Pain (Vampire) (Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden)
 * Ernest Normand – The White Slave
 * Władysław Podkowiński – Ecstasy
 * Henrietta Rae – Psyche at the Throne of Venus
 * Tom Roberts – The Golden Fleece
 * Georges Rochegrosse – The Knight of the Flowers (Parsifal) (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * Aleksander Sochaczewski – Farewell Europe!
 * Solomon Joseph Solomon – Mrs Patrick Campbell as Paula Tanqueray
 * Marie Spartali Stillman
 * Love Sonnets
 * A Rose from Armida's Garden
 * Henry Ossawa Tanner – The Thankful Poor
 * James Tissot
 * The Adoration of the Shepherds
 * What Our Lord Saw from the Cross
 * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Woman Pulling Up Her Stocking (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
 * Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller – J. Marion Sims (bronze)
 * Fritz von Uhde – Noli me tangere
 * Theodoor Verstraete – Spring in Schoore (Zeeland)
 * Stanisław Wyspiański – Planty Park at Dawn

Births

 * 9 January – Reg Gammon, English painter and illustrator (died 1997)
 * 8 March – Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor (died 1966)
 * 17 March – Meredith Frampton, English portrait painter (died 1984)
 * 10 April – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (died 1982)
 * 19 April – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (died 1973)
 * 22 April – Evie Hone, Irish painter and stained glass artist (died 1955)
 * 27 April – George Petty, American pin-up artist (died 1975)
 * 17 May – Zora Petrović, one of the most significant representatives of Expressionism of color in Serbian art between two wars (died 1962)
 * 6 June – Arthur Szyk, Polish-born illustrator and political artist (died 1951)
 * 13 June – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (died 1986)
 * 28 June – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (died 1973)
 * 2 July – André Kertész, Hungarian-born photographer (died 1985)
 * 14 July – Dave Fleischer, Austrian-American animator, film director, and film producer (died 1979)
 * 26 August – Gala Dalí, model and wife of Salvador Dalí (died 1982)
 * 3 September – André Hébuterne, French painter (died 1992)
 * 7 October – Doris Huestis Speirs, Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet (died 1989)
 * 8 October – Risto Stijović, Serbian sculptor (died 1974)
 * 14 October – E. E. Cummings, American poet and painter (died 1962)
 * 4 November – Chafik Charobim, Egyptian painter (died 1975)
 * 8 November – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (died 1978)
 * 8 December – James Thurber, American cartoonist (died 1961)
 * 27 December – Annot, German painter (died 1981)
 * date unknown
 * Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor and painter (died 1968)
 * Ovartaci, born Louis Marcussen, Danish outsider artist (died 1985)



Deaths

 * January 3 – Gustav Fabergé, German jeweler (born 1814)
 * January 10 – Carl Werner, German watercolour painter (born 1808)
 * January 29 – Armand Gautier, French painter (born 1825)
 * February 13 – Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (born 1818)
 * February 21 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and arts patron (born 1848)
 * April 12 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (born 1843)
 * April 27 – Charles Laval, French painter (born 1862)
 * June 17 – William Hart, Scottish American landscape painter (born 1823)
 * July 1 – Jean-Joseph Carriès, French sculptor and ceramicist (born 1850)
 * July 25 – Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor (born 1850)
 * August 5 – Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter (born 1854)
 * August 30 – Joseph Robinson Kirk, Irish sculptor (born 1821)
 * September 26 – Launt Thompson, Irish sculptor (born 1833)
 * date unknown – Charles Burton Barber, English genre painter (born 1845)