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.

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.

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)