# 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

* 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.
* 9 May–4 June – Claude Monet, "Views of the Thames in London" at the Galeries Durand-Ruel 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)