# 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
* Edward Poynter – Barine
* 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)