1903 in art
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List of years in Art

Events

• Isadora Duncan develops free dance, a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
• With the support of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jacques Villon, Auguste Rodin and others, the first Salon d'Automne opens in Paris as a reaction to the conservatism of the Paris Salon.

Works

Paintings

See also: Category:1903 paintings

• Cassius Coolidge produces several of his Dogs Playing Poker series of paintings.
• During what's known as his "Blue Period", Pablo Picasso paints Tête de femme, Vieux guitariste aveugle (The Old Guitar Player), The Tragedy, and La vie, among others.
• Wassily Kandinsky - The Blue Rider
• Peder Severin Krøyer - Sankthansbål på Skagen strand

Sculptures

• Pompeo Coppini - Confederate Soldiers monument, Texas State Capitol

Births

January to June

• 10 January - Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist (d.1975).
• 19 January - Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, British politician, art collector and philanthropist and honorary Irish citizen (d.1994).
• 14 March - Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (d.1974).
• 6 June - Ceri Richards, Welsh painter (d.1971).
• 15 June - Victor Brauner, Romanian painter (d.1966).
• 21 June - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d.2003).

July to September

• 13 July - Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (d.1983).
• 21 July - Roy Neuberger, art collector and supporter.
• 24 August - Graham Sutherland, English artist (d.1980).
• 25 September - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (d.1970).
• 29 September - Walter Inglis Anderson, painter (d.1965).

October to December

• 22 October - Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (d.1976).
• 24 October - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (d.1999).
• 25 October - Harry Shoulberg, American expressionist painter (d.1995).
• 3 November - Walker Evans, American photographer (d.1975).
• 24 December - Joseph Cornell, American artist and sculptor (d.1972).
• 30 December - Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter (d.1962).

Full date unknown

• Bernard Lamotte, French illustrator, painter and muralist (d.1983).
• Karl Zerbe, painter (d.1972).

Deaths

• May 9 - Paul Gauguin, painter (b. 1848)
• July 14 - James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher (b. 1834)
• August 17 - Hans Gude, painter (b. 1825)¹
• September 13 - Carl Schuch, painter
• November 12 or 13 - Camille Pissarro, Impressionist painter (b. 1830)
• January 5 - Eleuterio Pagliano - Italian painter of the Romantic period (b. 1826)
• John Callcott Horsley, painter (b. 1817)

References