1904 in art
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List of years in Art

Events

• Georges Braque leaves the Academie Humbert.
• Mary Cassatt is awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her services to the arts.

Works

Henri Matisse, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904, Musée National d'Art Moderne.

• Larkin Administration Building (demolished 1950), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
• Henri Matisse - Luxe, Calme et Volupté

Births

• January 8 - Peter Arno, cartoonist (d. 1968)
• January 14 - Cecil Beaton, photographer and designer (d. 1980)
• March 17 - Chaim Gross, sculptor (d. 1991)
• April 15 - Arshile Gorky, abstract expressionist painter (d. 1948)
• April 21 - Jean Hélion, painter (d. 1987)
• April 24 - Willem de Kooning, painter (d. 1997)
• May 11 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989)
• June 14 - Margaret Bourke-White, photographer (d. 1971)
• November 22 - Miguel Covarrubias, caricaturist and painter (d. 1957)
• November 30 - Clyfford Still, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1980)
• December 17 - Paul Cadmus, painter (d. 1999)

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)
• 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 4 - Martin Johnson Heade, painter (b. 1819)
• September 23 - Émile Gallé, artist in glass (b. 1846)
• October 4 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (b. 1834)
• October 13 - Károly Lotz, painter (b. 1833)
• December 7 - Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (b. 1843)
• James Archer, portrait painter (b. 1823)
• Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver (b. 1819)
• John Horbury Hunt, architect (b. 1838)