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- William-Adolphe BouguereauWilliam-Adolphe BouguereauWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist; in his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of Classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.-Life and career :William-Adolphe...
- A Little Coaxing - Thomas DewingThomas DewingThomas Wilmer Dewing was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and later settled into a studio in New York City...
- Summer - John HaberleJohn HaberleJohn Haberle was a 19th-century American painter in the trompe l'oeil style. His still lifes of ordinary objects are painted in such a way that the painting can be mistaken for the objects themselves. He is considered one of the three major figures—together with William Harnett and John F...
- The Palette - William HarnettWilliam HarnettWilliam Michael Harnett was an Irish-American painter known for his trompe l'oeil still lifes of ordinary objects.-Early life:...
- The Faithful Colt (Wadsworth AtheneumWadsworth AtheneumThe Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and...
, Hartford, ConnecticutHartford, ConnecticutHartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...
) - Ferdinand HodlerFerdinand HodlerFerdinand Hodler was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century.-Life:Hodler was born in Berne, the eldest of six children. His father, Jean Hodler, made a meager living as a carpenter; his mother, Marguerite , was from a peasant family...
- Night (Kunstmuseum, Bern, SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
) - Winslow HomerWinslow HomerWinslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art....
- Cloud Shadows - Paul RansonPaul RansonPaul Ranson was a French painter and writer.Paul-Elie Ranson was born in Limoges and studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs there before moving to Paris and transferring to the Académie Julian in 1886. There he met Paul Sérusier in 1888. Subsequently from 1890 he became a member and a creative...
- Nabis Landscape - Odilon RedonOdilon RedonBertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.-Life:...
- With Closed Eyes (Musée d'OrsayMusée d'OrsayThe Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture,...
, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
) - Tom RobertsTom RobertsThomas William Roberts , usually known simply as Tom, was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School.-Life:...
- Shearing the RamsShearing the RamsShearing the Rams is an 1890 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. The painting depicts sheep shearers plying their trade in a timber shearing shed... - Georges Seurat - Woman Powdering Herself (Courtauld Institute of ArtCourtauld Institute of ArtThe Courtauld Institute of Art is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. The Courtauld is one of the premier centres for the teaching of art history in the world; it was the only History of Art department in the UK to be awarded a top...
, LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
) - Henri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri de Toulouse-LautrecHenri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern...
- Dance at the Moulin Rouge - Vincent van GoghVincent van GoghVincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
Dr. Paul Gachet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) - Ypsilanti Water TowerYpsilanti Water TowerThe Ypsilanti Water Tower is a historic water tower in Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States.The tower was designed by William R. Coats and constructed as part of an elaborate city waterworks project that began in 1889. Located on the highest point in Ypsilanti, the tower was completed in 1890 at a...
- Winner of Most Phallic Building contestMost Phallic Building contestThe World's Most Phallic Building contest was a contest held in 2003 by Cabinet magazine to find the building which most resembled a human phallus...
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, painting: (unknown).
- Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Paul-Jean-Baptiste Gasq.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Emmanuel PontremoliEmmanuel PontremoliEmmanuel Pontremoli was a French architect and archaeologist. Born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, a student in the atelier of Louis-Jules André, in 1890 he won the Prix de Rome in the architecture category and in 1922 became a member of the Académie des Beaux Arts...
. - Grand Prix de Rome, music: (unknown).
January to June
- 7 January - Milton MenascoMilton MenascoMilton Menasco was an American painter and art director of silent movies born in Los Angeles, California....
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and art directorArt directorThe art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
(d.19741974 in art-Births:* 31 May - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist.* 16 June - Paul Lee, English artist.* 1 September - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer.* 8 November - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga artist....
). - 17 March - LeMoine FitzgeraldLeMoine FitzgeraldLionel LeMoine Fitzgerald was a Winnipeg-based Canadian painter, and member of the Group of Seven.-Life and work:...
, painter (d.19561956 in art-Events:*Le mystère Picasso, a French documentary film, shows Pablo Picasso in the act of creating paintings for the camera ....
). - 14 April - Gerald Curtis DelanoGerald Curtis DelanoGerard Curtis Delano was a painter of the American west.Delano was born in Marion, Massachusetts. He served in the US Navy in the First World War, then worked on a ranch in Colorado, before moving to New York to study art...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painter (d.19721972 in art-Events:* 16 September - Opening of A.I.R. Gallery at 97 Wooster Street, SoHo, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States.* Costantino Nivola becomes the first non-American member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters....
). - 4 May - Franklin CarmichaelFranklin CarmichaelFranklin Carmichael was a Canadian artist. He was the youngest original member of the Group of Seven.-Biography:The youngest of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael was born in 1890. His father was a carriage maker...
, painter (d.19451945 in art-Events:*Constantine Andreou moves to France, having received a scholarship from the French government.*Jackson Pollock marries Lee Krasner.-Awards:*Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Lt-General The Hon Edmund Herring, KBC, DSO, MC, ED-Works:...
). - 12 June - Egon SchieleEgon SchieleEgon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced...
, painter (d.19181918 in art-Events:*June 18 - Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova.*December 3 - Founding of the November Group of expressionist artists.-Works:*Katherine Sophie Dreier - Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp*Paul Klee - Flower Myth; Warning of the Ships...
). - 20 June - Giorgio MorandiGiorgio MorandiGiorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers, and landscapes.-Biography:Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna...
, painter and printmaker (d.19641964 in art-Events:*The Post-painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by art critic Clement Greenberg opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and subsequently travels to the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.-Works:...
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July to December
- 4 July - Jacques CarluJacques CarluJacques Carlu was a French architect and designer, working mostly in Art Deco style, active in France, Canada, and in the United States....
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
architectArchitectAn architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
and designer (d.19761976 in art-Events:*Completion of the Cubist-influenced Church of the Holy Trinity, Vienna, by Fritz Wotruba.-Exhibitions:*21 July - Opening of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York...
). - 5 August - Naum GaboNaum GaboNaum Gabo KBE, born Naum Neemia Pevsner was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of Kinetic Art.-Early life:...
, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
(d.19771977 in art-Events:*Starr Kempf constructs the first of his "wind sculptures".*documenta 6 takes place.*Douglas Crimp curates "Pictures," featuring Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine and others, at Artists Space in New York.-Exhibitions:...
). - 10 September - Elsa SchiaparelliElsa SchiaparelliElsa Schiaparelli was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborators...
, ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
fashion designer (d.19731973 in art-Events:*Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas."-Exhibitions:*Christopher Williams - centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.-Works:...
). - 16 October - Paul StrandPaul StrandPaul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
photographer and filmmaker (d.19761976 in art-Events:*Completion of the Cubist-influenced Church of the Holy Trinity, Vienna, by Fritz Wotruba.-Exhibitions:*21 July - Opening of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York...
). - 23 November - El LissitzkyEl Lissitzky, better known as El Lissitzky , was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works...
, designer, architect and photographer (d.19411941 in art-Events:*Ettore DeGrazia's work appears for the first time in Arizona Highways magazine.-Works:*Max Beckmann - Double Portrait, Max Beckmann and Quappi*Peter Belov - "1941", *Paul Cadmus - Aviator...
). - 25 November - Isaac RosenbergIsaac RosenbergIsaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets...
, poet and painter (d.19181918 in art-Events:*June 18 - Pablo Picasso marries Olga Khoklova.*December 3 - Founding of the November Group of expressionist artists.-Works:*Katherine Sophie Dreier - Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp*Paul Klee - Flower Myth; Warning of the Ships...
). - 6 December - Rudolf SchlichterRudolf SchlichterRudolf Schlichter was a German artist and one of the most important representatives of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement....
, painter (d. 19551955 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Robert Campbell Esq.-Works:*John Brack - Collins St., 5 pm*Carroll Cloar - My Father Was Big as a Tree*Salvador Dali - The Sacrament of the Last Supper...
). - 11 December - Mark TobeyMark TobeyMark George Tobey was an American abstract expressionist painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of the Northwest." Senior in age and experience, Tobey had a strong influence on the...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
abstract expressionistAbstract expressionismAbstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(d.19761976 in art-Events:*Completion of the Cubist-influenced Church of the Holy Trinity, Vienna, by Fritz Wotruba.-Exhibitions:*21 July - Opening of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York...
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- Grace AlbeeGrace AlbeeGrace Thurston Arnold Albee was an American printmaker and wood engraver. During her sixty-year working life, she created more than two hundred and fifty prints from linocuts, woodcuts, and wood engravings....
, American printmaker (d.19851985 in art-Events:*Charles Saatchi's collection opens to the public, arousing interest in Neo-expressionism-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Guy Warren – Flugelman with Wingman*Turner Prize – Howard Hodgkin-Works:*Wayne Thiebaud – Sunset Streets...
). - Gerald Curtis DelanoGerald Curtis DelanoGerard Curtis Delano was a painter of the American west.Delano was born in Marion, Massachusetts. He served in the US Navy in the First World War, then worked on a ranch in Colorado, before moving to New York to study art...
, painter (d.19721972 in art-Events:* 16 September - Opening of A.I.R. Gallery at 97 Wooster Street, SoHo, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States.* Costantino Nivola becomes the first non-American member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters....
). - Pinchus KremegnePinchus KremegnePinchus Krémègne, aka Pinchus Kremegne , was a French artist of Jewish-Russian origin, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer....
, BelarusBelarusBelarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
ian sculptor, painter and lithographerLithographyLithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...
(d.19811981 in art-Events:* 10 September - Picasso's painting Guernica is returned from New York to Madrid.-Works:*Tony Cragg - Britain as Seen from the North*John Doubleday - Statue of Charlie Chaplin...
). - Robert LaurentRobert LaurentRobert Laurent was an American sculptor, known for his sensitive interpretations of the human form.Laurent was born in Concarneau, Brittany France. There, at the age of 12 his artistic talents were recognized by art connoisseur Hamilton Easter Field who then brought him to the United States...
, American sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
(d.19701970 in art-Events:*26 October - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.*27 November - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit to Manila....
). - Ze'ev RabanZe'ev RabanZe’ev Raban was a leading painter, decorative artist, and industrial designer of the Bezalel school style, and was one of the founders of the Israeli art world.-Life:...
, Polish Jewish painter (d.1970) - Jean XceronJean XceronJean Xceron was an American abstract painter of Greek origin. He immigrated to the United States in 1904 and studied at the Corcoran School of Art. He worked at the Guggenheim Museum and is described as a "pioneer of non-objective painting" by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art...
, Greek-American painter (d.19671967 in art-Events:*May 14 - Dedication of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, with stained glass by John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens and Margaret Traherne and a bronze crucifix is by Elisabeth Frink....
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Deaths
- January 25 - Antonio SalviatiAntonio SalviatiAntonio Salviati was an Italian glass manufacturer and founder of the Salviati family firm.A native of Vicenza, Salviati was a lawyer who got interested in glasswork after becoming involved in restorations being done on the mosaics of Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice...
, glassmaker (b. 18161816 in art-Births:*February 22 – Thomas Gambier Parry, artist and art collector *March 18 – Antonio Salviati, glassmaker *May 24 – Emanuel Leutze, painter * date unknown**Paul Emile Chappuis, photographer -Deaths:...
) - May 24 - Georgiana McCraeGeorgiana McCraeGeorgiana Gordon McCrae was an Australian painter and diarist.-Early life and family background:Born in London, she was the illegitimate daughter of George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon and Jane Graham. The Marquis of Huntly played little part in her life, as far as can be deduced from Gordon's memoirs...
, painter (b. 18041804 in art-Events:*Sculptor Pompeo Marchesi wins a scholarship to study in Rome under Antonio Canova.-Awards:The Prix de Rome had been expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category, but was not awarded in 1804.* Grand Prix de Rome, painting:...
) - July 29 - Vincent van GoghVincent van GoghVincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
, Dutch painter (b. 18531853 in art-Works:*Théodore Chassériau - The Tepidarium *Gustave Courbet - The Bathers *Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience...
) - August 21 - Charles West CopeCharles West CopeCharles West Cope was an English Victorian era painter of genre and history scenes, and an etcher. He was responsible for painting several frescos in the House of Lords in London.-Early life and training:...
, painter (b. 18111811 in art-Works:*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Jupiter and Thetis*Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Benjamin West*Bertel Thorvaldsen – Procession of Alexander the Great-Births:*March 20 – George Caleb Bingham American realist artist...
) - December 19 - Eugène LamiEugène LamiEugène Louis Lami was a French painter and lithographer. He worked at the studio of Horace Vernet then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Camille Roqueplan and Paul Delaroche under Antoine-Jean Gros...
, painter and lithographer (b. 18001800 in artThe year 1800 in art is often estimated to be the beginning of the change from the Neoclassicism movement, that was based on Roman art, to the Romantic movement, which encouraged emotional art and ended around 1850.-Works:...
) - Auguste OttinAuguste OttinAuguste-Louis-Marie Jenks Ottin was a French academic sculptor and recipient of the decoration of the Legion of Honor.-Early life:...
, sculptor (b. 18111811 in art-Works:*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Jupiter and Thetis*Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Benjamin West*Bertel Thorvaldsen – Procession of Alexander the Great-Births:*March 20 – George Caleb Bingham American realist artist...
) - Pietro PezzatiPietro Pezzati (artist)Pietro Pezzati was an Italian mural painter who painted many religious painting in churches throughout Italy.He painted the "Sacra Famiglia" in the Chiesa Di Sant'agostino in Tuscany....
, mural painter (b. 18281828 in art-Births:*May 10 – James McDougal Hart, painter *May 11 – Alfred Stevens, painter *May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter *June 13 – Elie Delaunay, painter...
) - Joseph-Nicolas Robert-FleuryJoseph-Nicolas Robert-FleuryJoseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury was a French painter.Born in Cologne, he was sent by his family to Paris, and after travelling in Italy returned to France and made his first appearance at the Salon in 1824; his reputation, however, was not established until three years later, when he exhibited Tasso...
, FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
painter (b. 17971797 in art-Births:*June 16 – Sophie Fremiet, French painter *July 17 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter *August 8 – Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter *September 19 – January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer...
) - Friedrich LoosFriedrich LoosFriedrich Loos was an Austrian Biedermeier style painter, etcher and lithographer. He was born in Graz on 29 October 1797. He studied at the Vienna Academy with Joseph Mössmer and also went on study tours through the Austrian Alpine regions. From 1835 to 1836 he lived in Vienna, and as of 1846 he...
- Austrian BiedermeierBiedermeierIn Central Europe, the Biedermeier era refers to the middle-class sensibilities of the historical period between 1815, the year of the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions...
style painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, etcher and lithographer (b. 17971797 in art-Births:*June 16 – Sophie Fremiet, French painter *July 17 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter *August 8 – Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter *September 19 – January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer...
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