1894 in art
The year 1894 in art involved some significant events.Events
Works
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Spring
- Charles Burton Barber
- * :File:Queen-Victoria-with-John-Brown.jpg|Queen Victoria with John Brown
- * :File:Barber suspense.jpg|Suspense
- Edward Burne-Jones – Love Among the Ruins
- Aubrey Beardsley – illustrations to Oscar Wilde's Salome
- Gustave Caillebotte – :File:G. Caillebotte - Le jardin du Petit Gennevilliers en hiver.jpg|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
- Paul Gauguin
- * Breton Peasants
- * Oviri
- J. W. Godward – :File:A Priestess by Godward.jpg|A Priestess
- Thomas Cooper Gotch – :File:Thomas Cooper Gotch - The Child Enthroned 1894.jpg|The Child Enthroned
- Paja Jovanović – The Takovo Uprising
- Maximilien Luce - Port of London, Night
- Frederick William MacMonnies – Bacchante and Infant Faun
- Jacek Malczewski – :File:Malczewski melancholia.jpg|Melancholia
- Henri Matisse – Woman Reading
- Claude Monet – Rouen Cathedral
- Edvard Munch
- * Puberty
- * Love and Pain
- Ernest Normand – :File:Ernest Normand White Slave.jpg|The White Slave
- Władysław Podkowiński – :File:Podkowinski - La Folie.jpg|Ecstasy
- Henrietta Rae – Psyche at the Throne of Venus
- Tom Roberts – The Golden Fleece
- Georges Rochegrosse – The Knight of the Flowers
- Aleksander Sochaczewski – :File:Farewell Europe!.PNG|Farewell Europe!
- Solomon Joseph Solomon – Mrs Patrick Campbell as Paula Tanqueray
- Marie Spartali Stillman
- * Love Sonnets
- * :File:The Rose from Armida's Garden by Marie Spartali Stillman.jpg|A Rose from Armida's Garden
- James Tissot
- * :File:Brooklyn Museum - The Adoration of the Shepherds - James Tissot - overall.jpg|The Adoration of the Shepherds
- * :File:Brooklyn Museum - What Our Lord Saw from the Cross - James Tissot.jpg|What Our Lord Saw from the Cross
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Woman Pulling Up Her Stocking
- Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller – J. Marion Sims
- Fritz von Uhde – Noli me tangere
- Theodoor Verstraete – :File:Theodoor Verstraete - Spring in Schoore.jpg|Spring in Schoore
- Stanisław Wyspiański – :File:Wyspianski, Planty o swicie, 1894.jpg|Planty Park at Dawn
Births
- 9 January – Reg Gammon, English painter and illustrator
- 8 March – Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor
- 17 March – Meredith Frampton, English portrait painter
- 10 April – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter
- 19 April – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism
- 22 April – Evie Hone, Irish painter and stained glass artist
- 27 April – George Petty, American pin-up artist
- 17 May – Zora Petrović, one of the most significant representatives of Expressionism of color in Serbian art between two wars
- 13 June – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter
- 28 June – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter
- 2 July – André Kertész, Hungarian-born photographer
- 14 July – Dave Fleischer, Austrian-American animator, film director, and film producer
- 26 August – Gala Dalí, model and wife of Salvador Dalí
- 3 September – André Hébuterne, French painter
- 7 October – Doris Huestis Speirs, Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet
- 8 October – Risto Stijović, Serbian sculptor
- 14 October – E. E. Cummings, American poet and painter
- 8 November – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator
- 8 December – James Thurber, American cartoonist
- 27 December – Annot, German painter
- date unknown
- * Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor and painter
- * Ovartaci, born Louis Marcussen, Danish outsider artist
'' Deaths
- January 10 – Carl Werner, German watercolour painter
- January 29 – Armand Gautier, French painter
- February 13 – Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter
- February 21 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and arts patron
- April 12 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter
- April 27 – Charles Laval, French painter
- June 17 – William Hart, Scottish American landscape painter
- July 1 – Jean-Joseph Carriès, French sculptor and ceramicist
- July 25 – Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor
- August 5 – Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter
- August 30 – Joseph Robinson Kirk, Irish sculptor
- September 26 – Launt Thompson, Irish sculptor
- date unknown – Charles Burton Barber, English genre painter
