1904 in art

Events

• April
• * Octavian Smigelschi is selected to paint the interior decoration of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sibiu.
• * George Frederic Watts opens the Watts Gallery in the English village of Compton, Guildford, for the display of his work.
• November – The Potters is formed by female artists in St. Louis, Missouri.
• Start of Picasso's Rose Period.
• Georges Braque leaves the Academie Humbert.
• Mary Cassatt is awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her services to the arts.
• British Impressionist painter Wilfrid de Glehn marries American portrait painter Jane Erin Emmet.
• Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, designed by Ernst von Ihne and noted for its Skulpturensammlung, is completed.

  Works

Paintings

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Finding of Moses
• Paul Cézanne – Mont Sainte-Victoire
• Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis – :File:Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis - DAY - 1904 - 5, Varsuva.jpg|A Day
• Walter Dexter – The Carpenter's Workshop
• Herbert James Draper – The Golden Fleece
• Florence Fuller – Summer Breezes
• J. W. Godward
• * :File:Sweet Nothings by Godward.jpg|Dolce far Niente
• * :File:Godward-In the Days of Sappho-1904.jpg|In The Days Of Sappho
• * A Melody
• Thomas Cooper Gotch – :File:Innocence, c 1904, watercolour by Thomas Cooper Gotch.jpg|Innocence
• Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back
• Gwen John – Dorelia in a Black Dress
• Edmund Leighton – Vox Populi
• Niels Moeller Lund – :File:The Heart of the Empire, Niels Moeller Lund, 1904.JPG|The Heart of the Empire
• Frederick McCubbin – The Pioneer
• Herbert MacNair – :File:MacNair, The Gift of Doves.jpg|The Gift of Doves
• Henri Matisse – Luxe, Calme et Volupté
• William Nicholson – portrait of J. M. Barrie
• Pablo Picasso
• * The Actor
• * Portrait of Suzanne Bloch
• Ilya Repin – :File:Andreyev by Repin.jpg|Portrait of Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev
• Franz Roubaud – :File:Panorama1854-1855.jpg|The Siege of Sevastopol Panorama
• John Singer Sargent –
• Pavel Shtronda – Theotokos of Port Arthur
• Enrique Simonet – :File:Enrique Simonet – El Juicio de Paris – 1904.jpg|The Judgement of Paris
• Max Slevogt – :File:Max Slevogt - Portrait of the Dancer Anna Pawlowa - Google Art Project.jpg|Portrait of the Dancer Anna Pavlova
• Allen Butler Talcott – :File:Lyme Meadow, Allen Butler Talcott.jpg|Lyme Meadow
• Viktor Vasnetsov – :File:The Last Judgement – Vasnetsov.jpg|The Last Judgement
• Maurice de Vlaminck – Sous bois

  Photographs

• Edward Steichen
• * :File:Steichen flatiron.jpg|The Flatiron Building
• * The Pond—Moonlight

  Sculptures

• Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll – Memorial to Colonial soldiers who fell during the Boer War, in St Paul's Cathedral, London
• Hermon Atkins MacNeil – Coming of the White Man
• Rudolf and Wolfgang Siemering – Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial
• Antonio Sciortino – Les Gavroches

  Architecture

• Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

  Exhibitions

• "French Primitives", an exhibition of pre-Renaissance French art in Paris.

  Births

January to June

• 8 January – Peter Arno, American cartoonist.
• 13 January – Oliver Messel, English stage designer.
• 14 January – Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer.
• 22 January – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist.
• 6 February – Dorothy Canning Miller American curator.
• 22 February – Peter Hurd, American artist.
• 2 March – Theodor Seuss Geisel, American illustrator.
• 17 March – Chaim Gross, Austrian American sculptor.
• 31 March – Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Serbian painter.
• 15 April
• * Mary Adshead, English painter.
• * Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born abstract expressionist painter.
• 21 April
• * Jean Hélion, French painter.
• * Gabriel Loire, French stained glass artist.
• 24 April – Willem de Kooning, Dutch abstract expressionist painter.
• 2 May – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist.
• 11 May – Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist.
• 14 June – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist.

  July to December

• 2 August – Reg Parlett, English comics artist.
• 11 September – Daniel Brustlein, Alsatian-born illustrator.
• 23 October – Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter.
• 3 November – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter.
• 13 November – Stephen Bone, English painter.
• 17 November – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect.
• 18 November – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian-American painter
• 22 November – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican caricaturist and painter.
• 30 November – Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter.
• 11 December – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter.
• 17 December – Paul Cadmus, American painter.
• 21 December – Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass artist and writer.

  Full date unknown

• Joseph Delaney, African American painter.
• Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter.

  Deaths

• January 8 – Alfred Felton, art collector
• January 9 – Konrad Grob, painter
• January 10 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor
• February 4 – Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver
• May 6 – Franz von Lenbach, painter
• May 8 – Eadweard Muybridge, photographer
• June 20 – Frederic Sandys, painter
• July 1 – George Frederic Watts, painter and sculptor
• August 25 – Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer
• September 3 – James Archer, portrait painter
• September 4 – Martin Johnson Heade, painter
• September 23
• * Émile Gallé, artist in glass
• * George Anderson Lawson, sculptor
• October 4 – Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor
• October 13 – Károly Lotz, painter
• December 7 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia
• December 30 – John Horbury Hunt, architect
• date unknown – Edwin Hayes, marine watercolourist