1904 in art

• April • Octavian Smigelschi is selected to paint the interior decoration of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sibiu. • George Frederic Watts (dies 1 July) opens the Watts Gallery in the English village of Compton, Guildford, for the display of his work. • November – The Potters (artists group) 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==

, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904, Musée d'Orsay Paintings • Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Finding of Moses • Paul Cézanne • Mont Sainte-Victoire (Philadelphia Museum of Art) • La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir • Lady in Blue • Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis – A Day • Walter Dexter – ''The Carpenter's Workshop'' • Herbert James Draper – The Golden Fleece • Florence Fuller – Summer Breezes • J. W. Godward • Dolce far Niente (second version) • In The Days Of Sappho • A Melody • Thomas Cooper Gotch – Innocence • Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back • Winslow Homer – Kissing the Moon • Gwen John – Dorelia in a Black Dress • Edmund Leighton – Vox Populi ("'A little prince likely in time to bless a royal throne") • Niels Moeller Lund – The Heart of the Empire • Frederick McCubbin – The Pioneer (triptych) • Herbert MacNair – 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 – Portrait of Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev • Franz Roubaud – The Siege of Sevastopol Panorama • John Singer Sargent – Mrs Wertheimer • Pavel Shtronda – Theotokos of Port Arthur • Enrique Simonet – The Judgement of Paris • Max Slevogt – Portrait of the Dancer Anna Pavlova • Allen Butler Talcott – Lyme Meadow (approx. date) • Viktor Vasnetsov – The Last Judgement (for St. George's Cathedral, Gus-Khrustalny, Russia) • Maurice de Vlaminck – Sous bois Photographs • Edward Steichen • The Flatiron Building • The Pond—Moonlight Sculptures • Daniel Chester French • Colonel James Anderson Monument (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) • Statue of William Francis Bartlett (Massachusetts State House, Boston) • 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 (Portland, Oregon) • Rudolf and Wolfgang Siemering – Beethoven-Haydn-Mozart Memorial (Berlin) • Antonio Sciortino – Les Gavroches Stained-glass windows • Tiffany Studio – Angel of the Resurrection Architecture • Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (demolished 1950) ==Exhibitions==

• 12 April–14 July – "French Primitives", an exhibition of pre-Renaissance French art at the Louvre's Pavillon de Marsan and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. • 9 May–4 June – Claude Monet, "Views of the Thames in London" at the Galeries Durand-Ruel in Paris. ==Births==

January to June • 8 January – Peter Arno, American cartoonist (d. 1968). • 13 January – Oliver Messel, English stage designer (d. 1978). • 14 January – Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (d. 1980). • 22 January – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (d. 1988). • 6 February – Dorothy Canning Miller American curator (d. 2003). • 22 February – Peter Hurd, American artist (d. 1984). • 27 February - Yi Eungro, South korea Abstract artist (d.1989) • 2 March – Theodor Seuss Geisel, American illustrator (d. 1991). • 17 March – Chaim Gross, Austrian American sculptor (d. 1991). • 31 March – Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Serbian painter (d. 1964). • 4 April - Ulayu Pingwartok, Canadian Inuk artist • 15 April • Mary Adshead, English painter (d. 1995). • Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born abstract expressionist painter (d. 1948). • 21 April • Jean Hélion, French painter (d. 1987). • Gabriel Loire, French stained glass artist (d. 1996). • 24 April – Willem de Kooning, Dutch abstract expressionist painter (d. 1997). • 2 May – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (d. 1983). • 11 May – Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist (d. 1989). • 8 June – Alice Rahon, French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter (d. 1987). • 14 June – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 1971). July to December • 18 July – Stella Skopal, Croatian sculptor (d. 1992) • 2 August – Reg Parlett, English comics artist (d. 1991). • 11 September – Daniel Brustlein, Alsatian-born illustrator (d. 1996). • 23 October – Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1993). • 3 November – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (d. 1969). • 13 November – Stephen Bone, English painter (d. 1958). • 17 November – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (d. 1988). • 18 November – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian-American painter (d. 1990) • 22 November – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican caricaturist and painter (d. 1957). • 30 November – Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d. 1980). • 11 December – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter (k. 1944). • 17 December – Paul Cadmus, American painter (d. 1999). • 21 December – Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass artist and writer (d. 2001). Full date unknown • Joseph Delaney, African American painter (d. 1991). • Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter (d. 1974). ==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) • February 4 – Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver (b. 1819) • 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 3 – James Archer, portrait painter (b. 1823) • September 4 – Martin Johnson Heade, painter (b. 1819) • September 23 • Émile Gallé, artist in glass (b. 1846) • George Anderson Lawson, sculptor (b. 1832) • October 4 – Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (b. 1834) • October 13 – Károly Lotz, painter (b. 1833) • December 7 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (b. 1843) • December 30 – John Horbury Hunt, architect (b. 1838) • date unknown – Edwin Hayes, marine watercolourist (b. 1819) ==References==