Events from the year 1904 in art.
Events
Works
Paintings
Photographs
Sculptures
See also: Category:1904 sculptures
Stained-glass windows
Architecture
See also: Category:1904 architecture
Exhibitions
Births
January to June
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8 January – Peter Arno, American cartoonist (d. 1968).
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13 January – Oliver Messel, English stage designer (d. 1978).
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14 January – Cecil Beaton, English photographer and stage and costume designer (d. 1980).
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22 January – Kimon Evan Marengo, Egyptian-born British cartoonist (d. 1988).
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6 February – Dorothy Canning Miller American curator (d. 2003).
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22 February – Peter Hurd, American artist (d. 1984).
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27 February - Yi Eungro, South korea Abstract artist (d.1989)
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2 March – Theodor Seuss Geisel, American illustrator (d. 1991).
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17 March – Chaim Gross, Austrian American sculptor (d. 1991).
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31 March – Đorđe Andrejević Kun, Serbian painter (d. 1964).
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4 April - Ulayu Pingwartok, Canadian Inuk artist
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15 April
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21 April
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24 April – Willem de Kooning, Dutch abstract expressionist painter (d. 1997).
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2 May – Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (d. 1983).
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11 May – Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist artist (d. 1989).
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8 June – Alice Rahon, French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter (d. 1987).
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14 June – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 1971).
July to December
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2 August – Reg Parlett, English comics artist (d. 1991).
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11 September – Daniel Brustlein, Alsatian-born illustrator (d. 1996).
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23 October – Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1993).
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3 November – Emerik Feješ, Hungarian and Serbian painter (d. 1969).
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13 November – Stephen Bone, English painter (d. 1958).
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17 November – Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist and landscape architect (d. 1988).
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18 November – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian-American painter (d. 1990)
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22 November – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican caricaturist and painter (d. 1957).
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30 November – Clyfford Still, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d. 1980).
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11 December – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter (k. 1944).
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17 December – Paul Cadmus, American painter (d. 1999).
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21 December – Jean René Bazaine, French painter, stained glass artist and writer (d. 2001).
Full date unknown
Deaths
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January 8 – Alfred Felton, art collector (b. 1831)
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January 9 – Konrad Grob, painter (b. 1828)
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January 10 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
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February 4 – Marie Firmin Bocourt, nature artist and engraver (b. 1819)
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May 6 – Franz von Lenbach, painter (b. 1836)
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May 8 – Eadweard Muybridge, photographer (b. 1830)
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June 20 – Frederic Sandys, painter (b. 1829)
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July 1 – George Frederic Watts, painter and sculptor (b. 1817)
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August 25 – Henri Fantin-Latour, painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
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September 3 – James Archer, portrait painter (b. 1823)
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September 4 – Martin Johnson Heade, painter (b. 1819)
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September 23
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October 4 – Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (b. 1834)
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October 13 – Károly Lotz, painter (b. 1833)
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December 7 – Adolf Waldinger, painter from Osijek, Croatia (b. 1843)
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December 30 – John Horbury Hunt, architect (b. 1838)
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date unknown – Edwin Hayes, marine watercolourist (b. 1819)