1887 In Art

The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.

Events

* February ''(approx.)'' – Fourth annual exhibition of Les XX, at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels. Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include Walter Sickert, Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Georges-Pierre Seurat. The major work shown is Seurat's ''A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte''.
* March 26 – June 8 – Third exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris.
* November 14 – Paul Gauguin and Charles Laval return to Paris from Martinique where they have been living since leaving Panama in June.
* December ''(approx.)'' – Vincent van Gogh arranges an exhibition of paintings by himself, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, and (probably) Toulouse-Lautrec in the Restaurant du Chalet, 43 Avenue de Clichy, Montmartre, Paris. Bernard and Anquetin sell their first paintings; van Gogh exchanges work with Gauguin.
* Vincent van Gogh begins his first ''Sunflowers'' series of paintings in Paris.
* Walter Crane illustrates ''"The Architecture of Art"'' (included in his ''Claims of Decorative Art'', printed later).
* Charles Lang Freer's first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan.
* Sir John Everett Millais' painting '' Bubbles'' is acquired for advertising purposes by Pears soap.

Awards

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Works

* Atlanta Cyclorama (approximate completion date)
* Lawrence Alma-Tadema – '' The Women of Amphissa''
* Otto Bache – '' Christian IV's Coronation, 1596''
* William Gerard Barry – ''Time Flies''
* Anna Bilińska – '' Self-Portrait with Apron and Brushes''
* Joseph Boehm – ''Jubilee Head'' of Queen Victoria on British coinage
*Alexander Milne Calder – '' Major General George Gordon Meade''
* Thomas Shields Clarke – '' A Fool's Fool''
* Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret – ''Breton Women at a Pardon''
* Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – ''Young Girls at the Seaside''
* Frank Duveneck – '' Elizabeth Boott Duveneck''
* Jean-Léon Gérôme – ''Omphale'' (sculpture)
* Edward John Gregory – ''Marooned'' and ''Marooning''
* Atkinson Grimshaw
** '' Liverpool Quay by Moonlight''
** ''Prince's Dock, Hull'' (later version, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull)
* Max Klinger – '' The Judgement of Paris'' (c. 1886–87)
* Léon Augustin Lhermitte – ''The Gleaners''
* John Longstaff – ''Breaking the News''
* Albert Joseph Moore – ''Midsummer''
* Walter Osborne – '' On Suffolk Sands''
* Hanna Hirsch-Pauli – '' Breakfast Time'' (''Frukostdags'')
* Eilif Peterssen – ''Summer Evening and Nocturne''
* Camille Pissarro – ''Late Afternoon in Our Meadow''
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir – '' Les Grandes Baigneuses''
* Ilya Repin – '' Portrait of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy''
* Theodore Roussel – '' Reading Girl''
* Valentin Serov
** ''Girl with Peaches'' («Девочка с персиками», ''Devochka s Persikami'')
** ''Self-portrait''
* Paul Signac – '' The Town Beach, Collioure''
* Solomon Joseph Solomon – ''Samson and Delilah''
* Vincent van Gogh
**''Coin de Jardin avec Papillions''
**'' Crab on its Back''
* George Frederic Watts – '' Mrs. G. F. Watts''
* Henry Tanworth Wells – ''Victoria Regina'' (second version)
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec- ''A Montrouge–Rosa La Rouge''

Births

January to June

* January 3 – August Macke, German Expressionist painter (died 1914).
* February 5 – Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (died 1973).
* March 23 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1927).
* March 25 – Josef Čapek, Czech painter (died 1945).
* April 29 – Stanley Cursiter, Scottish painter and curator (died 1976).
* May – Jacob Steinhardt, German-born Israeli painter and woodcut artist (died 1968).
* May 12 – Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (died 1978).
* May 16 – Laura Wheeler Waring, African-America painter (died 1948)
* May 21
** Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (died 1986).
** Paul Maze, French-born Post-Impressionist painter (died 1979).
* May 22 – Arthur Cravan, born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, Swiss-born Dadaist writer, poet, artist and boxer (disappeared 1918)
* May 30 – Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor (died 1964).
* June 20 – Kurt Schwitters, German Dadaist painter and writer (died 1948).

July to December

* July 7 – Marc Chagall, Russian-Belarusian-French painter (died 1985).
* July 28 – Marcel Duchamp, influential French artist (died 1968).
* August 31 – William McMillan, Scottish sculptor (died 1977).
* September 24 – Frank Newbould, English poster artist (died 1951).
* October 6 – Le Corbusier, French architect and painter (died 1965).
* October 9 – Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Chilean painter (died 1946).
* October 13 – Kate Lechmere, English painter associated with the Vorticists and milliner (died 1976).
* November 1 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (died 1976).
* November 14 – Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Portuguese painter (died 1918).
* November 15 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (died 1986).
* December 14 – Xul Solar, Argentine painter, sculptor and writer (died 1963).
* December 29 – Nell Walden, Swedish-born abstract artist and collector (died 1975)

Deaths

* March 24 – Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic (born 1837)
* May 20 - Paul Emile Chappuis, photographer (born 1816)
* June 4 – Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, French sculptor and painter (born 1824)
* June 5 – Hans von Marées, painter (born 1837)
* July 8 – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (born 1820)
* July 17 – Nicaise de Keyser, painter (born 1813)
* August 19 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (born 1804)
* December 19
** August Becker, painter (born 1821)
** François Bonvin, realist painter (born 1817)
* ''date unknown'' - Giovanni Battista Amendola, sculptor (born 1848)

References

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Years of the 19th century in art
1880s in art