1894 In Art

The year 1894 in art involved some significant events.

Events

* February – Oscar Wilde's play ''Salome'' is first published in English, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
* April – ''The Yellow Book'' (edited by Henry Harland with Aubrey Beardsley as art editor) begins publication by John Lane and Elkin Mathews – The Bodley Head in London.
* June 5 – Opening of '' Racławice Panorama'' in Lwów.
* August 23 – Jack Butler Yeats marries fellow artist Mary Cottenham White.
* The Della Robbia Pottery is established as part of the Arts and Crafts movement by Harold Rathbone and Conrad Dressler in Birkenhead, England.
* Lucien Pissarro sets up the Eragny Press in England.
* Bernard Berenson publishes ''The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, with an Index to their Works''.

Awards

Works

{{see also, 1894 sculptures

* Lawrence Alma-Tadema – '' Spring'' ( Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
* Charles Burton Barber
** '' Queen Victoria with John Brown''
** ''Suspense''
* Aubrey Beardsley
*
Self-portrait in bed
(line block print)
** Illustrations to Oscar Wilde's ''Salome''
* Olga Boznańska – ''Girl with Chrysanthemums''
* Edward Burne-Jones
** ''Love Among the Ruins'' (copy in oils)
** (with John Henry Dearle and William Morris) – Holy Grail tapestries (original versions completed)
* Gustave Caillebotte – '' 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'' ( cyclorama)
* Paul Gauguin
** ''Breton Peasants'' (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
** '' Oviri'' (ceramic sculpture, original cast in Musée d'Orsay)
* J. W. Godward – '' A Priestess''
* Thomas Cooper Gotch – '' The Child Enthroned''
* Paja Jovanović – ''The Takovo Uprising''
* Max Liebermann – '' Der Garten des Waisenhauses in Amsterdam''
* Maximilien Luce –
Port of London, Night
'
* Frederick William MacMonnies – '' Bacchante and Infant Faun'' (bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
* Jacek Malczewski – '' Melancholia''
* Henri Matisse – '' Woman Reading''
* Claude Monet – ''Rouen Cathedral (The Portal, Morning Sun; Harmony in Blue)'' (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Edvard Munch
** '' Anxiety'' ( Munch Museum, Oslo)
** '' Puberty'' ( National Gallery, Oslo)
** ''Love and Pain'' (''Vampire'') ( Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden)
* Ernest Normand – '' The White Slave''
* Władysław Podkowiński – ''Ecstasy''
* Henrietta Rae – ''Psyche at the Throne of Venus''
* Tom Roberts – '' The Golden Fleece''
* Georges Rochegrosse – ''The Knight of the Flowers (Parsifal)'' (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Aleksander Sochaczewski – '' Farewell Europe!''
* Solomon Joseph Solomon – ''Mrs Patrick Campbell as Paula Tanqueray''
* Marie Spartali Stillman
** ''Love Sonnets''
** '' A Rose from Armida's Garden''
* Henry Ossawa Tanner – ''The Thankful Poor''
* James Tissot
** '' The Adoration of the Shepherds''
** '' What Our Lord Saw from the Cross''
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – ''Woman Pulling Up Her Stocking'' (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller – '' J. Marion Sims'' (bronze)
* Fritz von Uhde – '' Noli me tangere''
* Theodoor Verstraete – '' Spring in Schoore (Zeeland)''
* Stanisław Wyspiański – '' Planty Park at Dawn''

Births

* 9 January – Reg Gammon, English painter and illustrator (died 1997)
* 8 March – Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor (died 1966)
* 17 March – Meredith Frampton, English portrait painter (died 1984)
* 10 April – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (died 1982)
* 19 April – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (died 1973)
* 22 April – Evie Hone, Irish painter and stained glass artist (died 1955)
* 27 April – George Petty, American pin-up artist (died 1975)
* 17 May – Zora Petrović, one of the most significant representatives of Expressionism of color in Serbian art between two wars (died 1962)
* 6 June – Arthur Szyk, Polish-born illustrator and political artist (died 1951)
* 13 June – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (died 1986)
* 28 June – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (died 1973)
* 2 July – André Kertész, Hungarian-born photographer (died 1985)
* 14 July – Dave Fleischer, Austrian-American animator, film director, and film producer (died 1979)
* 26 August – Gala Dalí, model and wife of Salvador Dalí (died 1982)
* 3 September – André Hébuterne, French painter (died 1992)
* 7 October – Doris Huestis Speirs, Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet (died 1989)
* 8 October – Risto Stijović, Serbian sculptor (died 1974)
* 14 October – E. E. Cummings, American poet and painter (died 1962)
* 4 November – Chafik Charobim, Egyptian painter (died 1975)
* 8 November – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (died 1978)
* 8 December – James Thurber, American cartoonist (died 1961)
* 27 December – Annot, German painter (died 1981)
* ''date unknown''
** Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor and painter (died 1968)
** Ovartaci, born Louis Marcussen, Danish outsider artist (died 1985)

Deaths

* January 3 – Gustav Fabergé, German jeweler (born 1814)
* January 10 – Carl Werner, German watercolour painter (born 1808)
* January 29 – Armand Gautier, French painter (born 1825)
* February 13 – Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (born 1818)
* February 21 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and arts patron (born 1848)
* April 12 – Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (born 1843)
* April 27 – Charles Laval, French painter (born 1862)
* June 17 – William Hart, Scottish American landscape painter (born 1823)
* July 1 – Jean-Joseph Carriès, French sculptor and ceramicist (born 1850)
* July 25 – Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor (born 1850)
* August 5 – Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter (born 1854)
* August 30 – Joseph Robinson Kirk, Irish sculptor (born 1821)
* September 26 – Launt Thompson, Irish sculptor (born 1833)
* ''date unknown'' – Charles Burton Barber, English genre painter (born 1845)

Years of the 19th century in art
1890s in art