1905 in art

Events

• October - The Fauvist artists, notably Henri Matisse, first exhibit, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.
• The Art Deco movement begins in France.
• Léon Bonnat succeeds Paul Dubois as director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
• Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen open the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (later known as 291) photo art gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
• Opening of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina.
• Jacob Epstein establishes his studio in London.

Works

Matisse - The Open Window

• Jacob Epstein - Mrs Epstein Leaning on One Hand (portrait bust)
• Henri Matisse
  • Landscape at Collioure
  • The Open Window, Collioure
  • Still Life with Geraniums
  • Les toits de Collioure
  • Portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line)
  • Woman with a Hat
• Pablo Picasso
  • Family of Saltimbanques
  • Garçon à la pipe
  • Les Noces de Pierrette
  • Portrait of Madame Canals (Musée Picasso, Paris)
  • Woman with a Fan (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• Henri Rousseau - The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
• Abanindranath Tagore
  • Bharat Mata
  • Dancing Girl

Births

• January 29 - Barnett Newman, American artist (d.1970).
• March 9 - Félix Labisse, painter and designer (d.1982).
• May 5 - Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (d.1986).
• April 6 - Andrée Ruellan, American painter (d.2006).
• May 12 - Leonard Bahr, American portrait and mural painter (d.1990).
• May 15 - Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (d.1976).
• June 24 - Rex Whistler, painter (d.1944).
• July 6 - Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (d.1982).
• July 8 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and animation director (d.1997).
• October 14 - Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (d.2006).
• November 1 - Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter (d.1960).
• November 3 - Lois Mailou Jones, painter (d.1998).
• December 22 - James Amos Porter, painter and art historian (d.1970).
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  • Elmyr de Hory, Hungarian-born painter and art forger (d.1976).
  • Doris Lee, painter (d.1983).
  • Nano Reid, Irish painter (d.1981).

Deaths

• January 13 - Robert Swain Gifford, landscape painter (b. 1840)
• January 19 - George Henry Boughton, painter (b. 1834)
• January 21 - Robert Brough, painter (b. 1872)
• January 23 - Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, painter, sculptor and caricaturist (b. 1846)
• February 1 - Oswald Achenbach, landscape painter (b. 1827)
• February 9 - Adolph von Menzel, German painter and engraver (b. 1815)
• March 1 - Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, sculptor (b. 1822)
• March 3 - William Brassington, sculptor and ornamental mason (b. 1837 (?))
• April 4 - Constantin Meunier, painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
• May 23 - Paul Dubois, painter and sculptor (b. 1829)
• July 23 - Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter (b. 1829)
• August 5 (or 6) - Anton Ažbe, realist painter and art teacher (b. 1862)
• August 18 - Albert Edelfelt, painter (b. 1854)
• August 19 - William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (b. 1825)
• October 2 - Alexander Seik, painter and photographer (b. 1824)
• November 8 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, post-Impressionist painter (b. 1870) (heart attack)
• November 17 - Gustave Crauck, sculptor (b. 1827)
• December 4 - Henry Hugh Armstead, sculptor and illustrator (b. 1828)
• December 16 - Alfred Walter Williams, landscape painter (b. 1824)