1894 in art explained
The year 1894 in art involved some significant events.
Events
Works
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
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)
