1887 in art

1887 in art

The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.

Events

* 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.

Awards

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Works

*Thomas Shields Clarke - "A Fool's Fool"
*Jean-Léon Gérôme - "Omphale"
*Edward John Gregory - "Marooning"
*Valentin Serov - "The Girl with Peaches"

Births

January to June

*3 January - August Macke, Expressionist painter (d.1914).
*5 February - Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (d.1973).
*23 March - Juan Gris, painter and sculptor (d.1927).
*25 March - Josef Čapek, painter (d.1945).
*21 May - Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (d.1986).
*30 May - Alexander Archipenko, sculptor (d.1964).
*20 June - Kurt Schwitters, Dadaist painter and writer (d.1948).

July to December

*7 July - Marc Chagall, Russian-Belarusian-French painter (d.1985).
*28 July - Marcel Duchamp, influential artist (d.1968).
*6 October - Le Corbusier, architect and painter (d.1965).
*9 October - Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, painter (d.1946).
*1 November - L. S. Lowry, English artist (d.1976).
*15 November - Georgia O'Keeffe American artist (d.1986).

Full date unknown

*Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (d.1978).
*Jacob Steinhardt, painter and woodcut artist (d.1968).

Deaths

*March 24 - Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic (b. 1837)
*June 4 - Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, French sculptor and painter (b. 1824)
*August 19 - Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (b. 1804)
* Philipp Veit, German Romantic painter (b. 1793)


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