- 1887 in art
The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.
Events
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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 paintedJapan ese fan.Awards
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Works
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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
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3 January -August Macke , Expressionist painter (d.1914).
*5 February -Albert Paris Gütersloh ,Austria n 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 ,Dada ist painter and writer (d.1948).July to December
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7 July -Marc Chagall ,Russia n-Belarus ian-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 , Englishartist (d.1976).
*15 November -Georgia O'Keeffe American artist (d.1986).Full date unknown
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Leo Michelson ,Latvia n-American painter and sculptor (d.1978).
*Jacob Steinhardt , painter and woodcut artist (d.1968).Deaths
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March 24 -Ivan Kramskoi , painter and art critic (b. 1837)
*June 4 -Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse , Frenchsculptor and painter (b. 1824)
*August 19 -Alvan Clark , Americanastronomer ,telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (b. 1804)
*Philipp Veit , German Romantic painter (b. 1793)
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