1905 in art

List of years in Art

Events

* 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.

Works

*Henri Matisse
**"Portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line)"
**"Woman with a Hat"
*Pablo Picasso
**"Portrait of Madame Canals" (Musée Picasso, Paris)
**"Woman with a Fan" (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Births

*29 January - Barnett Newman, American artist (d.1970).
*5 May - Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (d.1986).
*12 May - Leonard Bahr, American portrait and mural painter (d.1990).
*15 May - Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (d.1976).
*24 June - Rex Whistler, painter (d.1944).
*6 July - Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (d.1982).
*8 July - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and animation director (d.1997).
*14 October - Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (d.2006).
*1 November - Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter (d.1960).
*3 November - Lois Mailou Jones , painter (d.1998).
*22 December - James Amos Porter, painter and art historian (d.1970).

Full date unknown

*Félix Labisse, painter (d.1982).
*Doris Lee, painter (d.1983).
*Nano Reid, Irish painter (d.1981).

Deaths

*January 13 - Robert Swain Gifford, landscape painter (b. 1840)
*January 23 - Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, painter, sculptor and caricaturist (b. 1846)
*February 1 - Oswald Achenbach, landscape painter (b. 1827)
*February 9 - Adolph von Menzel, painter and engraver (b. 1815)
*April 4 - Constantin Meunier, painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
*August 18 - Albert Edelfelt, painter (b. 1854)
*August 19 - William-Adolphe Bouguereau, academic painter (b. 1825)
*October 2 - Alexander Seik, painter and photographer (b. 1824)
*December 4 - Henry Hugh Armstead, sculptor and illustrator (b. 1828)
*"date unknown" - George Henry Boughton, painter (b. 1834)
*"date unknown" - Robert Brough, painter (b. 1872)
*"date unknown" - William Brassington, sculptor and ornamental mason (b. 1837 (?))
*"date unknown" - Gustave Crauck, sculptor (b. 1827)
*"date unknown" - Paul Dubois, painter and sculptor (b. 1829)
*"date unknown" - Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, sculptor (b. 1822)
*"date unknown" - Jean-Jacques Henner, painter (b. 1829)