1889 in art explained
The year 1889 in art involved some significant events.
Events
Works
- Jean Béraud - La Pâtisserie Gloppe
- Pierre Bonnard – Self-portrait (approx. date)
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- Antoine Bourdelle – Adam
- Henry Jamyn Brooks – Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
- Milly Childers – Self-portrait
- Henry de Groux – Christ aux Outrages
- Thomas Eakins – The Agnew Clinic
- Paul Gustav Fischer – The Royal Theatre Ballet School, Copenhagen
- Stanhope Forbes – The Health of the Bride
- Henry Justice Ford – Illustrations to Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book
- Louis Édouard Fournier – The Funeral of Shelley
- Paul Gauguin
- Alfred Gilbert – Marble bust of Queen Victoria
- J. W. Godward
- Grecian Reverie
- His Birthday Gift
- Ianthe
- Waiting For An Answer
- Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – La Parisienne
- Jozef Israëls – A Son of the Ancient Race (several versions)
- Juan Luna – Hymen o Hymenee
- Frederick McCubbin – Down on His Luck
- Arturo Michelena – La Joven Madre ("The Young Mother")
- Claude Monet – The Valley of the Creuse, Sunset
- Edvard Munch
- Blanche Nevin – Peter Muhlenberg (marble)
- Eilif Peterssen – Salmon Fishermen at Nesøya
- Ilya Repin – Portrait of Baroness Varvara Ivanovna Ikskul von Hildenbandt
- Auguste Rodin – The Burghers of Calais (sculpture)
- John Singer Sargent
- Henryk Siemiradzki – Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis
- Arthur Streeton – Golden Summer, Eaglemont
- Franz Stuck – The Guardian of Paradise
- Vincent van Gogh
- Hospital in Arles series
- Garden of the Hospital in Arles (June)
- Ward in the Hospital in Arles (October)
- Portrait of Doctor Félix Rey (January)
- Self-portrait and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (January)
- Self-Portrait as a sick person (Saint-Rémy, August)[3]
- Bedroom in Arles (second and third versions, September)
- View of Arles, Flowering Orchards and View of Arles with Trees in Blossom (Spring)
- Butterflies series (Spring)
- Irises
- Rain (Saint-Rémy, October/November)
- The Ravine of the Peyroulets
- A Road at Saint-Remy with Female Figure
- The Starry Night (Saint-Rémy, June)
- Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy series
- Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital and Portrait of Madame Trabuc (Saint-Rémy, September)
- Two Crabs (c. January)
- Wheat Fields series
- Wheat Field, Sunrise (Saint-Rémy)
- Wheat Field with Cypresses (three paintings, Saint-Rémy, July–September)
- Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (after Millet)
- Carl von Marr – The Flagellants
- Fritz von Uhde – Heathland princess
- Édouard Vuillard – Self-portrait
- John Quincy Adams Ward – Bust of Alexander Lyman Holley (bronze, New York City)
Births
- January 19 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss geometric abstract painter, sculptor and dancer (died 1943)[4]
- January 21 – Hermann Glöckner, German Constructivist painter and sculptor (died 1987)
- April 15 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and muralist (died 1975)
- May 11 – Paul Nash, English painter (died 1946)
- June – James Sleator, Irish painter (died 1950)
- July 31 – Júlíana Sveinsdóttir, Icelandic painter and textile artist (died 1966)
- August 13 – C. R. W. Nevinson, English war artist (died 1946)
- August 20 – David Kakabadze, Georgian artist (died 1952)
- September 28 – Seán Keating, Irish romantic-realist painter (died 1977)
- October 10 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and art forger (died 1947)
- October 17 – Karl Völker, German painter and architect (died 1962)
- October 29 – Edward Wadsworth, English painter (died 1949)
- November 1 – Hannah Höch, German Dada photomontage artist (died 1978)[5]
- November 10 – Clive Stephen, Australian sculptor (died 1957)
Deaths
Notes and References
- News: The Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The Times. London. 1889-07-16. 5. 32752.
- Web site: The History of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. History & Architecture. . https://web.archive.org/web/20120531064947/http://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/302-history-and-architecture . May 31, 2012.
- News: Mark. Brown. Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic. 2020-01-20. The Guardian. London. 2020-01-28.
- Book: Gaze, Delia. Concise Dictionary of Women Artists. London. Fitzroy Deerborn. 2001. 978-1-57958-335-4. 651.
- Book: Biro, Matthew. The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin. Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2009. 199. 978-0-81663-620-4.