Overview of the events of 1890 in art
The year 1890 in art involved some significant events.
Events
January 18 – February 23 – Seventh annual exhibition of Les XX in Brussels includes a display of work by Vincent van Gogh . Henry de Groux criticises his paintings but Albert Aurier praises them. From the exhibition, van Gogh sells The Red Vineyard to Anna Boch , said to be the only sale of his work during his lifetime.[ 1]
March 20 – April 27 – The Société des Artistes Indépendants show in Paris includes a major display of van Gogh paintings.
May 20 – Van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise on the edge of Paris in the care of Dr Paul Gachet where he will produce around seventy paintings in as many days. More than a dozen are size 30 canvases (92 x 65 cm).
June–July – Van Gogh develops his double-square painting technique, e.g. in the July paintings Wheatfield with Crows and Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds .
July 27 – Death of Vincent van Gogh : van Gogh perhaps paints Tree Roots , then apparently shoots himself, dying two days later.
September 20 – Theo van Gogh , assisted by Émile Bernard , mounts an improvised retrospective exhibition of his brother Vincent's works in Theo's former Paris apartment.
November – Lucien Pissarro settles permanently in London .
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts revived in Paris under the leadership of Ernest Meissonier (its President), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , Jules Dalou , Auguste Rodin , Carolus-Duran , Bracquemond and Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse , with an annual exhibition reviewed as the Salon de Champ-de-Mars , opening a fortnight later than the official Paris Salon .
Claude Monet begins painting his Haystacks series.
Newlyn Industrial Class set up at the fishing port in Cornwall (England) and begins production of Newlyn Copper repoussé work.[ 2]
Works
Vincent van Gogh – Portrait of Dr. Gachet , 1890 (Musée d'Orsay , Paris)
Anna Ancher – Syende fiskerpige (Sewing Fisherman's Wife )
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Frank Brangwyn – Funeral at Sea
Dennis Miller Bunker – Jessica
Edward Burne-Jones
Cyrus Edwin Dallin – Signal of Peace (bronze)
Thomas Dewing – Summer
Francis Edwin Elwell – Dickens and Little Nell (bronze)
Henri Fantin-Latour – Portrait of Sonia
Fidus (Hugo Höppener) – Light Prayer
J. W. Godward
Athenais
Flowers Of Venus
A Pompeian Bath
James Guthrie – The Morning Paper
John Haberle – The Palette
William Harnett – The Faithful Colt (Wadsworth Atheneum , Hartford, Connecticut )
Jonathan Scott Hartley – Daguerre Memorial (Washington, D.C. )
Martin Johnson Heade – Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth
Ferdinand Hodler – Night (Kunstmuseum, Bern , Switzerland )
Winslow Homer
Fernand Khnopff – Silence
P. S. and Marie Krøyer – Double portrait
Henry Herbert La Thangue – Leaving Home
George Dunlop Leslie – Sun and Moon Flowers
William Logsdail – The Ninth of November (The Lord Mayor's Procession, London, 1888)
Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne – Statue of her mother Queen Victoria , at McGill University , Montreal [ 3]
Anna Lea Merritt – Love Locked Out
Arturo Michelena – Lastenia Tello de Michelena
John Everett Millais
Claude Monet – Boating on the River Epte
Albert Joseph Moore – A Summer Night
Edvard Munch – Night in Saint-Cloud
Roderic O'Conor – La Lisiere du Bois
Paul Peel – The Young Botanist
Edward Poynter – The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon
Henrietta Rae – Ophelia
Paul Ranson – Nabis Landscape
Odilon Redon – With Closed Eyes (Musée d'Orsay , Paris )
Frederic Remington – Aiding a Comrade
William Blake Richmond – Venus and Anchises
Tom Roberts – Shearing the Rams (National Gallery of Victoria )
Auguste Rodin – Brother and Sister (bronze)
Henri Rousseau – Myself, Portrait-Landscape
Adalbert Seligmann – Theodor Billroth Operating (approximate date)
Georges Seurat – Woman Powdering Herself (Courtauld Institute of Art , London )
Paul Signac – Opus 217: Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890
Charles Alexander Smith – L'Assemblée des six-comtés
Joseph-Noël Sylvestre – The Sack of Rome by the Barbarians in 410
John Tenniel – Dropping the Pilot (political cartoon )
James Tissot – Le rendez vous secret
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Dance at the Moulin Rouge
van Gogh 's Landscape with a Carriage and a Train , painted in June 1890 (Pushkin Museum , Moscow (F760 , JH2019 ))
van Gogh 's Wheatfield with Crows , painted in July 1890 during his last weeks (Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam)
Awards
Births
January to June
January 7 – Milton Menasco , American painter and art director (died 1974 )
February 14 – Nina Hamnett , Welsh -born painter, model and designer (died 1956 )[ 4]
March 17 – LeMoine Fitzgerald , painter (died 1956)
April 14 – Gerald Curtis Delano , American painter (died 1972 )
April 21 – Dod Procter (born Doris Shaw), English painter (died 1972)
May 4 – Franklin Carmichael , painter (died 1945 )
June 12 – Egon Schiele , painter (died 1918 )
June 20 – Giorgio Morandi , painter and printmaker (died 1964 )
June 29 – Robert Laurent , American sculptor (died 1970 )
July to December
July 4 – Jacques Carlu , French architect and designer (died 1976 )
July 28
August 5 – Naum Gabo , Russian sculptor (died 1977 )
September 10 – Elsa Schiaparelli , Italian fashion designer (died 1973 )
September 19 – Montague Dawson , English maritime painter (died 1973 )
October 6 – Phyllis Gardner , British graphic artist and dog breeder, beloved of Rupert Brooke (died 1939 )
October 16 – Paul Strand , American photographer and filmmaker (died 1976 )
November 21 – Jeanne Mammen , German painter (died 1976)
November 23 – El Lissitzky , Russian designer, architect and photographer (died 1941 )
November 25 – Isaac Rosenberg , British poet and painter (died 1918 )
December 5 - David Bomberg , British painter (died 1957 )
December 6 – Rudolf Schlichter , German painter (died 1955 )
December 11 – Mark Tobey , American abstract expressionist painter (died 1976 )
December 25 - Leon Underwood , English sculptor (died 1975 ).
Full date unknown
Deaths
van Gogh 's Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds , painted in July 1890 during his last weeks (Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam F778)[ 5]
January 25 – Antonio Salviati , Italian glassmaker (born 1816 )
March 17 – John Rogers Herbert , English religious painter (born 1810 )
May 5 – Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury , French painter (born 1797 )
May 9 – Friedrich Loos , Austrian Biedermeier style painter, etcher and lithographer (born 1797 )
May 24 – Georgiana McCrae , Australian painter (born 1804 )
July 20 – Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet , English francophile art collector and philanthropist (born 1818 )
July 29 – Vincent van Gogh , Dutch painter (born 1853 )
August 18 – Albert Dubois-Pillet , French Neo-impressionist painter (born 1846 )
August 21 – Charles West Cope , English painter (born 1811 )
August 30 – Marianne North , English botanical artist (born 1830 )
December 12 – Sir Joseph Boehm , sculptor (born 1834 ) (dies in his London home in the presence of his pupil Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne )
December 13 – François Bocion , Swiss painter (born 1828 )
December 18 – Gerolamo Induno , Italian painter (born 1825 )
December 19 – Eugène Lami , French painter and lithographer (born 1800 )
date unknown
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