1893 in art

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May 1: World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago) with Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking man-made lake.

Events

• May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the Exposition. Among other art exhibits are two bronze calves by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen.
• June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford, designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford.
• June 29 – Unveiling of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus in London, with a gilded aluminium statue of Anteros, designed by Alfred Gilbert.
• Ford Madox Brown completes painting the The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall (England).
• The National Sculpture Society is founded in the United States.
• Alois Riegl's Stilfragen: Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik is published in Berlin.
• Henri Rousseau gives up his job as a Paris toll collector and moves to a studio in Montparnasse where he lives and paints full-time.

Exhibitions

• December – Unter den Linden in Berlin holds an exhibition of Edvard Munch's work, including six paintings entitled Study for a Series: Love, beginning his Frieze of Life cycle.

Works

Edvard Munch – The Scream 1893

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Unconscious Rivals
• Léon Bakst – Self-portrait
• Aubrey Beardsley – Illustrations to Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (J. M. Dent)
• Henrique Bernardelli – Messalini
• Olga Boznańska – Self-portrait
• Edgar Bundy – Antonio Stradivari at work in his studio
• Edward Burne-Jones – Love Among the Ruins
• Mary Cassatt – The Child's Bath
• Paul Cézanne – Basket of Apples
• Frank Dicksee – The Funeral of a Viking
• Albert Edelfelt
  • Larin Paraske
  • Two women with laundry
• Paul Gauguin – Portrait of the artist in a hat
• J. W. Godward
  • A Priestess (nude version)
  • Reflections
  • Yes Or No
• Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Adios del Sol
• Winslow Homer – The Fox Hunt
• Paul Jamin – Brennus and His Share of the Spoils
• Eero Järnefelt
  • Larin Paraske
  • Under the Yoke (Burning the Brushwood) (Raatajat rahanalaiset)

File:Axel Gallén (in the middle), Louis Sparre and Albert Edelfelt painting at Imatra with some audience, 1893. (14542152667).jpg

Axel Gallén, Louis Sparre and Albert Edelfelt painting at Imatra, 1893

• Peder Severin Krøyer – Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach (Sommeraften på Skagen Sønderstrand med Anna Ancher og Marie Krøyer)
• Gaston La Touche – L'Ennui
• Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne – Statue of her mother Queen Victoria, in Kensington Gardens, London
• Albert Joseph Moore
  • An Idyll
  • The Loves of the Winds and the Seasons
• Edvard Munch
  • Death in the Sickroom
  • The Scream
  • Starry Night
• Władysław Podkowiński – Frenzy of Exultations
• Odilon Redon – Sita (pastel)
• Alfred Stieglitz – photographs
  • The Terminal
  • Winter – Fifth Avenue
• Franz Stuck – The Sin
• Joseph-Noël Sylvestre – François Rude working on the Arc de Triomphe
• Abbott Handerson Thayer – The Virgin
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Jane Avril (poster)
• Henry Scott Tuke – August Blue
• Raja Ravi Varma – There Comes Papa
• Stanisław Wyspiański – Self-portrait

Births

January to June

• January 13 – Chaim Soutine, painter (died 1943)
• March 3
  • Ivon Hitchens, English painter (died 1979)
  • Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (died 1998)
• March 11 – Wanda Gag, children's author and artist (died 1946)
• March 29 – Dora Carrington, painter and designer (died 1932)
• April 9 – Charles E. Burchfield, American scene painter (died 1967)
• April 11 – John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (died 1978)
• April 20 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (died 1983)
• May 16 – Stella Bowen, painter (d.1947)

July to December

• July 3 – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (died 1976)
• July 8 – Abraham Rattner, painter and camouflage specialist (died 1978)
• July 26 – George Grosz, painter and draftsman (died 1959)
• September 15 – Rene Paul Chambellan, sculptor (died 1955)
• October 1 – Marianne Brandt, painter, sculptor and designer (died 1983)
• October 8 – Orovida Camille Pissarro, English painter and etcher (died 1968)
• October 9 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (died 1945)
• November 19 – Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, British intelligence officer, mountaineer and painter (died 1986)
• December – Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (died 1979)
• December 29 – Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (died 1968)

Date unknown

• Walter Hofer, German art dealer (died c. 1971)
• Sreten Stojanović, Serbian sculptor (died 1960).

Deaths

• January 30 – Prince Grigory Gagarin, soldier and painter (born 1811)
• February 21 – John Pettie, painter (born 1839)
• March 16 – William H. Illingworth, American photographer (born 1844)
• April 6 – George Vicat Cole, painter (born 1833)
• September 25 – Albert Joseph Moore, painter (born 1841)
• October 6 – Ford Madox Brown, painter (born 1821)
• October 10 – Barthélemy Menn, painter and draughtsman (born 1811)
• October 29 – Gustav Mützel, animal painter (born 1839)
• December 10 – Josephine Calamatta, French painter and engraver (born 1817)
• December 23 – Gunnar Berg, Norwegian painter (born 1863)
• date unknown – Gustav Fabergé, jeweler (born 1814)