2004 in art

The year 2004 in art involved some significant events.

Events

*24 May - A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists.

Works

*Anish Kapoor - "Cloud Gate" (Millennium Park, Chicago)

Awards

*Archibald Prize - Craig Ruddy, "David Gulpilil, two worlds"
*Beck's Futures - Saskia Olde Wolbers
*Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration - Mordicai Gerstein, "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers"
*Wynne prize - George Tjungurrayi, "Untitled"

Exhibitions

*Edward Delaney retrospective - Royal Hibernian Academy
*"Erich Heckel – His Work in the 1920s", Brücke Museum, Berlin
*Paul Henry at the National Gallery of Ireland
*Edward Hopper at the Tate Gallery, London
*"Drawings of Jim Dine" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Deaths

January to March

*4 January - Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (b.1933).
*9 January - Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic (b.1924).
*7 February - Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (b.1923).
*4 March - Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (b.1953).
*13 March - René Laloux, French animator and film director (b.1929).

April to June

*1 April - Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor (b.1920).
*25 April - Jacques Rouxel, French animator (b.1931).
*12 May - Syd Hoff, American children’s book author and cartoonist (b.1912).
*11 June - Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b.1946).
*15 June - Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (b.1933).

July to September

*2 July - John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (b.1919).
*19 July - Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b.1902).
*3 August - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b.1908).
*4 August - Cécile Guillame, first woman who engraved French postal stamps (b.1933).
*8 August - Leon Golub, American painter (b.1922).
*8 September - Frank Thomas, American animator (b.1912).
*19 September - Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1933).

October to December

*1 October - Richard Avedon, American photographer (b.1923).
*13 October - Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (b.1932).
*15 October - Irv Novick, American comic book artist (b.1916).
*13 November - Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (b.1916).
*19 November - Trina Schart Hyman, American illustrator of children's books (b.1939).
*19 November - Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b.1914).
*9 December - Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (b.1955).
*16 December - Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (b.1912).
*17 December - Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (b.1931).
*December - Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1918).

Full date unknown

*Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (b.1921).

ee also

*List of years in art