1902 in art

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Events

• July – Cecil and Wilfred Phillips open the Leicester Galleries in Leicester Square, London.
• September – Paul Cézanne's final studio, at Les Lauves, commanding a view of Montagne Sainte-Victoire, is completed.
• Early October – Beatrix Potter's first children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, with her own colour illustrations (originally published privately a year earlier), is first published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co in London. By the end of the year it sells 28,000 copies.^[1][2]
• Georges Braque begins his studies at the Academie Humbert, where he meets Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.
• The studio La Ruche is established in the 15th arrondissement of Paris by the sculptor Alfred Boucher to provide accommodation for impoverished young artists.
• Claude Monet begins his Water Lilies series of paintings in his garden at Giverny.

Works

G. F. Watts – Physical Energy

• Helen Allingham – View of Blackdown
• Frank Weston Benson – Eleanor Holding a Shell
• Pierre Bonnard – The Terrasse Children with Black Dog
• Thomas Eakins – Self-portrait
• J. W. Godward
  • Ionian Dancing Girl
  • An Italian Girl's Head
• Vilhelm Hammershøi – Five Portraits
• Gwen John – Self-Portrait
• Gustav Klimt
  • Beethoven Frieze (Secession hall (Austria))
  • Emilie Flöge
• Max Liebermann – Terrace at the Restaurant Jacob in Niestedten on the Elbe
• Margaret MacDonald
  • Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowood (gesso panel for Willow Tearooms, Glasgow)
  • The Red Rose and the White Rose
• Jacek Malczewski – Angel of Death
• Henri Matisse – Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi
• William Orpen – The Chess Players
• Walter Osborne – Tea in the Garden
• Pablo Picasso – Femme aux Bras Croisés
• William Blake Richmond – Hera in the House of Hephaistos
• Auguste Rodin – The Thinker (bronze)
• Max Slevogt – The Singer Francisco D'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera ("The White d'Andrade")
• Alfred Stieglitz – photographs
  • The Hand of Man
  • Spring Showers, The Coach
• Henry Scott Tuke – Ruby, Gold and Malachite
• John William Waterhouse – The Missal
• George Frederic Watts – Physical Energy (bronze, Kensington Gardens, London)
• Stanisław Wyspiański – Self-portrait

Births

January to June

• January 15 – Paul Kelpe, German-born American painter (died 1985)
• January 19 – David Olère, Polish-born Jewish French painter (died 1985)
• January 30 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (died 1983)
• February 20 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (died 1984)
• February 24 – Nedeljko Gvozdenović, Serbian painter (died 1988)
• February 26 – Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (died 1991)
• February 27 – Ľudovít Fulla, Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher (died 1980)
• March 3 – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist (died 1988)
• March 16 – Lucie Rie, Austrian-born British studio potter (died 1995)
• April 2 – Jan Tschichold, German typographer, book designer, teacher and writer (died 1974)
• April 26 – Isaac Soyer, Russian-born American painter, (died 1981)
• May 24 – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (died 2004)

July to December

• August 5 – I. Rice Pereira, painter (died 1971)
• September 2 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer, artist and historian (died 1973)
• September 10 – Lee Gatch, painter and muralist (died 1968)
• September 18 – Pietro Pezzati, American painter (died 1993)
• September 28 – Kenzo Okada, painter (died 1982)
• October 10 – Dick Ket, painter (died 1940)
• November 4 – Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, French photographer and ethnographer (died 1996)
• November 11 – Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian-born architect and furniture designer (died 1987)
• November 21 – Marko Čelebonović, Serbian painter (died 1986)
• December 8 – Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (died 1982)

Undated

• Situ Qiao, Chinese painter (died 1958)

Deaths

• January 6 – Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (b. 1830)
• February 7 – Thomas Sidney Cooper, painter of farm scenes (b. 1803)
• February 18 – Albert Bierstadt, painter (b. 1830)
• March 21 – Vincenzo Cabianca, Italian painter (b. 1827)
• April 12 – Ernest Gambart, art dealer (b. 1814)
• April 15 – Jules Dalou, sculptor (b. 1838)
• May 20 – Matthew Ridley Corbet, neoclassical painter (b. 1850)
• June 11 – Otto Eckmann, German painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
• August 8
  • James Tissot, painter (b. 1836)
  • John Henry Twachtman, American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony
• December 7 – Thomas Nast, cartoonist (b. 1840)

References

1. Lear, Linda (2007). Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-36934-7.
2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 460–461. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.