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Overview of the events of 1887 in art
The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.
February (approx.) – Fourth annual exhibition of
Les XX , at the
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include
Walter Sickert ,
[1]
Camille Pissarro ,
Berthe Morisot and
Georges-Pierre Seurat .
[2] The major work shown is Seurat's
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte .
[3]
March 26 –
June 8 – Third exhibition by the
Société des Artistes Indépendants in
Paris .
November 14 –
Paul Gauguin and
Charles Laval return to Paris from
Martinique where they have been living since leaving Panama in June.
December (approx.) –
Vincent van Gogh arranges an exhibition of paintings by himself,
Émile Bernard ,
Louis Anquetin , and (probably)
Toulouse-Lautrec in the Restaurant du Chalet, 43 Avenue de Clichy,
Montmartre , Paris. Bernard and Anquetin sell their first paintings; van Gogh exchanges work with
Gauguin .
[4]
Vincent van Gogh begins his first
Sunflowers series of paintings in
Paris .
Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" (included in his Claims of Decorative Art , printed later).
Charles Lang Freer 's first Asian art purchase is a painted
Japanese fan.
Sir
John Everett Millais ' painting
Bubbles is acquired for advertising purposes by
Pears soap .
[5]
V. A. Serov -
Girl with Peaches , inaugurating
Russian
Impressionism
January 3 –
August Macke , German Expressionist painter (died on active service
1914 ).
[9]
February 5 –
Albert Paris Gütersloh ,
Austrian painter and writer (died
1973 ).
March 23 –
Juan Gris , Spanish painter and sculptor (died
1927 ).
[10]
March 25 –
Josef Čapek , Czech painter (died
1945 ).
April 29 –
Stanley Cursiter ,
Scottish painter and curator (died
1976 ).
May –
Jacob Steinhardt , German-born Israeli painter and woodcut artist (died
1968 ).
May 12 –
Leo Michelson ,
Latvian -
American painter and sculptor (died
1978 ).
May 16 –
Laura Wheeler Waring , African-America painter (died
1948 )
[11]
May 21
May 22 –
Arthur Cravan , born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd, Swiss-born Dadaist writer, poet, artist and boxer (disappeared
1918 )
[12]
May 30 –
Alexander Archipenko , Ukrainian sculptor (died
1964 ).
June 20 –
Kurt Schwitters , German
Dadaist painter and writer (died
1948 ).
July 7 –
Marc Chagall ,
Russian -
Belarusian -
French
painter (died
1985 ).
July 28 –
Marcel Duchamp , influential French artist (died
1968 ).
[13]
August 31 –
William McMillan ,
Scottish sculptor (died
1977 ).
September 24 –
Frank Newbould ,
English
poster artist (died
1951 ).
October 6 –
Le Corbusier , French architect and painter (died
1965 ).
[14]
October 9 –
Manuel Ortiz de Zárate ,
Chilean painter (died
1946 ).
October 13 –
Kate Lechmere , English painter associated with the Vorticists and milliner (died
1976 ).
November 1 –
L. S. Lowry , English painter (died
1976 ).
[15]
November 14 –
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso , Portuguese painter (died
1918 ).
November 15 –
Georgia O'Keeffe ,
American painter (died
1986 ).
[16]
December 14 –
Xul Solar , Argentine painter, sculptor and writer (died
1963 ).
December 29 –
Nell Walden , Swedish-born abstract artist and collector (died
1975 )
March 24 –
Ivan Kramskoi , painter and art critic (born
1837 )
May 20 -
Paul Emile Chappuis , photographer (born
1816 )
June 4 –
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse ,
French
sculptor and painter (born
1824 )
June 5 –
Hans von Marées , painter (born
1837 )
July 8 –
John Wright Oakes , landscape painter (born
1820 )
July 17 –
Nicaise de Keyser , painter (born
1813 )
August 19 –
Alvan Clark ,
American
astronomer ,
telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (born
1804 )
December 19
date unknown -
Giovanni Battista Amendola , sculptor (born
1848 )
^ Baron, Wendy (2006).
Sickert: paintings and drawings . New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 586.
ISBN
978-0-300-11129-3 . Retrieved 2009-12-22 .
^ Walther, Ingo F.; Suckle, Robert; Wundram, Manfred (2002).
Masterpieces of Western Art . Vol. 1. Cologne:
Taschen . p. 760.
ISBN
978-3-8228-1825-1 . Retrieved 2009-12-22 .
^ Clement, Russell T.; Houzé, Annick (1999).
Neo-impressionist painters . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 396.
ISBN
978-0-313-30382-1 . Retrieved 2009-12-22 .
^
Letter 510 , 15 July 1888. There are two short accounts of this exhibition, one based on information supplied by
Seurat and the other written by Bernard. For the paintings exchanged, see Annet Tellegen, "Vincent en Gauguin. Schilderijenruil in Parijs", Museumjournaal 1966, pp. 42–44.
^
The Athenaeum . J. Lection. 1887. p. 802.
^ Rothstein, Edward (17 April 2019).
" 'Cyclorama: The Big Picture' Review: Standing at the Center of History" . Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 17 April 2019 .
^
"Barnes Collection Online — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: "A Montrouge"–Rosa la Rouge" .
^
" 'Something very much alive' — Coin de jardin avec papillons by van Gogh | Christie's" .
^ Anna Meseure; August Macke (1993).
August Macke, 1887-1914 . Benedikt Taschen. p. 7.
ISBN
978-3-8228-0551-0 .
^ Marcel Brion (1958).
Modern Painting; from Impressionism to Abstract Art . Thames and Hudson. p. 95.
^ Henry Louis Gates; Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (2008).
The African American National Biography: Uggams-Zuber . Oxford University Press. p. 115.
ISBN
978-0-19-516019-2 .
^ David Chandler (1996).
Boxer: An Anthology of Writings on Boxing and Visual Culture . Institute of International Visual Arts. p. 99.
ISBN
978-1-899846-04-7 .
^ Marcel Brion (1958).
Modern Painting; from Impressionism to Abstract Art . Thames and Hudson. p. 94.
^ Juan Antonio Ramírez (2000).
The Beehive Metaphor: From Gaudí to Le Corbusier . Reaktion Books. p. 116.
ISBN
978-1-86189-056-6 .
^ Allen Andrews (1977).
The Life of L. S. Lowry, 1887-1976 . Jupiter Books. p. 30.
ISBN
978-0-904041-60-6 .
^ Britta Benke (2000).
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert . Taschen. p. 5.
ISBN
978-3-8228-5861-5 .