The year 2004 in art involved some significant events.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Works

• Anish Kapoor - Cloud Gate (Millennium Park, Chicago)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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).

[edit] Full date unknown

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

[edit] See also

• List of years in art