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2004 in art

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The year 2004 in art involved some significant events and new art works.

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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

  • Encounter (sculpture), Eugene, Oregon
  • Holon (sculpture), Portland, Oregon
  • LightShed, Vancouver
  • Mahatma Gandhi (sculpture), Houston, Texas
  • David Backhouse – Animals in War Memorial (London)
  • Rachel Joynt – Noah's Egg (sculpture at Veterinary Sciences Centre, University College Dublin in Ireland)
  • Cornelia Parker – Perpetual Canon (installation)
  • Artworks at Millennium Park in Chicago, United States:
  • Anish Kapoor – Cloud Gate
  • Jaume Plensa – Crown Fountain

    • 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
  • En Foco's New Works Photography Award – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
  • Hugo Boss Prize- Rirkrit Tiravanija
  • 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

    • 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)
  • 12 March - Milton Resnick, American Painter (b. 1917)
  • 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)
  • 28 May – Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, French photographer (b.1921)
  • 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 to engrave a 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).
  • Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b.1914).
  • 22 November – Leo Dee, American silverpoint artist (b.1931).
  • 25 November – Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter (b.1939).
  • 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).

    • References

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