1905 in art

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The year 1905 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

Summer – Henri Matisse and André Derain work together in the French Mediterranean village of Collioure.
October – Salon d'Automne in Paris: the vivid colors used by Matisse and others lead the critic Louis Vauxcelles to describe their works derisively as les Fauves ("the wild beasts"), marking the start of Fauvism.
Die Brücke group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden.
Léon Bonnat succeeds Paul Dubois as director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen open the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (later known as 291) photo art gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Opening of the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jacob Epstein establishes his studio in London.

Matisse – The Open Window

January 29 – Barnett Newman, American artist (d. 1970)
February 1 – Doris Lee, American painter (d. 1983)
February 4 – Jared French, American painter (d. 1988)
March 9 – Félix Labisse, French painter and designer (d. 1982)
May 5 – Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (d. 1986)
April 6 – Andrée Ruellan, American painter (d. 2006)
May 10 – Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican-American painter and illustrator (d. 1998)
May 12 – Leonard Bahr, American portrait and mural painter (d. 1990)
May 15 – Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter and sculptor (d. 1976)
June 24 – Rex Whistler, English painter (k. 1944)
June 28 – Rowland Hilder, American-born English landscape painter (d. 1993)
July 4? – Claude Buckle, English poster artist and watercolourist (d. 1973)
July 6 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (d. 1982)
July 8 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and animation director (d. 1997)
August 12 – Stevan Bodnarov, Serbian sculptor and painter (d. 1993)
October 14 – Ruth Bernhard, American photographer (d. 2006)
November 1 – Paul-Émile Borduas, French Canadian abstract painter (d. 1960)
November 3 – Lois Mailou Jones, African American painter (d. 1998)
December 22 – James A. Porter, African American painter and art historian (d. 1970)
date unknown
- Elwin Hawthorne, English painter (d. 1954)
- Walter Pritchard, Scottish stained glass artist, mural painter and sculptor (d. 1977)

January 13 – Robert Swain Gifford, landscape painter (b. 1840)
January 19 – George Henry Boughton, painter (b. 1834)
January 21 – Robert Brough, painter (b. 1872)
January 23 – Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, painter, sculptor and caricaturist (b. 1846)
February 1 – Oswald Achenbach, landscape painter (b. 1827)
February 9 – Adolph von Menzel, German painter and engraver (b. 1815)
March 1 – Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, sculptor (b. 1822)
March 3 – William Brassington, sculptor and ornamental mason (b. 1837 (?))
April 4 – Constantin Meunier, painter and sculptor (b. 1831)
May 23 – Paul Dubois, painter and sculptor (b. 1829)
July 23 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter (b. 1829)
August 5 (or 6) – Anton Ažbe, realist painter and art teacher (b. 1862)
August 18 – Albert Edelfelt, painter (b. 1854)
August 19 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (b. 1825)
September 14 – Odoardo Borrani, Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli (born 1833)
October 2 – Alexander Seik, painter and photographer (b. 1824)
November 8 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, post-Impressionist painter (b. 1870) (heart attack)
November 17 – Gustave Crauck, sculptor (b. 1827)
December 4 – Henry Hugh Armstead, sculptor and illustrator (b. 1828)
December 16 – Alfred Walter Williams, landscape painter (b. 1824)

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