1894 in art

Events

February – Oscar Wilde's play Salome is first published in English, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
April – The Yellow Book (edited by Henry Harland with Aubrey Beardsley as art editor) begins publication by John Lane and Elkin Mathews – The Bodley Head in London.
June 5 – Opening of Racławice Panorama in Lwów.
August 23 – Jack Butler Yeats marries fellow artist Mary Cottenham White.
The Della Robbia Pottery is established as part of the Arts and Crafts movement by Harold Rathbone and Conrad Dressler in Birkenhead, England.
Lucien Pissarro sets up the Eragny Press in England.
Bernard Berenson publishes The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, with an Index to their Works.

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9 January – Reg Gammon, English painter and illustrator (died 1997)
8 March – Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor (died 1966)
17 March – Meredith Frampton, English portrait painter (died 1984)
10 April – Ben Nicholson, English abstract painter (died 1982)
19 April – Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of Nazism (died 1973)
22 April – Evie Hone, Irish painter and stained glass artist (died 1955)
27 April – George Petty, American pin-up artist (died 1975)
17 May – Zora Petrović, one of the most significant representatives of Expressionism of color in Serbian art between two wars (died 1962)
6 June – Arthur Szyk, Polish-born illustrator and political artist (died 1951)
13 June – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (died 1986)
28 June – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, Irish author and painter (died 1973)
2 July – André Kertész, Hungarian-born photographer (died 1985)
14 July – Dave Fleischer, Austrian-American animator, film director, and film producer (died 1979)
26 August – Gala Dalí, model and wife of Salvador Dalí (died 1982)
3 September – André Hébuterne, French painter (died 1992)
7 October – Doris Huestis Speirs, Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet (died 1989)
8 October – Risto Stijović, Serbian sculptor (died 1974)
14 October – E. E. Cummings, American poet and painter (died 1962)
4 November – Chafik Charobim, Egyptian painter (died 1975)
8 November – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (died 1978)
8 December – James Thurber, American cartoonist (died 1961)
27 December – Annot, German painter (died 1981)
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- Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor and painter (died 1968)
- Ovartaci, born Louis Marcussen, Danish outsider artist (died 1985)

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