1890 in art

The year 1890 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• January 18 – February 23 – Seventh annual exhibition of Les XX in Brussels includes a display of work by Vincent van Gogh. Henry de Groux criticises his paintings but Albert Aurier praises them. From the exhibition, van Gogh sells The Red Vineyard to Anna Boch, said to be the only sale of his work during his lifetime.
• March 20 – April 27 – The Société des Artistes Indépendants show in Paris includes a major display of van Gogh paintings.
• May 20 – Van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise on the edge of Paris in the care of Dr Paul Gachet where he will produce around seventy paintings in as many days. More than a dozen are size 30 canvases (92 x 65 cm).
• June–July – Van Gogh develops his double-square painting technique, e.g. in the July paintings Wheatfield with Crows and Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds.
• July 27 – Death of Vincent van Gogh: van Gogh perhaps paints Tree Roots, then apparently shoots himself, dying two days later.
• September 20 – Theo van Gogh, assisted by Émile Bernard, mounts an improvised retrospective exhibition of his brother Vincent's works in Theo's former Paris apartment.
• November – Lucien Pissarro settles permanently in London.
• Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts revived in Paris under the leadership of Ernest Meissonier (its President), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jules Dalou, Auguste Rodin, Carolus-Duran, Bracquemond and Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, with an annual exhibition reviewed as the Salon de Champ-de-Mars, opening a fortnight later than the official Paris Salon.
• Claude Monet begins painting his Haystacks series.
• Newlyn Industrial Class set up at the fishing port in Cornwall (England) and begins production of Newlyn Copper repoussé work.

Works

• Anna Ancher – ' (Sewing Fisherman's Wife)
• William-Adolphe Bouguereau
• L'Amour et Psyché, enfants
• The Bohemian
• Gabrielle Cot
• '
• Frank Brangwyn – Funeral at Sea
• Dennis Miller Bunker – Jessica
• Edward Burne-Jones
• The Legend of Briar Rose
• with William Morris and John Henry Dearle – The Adoration of the Magi (tapestry woven by Morris & Co. for Exeter College, Oxford)
• Cyrus Edwin Dallin – Signal of Peace (bronze)
• Thomas Dewing – '
• Francis Edwin Elwell – Dickens and Little Nell (bronze)
• Henri Fantin-Latour – '
• Fidus (Hugo Höppener) – Light Prayer
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – Working in Marble
• J. W. Godward
• Athenais
• Flowers Of Venus
• A Pompeian Bath
• James Guthrie – The Morning Paper
• John Haberle – The Palette
• William Harnett – ' (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut)
• Jonathan Scott Hartley – Daguerre Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
• Martin Johnson Heade – Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth
• Ferdinand Hodler – ' (Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland)
• Winslow Homer
• '
• '
• Fernand Khnopff – '
• P. S. and Marie Krøyer – '
• Henry Herbert La Thangue – '
• Jules Joseph Lefebvre – Lady Godiva
• George Dunlop Leslie – '
• William Logsdail – The Ninth of November, 1888
• Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne – Statue of her mother Queen Victoria, at McGill University, Montreal
• Anna Lea Merritt – '
• Arturo Michelena – '
• John Everett Millais
• Dew-Drenched Furze
• Lingering Autumn
• Claude Monet – Boating on the River Epte
• Albert Joseph Moore – A Summer Night
• Edvard Munch – Night in Saint-Cloud
• Roderic O'Conor – La Lisiere du Bois
• Paul Peel – The Young Botanist
• Edward Poynter – The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon
• Henrietta Rae – Ophelia
• Paul Ranson – '
• Odilon Redon – With Closed Eyes (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Frederic Remington – '
• William Blake Richmond – '
• Tom Roberts – Shearing the Rams (National Gallery of Victoria)
• Auguste Rodin – Brother and Sister (bronze)
• Henri Rousseau – Myself, Portrait-Landscape
• Adalbert Seligmann – Theodor Billroth Operating (approximate date)
• Georges Seurat
• Le Chahut
• Woman Powdering Herself (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
• Paul Signac – '
• Charles Alexander Smith – L'Assemblée des six-comtés
• Joseph-Noël Sylvestre – '
• John Tenniel – Dropping the Pilot (political cartoon)
• James Tissot – '
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Dance at the Moulin Rouge

• Vincent van Gogh
• Prisoners Exercising (February)
• At Eternity's Gate (early May)
• Road with Cypress and Star (early May)
• ' (by early May)
• The Wheat Field, Sunrise (by early May)
• Portrait of Dr. Gachet (two versions)
• Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers
• '
• '
• Daubigny's Garden (three versions, May–July)
• Almond Blossoms
• L'Arlésienne (four versions, February)
• The Church at Auvers (June)
• Houses at Auvers (June)
• '
• '
• Thatched Cottages and Houses (May)
• White House at Night (June 16)
• Thatched Cottages by a Hill (July)
• Farms near Auvers (July)
• The Town Hall at Auvers (July)
• ' (June)
• Old Vineyard with Peasant Woman (brush drawing, May)
• Girl in White
• Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat (June)
• Landscape with a Carriage and a Train (June)
• ' (July)
• ' (April–May) and ' (May) from his Butterflies series
• Tree Roots (July)
• '
• ' (late June)
• Wheat Fields series
• '
• ' (June)
• ' (June)
• ' (June–July)
• ' (July)
• ' (July)
• ' (July)
• ' (July)
• ' (July)
• ' (July)
• '
• '
• Wheatfield with Crows (July)
• Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds (July)
• '
• ' (July)
• Copies
• '
• '
• '
• '
• '
• '
• ' (January)
• ' (April)
• '
• '
• George Frederic Watts
• The All-Pervading
• ' (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)
• J. B. B. Wellington – ' (photogravure)
• William R. Coats – Ypsilanti Water Tower (Ypsilanti, Michigan), winner of Most Phallic Building contest (2003)