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The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" (included in his Claims of Decorative Art, printed later).
• Charles Lang Freer’s first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan.

Awards

Works

• Thomas Shields Clarke - A Fool's Fool
• Jean-Léon Gérôme - Omphale
• Edward John Gregory - Marooning
• Valentin Serov - The Girl with Peaches

Births

• January 3 - August Macke, Expressionist painter (d. 1914)
• March 23 - Juan Gris, painter and sculptor (d. 1927)
• March 25 - Josef Čapek, painter (d. 1945)
• May 30 - Alexander Archipenko, sculptor (d. 1964)
• June 20 - Kurt Schwitters, Dadaist painter and writer (d. 1948)
• July 7 - Marc Chagall, Surrealist painter (d. 1985)
• July 28 - Marcel Duchamp, influential artist (d. 1968)
• October 6 - Le Corbusier, architect and painter (d. 1965)
• October 9 - Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, painter (d. 1946)
• November 1 - L. S. Lowry, painter of industrial landscapes (d. 1976)
• November 15 - Georgia O'Keeffe, painter (d. 1986)
• date unknown - Leo Michelson, painter and sculptor of the École de Paris (d. 1978)
• date unknown - Jacob Steinhardt, painter and woodcut artist (d. 1968)

Deaths

• March 24 - Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic (b. 1837)
• June 4 - Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, French sculptor and painter (b. 1824)
• August 19 - Alvan Clark, American astronomer, telescope maker, portrait painter and engraver (b. 1804)
• Philipp Veit, German Romantic painter (b. 1793)