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List of years in Art

May 1: World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago) with Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking man-made lake.

Events

• May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake. The first United States commemorative postage stamps were issued for the Exposition.

• The National Sculpture Society is founded.

Awards

Works

Paintings

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893

See also: Category:1893 paintings

• Henrique Bernardelli - Messalini
• Olga Boznańska - Self-portrait
• Edgar Bundy - Antonio Stradivari at work in his studio
• Edward Burne-Jones - Love Among the Ruins
• Peder Severin Krøyer - Sommeraften ved Skagen Sønderstrand med Anna Ancher og Marie Krøyer
• Edvard Munch - The Scream
• Franz Stuck - The Sin

Sculptures

Births

January to June

• 3 March - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d.1998).
• 3 March - Ivon Hitchens, English painter (d.1979).
• 11 March - Wanda Gag, children's author and artist (d.1946).
• 29 March - Dora Carrington, painter and designer (d. 1932).
• 9 April - Charles E. Burchfield, American scene painter.
• 11 April - John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (d.1978).
• 20 April - Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (d.1983).
• 16 May - Stella Bowen, painter (d.1947).

July to December

• 26 July - George Grosz, painter and draftsman (d.1959).
• 15 September - Rene Paul Chambellan, sculptor.
• 1 October - Marianne Brandt, painter, sculptor and designer (d.1983).
• 9 October - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d.1945).
• 29 December - Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (d.1968).
• December - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (d.1979).

Full date unknown

• Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (d.1976).
• Abraham Rattner, painter and camouflage specialist (d.1978).
• Chaim Soutine, painter (d. 1943).

Deaths

• January 30 - Prince Grigory Gagarin, soldier and painter (b. 1811)
• March 16 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (b. 1844)
• April 6 - Vicat Cole, painter (b. 1833)
• October 6 - Ford Madox Brown, painter (b. 1821)
• Gustav Fabergé, jeweler (b. 1814)