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The year 2004 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• May 24 - A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists.

Works

• Anish Kapoor - Cloud Gate (Millennium Park, Chicago)

Awards

• Archibald Prize - Craig Ruddy, David Gulpilil, two worlds
• Beck's Futures - Saskia Olde Wolbers
• Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration - Mordicai Gerstein, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
• Wynne prize - George Tjungurrayi, Untitled

Exhibitions

• Edward Delaney retrospective - Royal Hibernian Academy
• Erich Heckel – His Work in the 1920s, Brücke Museum, Berlin
• Paul Henry at the National Gallery of Ireland
• Edward Hopper at the Tate Gallery, London
• "Drawings of Jim Dine" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Deaths

• January 4 - Jeff Nuttall, painter and sculptor
• January 9 - Nissim Ezekiel, art critic
• February 7 - Norman Thelwell, cartoonist
• April 1 - Enrique Grau, painter and sculptor
• May 12 - Syd Hoff, cartoonist
• June 15 - Lothar Fischer, sculptor
• July 2 - John Cullen Murphy, cartoonist
• July 19 - Sylvia Daoust, sculptor
• August 3 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer
• August 8 - Leon Golub, artist
• September 19 - Eddie Adams, photographer
• October 1 - Richard Avedon, photographer
• October 13 - Ivor Wood, animator
• October 15 - Irv Novick, comic book artist
• November 13 - Harry Lampert, cartoonist and advertising artist
• November 19
  • Trina Schart Hyman, illustrator
  • Piet Esser, sculptor
• December 9 - Sergey Voychenko, artist/designer
• December 16 - Agnes Martin, abstract painter
• December 17 - Tom Wesselmann, pop artist

See also

• List of years in art