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Encyclopedia > 1887 in art

See also: 1886 in art, other events of 1887, 1888 in art, list of years in art. See also: 1885 in art, other events of 1886, 1887 in art, list of years in art. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... See also: 1887 in art, other events of 1888, 1889 in art, list of years in art. ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...

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Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (1865 - 1911) was a Russian painter. ...

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January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... August Macke. ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... The Sunblind, 1914, Tate Gallery. ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... Josef ÄŒapek (1887 – 1945), Czech artist. ... June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... Kurt Schwitters (June 20, 1887 - January 8, 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hannover, Germany. ... Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... Marc Chagall as photographed in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten Marc Chagall (July 7, 1887 – March 28, 1985) was a Jewish Belarusian painter. ... July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... Marcel Duchamp (July 28, 1887 – October 2, 1968) was an influential French/American artist. ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). ... Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, (October 9, 1887 – October 28, 1946), was a Chilean painter. ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... Lawrence Stephen Lowry (November 1, 1887 - February 23, 1976) was an English artist born in [Barratt Street Old Trafford]], Manchester. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950 Georgia OKeeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. ... Bridge in Venice by Leo Michelson Leo Michelson was born in Riga, Latvia in 1887 and died in New York, New York in 1978. ... Jacob Steinhardt (1887–1968) was a painter and woodcut artist, who worked mainly in woodcuts depicting biblical and other Jewish subjects. ...

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