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The year 1887 in art involved some significant events.
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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
- See also: Category:1887 paintings
- Thomas Shields Clarke - A Fool's Fool
- Jean-Léon Gérôme - Omphale
- Edward John Gregory - Marooning
- Valentin Serov - The Girl with Peaches
Births
January to June
- 3 January - August Macke, Expressionist painter (d.1914).
- 5 February - Albert Paris Gütersloh, Austrian painter and writer (d.1973).
- 23 March - Juan Gris, painter and sculptor (d.1927).
- 25 March - Josef Čapek, painter (d.1945).
- 21 May - Barker Fairley, English-born Canadian painter, writer, and educator (d.1986).
- 30 May - Alexander Archipenko, sculptor (d.1964).
- 20 June - Kurt Schwitters, Dadaist painter and writer (d.1948).
July to December
- 7 July - Marc Chagall, Russian-Belarusian-French painter (d.1985).
- 28 July - Marcel Duchamp, influential artist (d.1968).
- 6 October - Le Corbusier, architect and painter (d.1965).
- 9 October - Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, painter (d.1946).
- 1 November - L. S. Lowry, English artist (d.1976).
- 15 November - Georgia O'Keeffe American artist (d.1986).
Full date unknown
- Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter and sculptor (d.1978).
- 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)
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