2004 in art

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The year 2004 in art involved some significant events.

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

4 January - Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (b.1933).
9 January - Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic (b.1924).
7 February - Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (b.1923).
4 March - Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer and artist (b.1953).
13 March - René Laloux, French animator and film director (b.1929).

2 July - John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (b.1919).
19 July - Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b.1902).
3 August - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b.1908).
4 August - Cécile Guillame, first woman who engraved French postal stamps (b.1933).
8 August - Leon Golub, American painter (b.1922).
8 September - Frank Thomas, American animator (b.1912).
19 September - Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (b.1933).

1 October - Richard Avedon, American photographer (b.1923).
13 October - Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (b.1932).
15 October - Irv Novick, American comic book artist (b.1916).
13 November - Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (b.1916).
19 November - Trina Schart Hyman, American illustrator of children's books (b.1939).
19 November - Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b.1914).
9 December - Sergey Voychenko, Belarusian artist and designer (b.1955).
16 December - Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (b.1912).
17 December - Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (b.1931).
December - Cleve Gray, American Abstract expressionist painter (b.1918).