1885 - Art
Art
Painting: The Potato Eaters, Peasant Woman with Red Bonnet, Parsonage: Garden in the Snow, and A Pair of Shoes by Vincent van Gogh, who has been painting since 1879 without having had any formal artistic training and has not yet sold a single work; Bather by Paul Cézanne; The Baleful Head by Edward Coley Burne-Jones; Lady at the Tea Table, Children on the Shore, and Alexander J. Cassatt by Mary Cassatt; Rainy Day, Columbus Avenue, Boston, by Dorchester, Mass.-born painter (Frederick) Childe Hassam, 25; October in Ramapo Valley by Jasper Francis Cropsey; The Fog Warning and Lost on the Grand Banks by Winslow Homer.
Amsterdam's Rijkmuseum, founded by Louis Bonaparte in 1808, moves into splendid new quarters.
The Detroit Institute of Arts is founded by local citizens; they will give it to the city in 1919 and it will move into a neoclassical building on Woodward Avenue in 1927.
Sculpture: The Puritan by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
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