The year 1893 in art involved some significant events. Events February – Grafton Galleries open in London. April – The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art is first published in London by Charles Holme with Joseph Gleeson White as editor and a cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. May 1 – The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the Exposition. Among other art exhibits are two bronze calves by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford, designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford. June 29 – Unveiling of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at Piccadilly Circus in London, with a gilded aluminium statue of Anteros, designed by Alfred Gilbert and cast by Morris Singer. Ford Madox Brown completes painting The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall (England). The National Sculpture Society is founded in the United States. Alois Riegl's Stilfragen: Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik is published in Berlin. Henri Rousseau gives up his job as a Paris toll collector and moves to a studio in Montparnasse where he lives and paints full-time. A 16th century Ardabil Carpet from Persia enters the collection of the South Kensington Museum in London. Exhibitions December – Unter den Linden in Berlin holds an exhibition of Edvard Munch's work, including six paintings entitled Study for a Series: Love, beginning his Frieze of Life cycle. Works Lawrence Alma-Tadema – Unconscious Rivals Léon Bakst – Self-portrait Charles Burton Barber – A Special Pleader Aubrey Beardsley – Illustrations to Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (J. M. Dent) Henrique Bernardelli – Messalini Olga Boznańska – Self-portrait Edgar Bundy – Antonio Stradivari at work in his studio Mary Cassatt – The Child's Bath Paul Cézanne – Basket of Apples Henri-Edmond Cross – The Evening Air (approximate date) Ernesto de la Cárcova – Without Bread or Work Frank Dicksee – The Funeral of a Viking Albert Edelfelt Larin Paraske Two women with laundry Paul Gauguin Otahi Portrait of the artist in a hat J. W. Godward A Priestess (nude version) Reflections Yes Or No Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Adios del Sol Winslow Homer – The Fox Hunt Paul Jamin –