1907 in art

Events

• February 7 – Vanessa Stephen marries Clive Bell.
• September – A cast of G. F. Watts' sculpture Physical Energy is erected posthumously in Kensington Gardens in London.
• Henri Matisse begins to teach at the Académie Matisse in Paris, a private and non-commercial art school.
• Adolphe Valette joins the staff of Manchester Municipal School of Art.
• Kunsthalle Mannheim designed by Hermann Billing to serve an International Art Exhibition.
• Bernard Berenson publishes North Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
• Cadmium Red pigment first produced, in Germany.

Exhibitions

• October 1–27 – Salon d'Automne, Paris. Georges Braque exhibits Viaduc à l'Estaque, a proto-Cubist work which later enters the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Simultaneously, there is a retrospective exhibition of 56 works by Paul Cézanne as a tribute to the artist who died in 1906.

Works

• Thomas Anshutz – A Rose
• Vladimir Baranov-Rossine – Self-portrait
• George Bellows – Pennsylvania Station Excavation
• Karl Bitter – Monument to General Sigel
• Solon Borglum – Statue of John Brown Gordon
• Georges Braque – The Viaduct at L'Estaque
• Robert Delaunay – Still Life with a Parrot
• Gustaf Fjæstad – Winter Evening by a River
• Stanhope Forbes – After a Day's Work
• J. W. Godward – The Love Letter
• Ivan Grohar – The Sower
• Bernhard Hoetger – Tomb of Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede churchyard
• Adrian Jones – Equestrian statue of the Duke of Cambridge, Whitehall (London)
• Wassily Kandinsky – Das Bunte Leben
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Sitting Woman (Dodo)
• Gustav Klimt
  • Danaë
  • Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
  • The Sunflower
  • Water Serpents II
• Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Sleep (sculpture)
• Jacek Malczewski – Bacchante
• Henri Matisse
  • Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)
  • Madras Rouge
• Jean Metzinger
  • Colored Landscape with Aquatic Birds
  • Les Ibis
• Piet Mondrian – The Red Cloud
• Claude Monet – many works in the Water Lilies series
• Edvard Munch
  • Death of Marat I and II
  • Jealousy
  • The Sick Child (3rd and 4th painted versions)
• Mikhail Nesterov – Tolstoy on the shore of the pond at Yasnaya Polyana
• Frederic Remington – Fired On
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Gabrielle with Open Blouse
• Pablo Picasso – Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
• Henri Rousseau
  • The Repast of the Lion
  • The Snake Charmer
• John Singer Sargent
  • Alpine Pool
  • Portrait of Lady Sassoon
  • Lady Speyer
• Walter Sickert – Jack the Ripper's Bedroom
• Paul Signac – The Port of Marseille
• Charles Sims – The Fountain
• Joaquín Sorolla – Maria at La Granja
• Léon Spilliaert – Self-Portrait with a Blue Sketchbook
• Alfred Stieglitz – The Steerage (photograph)
• Vardges Sureniants – Salomé
• Edmund C. Tarbell – Preparing for the Matinee
• Félix Vallotton
  • Portrait of Gertrude Stein
  • Three Women and a Little Girl Playing in the Water
• J. W. Waterhouse – Jason and Medea
• Mahonri Young – Statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
• Arnoldo Zocchi – Monument to the Tsar Liberator (Sofia)

Movements

• Cubism begins to take root

Exhibitions

• First Exhibition of Lithuanian Art, Vilnius

Births

January to June

• January 13 – Jon Gnagy, American painter, illustrator and television art instructor (d. 1981)
• February 4 – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (d. 1998)
• February 28 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
• March 10 – Toni Frissell, American photographer (d. 1988)
• March 23 – Abidin Dino, Turkish-born painter (d. 1993)
• April 23
  • Lee Miller, American photographer (d. 1977)
  • Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
• May 1 – Theodore Roszak, Polish-American sculptor and painter (d. 1981)
• May 10 – Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist (d. 2007)
• May 22 – Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (d. 1983)
• June 6 – George Rickey, American kinetic sculptor (d. 2002)
• June 10 – Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
• June 14 – Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (d. 1978)

July to December

• July 1 – Ilya Bolotowsky, Russian-born American painter (d. 1981)
• July 6 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
• July 15 – Séamus Murphy, Irish sculptor (d. 1975)
• July 27 – Petar Lubarda, Serbian painter (d. 1974)
• August 5 – Robert George Irwin, American sculptor and spree killer (d. 1975)
• August 7 – Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist (d. 1980)
• August 17 – Acee Blue Eagle, Native American painter and muralist (d. 1959)
• August 30 – Leonor Fini, Argentinian surrealist painter (d. 1996)
• September 4 – Leo Castelli, Italian-American art dealer and gallerist (d. 1999)
• September 26 – Anthony Blunt, English art historian (d. 1983)
• September 27 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (d. 1998)
• October 5 – Jean Louis, French costume designer (d. 1997)
• October 8 – Art Babbitt, American animator (d. 1992)
• October 21 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
• November 1 – Terence Cuneo, English railway and military painter (d. 1996)
• November 4 – Henry Heerup, Danish painter and sculptor (d. 1993)
• November 14 – William Steig, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (d. 2003)
• November 19 – Hans Liska, Austrian-born German artist (d. 1983)
• November 22 – Dora Maar, French photographer, poet and painter, lover of Pablo Picasso (d. 1997)
• November 28 – Charles Alston, American artist, muralist and teacher (d. 1977).

Full date unknown

• Marie Z. Chino, potter and ceramic artist (d. 1982)
• Art Frahm, American pin-up and advertising artist (d. 1981)

Deaths

• January 8 – Theodoor Verstraete, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (born 1850)
• February 11 – Christen Dalsgaard, Danish painter (born 1824)
• February 14 – Adolf Seel, German painter (born 1829)
• March 26 – Ettore Roesler Franz, Italian painter (born 1845)
• April 14 – James Clarke Hook, marine and historical painter (born 1819)
• May 5 – Şeker Ahmet Paşa, Turkish military painter (born 1841)
• May 11 – Edward Kemeys, American sculptor (born 1843)
• May 18 – Bernhard Plockhorst, German painter and graphic artist (born 1825)
• June 14 – Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Italian neo-impressionist painter (born 1868)
• June 16 – Robert Taylor Pritchett, British gun manufacturer, artist and illustrator. Pritchett illustrated Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle (born in 1828)
• July 16 – Théobald Chartran, French propaganda painter (born 1849)
• August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American Beaux-Arts sculptor (born 1848)
• October 4 – Alfredo Keil, Portuguese romantic composer and painter (born 1850)
• October 30 – Đorđe Krstić, Serbian Realist painter (born 1851)
• November 10 – Alexander Zick, German painter and illustrator (born 1845)
• November 20 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German Expressionist painter (born 1876; embolism)
• November 21 Balduin Wolff, German painter and chess player (born 1819)
• November 23 – John F. Peto, American trompe-l'œil painter (born 1854)
• November 26 – Mario Raggi, Italian sculptor (born 1821)
• November 27 – Paul Ritter, German architectural painter (born 1829)
• November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, painter and designer (born 1869)

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