1907 in art

Events from the year 1907 in art involved some significant events.

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.
 * The Chicago Plan is produced by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, and illustrated by Jules Guerin.
 * 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



 * Vladimir Baranov-Rossine – Self-portrait
 * George Bellows – Pennsylvania Station Excavation
 * Karl Bitter – Monument to General Sigel
 * Solon Borglum – Statue of John Brown Gordon
 * Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
 * Winter cycle (completed)
 * Sonata of the Spring
 * Sonata of the Sun
 * Zodiac cycle
 * Robert Delaunay – Still Life with a Parrot
 * Lyonel Feininger – Der weiße Mann
 * 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 – Riding Couple
 * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Sitting Woman (Dodo)
 * Gustav Klimt
 * Danaë
 * Hope II
 * The Kiss
 * Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
 * The Sunflower
 * Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Sleep (sculpture)
 * Jacek Malczewski – Bacchante
 * Henri Matisse
 * Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)
 * Madras Rouge
 * Jean Metzinger
 * Paysage coloré aux oiseaux aquatique
 * Les Ibis
 * Le Flamant rose et le voilier
 * Claude Monet – Water Lilies, Giverny #3
 * 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
 * Pablo Picasso – Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
 * Henri Rousseau – The Snake Charmer
 * John Singer Sargent
 * Alpine Pool
 * Portrait of Lady Sassoon
 * Lady Speyer
 * Walter Sickert – The Juvenile Lead: Self-portrait
 * Charles Sims – The Fountain
 * Alfred Stieglitz – The Steerage (photograph)
 * Vardges Sureniants – Salomé
 * 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

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 – Seamus 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)
 * Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (d. 1998)
 * September 26 – Anthony Blunt, English art historian (d. 1983)
 * 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 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 5 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
 * 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)
 * 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 21
 * Paula Modersohn-Becker, German Expressionist painter (born 1876; embolism)
 * 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)