1907 in art
Events
- February 7 – Vanessa Stephen marries Clive Bell.[1]
- 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.[2]
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
Salomé
- 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 – Paysage au disque
- 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
- 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 II
- 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
- 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
- Arnoldo Zocchi – Monument to the Tsar Liberator (Sofia)
- Mahonri Young - Statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
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 – 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 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 27 – Paul Ritter, German architectural painter (born 1829)
- November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, painter and designer (born 1869)
References
- "Spartacus Educational – Biography of Vanessa Bell". Archived from the original on 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
- Mayer, Ralph (1991). The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques (5th ed.). London: Faber. ISBN 0571150675.
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