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.

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

1–27 October, Salon d'Automne, Paris. Georges Braque exhibited Viaduc à l'Estaque (a proto-Cubist work), now at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Simultaneously, there was 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

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

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 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 – Salome

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)

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 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, painter (d. 1981)

July 6 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)

July 27 – Petar Lubarda, Serbian painter (d. 1974)

August 7 – Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist (d. 1980)

August 17 – Acee Blue Eagle, painter and muralist (d. 1959)

August 30 – Leonor Fini, 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)

Seamus Murphy, Irish sculptor (d. 1975)

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)