1897 in art

Works

• Paul Gauguin - Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
• Jean-Jacques Henner - Portrait of Mlle Fouquier
• Camille Pissarro - Boulevard Montmartre
• Maurice Prendergast - Summer Visitors
• Ogata Gekkō - Ryu sho ten (Published 1898)

Births

• 17 January - Charles Ragland Bunnell, painter.
• 21 January - René Iché, sculptor.
• 16 March - Antonio Donghi, painter.
• 22 June - Albert Renger-Patzsch, photographer.
• 26 June - Victor Servranckx, painter.
• 19 August - Roman Vishniac, Russian American photographer (d.1990).
• 23 September - Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (d.1994).

Deaths

• June 7 - Victor Mottez, French fresco and portrait painter (b. 1809)
• October 5 - Sir John Gilbert, painter (b. 1817)
• November 18 Henry Doulton, potter (b. 1820)
• date unknown
  • Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter (b. 1864)
  • Charles Edward Boutibonne, French Classicist painter (b. 1816)
  • Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (b. 1843)