1907 in art

The year 1907 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• February 7 - Vanessa Stephen marries Clive Bell.^[2]
• 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.

Exhibitions

• 1 October - 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

Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, considered a major step towards cubism.^[1]

• 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
• Wassily Kandinsky - Riding Couple
• 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,
  • 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
• Walter Sickert - The Juvenile Lead: Self-portrait
• 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

Births

January to June

• January 13 - Jon Gnagy, painter, illustrator and television art instructor (d. 1981)
• February 28 - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
• March 23 - Abidin Dino, painter (d. 1993)
• April 23
  • Lee Miller, American photographer (d. 1977)
  • Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
• May 1 - Theodore Roszak, 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, painter (d. 1975)
• June 14 - Nicolas Bentley, British 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

• 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, 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, Germain 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)

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