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Events from the year 1907 in art involved some significant events.
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
- Thomas Anshutz – A Rose
- Vladimir Baranov-Rossine – Self-portrait
- George Bellows – Pennsylvania Station Excavation
- Karl Bitter – Monument to General Sigel
- Solon Borglum – Statue of John Brown Gordon
- Georges Braque – The Viaduct at L'Estaque
- Robert Delaunay – Still Life with a Parrot
- 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 – Das Bunte Leben
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Sitting Woman (Dodo)
- Gustav Klimt
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Sleep (sculpture)
- Jacek Malczewski – Bacchante
- Henri Matisse
- Jean Metzinger
- Piet Mondrian – The Red Cloud
- Claude Monet – many works in the Water Lilies series
- 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
- Frederic Remington – Fired On
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Gabrielle with Open Blouse
- Pablo Picasso – Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
- Henri Rousseau
- John Singer Sargent
- Walter Sickert – Jack the Ripper's Bedroom
- Paul Signac – The Port of Marseille
- Charles Sims – The Fountain
- Joaquín Sorolla – Maria at La Granja
- Léon Spilliaert – Self-Portrait with a Blue Sketchbook
- Alfred Stieglitz – The Steerage (photograph)
- Vardges Sureniants – Salomé
- Edmund C. Tarbell – Preparing for the Matinee
- Félix Vallotton
- J. W. Waterhouse – Jason and Medea
- Mahonri Young – Statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
- Arnoldo Zocchi – Monument to the Tsar Liberator (Sofia)
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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)[3]
- February 11 – Christen Dalsgaard, Danish painter (born 1824)
- February 14 – Adolf Seel, German painter (born 1829)[4]
- March 26 – Ettore Roesler Franz, Italian painter (born 1845)
- April 14 – James Clarke Hook, marine and historical painter (born 1819)[5]
- 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)
- June 16 – Robert Taylor Pritchett, British gun manufacturer, artist and illustrator. Pritchett illustrated Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle (born in 1828)
- 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 20 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German Expressionist painter (born 1876; embolism)[6][7]
- November 21 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)
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.
- ↑ Léonce Bénédite (1910). Great Painters of the XIXth Century and Their Paintings. Sir I. Pitman and sons. p. 298.
- ↑ Annalen des Vereins für Nassauische Alterthumskunde und Geschichtsforschung (in German). Der Verein. 1908. p. 130.
- ↑ Tim Barringer (2004). "Hook, James Clarke". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33968. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Buchholz, Elke Linda (2003). Künstlerinnen [Women Artists] (in German). Munich: Prestel. p. 79. ISBN 978-3-79132-967-3.
- ↑ Busch, Günter; von Reinken, Liselotte (1983). Wensinger, Arthur S. (ed.). Paula Modersohn-Becker The Letters and Journals. New York, NY USA: Taplinger Publishing. ISBN 0-8008-6264-3.