1907 in art
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Events from the year 1907 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- February 7 â Vanessa Stephen marries Clive Bell.[1]
- September â 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.
- Bernard Berenson publishes North Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
- Cadmium Red pigment first produced, in Germany.[2]
Exhibitions
- October 1â27 â 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 â A Rose
- Vladimir Baranov-Rossine â Self-portrait
- George Bellows â Pennsylvania Station Excavation
- Karl Bitter â Monument to General Sigel
- Solon Borglum â Statue of John Brown Gordon
- Georges Braque â The Viaduct at L'Estaque
- Robert Delaunay â Still Life with a Parrot
- Gustaf Fjæstad â Winter Evening by a River
- Stanhope Forbes â After a Day's Work
- J. W. Godward â The Love Letter
- Ivan Grohar â The Sower
- Bernhard Hoetger â Tomb of Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede churchyard
- Adrian Jones â Equestrian statue of the Duke of Cambridge, Whitehall (London)
- Wassily Kandinsky â Das Bunte Leben
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner â Sitting Woman (Dodo)
- Gustav Klimt
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck â Sleep (sculpture)
- Jacek Malczewski â Bacchante
- Henri Matisse
- Jean Metzinger
- Piet Mondrian â The Red Cloud
- Claude Monet â 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 â Tolstoy on the shore of the pond at Yasnaya Polyana
- Frederic Remington â Fired On
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir â Gabrielle with Open Blouse
- Pablo Picasso â Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
- Francesco Porzio - ''Gamine'' (en The Brat)[3]
- Henri Rousseau
- John Singer Sargent
- Walter Sickert â Jack the Ripper's Bedroom
- Paul Signac â The Port of Marseille
- Charles Sims â The Fountain
- JoaquÃn Sorolla â Maria at La Granja
- Léon Spilliaert â Self-Portrait with a Blue Sketchbook
- Alfred Stieglitz â The Steerage (photograph)
- Vardges Sureniants â Salomé
- Edmund C. Tarbell â Preparing for the Matinee
- Félix Vallotton
- J. W. Waterhouse â Jason and Medea
- Mahonri Young â Statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
- Arnoldo Zocchi â 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 â Jon Gnagy, American painter, illustrator and television art instructor (d. 1981)
- February 4 â James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter (d. 1998)
- February 28 â Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- March 10 â Toni Frissell, American photographer (d. 1988)
- March 23 â Abidin Dino, Turkish-born painter (d. 1993)
- April 23
- Lee Miller, American photographer (d. 1977)
- Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
- May 1 â Theodore Roszak, Polish-American sculptor and painter (d. 1981)
- May 10 â Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist (d. 2007)
- May 22 â Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (d. 1983)
- June 6
- Margaret Barker, British artist (d. 2003)
- George Rickey, American kinetic sculptor (d. 2002)
- June 10 â Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
- June 14 â Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (d. 1978)
July to December
- July 1 â Ilya Bolotowsky, Russian-born American painter (d. 1981)
- July 6 â Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
- July 15 â Séamus Murphy, Irish sculptor (d. 1975)
- July 27 â Petar Lubarda, Serbian painter (d. 1974)
- August 5 â Robert George Irwin, American sculptor and spree killer (d. 1975)
- August 7 â Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist (d. 1980)
- August 17 â Acee Blue Eagle, Native American painter and muralist (d. 1959)
- August 30 â Leonor Fini, Argentinian surrealist painter (d. 1996)
- September 4 â Leo Castelli, Italian-American art dealer and gallerist (d. 1999)
- September 26 â Anthony Blunt, English art historian (d. 1983)
- September 27 â Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (d. 1998)
- October 5 â Jean Louis, French costume designer (d. 1997)
- October 8 â Art Babbitt, American animator (d. 1992)
- October 21 â Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
- November 1 â Terence Cuneo, English railway and military painter (d. 1996)
- November 4 â Henry Heerup, Danish painter and sculptor (d. 1993)
- November 14 â William Steig, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (d. 2003)
- November 19 â Hans Liska, Austrian-born German artist (d. 1983)
- November 22 â Dora Maar, French photographer, poet and painter, lover of Pablo Picasso (d. 1997)
- November 28 â 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 â Theodoor Verstraete, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (born 1850)[4]
- February 11 â Christen Dalsgaard, Danish painter (born 1824)
- February 14 â Adolf Seel, German painter (born 1829)[5]
- March 26 â Ettore Roesler Franz, Italian painter (born 1845)
- April 14 â James Clarke Hook, marine and historical painter (born 1819)[6]
- May 5 â Åeker Ahmet PaÅa, Turkish military painter (born 1841)
- May 11 â Edward Kemeys, American sculptor (born 1843)
- May 18 â Bernhard Plockhorst, German painter and graphic artist (born 1825)
- June 14 â Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Italian neo-impressionist painter (born 1868)
- June 16 â Robert Taylor Pritchett, British gun manufacturer, artist and illustrator. Pritchett illustrated Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle (born in 1828)
- July 16 â Théobald Chartran, French propaganda painter (born 1849)
- August 3 â Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American Beaux-Arts sculptor (born 1848)
- October 4 â Alfredo Keil, Portuguese romantic composer and painter (born 1850)
- October 30 â ÄorÄe KrstiÄ, Serbian Realist painter (born 1851)
- November 10 â Alexander Zick, German painter and illustrator (born 1845)
- November 20 â Paula Modersohn-Becker, German Expressionist painter (born 1876; embolism)[7][8]
- November 21 Balduin Wolff, German painter and chess player (born 1819)
- November 23 â John F. Peto, American trompe-l'Åil painter (born 1854)
- November 26 â Mario Raggi, Italian sculptor (born 1821)
- November 27 â Paul Ritter, German architectural painter (born 1829)
- November 28 â StanisÅaw WyspiaÅski, Polish dramatist, painter and designer (born 1869)