1907 in art

Overview of the events of 1907 in art

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Events from the year 1907 in art involved some significant events.

## Events

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* 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

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* 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

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Surenyants – Salomé

See also: Category:1907 sculptures and Category:1907 paintings

* 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
* Danaë
* Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
* The Sunflower
* Water Serpents II
* Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Sleep (sculpture)
* Jacek Malczewski – Bacchante
* Henri Matisse
* Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)
* Madras Rouge
* Jean Metzinger
* Colored Landscape with Aquatic Birds
* Les Ibis
* 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
* The Repast of the Lion
* The Snake Charmer
* John Singer Sargent
* Alpine Pool
* Portrait of Lady Sassoon
* Lady Speyer
* 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
* Portrait of Gertrude Stein
* Three Women and a Little Girl Playing in the Water
* J. W. Waterhouse – Jason and Medea
* Mahonri Young – Statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
* Arnoldo Zocchi – Monument to the Tsar Liberator (Sofia)

## Movements

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* Cubism begins to take root

## Exhibitions

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* First Exhibition of Lithuanian Art, Vilnius

## Births

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### January to June

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* 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

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* 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

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* Marie Z. Chino, potter and ceramic artist (d. 1982)
* Art Frahm, American pin-up and advertising artist (d. 1981)

## Deaths

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* 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

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1. ^ "Spartacus Educational – Biography of Vanessa Bell". Archived from the original on 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
2. ^ Mayer, Ralph (1991). The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques (5th ed.). London: Faber. ISBN 0571150675.
3. ^ Léonce Bénédite (1910). Great Painters of the XIXth Century and Their Paintings. Sir I. Pitman and sons. p. 298.
4. ^ Annalen des Vereins für Nassauische Alterthumskunde und Geschichtsforschung (in German). Der Verein. 1908. p. 130.
5. ^ Tim Barringer (2004). "Hook, James Clarke". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33968. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. ^ Buchholz, Elke Linda (2003). Künstlerinnen [Women Artists] (in German). Munich: Prestel. p. 79\. ISBN 978-3-79132-967-3.
7. ^ 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.

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