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

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Events

  • February 7 – Vanessa Stephen marries Clive Bell.
  • 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.
  • Bernard Berenson publishes North Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
  • Cadmium Red pigment first produced, in Germany.

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

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  • 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
  • Francesco Porzio - <nowiki></nowiki>Gamine<nowiki></nowiki> (en The Brat)
  • 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

  • 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
  • Margaret Barker, British artist (d. 2003)
  • 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 – Séamus 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)
  • September 26 – Anthony Blunt, English art historian (d. 1983)
  • September 27 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (d. 1998)
  • 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 19 – Hans Liska, Austrian-born German artist (d. 1983)
  • 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)
  • 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, 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)
  • 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)

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