1907 in art

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The year 1907 in art involved some significant events.

Events

• February 7 – Vanessa Stephen marries Clive Bell.^[1]
• 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

• 1–27 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.^[3]

• 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
• Adrian Jones – Equestrian statue of the Duke of Cambridge, Whitehall
• Wassily Kandinsky – Riding Couple
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Sitting Woman (Dodo)
• 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
  • Paysage coloré aux oiseaux aquatique
  • 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
• John Singer Sargent – Lady Speyer
• Walter Sickert – The Juvenile Lead: Self-portrait
• Charles Sims – The Fountain
• 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, 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 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, 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

• 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)
• 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, German 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)

References

1. Spartacus Educational – Biography of Vanessa Bell
2. Mayer, Ralph (1991). The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques (5th ed.). London: Faber. ISBN 0571150675.
3. Cooper, Douglas (1970). The Cubist Epoch. London: Phaidon. p. 24. ISBN 0-87587-041-4.