1907 in art
Events from the year 1907 in art involved some significant events.
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
- 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
- Wassily Kandinsky – Das Bunte Leben
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Sitting Woman
- Gustav Klimt
- * Danaë
- * Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
- * The Sunflower
- * Water Serpents II
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Sleep
- 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
- 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
- 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
Movements
- Cubism begins to take root
Exhibitions
Births
January to June
- January 13 – Jon Gnagy, American painter, illustrator and television art instructor
- February 4 – James McIntosh Patrick, Scottish landscape painter
- February 28 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist
- March 10 – Toni Frissell, American photographer
- March 23 – Abidin Dino, Turkish-born painter
- April 23
- * Lee Miller, American photographer
- * Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor
- May 1 – Theodore Roszak, Polish-American sculptor and painter
- May 10 – Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist
- May 22 – Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist
- June 6 – George Rickey, American kinetic sculptor
- June 10 – Fairfield Porter, American painter
- June 14 – Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator
July to December
- July 1 – Ilya Bolotowsky, Russian-born American painter
- July 6 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
- July 15 – Séamus Murphy, Irish sculptor
- July 27 – Petar Lubarda, Serbian painter
- August 5 – Robert George Irwin, American sculptor and spree killer
- August 7 – Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist
- August 17 – Acee Blue Eagle, Native American painter and muralist
- August 30 – Leonor Fini, Argentinian surrealist painter
- September 4 – Leo Castelli, Italian-American art dealer and gallerist
- September 26 – Anthony Blunt, English art historian
- September 27 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor
- October 5 – Jean Louis, French costume designer
- October 8 – Art Babbitt, American animator
- October 21 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet
- November 1 – Terence Cuneo, English railway and military painter
- November 4 – Henry Heerup, Danish painter and sculptor
- November 14 – William Steig, American cartoonist, sculptor and author
- November 19 – Hans Liska, Austrian-born German artist
- November 22 – Dora Maar, French photographer, poet and painter, lover of Pablo Picasso
- November 28 – Charles Alston, American artist, muralist and teacher.
Full date unknown
- Marie Z. Chino, potter and ceramic artist
- Art Frahm, American pin-up and advertising artist
Deaths
- January 8 – Theodoor Verstraete, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker
- February 11 – Christen Dalsgaard, Danish painter
- February 14 – Adolf Seel, German painter
- March 26 – Ettore Roesler Franz, Italian painter
- April 14 – James Clarke Hook, marine and historical painter
- May 5 – Şeker Ahmet Paşa, Turkish military painter
- May 11 – Edward Kemeys, American sculptor
- May 18 – Bernhard Plockhorst, German painter and graphic artist
- June 14 – Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Italian neo-impressionist painter
- June 16 – Robert Taylor Pritchett, British gun manufacturer, artist and illustrator. Pritchett illustrated Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle
- July 16 – Théobald Chartran, French propaganda painter
- August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American Beaux-Arts sculptor
- October 4 – Alfredo Keil, Portuguese romantic composer and painter
- October 30 – Đorđe Krstić, Serbian Realist painter
- November 10 – Alexander Zick, German painter and illustrator
- November 20 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German Expressionist painter
- November 21 Balduin Wolff, German painter and chess player
- November 23 – John F. Peto, American trompe-l'œil painter
- November 26 – Mario Raggi, Italian sculptor
- November 27 – Paul Ritter, German architectural painter
- November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, painter and designer