Editing 1877 in art (section)

==Events==
* January – [[Claude Monet]] begins a series of paintings of the [[Gare Saint-Lazare]] in Paris.
* April – Third "Exhibition of [[Impressionist]]s" arranged by [[Gustave Caillebotte]] at 6 rue Le Peletier in Paris.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Impressionist Exhibitions in Paris (1874–86)|url=http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/impressionist-exhibitions-paris.htm|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Art History|accessdate=2015-06-17}}</ref> 
* [[May 1]] – The [[Grosvenor Gallery]] in London opens to the public with an exhibition of paintings created over the past featuring [[Edward Burne-Jones]]'s ''Days of Creation'', ''[[The Beguiling of Merlin]]'' and ''[http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/edward-burne-jones/the-mirror-of-venus-1875 The Mirror of Venus]'' and [[James McNeill Whistler]]'s ''[[Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket]]''. On [[July 2]], English art critic [[John Ruskin]]'s review in ''[[Fors Clavigera]]'' praises Burne-Jones but of Whistler says he "never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face" provoking a charge of [[libel]].
* Summer – [[Frederic Leighton]] exhibits his bronze ''[[Athlete Wrestling with a Python]]'' at the [[Royal Academy of Arts]] in London, inaugurating a renaissance in contemporary British sculpture which becomes known as the [[New Sculpture]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Gosse|first=Edmund|authorlink=Edmund Gosse|year=1894|title=The New Sculpture: 1879–1894|journal=[[The Art Journal]]|location=London|volume=56|pages=138–42, 199–203, 277–82, 306–11}}</ref>
* [[September 6]] – The [[Walker Art Gallery]] in [[Liverpool]], England, is opened.