Editing 1907 in art

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Events from the year '''1907 in art''' involved some significant events.
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==Events==
* [[February 7]] – [[Vanessa Bell|Vanessa Stephen]] marries [[Clive Bell]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JbellV.htm |title=Spartacus Educational – Biography of Vanessa Bell |access-date=2012-06-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120520021507/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JbellV.htm |archive-date=2012-05-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* September – A cast of [[G. F. Watts]]' sculpture ''[[Physical Energy (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 [[Burnham Plan of Chicago|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.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ralph|last=Mayer|title=The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques|edition=5th|location=London|publisher=Faber|year=1991|isbn=0571150675}}</ref>

==Exhibitions==
* October 1–27 – Salon d'Automne, Paris. Georges Braque exhibits ''Viaduc à l'Estaque'', a [[Proto-Cubism|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==
[[File:Vardges Surenyants Salome.jpg|320px|thumbnail|Surenyants – ''Salomé'']]
{{See also|Category:1907 sculptures|Category:1907 paintings}}

* [[Thomas Pollock Anshutz|Thomas Anshutz]] – ''[[A Rose]]''
* [[Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné|Vladimir Baranov-Rossine]] – ''[[:File:Vladimir Baranov-Rossine - Self-Portrait (1).jpg|Self-portrait]]''
* [[George Bellows]] – ''[[:File:Bellows George Pennsylvania Station Excavation 1907.jpg|Pennsylvania Station Excavation]]''
* [[Karl Bitter]] – ''[[:File:Franz Sigel Dec jeh.JPG|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]] – ''[[:File:Gustaf Fjæstad - Winter Evening by a River - NM 1703 - Nationalmuseum.jpg|Winter Evening by a River]]''
* [[Stanhope Forbes]] – ''[[:File:Stanhope Forbes - After a Days Work 1907.jpg|After a Day's Work]]''
* [[John William Godward|J. W. Godward]] – ''[[:File:John William Godward - The Love Letter, 1907.jpg|The Love Letter]]''
* [[Ivan Grohar]] – ''[[The Sower (Grohar)|The Sower]]''
* [[Bernhard Hoetger]] – Tomb of [[Paula Modersohn-Becker]] in [[Zion's Church (Worpswede)#The churchyard|Worpswede churchyard]]
* [[Adrian Jones (sculptor)|Adrian Jones]] – [[Equestrian statue of the Duke of Cambridge|Equestrian statue of the Duke of Cambridge, Whitehall]] (London)
* [[Wassily Kandinsky]] ''– [[Das Bunte Leben]]''
* [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]] – ''[[:File:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Sitzende Dame (Dodo) 1907-1.jpg|Sitting Woman (Dodo)]]''
* [[Gustav Klimt]]
** ''[[Danaë (Klimt)|Danaë]]''
** ''[[Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I]]''
** ''[[:File:Sunflower - Gustav Klimt.jpg|The Sunflower]]''
** ''[[Water Serpents II]]''
* [[Wilhelm Lehmbruck]] – ''[[:File:Lehmbruck1.jpg|Sleep]]'' (sculpture)
* [[Jacek Malczewski]] – ''[[:File:Malczewski Jacek Portret kobiety.jpg|Bacchante]]''
* [[Henri Matisse]]
** ''[[Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)]]''
** ''[[Madras Rouge]]''
* [[Jean Metzinger]]
** ''[[Colored Landscape with Aquatic Birds]]''
** ''[[:File:Les Ibis Metzinger.jpg|Les Ibis]]''
* [[Piet Mondrian]] – [[The Red Cloud (Mondrian)|''The Red Cloud'']]
* [[Claude Monet]] – many works in the ''[[Water Lilies (Monet series)|Water Lilies]]'' ''series''
* [[Edvard Munch]]
** ''[[:File:Munch death of marat I 1907.jpg|Death of Marat I]]'' and ''[[:File:Edvard Munch - The Death of Marat II - Google Art Project.jpg|II]]''
** ''[[:File:Edvard Munch - Jealousy - Google Art Project.jpg|Jealousy]]''
** ''[[The Sick Child (Munch)|The Sick Child]]'' ([[:File:Edvard Munch The Sick Child Thielska 289.tif|3rd]] and [[:File:Edvard Munch - The sick child (1907) - Tate Modern.jpg|4th]] painted versions)
* [[Mikhail Nesterov]] – ''[[:File:Leo Tolstoy by Nesterov.jpg|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 (Rousseau)|''The Snake Charmer'']]
* [[John Singer Sargent]]
** ''[[Alpine Pool]]''
** ''[[:File:John Singer Sargent - Portrait of Lady Sassoon.jpg|Portrait of Lady Sassoon]]''
** ''[[:File:Lady Speyer by John Singer Sargent.jpg|Lady Speyer]]''
* [[Walter Sickert]] – ''[[Jack the Ripper's Bedroom]]''
* [[Paul Signac]] – ''[[The Port of Marseille]]''
* [[Charles Sims (painter)|Charles Sims]] – ''[[:File:Charles Sims01.jpg|The Fountain]]''
* [[Joaquín Sorolla]] – ''[[Maria at La Granja]]''
* [[Léon Spilliaert]] – ''[[Self-Portrait with a Blue Sketchbook]]''
* [[Alfred Stieglitz]] – ''[[The Steerage]]'' (photograph)
* [[Vardges Sureniants]] – ''[[:File:Суренянц, Саломея, 1907.jpg|Salomé]]''
* [[Edmund C. Tarbell]] – ''[[Preparing for the Matinee]]''
* [[Félix Vallotton]]
** ''[[:File:Félix Valloton, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1907.jpg|Portrait of Gertrude Stein]]''
** ''[[:File:Vallotton 3 Women 1907.jpg|Three Women and a Little Girl Playing in the Water]]''
* [[J. W. Waterhouse]] – ''[[Jason and Medea (painting)|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]], [[Americans|American]] painter, illustrator and television art instructor (d. [[1981 in art|1981]])
* [[February 4]] – [[James McIntosh Patrick]], [[Scotland|Scottish]] landscape painter (d. [[1998 in art|1998]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Milton Caniff]], American [[cartoonist]] (d. [[1988 in art|1988]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Toni Frissell]], American photographer (d. 1988)
* [[March 23]] – [[Abidin Dino]], [[Turkey|Turkish]]-born painter (d. [[1993 in art|1993]])
* [[April 23]]
** [[Lee Miller]], American [[Photography|photographer]] (d. [[1977 in art|1977]])
** [[Fritz Wotruba]], [[Austria]]n sculptor (d. [[1975 in art|1975]])
* [[May 1]] – [[Theodore Roszak (artist)|Theodore Roszak]], Polish-American sculptor and painter (d. [[1981 in art|1981]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Lenore Tawney]], American [[fiber art]]ist (d. [[2007 in art|2007]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Hergé]], [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[comics]] [[writer]] and [[artist]] (d. [[1983 in art|1983]])
* [[June 6]] – [[George Rickey]], American [[kinetic sculpture|kinetic sculptor]] (d. [[2002 in art|2002]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Fairfield Porter]], American painter (d. [[1975 in art|1975]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Nicolas Bentley]], [[English people|English]] [[author]] and [[illustrator]] (d. [[1978 in art|1978]])

===July to December===
* [[July 1]] – [[Ilya Bolotowsky]], [[Russia]]n-born [[United States|American]] painter (d. [[1981 in art|1981]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Frida Kahlo]], [[Mexico|Mexican]] painter (d. [[1954 in art|1954]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Seamus Murphy]], [[Ireland|Irish]] sculptor (d. [[1975 in art|1975]])
* [[July 27]] – [[Petar Lubarda]], [[Serbian people|Serbian]] painter (d. [[1974 in art|1974]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Robert George Irwin]], American sculptor and spree killer (d. [[1975 in art|1975]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Albert Kotin]], [[Russia]]n-born [[United States|American]] [[Abstract Expressionist]] artist (d. [[1980 in art|1980]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Acee Blue Eagle]], Native American painter and muralist (d. [[1959 in art|1959]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Leonor Fini]], Argentinian surrealist painter (d. [[1996 in art|1996]])
* [[September 4]]
** [[Leo Castelli]], [[Italy|Italian]]-[[United States|American]] art dealer and gallerist (d. [[1999 in art|1999]])
** [[Zhang Chongren]], [[China|Chinese]] artist and sculptor (d. [[1998 in art|1998]])
* [[September 26]] – [[Anthony Blunt]], [[England|English]] [[art historian]] (d. [[1983 in art|1983]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Jean Louis]], [[France|French]] costume designer (d. [[1997 in France|1997]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Art Babbitt]], [[United States|American]] [[animator]] (d. [[1992 in art|1992]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Nikos Engonopoulos]], Greek painter and poet (d. [[1985 in art|1985]])
* [[November 1]] – [[Terence Cuneo]], English railway and military painter (d. [[1996 in art|1996]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Henry Heerup]], [[Denmark|Danish]] painter and sculptor (d. [[1993 in art|1993]])
* [[November 14]] – [[William Steig]], American [[cartoonist]], sculptor and author (d. [[2003 in art|2003]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Dora Maar]], French [[photographer]], [[poet]] and painter, lover of [[Pablo Picasso]] (d. [[1997 in art|1997]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Charles Alston]], American [[artist]], [[muralist]] and [[teacher]] (d. [[1977 in art|1977]]).

===Full date unknown===
* [[Marie Z. Chino]], potter and ceramic artist (d. [[1982 in art|1982]])
* [[Art Frahm]], [[United States|American]] pin-up and advertising artist (d. [[1981 in art|1981]])

==Deaths==
* [[January 8]] – [[Theodoor Verstraete]], Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (born [[1850 in art|1850]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Léonce Bénédite|title=Great Painters of the XIXth Century and Their Paintings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etcwAQAAMAAJ|year=1910|publisher=Sir I. Pitman and sons|page=298}}</ref>
* [[February 11]] – [[Christen Dalsgaard]], Danish painter (born [[1824 in art|1824]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Adolf Seel]], German painter (born [[1829 in art|1829]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Annalen des Vereins für Nassauische Alterthumskunde und Geschichtsforschung|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOAVAAAAYAAJ|year=1908|publisher=Der Verein|page=130|language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] – [[Ettore Roesler Franz]], Italian painter (born [[1845 in art|1845]])
* [[April 14]] – [[James Clarke Hook]], marine and historical painter (born [[1819 in art|1819]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|author=Tim Barringer|title='''Hook''', James Clarke|date=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33968 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33968}}</ref> 
* [[May 5]] – [[Şeker Ahmet Paşa]], Turkish military painter (born [[1841 in art|1841]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Edward Kemeys]], American sculptor (born [[1843 in art|1843]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Bernhard Plockhorst]], German painter and graphic artist (born [[1825 in art|1825]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo]], Italian neo-impressionist painter (born [[1868 in art|1868]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Robert Taylor Pritchett]], British gun manufacturer, artist and illustrator. Pritchett illustrated [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]'s ''[[The Voyage of the Beagle]]'' (born in [[1828 in art|1828]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Théobald Chartran]], French propaganda painter (born [[1849 in art|1849]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]], American Beaux-Arts sculptor (born [[1848 in art|1848]])
* [[October 4]] – [[Alfredo Keil]], Portuguese romantic composer and painter (born [[1850 in art|1850]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Đorđe Krstić]], Serbian [[Realism (arts)|Realist]] painter (born [[1851 in art|1851]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Alexander Zick]], German painter and illustrator (born [[1845 in art|1845]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Paula Modersohn-Becker]], German Expressionist painter (born [[1876 in art|1876]]; embolism)<ref>{{cite book|first=Elke Linda|last=Buchholz|title=Künstlerinnen|trans-title=Women Artists|language=DE|location=Munich|publisher=Prestel|year=2003|page=79|isbn=978-3-79132-967-3}}</ref><ref>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.</ref> 
* [[November 21]] [[Balduin Wolff]], German painter and chess player (born [[1819 in art|1819]])
* [[November 23]] – [[John F. Peto]], American trompe-l'œil painter (born [[1854 in art|1854]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Mario Raggi]], Italian sculptor (born [[1821 in art|1821]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Paul Ritter (painter)|Paul Ritter]], German architectural painter (born [[1829 in art|1829]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Stanisław Wyspiański]], [[Polish people|Polish]] dramatist, painter and designer (born [[1869 in art|1869]])

==References==
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