411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
1907 in art
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
none
1907 art
Events from the year 1907 in art involved some significant events.
__TOC__
Events
February 7 – Vanessa Stephen marries Clive Bell.http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JbellV.htm Spartacus Educational – Biography of Vanessa Bell 2012-06-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20120520021507/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JbellV.htm 2012-05-20 usurped
September 11 – Camden Town Murder: London prostitute Emily Dimmock's throat is cut. On December 19, Robert Wood, an artist charged with the crime and defended by Edward Marshall Hall, is acquitted, to popular acclaim.The Argus Melbourne 1907-12-20 7 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10149942 Camden Town Murder - Remarkable Criminal Trial - Robert Wood Acquitted - A Popular Demonstration 2026-07-26 The next year, Walter Sickert paints a series of four problem pictures, The Camden Town Murder, inspired by the event.
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.Ralph Mayer The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques 5th London Faber 1991 0571150675
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
320px|thumbnail|Surenyants – Salomé
Category:1907 sculptures Category:1907 paintings
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
Gala Day at NewlynGala Day at Newlyn, Cornwall. Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857–1947) https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/gala-day-at-newlyn-cornwall-57003/search/actor:forbes-stanhope-alexander-18571947/page/3 ArtUK
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 - ''Gamine'' (en The Brat)Francesco Porzio https://www.museoborgogna.it/en/opere/francesco-porzio/ 2026-03-25 Museo Borgogna en-US
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 rootOctober 2026
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)Léonce Bénédite Great Painters of the XIXth Century and Their Paintings https://books.google.com/books?id=etcwAQAAMAAJ 1910 Sir I. Pitman and sons 298
February 11 – Christen Dalsgaard, Danish painter (born 1824)
February 14 – Adolf Seel, German painter (born 1829)Annalen des Vereins für Nassauische Alterthumskunde und Geschichtsforschung https://books.google.com/books?id=JOAVAAAAYAAJ 1908 Der Verein 130 de
March 26 – Ettore Roesler Franz, Italian painter (born 1845)
April 14 – James Clarke Hook, marine and historical painter (born 1819)Tim Barringer Hook, James Clarke 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/33968 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33968
May 5 – Şeker Ahmet Paşa, Turkish military painter (born 1841)
May 11 – Edward Kemeys, American sculptor (born 1843)National Museum of Wildlife Art http://www.wildlifeart.org/artists/artistDetails/index.php?aID=235 Edward Kemeys Biography August 26, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110921032608/http://www.wildlifeart.org/artists/artistDetails/index.php?aID=235 September 21, 2011 dead
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)https://www.nps.gov/saga/faqs.htm Saint Gaudens National Historic Site National Park Service December 14, 2013
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)Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler : von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Bd. 36, Wilhelmy - Zyzywi 1947 Verlag von E. A. Seemann Leipzig 478 https://repozytorium.biblos.pk.edu.pl/resources/37641/browse#page/488 23 February 2025 pl Repozytorium Politechniki Krakowskiej
November 20 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German Expressionist painter (born 1876; embolism)Elke Linda Buchholz Künstlerinnen Women Artists DE Munich Prestel 2003 79 978-3-79132-967-3Busch, 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.
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)
References
Category:Years of the 20th century in art
Category:1900s in art