1907 in art

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.
• 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.

  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

• Vladimir Baranov-Rossine – :File:WRossineSelfPortrait1907.jpg|Self-portrait
• George Bellows – :File:Bellows George Pennsylvania Station Excavation 1907.jpg|Pennsylvania Station Excavation
• Karl Bitter – Monument to General Sigel
• Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
• * Winter cycle
• * Sonata of the Spring
• * Sonata of the Sun
• * Zodiac cycle
• Robert Delaunay – :File:Delaunay -- Paysage au disque, 1906.jpg|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 – :File:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Sitzende Dame 1907-1.jpg|Sitting Woman
• Gustav Klimt
• * Danaë
• * Hope II
• * The Kiss
• * Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
• * The Sunflower
• Wilhelm Lehmbruck – :File:Lehmbruck1.jpg|Sleep
• Jacek Malczewski – :File:Malczewski Jacek Portret kobiety.jpg|Bacchante
• Henri Matisse
• * Blue Nude
• * 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 – :File:Munch death of marat I 1907.jpg|Death of Marat II
• Mikhail Nesterov – :File:Leo Tolstoy by Nesterov.jpg|Tolstoy on the shore of the pond at Yasnaya Polyana
• Pablo Picasso – Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
• Henri Rousseau – The Snake Charmer
• John Singer Sargent
• * Alpine Pool
• * :File:Lady Speyer by John Singer Sargent.jpg|Lady Speyer
• Walter Sickert –
• Charles Sims – :File:Charles Sims01.jpg|The Fountain
• Alfred Stieglitz – The Steerage
• Vardges Sureniants – :File:Суренянц, Саломея, 1907.jpg|Salomé
• 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
• Arnoldo Zocchi – Monument to the Tsar Liberator
• Mahonri Young - Statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith

  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
• 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 – Seamus 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
• * Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor
• September 26 – Anthony Blunt, English art historian
• 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 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
• 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 21
• * Paula Modersohn-Becker, German Expressionist painter
• * Balduin Wolff, German painter and chess player
• November 23 – John F. Peto, American trompe-l'œil painter
• November 27 – Paul Ritter, German architectural painter
• November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, painter and designer