1907 in art

• 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 (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) • 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 root ==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) • February 11 – Christen Dalsgaard, Danish painter (born 1824) • February 14 – Adolf Seel, German painter (born 1829) • March 26 – Ettore Roesler Franz, Italian painter (born 1845) • April 14 – James Clarke Hook, marine and historical painter (born 1819) • May 5 – Şeker Ahmet Paşa, Turkish military painter (born 1841) • May 11 – Edward Kemeys, American sculptor (born 1843) • 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) • 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) • November 20 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German Expressionist painter (born 1876; embolism) • 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==