1907 in art

The year 1907 in art involved some significant events.__TOC__

Events

*Vanessa Stephen marries Clive Bell.
*The Chicago Plan is produced by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, and illustrated by Jules Guerin.

Works

*Karl Bitter - "Monument to General Sigel"
*Lyonel Feininger - "Der weiße Mann"
*Wassily Kandinsky - "Riding Couple"
*Gustav Klimt
**"Hope, II"
**"The Kiss"
**"Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I"
**"The Sunflower"
*Claude Monet - "Water Lilies Giverny #3"
*Pablo Picasso - "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
*Henri Rousseau - "The Snake Charmer"

Movements

*Cubism begins to take root

Exhibitions

*First Exhibition of Lithuanian Art, Vilnius

Births

January to March

*28 February - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d.1988).

April to June

*23 April - Lee Miller, American photographer (d.1977).
*23 April - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d.1975).
*10 May - Lenore Tawney, American fiber artist (d.2007).
*22 May - Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (d.1983).
*6 June - George Rickey, American kinetic sculptor (d.2002).
*10 June - Fairfield Porter, painter (d.1975).
*14 June - Nicolas Bentley, British author and illustrator (d.1978).

July to September

*6 July - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d.1954).
*7 August - Albert Kotin, Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist artist (d.1980).
*4 September - Leo Castelli, Italian-American art dealer and gallerist (d.1999).
*5 September - Jack Sudlow, painter and photographer (d.1993).
*26 September - Anthony Blunt, English art historian (d.1983).

October to December

*5 October - Jean Louis, French costume designer (d.1997).
*8 October - Art Babbitt, American animator (d.1992).
*4 November - Henry Heerup, Danish painter and sculptor (d.1993).
*14 November - William Steig, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (d.2003).
*22 November - Dora Maar, French photographer, poet and painter, lover of Pablo Picasso (d.1997).
*28 November - Charles Alston, American artist, muralist, and teacher (d.1977).
*7 December - Abidin Dino, painter

Full date unknown

*Ilya Bolotowsky, painter (d.1981).
*Marie Z. Chino, potter and ceramic artist (d.1982).
*Acee Blue Eagle, painter and muralist (d.1959).
*Art Frahm, American pin-up and advertising artist (d.1981).
*Jon Gnagy, painter, illustrator and television art instructor (d.1981).
*Seamus Murphy, Irish sculptor (d.1975).
*Theodore Roszak, sculptor and painter (d.1981).
*Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (d.1998).

Deaths

*February 14 - Adolf Seel, German painter (b. 1829)
*November 23 - John F. Peto, painter (b. 1854)
* November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, architect (b. 1867)