1907 in art

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The year 1907 in art involved some significant events.

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)
• May 1 - Theodore Roszak, sculptor and painter (d.1981)
• 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).
• 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)