1897 in art

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Works

Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
1897, oil on canvas
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

Ogata Gekkō's Ryu sho ten, from his Views of Mount Fuji.

See also: Category:1897 paintings

• Paul Gauguin - Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
• Jean-Jacques Henner - Portrait of Mlle Fouquier
• Camille Pissarro - Boulevard Montmartre
• Maurice Prendergast - Summer Visitors
• Ogata Gekkō - Ryu sho ten (Published 1898)

Births

• 17 January - Charles Ragland Bunnell, painter.
• 21 January - René Iché, sculptor.
• 16 March - Antonio Donghi, painter.
• 22 June - Albert Renger-Patzsch, photographer.
• 26 June - Victor Servranckx, painter.
• 19 August - Roman Vishniac, Russian American photographer (d.1990).
• 23 September - Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (d.1994).

Deaths

• June 7 - Victor Mottez, French fresco and portrait painter (b. 1809)
• October 5 - Sir John Gilbert, painter (b. 1817)
• November 18 Henry Doulton, potter (b. 1820)
• date unknown
  • Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter (b. 1864)
  • Charles Edward Boutibonne, French Classicist painter (b. 1816)
  • Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (b. 1843)