1897 in art

• February 18 – Conclusion of the Benin Expedition of 1897, leading to the Benin Bronzes being carried off to London.
• April 3 – Vienna Secession founded by artists including Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil. Secession hall designed by Olbrich.
• May 1 – Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum opened in Copenhagen.
• May 27 – A Separate Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture (Wystawa osobna obrazów i rzeźb){{cite journal|title=Sztuka, Wiener Secession, Mánes: The Central European Art Triangle|journal=Artibus et Historiae|volume=27|issue=53|year=2006|first=Stefania|last=Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska|pages=217–259|doi=10.2307/20067117|jstor=20067117}} is staged at Sukiennice Museum in Main Square, Kraków.{{cite book|chapter=Making Art in the Age of Art History|location=Durham, NC|publisher=Duke University Press|title=Partisan Canons|year=2007|first=Anna|last=Brzyski|pages=257–66|isbn=978-0822340850}}
• August 4 – The "Lady of Elche" Iberian sculpture (4th century BCE) is found at L'Alcúdia near Elche in Spain.
• September – Edvard Munch stages a major retrospective in Christiania.
• October 27 – First meeting of the Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka" in Kraków.{{citation|url=http://www.artworlds.org/artworlds/DAPA/PDFs/1898%20Report%20Engl.pdf|title=Report of the Committee of the Association of Polish Artists "Sztuka" for the year 1898|publisher=Tygodnik Ilustrowany|volume=19|year=1899|page=379|accessdate=2012-11-11|author=Brzyski, Anna (transl.)|place=Warsaw|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024604/http://www.artworlds.org/artworlds/DAPA/PDFs/1898%20Report%20Engl.pdf|url-status=dead}}
• At Giverny, Claude Monet begins painting his Water Lilies series, which will continue until the end of his life.
• Elbridge Ayer Burbank begins painting portraits of Native Americans in the United States from life.
• Women photographers Zaida Ben-Yusuf and Gertrude Käsebier open portrait studios in New York City.

• A Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley is published.{{cite book|last=Souter|first=Nick|author2=Tessa|title=The Illustration Handbook: A Guide to the World's Greatest Illustrators|year=2012|publisher=Oceana|isbn=978-1-84573-473-2|page=41}}
• Vingt Dessins 1861–1896, a collection of prints by Edgar Degas.{{cite web|url=https://scalar.usc.edu/works/vingt_dessins/vingt-dessins-as-an-object|title=Vingt dessins as an Object|website=scalar.usc|access-date=24 February 2025}}
• Bernard Berenson publishes Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance.

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[[Ogata Gekkō, Ryu sho ten, from his Views of Mount Fuji|thumb|250px]]

{{See also|Category:1897 sculptures}}

• Edwin Austin Abbey – The Play Scene in Hamlet
• Philip Burne-Jones – The Vampire
• Georges Clairin – Sarah Bernhardt as the Queen in 'Ruy Blas'
• Herbert James Draper – Pot Pourri
• Roberto Ferruzzi – Madonnina
• Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Lemminkäinen's Mother
• Paul Gauguin – Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
• Ogata Gekkō – Ryu sho ten (published 1898)
• J. W. Godward – Dolce far Niente (first version)
• Jean-Jacques Henner – Portrait of Mlle Fouquier
• Jacek Malczewski – Vicious Circle
• Claude Monet
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071026210304/http://www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?classification=35809&tab=1&just=8 Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)]
• [http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/110001573 Morning on the Seine near Giverny]
• The Seine at Giverny
• Edvard Munch – The Kiss
• Camille Pissarro
• Boulevard Montmartre
• Boulevard Montmartre in Spring
• Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
• Maurice Prendergast – Summer Visitors
• Henri Rousseau – The Sleeping Gypsy
• John Singer Sargent – Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes
• Rudolf Siemering – Washington Monument, Philadelphia{{cite web|title=George Washington Monument, (sculpture)|url=https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&menu=search&index=.NW&term=IAS%2075009269 |work=Inventory of American Sculpture, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System|publisher=Smithsonian American Art Museum}}
• Henryk Siemiradzki – A Christian Dirce
• Douglas Tilden – Admission Day Monument, San Francisco
• Vasily Vereshchagin – Napoleon near Borodino
• Arthur Wardle – The Totteridge XI
• Painters under the direction of Jan Styka – Transylvania Panorama (Lwów)

• January 9 – Tyra Lundgren, Swedish painter, ceramist, glass and textile designer and writer on art (died 1979){{cite web|url=http://emp-web-84.zetcom.ch/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=artist&objectId=3334|title=Tyra Lundgren|website=Nationalmuseum (Stockholm)|access-date=July 13, 2021}}
• January 17 – Charles Ragland Bunnell, American painter (died 1968)
• January 21 – René Iché, French sculptor (died 1954)
• March 16 – Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (died 1963)
• May 2 – Adolf Hyła, Polish painter and art teacher (died 1965)
• May 21 – Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter (died 1945)
• June 3 – Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-born graphic artist (died 1960)
• June 22 – Albert Renger-Patzsch, German photographer (died 1966)
• June 26 – Victor Servranckx, Belgian painter (died 1965)
• August 19 – Roman Vishniac, Russian American photographer (died 1990){{cite book|author=Lynne Warren|title=Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31VsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1625|date=15 November 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-20536-2|pages=1625}}
• September 23 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (died 1994){{cite book|author=Paul Delvaux|title=Paul Delvaux 1897-1994: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PURQAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Blondé Artprinting International|page=308}}
• October 27 – Lena Gurr, American painter and lithographer (died 1992)
• November 5 – Hilda Vīka, Latvian painter (died 1963)

• February 7 – Charles Edward Boutibonne, French Classicist painter (born 1816)
• February 9 – George Price Boyce, English Pre-Raphaelite watercolour landscape painter (born 1826){{cite book|author1=Stephen Wildman|author2=Jan Marsh|author3=John Christian|title=Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V300AQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Art Services International|isbn=978-0-88397-113-0|page=335}}
• March 21 – Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter (born 1864)
• May 20 – Jacques Émile Édouard Brandon, French artist (born 1831)
• June 7 – Victor Mottez, French fresco and portrait painter (born 1809)
• September 8 – James Milo Griffith, Welsh sculptor (born 1843){{cite book|title=The Cambrian|url=https://archive.org/details/cambrian01unkngoog|year=1898|publisher=T.J. Griffiths|page=[https://archive.org/details/cambrian01unkngoog/page/n196 185]}}
• September 20 – Louis Pierre Mouillard, French artist and aviation pioneer (born 1834){{cite book|author=Pierre Lecomte du Noüy|title=Between Knowing and Believing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCgmAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=McKay|page=173}}
• October 5 – Sir John Gilbert, English painter (born 1817){{cite EB1911|wstitle=Gilbert, Sir John}}
• October 8 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian landscape painter (born 1830)
• November 18 – Henry Doulton, English potter (born 1820){{cite book|author=George Woolliscroft Rhead|title=British Pottery Marks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaZpAAAAMAAJ|year=1910|publisher=Scott, Greenwood|page=115}}
• November 29 – Félix Pissarro, French-born painter, TB (born 1874)
• December 30 – Edward La Trobe Bateman, English-born Pre-Raphaelite watercolour painter, book illuminator, draughtsman and garden designer (born 1816){{cite web|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bateman-edward-la-trobe-2951|title=Bateman, Edward La Trobe (1815–1897)|website=Australian Dictionary of Biography|author=Daniel Thomas|access-date=July 13, 2021}}
• date unknown – Jang Seung-eop ('Owon'), Korean painter (born 1843){{cite book|title=Korea Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9d6_2yZ_4ooC|year=1978|publisher=Korean National Commission for UNESCO|page=41}}

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