James Rosenquist is an acclaimed American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. He was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota and grew up as an only child. His...
Joseph Beuys was a German artist who came to prominence in the 1960s. He is most famous for his ritualistic public performances and his energetic...
Nan Goldin is an American fine-art and documentary photographer. She is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in an...
Frederick Childe Hassam was a prominent and prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his...
Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times,...
Robert Smithson was an American artist famous for his land art. Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students...
Louise Bourgeois is an artist and sculptor. Her parents repaired tapestries. At 12, she started helping them draw the missing segments...
Hans Bellmer was an artist best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography...
Jacob Lawrence was an African American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own...
Berenice Abbott , born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the...
Kara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black...
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and printmaker, a founding member of Les Nabis. Bonnard was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses. He led a happy and careless youth as the son...
José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected...
Peter Doig is a Scottish painter. In 2008, a major retrospective of his work was held at Tate Britain and the Paris Museum of Modern Art ....
Chuck Thomas Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Though a catastrophic spinal...
Alfred Sisley was an English Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France. Sisley is recognized as perhaps the most consistent...
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was an Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. He has been...
David Hare was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively in photography...
Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of op art. Riley was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She studied...
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was a realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American...
Gerhard Richter is a German artist. Richter is considered by some critics as one of the most important German artists of the post-World War II period and is also one of the world's...
Richard Hamilton is an English painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, produced for the This Is...
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf,...
Julian Schnabel is a American artist and filmmaker. He has been acclaimed at Cannes and has won a Golden Globe, as well as BAFTA, César Award, Golden Palm and two nominations for...
Donatello was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in basso rilievo,...