William Claxton (October 12, 1927 – October 11, 2008) was an American photographer and author. Born in Pasadena, California, Claxton's works included a book of photographs of Steve McQueen...
Fritz Henle (June 9, 1909 – January 31, 1993) was a photographer, known as "Mr. Rollei" for his use of the 2.25" square format film used in the Rolleiflex camera. Henle was born in Dortmund...
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Тара́с Григо́рович Шевче́нко) (March 9 [O.S. February 25] 1814 – March 10 [O.S. February 26] 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, artist and humanist. His...
Charlie White is a Los Angeles-based artist. Los Angeles-based artist Charlie White received his BFA in 1994 from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and...
Kathryn Tucker Windham (June 2, 1918 – June 12, 2011) was an American storyteller, author, photographer, and journalist. She was born in Selma, Alabama and grew up in nearby...
Olu Oguibe is an artist and public intellectual. Professor of Art and African-American Studies and interim Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of...
Leon Underwood (born 25 December 1890 in Shepherds Bush, London, died October 9, 1975) "The precursor of modern sculpture in Britain" was a noted British sculptor, painter, draughtsman and...
James Browning Wyeth (born July 6, 1946) is a contemporary American realist painter. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He...
François Duquesnoy (January 12, 1597 – July 12, 1643) was a Baroque sculptor in Rome. His more idealized representations are often contrasted with the emotional character of Bernini's works...
Jia Lu (Simplified: 吕嘉; Traditional: 吕嘉; Pinyin: Lǚ Jiā;) is an oil painter working in America, known for blending Asian and European imagery in her paintings, predominantly of women. Jia...
Dr. Osamu Tezuka was a Japanese manga artist, animator, producer and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka...
Jenny Mollen (born May 30, 1979) is an American actress known for her portrayal of Nina Ash on the television series Angel. Mollen was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Mollen married actor Jason...
Serge Reggiani (May 2, 1922 – July 23, 2004) was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight. For...
Chantal Anne Akerman (born 6 June 1950) is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School.. Renowned for a hyperrealist style, Akerman's work seeks to...
Tobias Schneebaum (March 25, 1922 – September 20, 2005) was an American artist, anthropologist, and AIDS activist. He is best known for his experiences living, and traveling among the...
Prada, S.p.A. is an Italian fashion label specializing in luxury goods for men and women . Highly renowned, Prada is considered one of the most influential...
Edward Savage (1761–1817) was an American portrait painter and engraver. He was born in Princeton, Mass., and at first worked as a goldsmith, also practicing engraving. Although seemingly...
Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1421 – 1497) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. He is best known for a series of murals in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi depicting festive, vibrant...
Jan van Kessel (Antwerp, 1626-idem, 1679) was a Flemish painter of still lifes, who was the father of another painter with the same name Jan van Kessel, and Jan Brueghel the Elder's...
Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 – 11 January 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Among his many apprentices was Michelangelo. Ghirlandaio's full name is given as Domenico di...
Gentile Bellini (c. 1429 – February 23, 1507) was an Italian painter. Born in Venice, the son of the painter Jacopo Bellini, he was christened Gentile after Jacopo's master, Gentile da...
Peter Parnall (born May 23, 1936) is an author and artist/illustrator, best known for his work on books for younger readers. The Mountain,Alfalfa Hill, and A dog's book of Birds... His work...
Jules Ralph Feiffer is an award-wininng American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author. He is the author of numerous plays, screenplays (Carnal Knowledge, 1971,...
Rrose Sélavy, or Rose Sélavy, was one of the pseudonyms of artist Marcel Duchamp. The name, a pun, sounds like the French phrase "Eros, c'est la vie", which translates to English as "eros...
Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist, better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss (often pronounced /ˈsuːs/ or /ˈsjuːs/,...