Famous Artists

• Audubon, John J.

  19th century ornithologist and artist

• Balthus

  20th century French painter of The Guitar Lesson

• Bewick, Thomas

  The wood-engraver who did 'The History of British Birds'

• Blake, William

  The mystic English poet who wrote "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright"

• Bosch, Hieronymus

  The Flemish painter who did 'Garden of Earthly Delights'

• Calder, Alexander

  The abstract artist who originated the mobile

• Caravaggio

  The brawling Italian painter who did The Calling of Saint Matthew

• Cassatt, Mary

  Painter of 1891's The Bath

• Christo

  The artist who wrapped the Reichstag with fabric in 1995

• Correggio, Antonio Allegri da

  The Baroque artist who did Greek myth frescoes

• Dali, Salvador

  The surrealist artist with the curly mustache

• Da Silveira, José

  The founder of "Formism"

• David, Jacques-Louis

  Court painter of Napoleon

• Da Vinci, Leonardo

  Painter of the Mona Lisa

• Degas, Edgar

  The French painter/sculptor of ballet dancers

• Doig, Peter

  The Scottish-born Tahiti-based painter of 'The Architect's Home in the Ravine'

• Donatello

  Early Renaissance sculptor of the bronze David

• Douglas, Aaron

  The Harlem Renaissance muralist who did 'Aspects of Negro Life'

• Dürer, Albrecht

  Germany's great Renaissance illustrator and printmaker

• Eakins, Thomas

  American realist painter who did Max Schmitt in a Single Scull

• El Greco

  Late Renaissance Spanish painter

• Ernst, Max

  The surrealist artist known for collages

• Escher, M.C.

  Mind-bending artist of "Hand With Reflecting Sphere"

• Fairey, Shepard

  The graphic designer who did the Obama Hope poster

• Freud, Lucian

   The British portraitist who did Benefits Supervisor Sleeping

• Fulton, Robert

  The man who made steamships successful

• Gaugin, Paul

  The Post-Impressionist painter of Tahitian girls

• Giger, H.R.

  The designer of the Alien monster

• Goya

  Spanish painter of Maya Nude

• Grandville, J.J.

  French caricaturist during the reign of King Louis-Philippe

• Haring, Keith

  The 'Radiant Baby' graffiti artist who died of AIDS in 1990

• Hirschfeld, Al

  The longtime humorous caricaturist of Broadway stars

• Hockney, David

  British pop artist and critic

• Homer, Winslow

  The New England painter who did Breezing Up

• Hopper, Edward

  The painter of that lonely diner scene, Nighthawks

• Jeanne-Claude

  The wife and creative partner of the avant-garde artist Christo

• Johns, Jasper

  The highly-paid artist who did Flag

• Joseph, Jennifer

  The model for the latest Columbia Pictures logo

• Kahlo, Frida

  Mexico's most famous 20th-century woman artist

• Kandinsky, Wassily

  Russian-born founder of Abstract art

• Keane, Margaret

  The painter of big-eyed waifs from the 1960s

• Kinkade, Thomas

  The "Painter of Light" who became a multimillionaire businessman

• Klee, Paul

  Post-impressionist Swiss painter of The Twittering Machine

• Klimt, Gustav

  The Viennese painter of 1908's The Kiss

• Koons, Jeff

  The conceptual pop artist who did Michael Jackson and Bubbles

• Lichtenstein, Roy

   The Pop Art master who did the comic-style Whaam!

• Lin, Maya

  Designer of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.

• Manet, Edouard

  French realist who painted 1866's The Fifer

• Matisse, Henri

  French artist and leader of the Fauve movement

• Michelangelo

  Master sculptor of The David

• Miller, Frank

  The comics artist who did Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

• Miro, Joan

  Colorful Catalan abstract painter and sculptor

• Modigliani, Amedeo

  The Italian-born French artist who painted long-necked women

• Mondrian, Piet

  Dutch abstract artist with the colored rectangles

• Monet, Claude

  Impressionist painter of water lilies

• Morse, Samuel F. B.

  The telegraphic pioneer who invented Morse Code

• Mortensen, Viggo

  Aragorn in the movie series The Lord of the Rings

• Moses, Grandma

  The American folk artist who started painting in her seventies

• Munch, Edvard

   The Norwegian who painted 1893's The Scream

• O'Keeffe, Georgia

  American artist who painted flowers and cow skulls

• Ono, Yoko

  Avant-garde artist and widow of John Lennon

• Parrish, Maxfield

  1920s painter of luminous fantasy posters

• Peavy, Pauline

  The painter who channeled the spirit "Lacamo"

• Peterson, Roger Tory

  The author of Field Guide to Birds

• Picasso, Pablo

  The 20th century's most famous artist

• Pissarro, Camille

  The Impressionist who painted Montmartre's boulevards

• Pollock, Jackson

  The abstract painter who splattered his canvasses

• Raphael

  High Renaissance painter of The School of Athens

• Rembrandt

  The Dutch master known for his self-portraits

• Remington, Frederic

  Popular painter of the American west

• Rivera, Diego

  Mexican muralist and husband of artist Frida Kahlo

• Rockwell, Norman

  Cover artist for The Saturday Evening Post

• Rodin, Auguste

  The sculptor who did The Thinker

• Ross, Bob

  The fuzzy-haired public television landscape painter

• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

  Romantic poet and painter of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

• Rothko, Mark

  Abstract expressionist painter of 1958's "Black on Maroon"

• Rubens, Peter Paul

  17th century Flemish painter of the Baroque period

• Russell, Charles M.

  American cowboy artist

• Sobieski, Leelee

  She was Joan on TV in 1999's Joan of Arc

• Tanning, Dorothea

  The surrealist artist who did Birthday and was married to Max Ernst

• Titian

  Renaissance Venetian master who painted Venus of Urbino

• Van Gogh, Vincent

  The marvelous painter who cut off his own earlobe

• Vermeer, Jan

  Dutch painter of Girl With a Pearl Earring

• Warhol, Andy

  The pop artist who painted a Campbell's Soup can

• Whistler, James McNeill

  Portraitist and painter of Whistler's Mother

• Wyeth, Andrew

  The American painter who did the Helga series

• Yoshizawa, Akira

  The father of modern origami

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