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Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings ...
Edvard Munch ( / mʊŋk / MUUNK, [ 1] Norwegian: [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmʊŋk] ⓘ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family.
Portal:Visual arts/Selected biography/16. Maria Dulębianka (21 October 1861 – 7 March 1919) was a Polish artist and activist. Born into a family of landed gentry, she attended finishing school in Kraków and then studied art in Warsaw and in Vienna and Paris. Her work was recognized in the 1900 Paris Exposition and her Studium dziewczyny ...
Edward Hopper. Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter and printmaker. He is one of America's most renowned artists and known for his skill in capturing American life and landscapes through his art. Born in Nyack, New York, to a middle-class family, Hopper's early exposure to art was nurtured by his parents.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol [a] gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (/ ˈ d ɑː l i, d ɑː ˈ l iː / DAH-lee, dah-LEE, [1] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli], Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), [b] was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre ...
Portal:Biography/Selected biography arts/2. Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) was an Irish -born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country. A largely self-educated artist, Kane grew up in Toronto (then known as York) and trained ...
Piano. Years active. 1921–1950. James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson (December 18, 1897 – December 29, 1952) [ 1] was an American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music. He was one of the most prolific black musical arrangers and, along with Duke Ellington, is considered one of ...
Amy Sherald (born August 30, 1973) [ 1] is an American painter. She works mostly as a portraitist depicting African Americans in everyday settings. Her style is simplified realism, involving staged photographs of her subjects. [ 2] Since 2012, her work has used grisaille to portray skin tones, a choice she describes as intended to challenge ...