07/12/1917 - 01/16/2009
Andrew Newell Wyeth (1917–2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S.artists of the middle 20th century.
Claude Monet (Claude Oscar Monet)
11/14/1840 - 12/05/1926
Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of...
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08/12/1886 - 11/24/1975
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter. His large wall works in fresco helped establish...
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03/04/1756 - 07/08/1823
Sir Henry Raeburn (4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter, the first significant Scottish portraitist since the Act of Union 1707 to remain based in Scotland.
07/04/1606 - 10/04/1669
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contr...
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12/16/1866 - 12/13/1944
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.
02/24/1836 - 09/29/1910
Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) is recognized as a dominant figure in nineteenth-century American art and his era’s foremost exponent of realism. Based on direct observation, his works of the 1860s and 1870s reve...
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Jim Carroll (James Dennis Carroll)
08/01/1949 - 09/11/2009
James Dennis "Jim" Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995...
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Art Babbit (Arthur Harold Babitsky)
10/08/1907 - 03/04/1992
Arthur Harold Babitsky (October 8, 1907 – March 4, 1992), better known as Art Babbitt, was an American animator, best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company. He received over 80 awards as animation director and animator, but is most f...
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Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio daUrbino)
03/28/1483 - 04/06/1520
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Toge...
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06/06/1599 - 08/06/1660
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter . He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portrait artist. In addition to numerous ren...
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02/23/1817 - 07/01/1904
George Frederic Watts, (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement
01/07/1830 - 02/18/1902
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 - February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his large landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Wes...
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05/11/1823 - 09/24/1906
Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (11 May 1823 – 24 August 1906) was a Belgian painter
10/03/1734 - 09/29/1797
Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the...
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