American Artists

20th-century
photographer known for black-and-white photographs of the U.S. West, especially
national parks such as Yosemite in California

19th-20th century Haitian-born American ornithologist and
illustrator noted for his bird drawings and paintings in his work The Birds of
America

Missouri-born artist of the 1920s and 1930s who along with
John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood emphasized regionalism, depicting particular
American locales

and their people, including sharecroppers, miners, politicians,
and subway riders— his American Today helped revive mural painting in the U.S.

19th-century
painter of landscape scenes known for Fur Traders Descending the Missouri and
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap

19th-20th
century sculptor who had almost completed the Mount Rushmore memorial when he
died

19th-century Italian-born American artist best known for the U.S. Capitol rotunda fresco
featuring George Washington along with 13 maidens

20th-century sculptor known for his stabiles (large
stationary abstract pieces) and mobiles (abstract pieces that move in the
wind)

19th-20th century artist known for her impressionist paintings of women and children, such as Mother and Child, The Bath, and Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

19th-century English-born American who founded the Hudson River School of landscape painting and is known for his series of 5 canvases entitled The
Course of Empire and for his series of 4 paintings entitled The Voyage of Life

18th-19th century artist considered North America’s first great portrait painter and known for such paintings as Watson and the Shark, Death of the Earl of Chatham, and Boy With a Squirrel

Famous pair of 19th-century lithographers known for their colored prints of typical American life and having the given names Nathaniel and James Merritt

20th-century Dutch-born American abstract expressionist known for his Woman series of oil and pastel paintings on huge canvases

19th-20th century sculptor known for The Minute Man statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and for the Abraham Lincoln statue inside the Lincoln Memorial

20th-century Armenian-born American abstract expressionist who painted The Liver Is the Cock’s Comb

18th-19th century folk painter with Quaker religious beliefs who is best known for about 100 versions of his painting The Peaceable Kingdom

19th-20th century artist best known for his seascapes, such as The Gulf Stream, Breaking Storm, and The Hurricane

20th-century artist known for his stark, realistic paintings of New York City and New England expressing loneliness and isolation, as in Nighthawks and Cape Cod Evening

20th-century abstract expressionist whose paintings depict numbers, targets, a U.S. map, and the American flag, as in the painting Flag on an Orange Field

20th-century black artist who worked in gouache, opaque water color, and tempera to create singular flat surfaces for his narrative paintings portraying social problems such as The Migration of the Negro

19th-century German-born artist known for painting American historical subjects, the most famous of which is the December 25, 1776, event of Washington Crossing the Delaware

20th-century pop artist who painted a modern-day version of Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles and derived some of his work from sources such as comic strips

19th-century painter of western scenes known for his panoramic works Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and The Teton Range

20th-century Venezuelan-born American sculptor known for her life-size wooden figures, such as The Family

19th-century portrait artist who studied painting in London under Benjamin West but is better known for inventing the telegraph

20th-century artist born Anna Mary Robertson who started her primitive paintings of rural life when she was 76 years old

20th-century Russian-born American sculptor who used a wide variety of different objects and materials to construct her huge assemblages, or walls, of boxes usually painted black or gold

20th-century painter whose best-known works depict bones, flowers, desert scenes, and landscapes of the Southwest, such as Black Iris and Cow’s Skull, Red, White, and Blue—her museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is America’s first art museum dedicated to the work of a woman artist of international stature

20th-century Swedish-born American sculptor known for oversized works representing familiar objects, such as Hamburger with Pickle, which is 7 feet in diameter and made of painted canvas and foam rubber

20th-century abstract expressionist artist known for his technique of dripping paint across a canvas to create random and complex patterns

20th-century experimental artist who mixed sculpture and paint in works he called “combines,” such as Tracer, which consists of an eagle, a cafeteria sign, and two helicopters

19th-20th century artist known for his portrayals of the American West, such as Pony Tracks, and for his sculpture Bronco Buster

20th-century artist known for his cover illustrations of scenes of every-day small-town life for The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines

20th-century Russian-born American abstract expressionist who relied chiefly on color, as in Ochre and Red on Red, 1954, and who requested dim lighting for his rectangular paintings of delicate colors such as Yellow and Blue

19th-20th century painter and sculptor known as “America’s cowboy artist” to whom a museum in Great Falls, Montana, is devoted

19th-20th century sculptor known for his bronze statue for the David Farragut monument in Madison Square, for his William Tecumseh Sherman on horseback at Central Park’s entrance, and for his Robert G. Shaw sculpture on the Boston Common

19th-20th century artist known for his portraits of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Mme X, and other notables, and for his impressionistic watercolor landscapes

20th-century sculptor known for his white plaster sculptures cast from living models of people going about what he calls “the magic of everyday life”

18th-19th century portrait painter known for his unfinished “Athenaeum” portrait of George Washington’s head adopted for the U.S. one-dollar bill and for his Vaughan type (bust) and Lansdowne (full-length) paintings of George Washington

19th-20th century designer of stained-glass who helped establish the international art style called art nouveau

20th-century artist known as the “pope of pop” for his pop art featuring such subjects as Campbell Soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and Brillo pads, and for his silk-screen paintings that use repetition of the subject matter, as in his famous portrayal of Marilyn Monroe—he is also referred to as “The Leonardo of the Shoe Trade” because of his fashionable shoe business illustrations

18th-19th century painter known for depicting historical events, as in The Death of General Wolfe and Penn’s Treaty with the Indians

19th-century artist known for his Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, better known as Whistler’s Mother

19th-century artist who painted The Spirit of ‘76, depicting two drummers and a fifer

20th-century artist known for his paintings of the rural Midwest, especially for his American Gothic, a work featuring a farmer with a pitchfork in his hand standing next to a woman

20th-century artist who followed in the footsteps of his illustrator father, N.C., and is known for his pictures of people and scenery, such as Christina’s World, Distant Thunder, Winter, and 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf