What artist — who moved through many styles before arriving at large soft-edged areas of colour — was one of the founders of the Ten, a group of artists sympathetic to abstraction and expressionism that exhibited until 1940?
What artist, often referred to as the “first woman artist of California”, also worked extensively in tapestry, embroideries, and batiks that stylistically resembled her Fauvist paintings?
Which French artist, most famous for his work as a sculptor of animals, made his critical and public mark with pieces representing predatory violence in the wild?
Which Dutch painter and sculptor, whose aristocratic family opposed her desire to become an artist, began to study art after she left her husband in 1923?
Which Belgian painter, introduced to the Surrealists in 1936, developed his own variation on Surrealism which changed very little until blindness forced him to give up painting in 1986?
Which American sculptor, known for her monumental assemblages, struggled financially for decades and was well into her 60s before she could depend on a steady income from her work?
What Expressionist painter was Howard University’s first fine arts graduate in 1921, and was also the first African-American woman to have a solo exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art?
What post-war Spanish artist, in 1965 and again in 1967, destroyed hundreds of his paintings and then in 1968 abandoned oil painting altogether for ten years and worked in other mediums?
This 19th century American painter and illustrator, an accomplished artist before her marriage to a famous author, edited and published some of his notebooks after his death and then began working on her own writings.
After the outbreak of World War II, this German-French painter served in the Foreign Legion and later in the Free French; he was gravely wounded at the German Front and one of his legs was amputated.
What painter, who studied under Ingres but was later influenced by Ingres’s rival Delacroix, attempted to combine the classicism of the former with the romanticism of the latter?
What photographer, two years before the Battle of Little Bighorn, captured roughly 6 dozen images of George Armstrong Custer’s 1874 military expedition into the Black Hills?
What photographer helped establish the 19th century’s largest manufacturer and distributor of photographic supplies in the U.S. when he joined his brother’s business in 1852?
What contemporary painter’s meticulously observed oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings are dominated by two subjects: the floors of interior spaces and the trees on her property?
This Eighteenth century French etcher and painter is credited with being the first artist to successfully introduce aquatint into his etched and engraved plates.
This American sculptor known for her works in bronze often turned to dancers for her sculptural themes, employing them to pose for her with musical accompaniment.
What artist and poet — a founding member of the Dada movement in Zürich in 1916 — referred to himself as “Hans” when he spoke in German and as “Jean” when he spoke in French?
What German-born American painter had his first one-man show at Harvard University while his paintings were being removed from German museums and destroyed as “degenerate art”?
Which American architectural sculptor (whose work ornamented more than 30 buildings) also designed and sculpted medals, the Newbury and Caldecott being his most famous?
Which American artist is best known for his vivid, frequently surrealist, depictions of Southern life that focus on the social issues of racial injustice and violence during the 1940s?
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