List of American artists 1900 and after
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This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine art
ists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting
, sculpture
, photography
, and printmaking
, as well as more recent genres, including installation art
, performance art
, body art
, conceptual art
, digital art
and video art
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Fine art
Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....
ists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
, photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, and printmaking
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...
, as well as more recent genres, including installation art
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
, performance art
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
, body art
Body art
Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping , full body tattoo and body painting.More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation...
, conceptual art
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...
, digital art
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
and video art
Video art
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
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Born 1900–1909
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1900
- Samuel CashwanSamuel CashwanSamuel Adolph Cashwan was an American sculptor.- History :Cashwan was born to Jewish parents in Cherkasy, Ukraine, Russian Empire. His parents left Russia and emigrated to New York City in 1906. Cashwan began his art studies after the family moved to Detroit in 1916. His first exposure came from...
(1900-1988), sculptor - Carl HoltyCarl HoltyCarl Robert Holty was a German-born American abstract painter. Raised in Wisconsin, he was the first major abstract painter to gain notoriety from the state. Harold Rosenberg described Holty as "a figure of our art history," known for his use of color, shape and form.-Personal life and...
(1900-1973), painter - Fred KabotieFred KabotieFred Kabotie was a celebrated Hopi painter, silversmith, and educator.-Background and education:Fred Kabotie was born into a highly traditional Hopi family at Songo`opavi, Second Mesa, Arizona, Kabotie. His father belonged to the sun clan and he belonged to the Bluebird Clan...
(c. 1900-1986), painter, silversmith - Rico LebrunRico LebrunRico Lebrun was an Italy-born, Italian-American painter and sculptor.-Biography :Lebrun was born on December 10, 1900 in Naples, Italy. His formal art education consisted of attending technical school and art classes at night, studying the Old Masters in museums, and assisting fresco painters...
(1900–1964), painter - Fannie NampeyoFannie NampeyoFannie Nampeyo was a modern and contemporary fine arts potter, who carried on the traditions of her famous mother, Nampeyo of Hano, the grand matriarch of modern Hopi pottery.Fannie was the youngest, and perhaps the most famous, of Nampeyo of Hano's three daughters...
(1900–1987), potter, ceramic artist - Alice NeelAlice NeelAlice Neel was an American artist known for her oil on canvas portraits of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers...
(1900–1984), painter - Betty ParsonsBetty ParsonsBetty Parsons, born Betty Bierne Pierson, was an American artist and art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism"...
(1900–1982), painter, gallerist - Jack TworkovJack TworkovJack Tworkov was a Polish born American abstract expressionist painter.He was born in Biała Podlaska, Russian Empire and immigrated to the United States in 1913 with his mother and younger sister who would later become known as Janice Biala...
(1900–1982), painter - Adja YunkersAdja YunkersAdja Yunkers was an American abstract painter and printmaker. He was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire in 1900. He studied art in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris, and London. He lived in Paris for 14 years, and then moved to Stockholm in 1939. In Stockholm, he published and edited...
(1900-1983), painter
1901
- James Richmond BarthéRichmond BarthéJames Richmond Barthé was an African American sculptor known for his many public works, including the Toussaint L’Ouverture Monument in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and a sculpture of Rose McClendon for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House.Barthe once said that “all my life I have be interested in...
(1901–1989), sculptor - Francis CrissFrancis CrissFrancis Hyman Criss was an American painter. Criss's style is associated with the American Precisionists like Charles Demuth and his friend Charles Sheeler.Criss was born in London and immigrated with his family at age 4...
(1901 - 1973), painter - Dorothy DehnerDorothy Dehner-Biography:She grew up in Cleveland.In 1918, she took classes at the Pasadena Playhouse, and studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.In 1922, she moved to New York City, and studied at the Art Students League....
(1901–1994), sculptor, printmaker - Beauford DelaneyBeauford DelaneyBeauford Delaney was an American modernist painter.-Early life:Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, in 1901. Delaney’s parents were prominent and respected members of Knoxville's black community. His father Samuel was both a barber and a Methodist minister...
(1901–1979), painter - Walt DisneyWalt DisneyWalter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...
(1901–1966), cartoonist, animator, filmmaker - Philip EvergoodPhilip EvergoodPhilip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood was an American painter, etcher, lithographer, sculptor, illustrator and writer. He was particularly active during the Depression and World War II era.-Life:...
(1901–1973), painter, printmaker, sculptor - Richard LindnerRichard Lindner (painter)Richard Lindner was a German-American painter.- Biography :Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg. His mother Mina Lindner was American and born in New York as daughter of German parents...
(1901–1978), painter - Esther RoseEsther RoseEsther Elvira Rose , an American painter, worked in oils, collage, silkscreen and watercolors.-Biography:Esther Holbeck, whose parents arrived at Ellis Island, separately, from Sweden and Norway, was born in Two Harbors, Minnesota, and at 20 married Frank Rose, an amateur photographer and a sports...
(1901-1990), painter, calligrapher - Louise Emerson RonnebeckLouise Emerson RonnebeckLouise Emerson Ronnebeck was an American painter best known for her murals executed for the Works Progress Administration . Born in Philadelphia she married artist Arnold Ronnebeck in 1926 and they settled in Denver, Colorado...
(1901–1980), painter - John Augustus WalkerJohn Augustus WalkerJohn Augustus Walker was a well-known Alabama Gulf Coast artist of the Depression era who was commissioned to undertake several art projects for the Works Progress Administration.-Early life:...
(1901–1967), painter
1902
- Ansel Easton Adams (1902–1984), photographer
- Isabel BishopIsabel BishopIsabel Bishop was an American painter and graphic artist, who produced numerous paintings and prints of working women in realistic urban settings...
(1902–1988), painter, printmaker - Dorr BothwellDorr BothwellDorr Hodgson Bothwell was an American artist, designer, educator, and world-traveller. She was born in San Francisco, California. She began her art career at the California School of Fine Arts in 1921, under the tutelage of Gottardo Piazzoni and Rudolf Schaeffer.- Travels :Bothwell's travels...
(1902–2000), painter, printmaker - Lee GatchLee GatchLee Gatch , an American artist, was born in a rural community near Baltimore. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in the early 1920s and then studied in Europe for a few years before returning to the United States...
(1902–1968), painter, muralist - Donal HordDonal HordDonal Hord , an American sculptor, was born Donald Horr in Prentice, Wisconsin. His parents divorced when he was about 6 years old; and around that time his mother changed his name, taking the second "d" from "Donald" and substituting it for the second "r" in "Horr", thus creating the name Donal...
(1902–1966), sculptor - Kenzo OkadaKenzo OkadaKenzo Okada was a Japanese-born American painter.According to Michelle Stuart, “when Okada came to the United States he was already a mature painter, well considered in his native Japan...
(1902–1982), painter - I. Rice PereiraI. Rice PereiraIrene Rice Pereira was an American abstract artist, known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and Lyrical Abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school....
(1902–1971), painter - Pietro PezzatiPietro PezzatiPietro Pezzati or Peter Pezzati may refer to:*Pietro Pezzati , Italian mural painter*Peter S. Pezzati aka Pietro Pezzati , American portrait painter...
, (1902-1993), painter - Charles PollockCharles PollockCharles Cecil Pollock was an American painter and eldest brother of Jackson Pollock. His parents were Stella May McClure and LeRoy Pollock, his father, who born McCoy, had taken the surname of his parents' neighbours who adopted him after both his own parents died within a year of each...
(1902-1988), painter - Isaac SoyerIsaac SoyerIsaac Soyer was a social realist painter and often portrayed working-class people of New York City in his paintings.-Biography:...
(1902–1981), painter
1903
- Walter Inglis AndersonWalter Inglis AndersonWalter Inglis Anderson was an American painter, writer, and naturalist.Known to his family as "Bob", he was born in New Orleans to George Walter Anderson, a grain broker, and Annette McConnell Anderson, member of a prominent New Orleans family, who had studied art at Newcomb College, where she had...
(1903–1965), painter - Joseph CornellJoseph CornellJoseph Cornell was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage...
(1903–1972), sculptor, filmmaker - Stephen EtnierStephen EtnierStephen Morgan Etnier was an American realist painter, painting for six decades. His work is distinguished by a mixture of realism and luminism, favoring industrial and working scenes, but always imbued with atmospheric light...
(1903–1984), painter - Walker EvansWalker EvansWalker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera...
(1903–1975), photographer - Adolph GottliebAdolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and graphic artist.-Biography:Gottlieb was born in New York to Jewish parents. From 1920-1921 he studied at the Art Students League of New York, after which he traveled in France and Germany for a year...
(1903–1974), painter - Robert GwathmeyRobert GwathmeyRobert Gwathmey was an American social realist painter. His wife was photographer Rosalie Gwathmey and his son was architect Charles Gwathmey.-References:...
(1903–1988), painter - Al HirschfeldAl HirschfeldAlbert "Al" Hirschfeld was an American caricaturist best known for his simple black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.-Personal life:Born in St...
(1903–2003), caricaturist - Seymour LiptonSeymour LiptonSeymour Lipton was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. He initially trained as a dentist but focused on sculpture from 1932. His early choices of medium changed from wood to lead and then to bronze, and...
(1903–1986), sculptor - Isamu NoguchiIsamu Noguchiwas a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...
(1903–1988), sculptor - Mark RothkoMark RothkoMark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian...
(1903–1970), painter - Louis SchankerLouis SchankerLouis Schanker was an American abstract artist born in 1903. He grew up in an orthodox Jewish environment in the Bronx, New York. His parents were of Romanian descent...
(1903–1981), painter - Ethel SchwabacherEthel SchwabacherEthel Kremer Schwabacher was a protege of Arshile Gorky, his first biographer, and herself a well-known abstract expressionist painter. Her daughter is the American writer and translator, Brenda Webster....
(1903–1984), painter - Bernarda Bryson ShahnBernarda Bryson ShahnBernarda Bryson Shahn was an American painter, lithographer and widow of renowned artist Ben Shahn, who wrote and illustrated children's books including "The Zoo of Zeus" and "Gilgamesh."...
(1903–2004), painter, lithographer - Karl ZerbeKarl ZerbeKarl Zerbe was a German-born American painter.The works of Karl Zerbe are significant because they record "the response of a distinguished artist of basically European sensibility to the physical and cultural scene of the New World".-Biography :Karl Zerbe was born in Berlin, Germany.The family...
(1903–1972), painter
1904
- Margaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her...
(1904–1971) (photographer) - Hans BurkhardtHans BurkhardtHans Gustav Burkhardt was a Swiss American abstract expressionist.-Life and work:In 1924 he emigrated from Basel, Switzerland to New York. He shared Arshile Gorky's studio from 1929 to 1936...
(1904-1994). painter - Paul CadmusPaul CadmusPaul Cadmus was an American artist. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of nude male figures. His works combined elements of eroticism and social critique to produce a style often called magic realism...
(1904–1999), painter, printmaker - Clarence Holbrook CarterClarence Holbrook CarterClarence Holbrook Carter born in Portsmouth, Ohio, was an American artist.Carter studied at the Cleveland School of Art from 1923 to 1927. Following graduation, he studied with Hans Hofmann in Capri, Italy, for the summer of 1927...
(1904–2000) painter - Arshile GorkyArshile GorkyArshile Gorky was an Armenian-born American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced of the Armenian genocide.-Early life:...
(1904–1948), painter - Chaim GrossChaim GrossChaim Gross was an Austrian born American sculptor. He was born in the then Austro-Hungarian village of Kolomyia and immigrated to the United States in 1921...
(1904–1991), sculptor - Peter HurdPeter HurdPeter Hurd was an American artist, born Harold Hurd, Jr., in Roswell, New Mexico.Nicknamed "Pete" by his parents, he later legally changed his name to Peter.-Life:...
(1904–1984), painter - Willem de KooningWillem de KooningWillem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
(1904–1997), painter - Fletcher MartinFletcher MartinFletcher Martin , was an American painter.Martin was born in 1904 in Palisade, Colorado. His artist's skills were largely self-taught. During his career he taught art at the University of Florida, State University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, San Antonio Art Institute, and Washington State...
(1904-1979), painter - Nan PhelpsNan PhelpsNan Phelps , was an American folk artist from London, Kentucky. Phelps’ work has often been compared to the more famous Grandma Moses in both style and subject matter.-Biography:...
(1904-1990), painter - Jose de RiveraJose de RiveraJose de Rivera was an American abstract sculptor.-Life:He grew up in New Orleans. He dropped out of high school, but finished at a boarding school. He worked on the plantation, fixing farm machinery.In 1924, he moved to Chicago.He studied drawing with muralist John W. Norton...
(1904-1985), sculptor - Clyfford StillClyfford StillClyfford Still was an American painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.-Biography:...
(1904–1980), painter
1905
- Leonard BahrLeonard BahrLeonard Marion Bahr was a prolific painter of portraits and murals, an illustrator, as well as a highly regarded painting professor for 52 years at the Maryland Institute College of Art ....
(1905–1990), painter, muralist, illustrator - Jared FrenchJared FrenchJared French was a painter who specialized in the ancient medium of egg tempera. He was one of the masters of magic realism, part of a circle of friends and colleagues who all painted surreal imagery in egg tempera. Others included George Tooker and Paul Cadmus.French received a Bachelor of Arts...
(1905–1988), painter - Lois Mailou JonesLois Mailou JonesLois Mailou Jones was a artist who lived into her nineties and who painted and influenced others during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond during her long teaching career. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and is buried on her beloved Martha's Vineyard in the Oak Bluffs Cemetery.-Life:Dr...
(1905–1998), painter - Doris LeeDoris LeeDoris Emrick Lee was born in Illinois and was an American folk artist who was known for her figurative painting and printmaking. She won the Logan Medal of the arts from the Chicago Art Institute in 1935....
(1905–1983), painter - Paul MeltsnerPaul MeltsnerPaul Raphael Meltsner was an American artist who was widely recognized for his WPA era paintings and lithographs, and who was later known for his iconic portraits of celebrities in the performing arts.-Education and training:...
(1905-1966), painter - Barnett NewmanBarnett NewmanBarnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
(1905–1970), painter - Sanford PlummerSanford PlummerSanford Plummer was a Seneca narrative watercolor painter from New York.-Background:Sanford Plummer was born on 1 November 1905 on the Allegany Reservation, Red House, Cattaraugus, New York. His parents were Clarence Plummer and Nellie Kennedy...
(1905-1974), watercolor painter - James Amos PorterJames Amos PorterJames Amos Porter was a pioneer in establishing the field of African-American art history. He was instrumental as the first scholar to provide a systematic, critical analysis of African-American artists and their works of art. An artist himself, he provided a unique and critical approach to the...
(1905–1970), painter, art historian - Anton RefregierAnton RefregierAnton Refregier was a Russian immigrant painter in the United States.He made the 27 murals in the Rincon Center in San Francisco, California, which depict the history of California, in the style of the social realism.- Life and early career:Refregier was born in Moscow and emigrated to the United...
(1905–1979), painter
1906
- Harry AndersonHarry Anderson (artist)-External links:* from GoodSalt.com...
(1906–1996), painter and illustrator - Peter BlumePeter BlumePeter Blume was an American painter and sculptor. His work contained elements of folk art, precisionism, Parisian Purism, Cubism, and Surrealism.-Biography:...
(1906–1992), painter - James BrooksJames Brooks (painter)James Brooks was an American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island. In 1947 he married artist Charlotte Park...
(1906–1992), painter and muralist - Ralston CrawfordRalston CrawfordRalston Crawford was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer.-Early life:He was born on September 5, 1906, in Canada, at St. Catharines, Ontario, and spent his childhood in Buffalo, New York. He studied art beginning in 1927 in California at the Otis Art Institute. After...
(1906–1978), painter, lithographer, and photographer - Burgoyne DillerBurgoyne DillerBurgoyne A. Diller was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known works are characterized by orthogonal geometric forms that reflect his strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work of Piet Mondrian in particular...
(1906–1965), painter - Herbert FerberHerbert FerberHerbert Ferber was an American sculptor and painter, born in New York City. He began his independent artistic studies in New York in 1926 at evening classes at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, while attending Columbia University Dental School...
(1906-1991), sculptor - Philip JohnsonPhilip JohnsonPhilip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect.In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later , as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture...
(1906–2005), architect, art collector - David Smith (1906–1965), sculptor
- Leon Polk SmithLeon Polk SmithLeon Polk Smith was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and his style has been associated with the Hard-edge school, of which he is considered one of the founders....
(1906–1996), painter
1907
- Charles AlstonCharles AlstonCharles Henry Alston was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance; Alston was the first African American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's...
(1907–1977), painter - Ilya BolotowskyIlya BolotowskyIlya Bolotowsky was a leading early 20th-century painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced cubism and geometric abstraction and was much influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.Born to Jewish parents in St...
(1907–1981), painter, printmaker - Marie Z. ChinoMarie Z. ChinoMarie Zieu Chino was a Native American potter from Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. Marie and her friends Lucy M. Lewis and Jessie Garcia are recognized as the three most important Acoma potters during the 1950s. The inspiration for many designs used on their pottery were found on old potsherds gathered...
(1907–1982), potter, ceramic artist - Acee Blue EagleAcee Blue EagleAcee Blue Eagle , also named Alex C. McIntosh, Chebon Ahbulah , and Lumhee Holot-Tee , was a Muscogee Creek-Pawnee-Wichita artist, educator, dancer, and flute player.-Background:...
(1907–1959), painter, muralist - Jon GnagyJon GnagyJon Gnagy was a self-taught artist most remembered for being America's original television art instructor, hosting You Are an Artist, which began on the NBC network. On May 16, 1946, Jon Gnagy was the first "act" on the first television program broadcast from the antenna atop the Empire State...
(1907–1981), painter, illustrator, television art instructor - Jacob KainenJacob KainenJacob Kainen was an American painter and printmaker. He is also known as an art historian, writingbooks on John Baptist Jackson and the etchings of Canaletto...
(1909-2001), painter - Albert KotinAlbert KotinAlbert Kotin belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris...
(1907–1980), painter - Tom LeaThomas C. Lea, IIIThomas Calloway "Tom" Lea, III was a noted American muralist, illustrator, artist, war correspondent, novelist, and historian....
(1907-2001), muralist, illustrator, painter - Michael LoewMichael LoewMichael Loew was an American Abstract Expressionist artist who was born in New York City.In the late 1920s, Loew studied at the Art Students League with the Ashcan School and was a recipient of a Sadie A. May Fellowship which allowed Loew to continue his studies in France...
(1907-1985), painter - Walter Tandy MurchWalter Tandy MurchWalter Tandy Murch was a painter whose still life paintings of machine parts, brick fragments, clocks, broken dolls, hovering light bulbs and glowing lemons are an unusual combination of realism and abstraction...
(1907–1967), painter - Fairfield PorterFairfield PorterFairfield Porter was an American painter and art critic. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus....
(1907–1975), painter - George RickeyGeorge RickeyGeorge Rickey was an American kinetic sculptor.Rickey was born on June 6, 1907 in South Bend, Indiana.-Life and work:...
(1907–2002), sculptor - Theodore RoszakTheodore Roszak (artist)Theodore Roszak was an American sculptor and painter. He was born in Posen, Prussia , now Poznań, Poland, as a son of Polish parents, and emigrated to the United States at the age of two...
(1907–1981), sculptor, painter - Millard SheetsMillard SheetsMillard Owen Sheets was an American painter and a representative of the California School of Painting, later a teacher and educational director, and architect of more than 50 branch banks in Southern California.-Early life:...
(1907–1989), painter - Henriette WyethHenriette WyethHenriette Wyeth Hurd was an American artist noted for portraits and still life paintings. She was the wife of artist Peter Hurd, daughter of illustrator N.C. Wyeth and sister of artist Andrew Wyeth. She was also the mother of artist Michael Hurd...
(1907–1997), painter
1908
- Claire FalkensteinClaire FalkensteinClaire Falkenstein was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer, and teacher, most renowned for her often large-scale abstract metal and glass public sculptures.-Early life and education:...
(1908–1997), sculptor - Perle FinePerle FinePerle Fine was among the most prominent female artists associated with American Abstract Expressionism.-Biography:Perle Fine was born in Boston, MA, in 1908. Her interest in art started at early age. In her early twenties she moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League with Kimon...
(1908–1988), painter - HerblockHerblockHerbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock , was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentary on national domestic and foreign policy from a liberal perspective.-Career:...
(1908–2001), political cartoonist - Lee KrasnerLee KrasnerLee Krasner was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement....
(1908–1984), painter - Helen LundebergHelen LundebergHelen Lundeberg was an American Post-Surrealist, hard-edge painter.Lundeberg was born in Chicago. She married California artist Lorser Feitelson, her former teacher...
(1908–1999), painter - Nicholas MarsicanoNicholas MarsicanoNicholas Marsicano , American painter and teacher of the New York School, was married to Dancer/Choreagrapher Merle Marsicano...
(1908–1991), painter - Roger Tory PetersonRoger Tory PetersonRoger Tory Peterson , was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.-Background:...
(1908–1996), graphic artist, illustrator, naturalist - Minor WhiteMinor WhiteMinor Martin White was an American photographer born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.White earned a degree in botany with a minor in English from the University of Minnesota in 1933. His first creative efforts were in poetry, as he took five years thereafter to complete a sequence of 100 sonnets while...
(1908–1976), photographer
1909
- Gertrude AbercrombieGertrude AbercrombieGertrude Abercrombie was an American painter based in Chicago. Called "the queen of the bohemian artists," Abercrombie was involved in the Chicago jazz scene and friends with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, whose music inspired her own creative work.-Personal...
(1909-1977), Surrealist painter - Al CappAl CappAlfred Gerald Caplin , better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam...
(1909–1979), cartoonist - Ettore "Ted" DeGraziaEttore DeGraziaEttore "Ted" DeGrazia was an American impressionist, western-pop painter, sculptor, and lithographer. Self-described as "the world's most reproduced artist", DeGrazia is known for his pastel images of Native American children of the American Southwest and other Western scenes.Born to an Italian...
(1909–1982), impressionist painter, sculptor, and lithographer - Enrico DonatiEnrico DonatiEnrico Donati was an American Surrealist painter and sculptor of Italian birth.-Life and work:Enrico Donati studied economics at the Università degli Studi, Pavia, and in 1934 moved to the USA, where he attended the New School for Social Research and the Art Students League of New York...
(1909-2008), painter - Cornelia MacIntyre FoleyCornelia MacIntyre FoleyCornelia MacIntyre Foley was an artist who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on January 31, 1909. She began her art training under the first art instructor the University of Hawaii, Huc-Mazelet Luquiens...
(1909-2010), painter - Norman Lewis (artist)Norman Lewis (artist)Norman W. Lewis was an African-American painter, scholar, and teacher. He is associated with Abstract Expressionism. Lewis was African-American, of Caribbean descent.-Early life and career:...
(1909–1979), painter - Alex RaymondAlex RaymondAlexander Gillespie "Alex" Raymond was an American cartoonist, best known for creating Flash Gordon for King Features in 1934...
(1909–1956), cartoonist - Herman RoseHerman RoseHerman Rose was the professional pseudonym of Herman Rappaport , an American painter and artist. He was best known for his depictions of cityscapes, including his painting “74th Street Rooftops From Studio."...
(1909–2007), painter
Born 1910–1919
1910- Leonard BocourLeonard BocourLeonard Bocour was born on March 18, 1910 in New York City, and he died September 6, 1993. Around 1933 he formed the New York City based company Bocour Artists Colors. He was the co-developer along with Sam Golden of Magna paint in the late 1940s. From 1952 until 1970 he and Sam Golden were...
(1910-1993), paint-maker, painter - Paul FeeleyPaul FeeleyPaul Feeley was an artist and director of the Art Department at Bennington College during the 1950s and early 1960s.-Biography:...
(1910-1966), painter - Morris GravesMorris GravesMorris Cole Graves was an American expressionist painter. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, he founded the Northwest School. Graves was also a mystic.-Early years:...
(1910–2001), painter, printmaker - Franz KlineFranz KlineFranz Jozef Kline was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement centered around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and attended Girard College, an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys...
(1910–1962), painter - Fuller PotterFuller PotterFuller Potter was an American Abstract expressionist artist. He was born in New York City in 1910, attended St. Bernard's School in New York and Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts, and lived most of his life in his Ledyard, Connecticut estate, near Old Mystic...
(1910–1990), painter - Mitchell SiporinMitchell Siporin-Biography:Mitchell Siporin was born in New York City and grew up in Chicago. Through the Works Progress Administration, he worked as a painter. Together with Edward Milman, he painted the frescoes in the Central Post Office in St Louis. From 1946 to 1949, he served in the army in North Africa and...
(1910–1976), painter - Hedda SterneHedda SterneHedda Sterne was an artist best remembered as the only woman in a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and others...
(born 1910), painter - Dorothea TanningDorothea TanningDorothea Tanning is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.-Biography:...
(born 1910), painter, surrealist
1911
- Will BarnetWill BarnetWill Barnet is an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds.-Biography:...
(born 1911), painter, printmaker - Romare BeardenRomare BeardenRomare Bearden was an African American artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons, oils, and collage.-Education:...
(1911–1988), painter, printmaker - Louise BourgeoisLouise BourgeoisLouise Joséphine Bourgeois , was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman...
(1911-2010), sculptor, printmaker - Carl Morris (1911–1993), painter, muralist
- Hilda Grossman MorrisHilda Grossman MorrisHilda Grossman Morris was a sculptor of the Northwest School, working mainly in bronze.Morris and her husband, the Abstract Expressionist painter Carl Morris, settled in Portland, Oregon in 1941. Except for extended trips to her hometown New York City and in later years Pietrasanta, Italy to cast...
(1911–1991), sculptor - David Park (1911–1960), painter
1912
- Charles AddamsCharles AddamsCharles "Chas" Samuel Addams was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters...
(1912–1988), cartoonist - William BaziotesWilliam BaziotesWilliam Baziotes was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism.-Life and career:...
(1912–1963), painter - William CongdonWilliam CongdonWilliam Grosvenor Congdon gained notoriety as an artist in New York City in the 1940s, but lived most of his life in Europe....
(1912–1998), painter - William Franklin DraperWilliam Franklin DraperWilliam Franklin Draper was lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, and an American painter.-Early life:...
(1912–2003), painter - Ida KohlmeyerIda KohlmeyerIda Rittenberg Kohlmeyer was an American painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Louisiana. Notably her work is held by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art...
(1912–1997), painter, sculptor - Alexander LibermanAlexander LibermanAlexander Semeonovitch Liberman was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications.-Biography:When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow...
(1912–1999), painter, sculptor - Morris Louis (1912–1962), painter
- Agnes MartinAgnes MartinAgnes Bernice Martin was an American abstract painter, often referred to as a minimalist; Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist.She won a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998....
(1912–2004), painter - Jackson PollockJackson PollockPaul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
(1912–1956), painter - Tony SmithTony Smith (sculptor)Tony Smith was an American sculptor, visual artist, architectural designer, and a noted theorist on art. He is often cited as a pioneering figure in American Minimalist sculpture.-Education:...
(1912–1980), sculptor - George SugarmanGeorge SugarmanGeorge Sugarman was an American artist working in the mediums of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Often described as controversial and forward-thinking, Sugarman's prolific body of work defies a definitive style. He pioneered the concepts of pedestal-free sculpture and is best known for his...
(1912-1999), sculptor
1913
- Peter AgostiniPeter AgostiniPeter Agostini was an American sculptor.-Life:He studied at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School in 1935 and 1936....
(1913-1993) - Hyman BloomHyman BloomHyman Bloom was a painter. His work is influenced by his Jewish heritage, Eastern religions as well as artists including Altdorfer, Grunewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, William Blake, Rudolph Bresdin, J.M.W...
(1913-2009), painter - Lawrence CalcagnoLawrence CalcagnoLawrence Calcagno was a San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painter. He described his artistic motivation in the following words-Biography:...
(1913–1993), painter - Robert CapaRobert CapaRobert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War...
(1913-1954), photographer - Philip GustonPhilip GustonPhilip Guston was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning...
(1913–1980), painter, printmaker - Reuben KadishReuben KadishReuben Kadish was an American artist, specializing as a sculptor, draughtsman, muralist, painter, and printmaker. In his later career he also taught art history and sculpture in New York.-Early life:...
(1913–1992), sculptor - Ibram LassawIbram LassawIbram Lassaw is an American sculptor, known for nonobjective construction in brazed metals.-Biography:Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928...
(1913–2003), sculptor - Conrad Marca-RelliConrad Marca-RelliConrad Marca-Relli was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris...
(1913–2000), collage artist, painter - Mercedes MatterMercedes MatterMercedes Matter née Carles was an American painter and draughtswoman. Her father was the American modernist painter Arthur Beecher Carles who had studied with Henri Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen...
(1913-2001), painter - Ad ReinhardtAd ReinhardtAdolph Frederick Reinhardt was an Abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered around the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism...
(1913–1967), painter
1914
- Glen AlpsGlen AlpsGlen Alps was a printmaker and educator who is credited with having developed the collagraph. A collagraph is a print whose plate is a board or other substrate onto which textured materials are glued. The plate may be inked for printing in either the intaglio or the relief manner and then printed...
(1914-1996), printmaker, sculptor - Nassos DaphnisNassos DaphnisNassos Daphnis was a Greek born American abstract painter and tree peony breeder...
(1914-2010), painter - Allan HouserAllan HouserAllan Capron Houser or Haozous a Chiricahua Apache sculptor from Oklahoma. He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century....
(1914–1994) painter, sculptor - Gwendolyn KnightGwendolyn KnightGwendolyn Clarine Knight was an African American artist from Barbados, in the West Indies.Gwendolyn Knight painted throughout her life, but did not start seriously exhibiting her work until the 1970s. Her first retrospective when she was nearly eighty years old...
(1914–2005), painter - Tony RosenthalBernard RosenthalBernard J. Rosenthal , also known as Tony Rosenthal, was an American abstract sculptor. He was the creator of the outdoor cube, Alamo that: “established him as a master of monumental public sculpture, and something of a standard bearer of the contemporary structurist esthetic.” He stated: ...
(1914-2009), sculptor - Alton TobeyAlton TobeyAlton Stanley Tobey , the American artist, was a painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and teacher of art.-Biography:...
(1914–2005), painter, muralist, illustrator - Emerson WoelfferEmerson WoelfferEmerson Woelffer was a prominent abstract expressionism artist and painter born in Chicago. He studied Education at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago between 1935 and 1937. In 1938 he joined the WPA Arts Program. In 1949 he taught at Black Mountain College at the request of Buckminster...
(1914-2003), painter
1915
- Elizabeth CatlettElizabeth CatlettElizabeth Catlett Mora is an African-American sculptor and printmaker. Catlett is best known for the black, expressionistic sculptures and prints she produced during the 1960s and 1970s, which are seen as politically charged....
(born 1915) sculptor, printmaker - John Rogers CoxJohn Rogers CoxJohn Rogers Cox was an American painter from Terre Haute, Indiana. His style and subject matter align him with the Regionalist and Magic Realist landscape tradition.-Early life and education:...
(1915–1990), painter - Edward DugmoreEdward DugmoreEdward Dugmore was an abstract expressionist painter known for close ties to both the San Francisco and New York art worlds in post-war era following World War II. Since 1950 he had more than two dozen solo exhibitions of his paintings in galleries across the United States...
(1915–1996), painter - Friedel DzubasFriedel DzubasFriedel Dzubas was a German-born American abstract painter.-Life and work:Friedel Dzubas studied art in his native land before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and settling in New York City. In Manhattan during the early 1950s, he shared a studio with fellow abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler...
(1915–1994), painter - Sam GoldenSam GoldenSam Golden started his paintmaking career in 1936 at Bocour Artist Colors with his uncle Leonard Bocour. In 1947 he developed Magna paint, the world's first artist acrylic paint. He returned from retirement in 1980 to found Golden Artist Colors Inc...
(1915-1997), paint-maker, painter - Bob KaneBob KaneBob Kane was an American comic book artist and writer, credited as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman...
(1915-1998), cartoonist - Clayton LewisClayton LewisClayton Scott Lewis was an American artist known primarily for his work as an envelope artist and jewelry designer.- Life and career :...
(1915-95), painter and sculptor - Jack LevineJack LevineJack Levine was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.-Biography:...
(1915-2010), painter - Richard LippoldRichard LippoldRichard Lippold was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium....
(1915–2002), sculptor - Robert MotherwellRobert MotherwellRobert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....
(1915–1991), painter, printmaker - Hans NamuthHans NamuthHans Namuth was a German-born photographer. Namuth specialized in portraiture, photographing many artists, including abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock. His photos of Pollock at work in his studio increased Pollock's fame and recognition and led to a greater understanding of his work and...
(1915–1990), photographer
1916
- Elmer BischoffElmer BischoffElmer Nelson Bischoff was a visual artist in the San Francisco Bay Area.Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and found their way back to figurative art.-Biography:Elmer Bischoff, second...
(1916–1991), painter - Warren Eugene BrandonWarren Eugene BrandonWarren Eugene Brandon was a California painter and photographer who was born in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 1916. He studied art at Milligan College and also with Jack Davis, Ralph Ledesma, Jack Feldman, Raymond Brose, and Eliot O’hara. In the 1950s and 1960s, he cruised the Pacific Ocean on the...
(1916-1977), painter - Karl KastenKarl KastenKarl Albert Kasten was a painter-printmaker-educator in the San Francisco Bay Area.- Early life :Kasten, fourth child of Ferdinand Kasten and his wife Barbara Anna Kasten, grew up in San Francisco's Richmond District not far from the peacocks at Golden Gate Park...
(1916–2010), painter, printmake - Ethel MagafanEthel MagafanEthel Magafan was an American painter.Magafan was born August 10, 1916, in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Frank Mechau, Boardman Robinson, and Peppino Mangravite, and was a member of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts...
(born 1916), painter - Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990), painter, collagist
- Richard Pousette-DartRichard Pousette-DartRichard Pousette-Dart was an American Abstract Expressionist painter.-Biography:He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota and grew up in Valhalla, New York. Although Richard never attended art school, his father, Nathaniel J. Pousette-Dart, was a painter and writer on art. He moved to Manhattan in 1937...
(1916–1992), painter - Jon SchuelerJon SchuelerJon Schueler was an American artist.-Biography:Schueler was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He first had the desire to become a writer, and after he acquired his Masters degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1940, he worked for a short time as a journalist...
(1916–1992), painter - Sylvia SleighSylvia SleighSylvia Sleigh was a Welsh-born naturalised American realist painter...
(1916–2010), painter - Reuben TamReuben TamReuben Tam was an American landscape painter, educator and graphic artist. He was born in Kapa'a on the Hawaiian island of Kauai on Jan. 17, 1916. He earned a BA degree from the University of Hawaii in 1937, and also studied at the California School of Fine Art, at Columbia University with Meyer...
(1916 - 1991), painter
1917
- Nicolas CaroneNicolas CaroneNicolas Carone belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris...
(1917-2010), painter - Maya DerenMaya DerenMaya Deren , born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s...
(1917–1961), Avant-garde filmmaker and theorist, photographer - Manny FarberManny FarberEmanuel "Manny" Farber was an American painter, film critic and writer. Often described as "iconoclastic" , Farber developed a distinctive prose style and set of theoretical stances which have had a large influence on later generations of film critics; Susan Sontag considered him to be "the...
(1917-2008), painter, film critic - Robert GoodnoughRobert GoodnoughRobert Goodnough was an American abstract expressionist painter. A veteran of World War II, Goodnough was one of the last of the original generation of the New York School; , even though he began exhibiting his work in galleries in New York City in the...
(1917-2010), painter - David HareDavid Hare (artist)David Hare was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement. He is primarily known for his sculpture, though he also worked extensively in photography and painting.-Life and work:...
(1917–1992), sculptor and photographer - Jacob LawrenceJacob LawrenceJacob Lawrence was an American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.Lawrence is among the best-known twentieth...
(1917–2000), painter, printmaker - Louisa MatthíasdóttirLouisa MatthíasdóttirLouisa Matthíasdóttir was an Icelandic-American painter.Matthíasdóttir was born in Reykjavík. She showed artistic ability at an early age, and studied first in Denmark and then under Marcel Gromaire in Paris...
(1917–2000), painter - Milton ResnickMilton ResnickMilton Resnick was a major abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his mystical, abstract and figurative paintings. Born in Bratslav, Russia, he emigrated to the United States in 1922.-Biography:...
(1917–2004), painter - Andrew WyethAndrew WyethAndrew Newell Wyeth 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....
(1917-2009), painter
1918
- Cornell CapaCornell CapaCornell Capa was a Hungarian American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, and photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa. Graduating from Imre Madách Gymnasium in Budapest, he initially intended to study medicine, but instead joined his brother...
(1918-2008), photographer - Elaine de KooningElaine de KooningElaine de Kooning was an Abstract Expressionist, Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era and editorial associate for Art News magazine...
(1918–1989), painter - Jane FrankJane FrankJane Schenthal Frank was an American artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist...
(1918–1986), painter - Cleve GrayCleve GrayCleve Gray was known as an Abstract expressionist painter, who was also associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.-Biography:...
(1918-2004), painter - Stephen PaceStephen Pace (artist)Stephen Pace was an American painter best known for his work as an Abstract expressionist and for his figurative art.-Biography:...
(1918–2010), painter - David Foster PrattDavid Foster PrattDavid Foster Pratt was an American artist, art instructor and designer. He was best known for his watercolor and oil landscapes. Pratt served as the director of the Art Institute of Buffalo in the late 1940s and early 1950s. During his tenure at the Institute, he worked closely with Charles...
(1918–2010), painter - Charles Banks WilsonCharles Banks WilsonCharles Banks Wilson is an American artist. Wilson was born in Arkansas in 1918, his family eventually moving to Miami, Oklahoma, where he spent his childhood...
(born 1918), painter
1919
- Theophilus BrownTheophilus BrownWilliam Theophilus Brown is an American artist born in Moline, Illinois. He became prominent as a member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.-Background and career:...
(born 1919), painter - Fritz BultmanFritz BultmanFritz Bultman was an American Abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, and collagist and a member of the New York School of artists....
(1919-1985), painter, sculptor - Edward Corbett (1919–1971), painter
- Lester JohnsonLester Johnson (artist)Lester Johnson was an American artist.As a figurative expressionist and member of the Second Generation of the New York School, painter Lester Johnson remained dedicated to the human figure as means of expression through the many stylistic changes of his oeuvre.In New York, Johnson exhibited at...
(1919-2010), painter - Frederick HammersleyFrederick HammersleyFrederick Hammersley was a critically acclaimed American abstract painter whose participation in the landmark 1959 Four Abstract Classicists exhibit secured his place in art history.-Early years:...
(1919-2009), painter - Irving KriesbergIrving KriesbergIrving Kriesberg was an American painter whose work combined elements of Abstract Expressionism with figurative elements of human and animal forms...
(1919-2009), painter - Lee MullicanLee MullicanLee Mullican was a painter and art teacher, and an influential member of the Dynaton Movement. He was a member of the UCLA art faculty from 1962 to 1990. He married Luchita Hurtado; their son Matt Mullican is a New York City based artist; their son John Mullican is a Los Angeles based writer and...
(1919–1998), painter - John WildeJohn WildeJohn Wilde was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker of fantastic imagery. Born near Milwaukee, Wilde lived most of his life in Wisconsin, save for service in the U.S. Army during World War II. He received bachelor and master degrees in art from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught...
(1919-2006), painter, draughtsman, printmaker
Born 1920–1929
1920- John CoplansJohn CoplansJohn Coplans was a British artist. A veteran of World War II and a photographer, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 and had many exhibitions in Europe and North America...
(1920–2003), painter, photographer - Gene DavisGene Davis (painter)Gene Davis was an American painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color, and was a member of the group of abstract painters in Washington DC during the 1960s known as the Washington Color School....
(1920–1985), painter, printmaker - Jimmy ErnstJimmy ErnstJimmy Ernst was an American painter born in Germany.-Early life:Jimmy Ernst was born in 1920 in Cologne, Germany, the son of surrealist painter Max Ernst and Luise Straus, a well-known art historian and journalist. His parents divorced in 1922 and Ernst staying with his mother in Cologne...
(1920–1984), painter - Elaine HamiltonElaine Hamilton-O'NealElaine Hamilton-O'Neal, , professionally known as Elaine Hamilton, was an internationally known American abstract painter and muralist born near Catonsville, Maryland...
(1920-2010), painter - Ray HarryhausenRay HarryhausenRay Harryhausen is an American film producer and special effects creator...
(born 1920) stop-motion animator, sculptor - Luchita HurtadoLuchita HurtadoLuchita Hurtado is a painter from Santa Monica, California and Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, her second husband was artist and collector Wolfgang Paalen. She lived and travelled in Mexico with Paalen, encountering Rufino Tamayo, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varos, Leonora...
(born 1920), painter - Roger MedearisRoger MedearisRoger Medearis was an American Regionalist painter. He was a student of Thomas Hart Benton while at the Kansas City Art Institute in the late 1930s and took up the technique of egg tempera painting, a rediscovered medium popular with Regionalists...
(1920–2001), painter - Honoré Desmond SharrerHonoré Desmond SharrerHonoré Desmond Sharrer was a noted American artist first received public acclaim in 1950 for her Tribute to the American Working People. It was painted as a five-image polyptych echoing a Renaissance altarpiece, except its central figure is a factory worker not a saint...
(1920-2009), painter - Wayne ThiebaudWayne ThiebaudWayne Thiebaud is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate...
(born 1920), painter, printmaker - George TookerGeorge TookerGeorge Clair Tooker, Jr. was a figurative painter whose works are associated with the Magic realism and Social realism movements...
(1920-2011), painter - Hannah TompkinsHannah Tompkins (artist)Hannah Tompkins was an American artist primarily known for her large body of artwork based on the writings of William Shakespeare...
(1920-1995), painter, printmaker - Paul WonnerPaul WonnerPaul John Wonner was an American artist who was born in Tucson, Arizona. He received a B.A. in 1952, an M.A. in 1953, and an M.L.S. in 1955―all from the University of California, Berkeley...
(1920-2008), painter
1921
- Herbert AbramsHerbert AbramsHerbert E. Abrams was an American artist. He was one of the leading portrait artists of his era known for his style of traditional realism. His works included the official White House portraits of former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. During his prolific career, he painted many...
(1921–2003), painter - Norman BluhmNorman BluhmNorman Bluhm , was an American painter classified as an abstract expressionist, and as an action painter.- Biography :...
(1921–1999), painter - William BriceWilliam BriceWilliam Brice was an artist known for his large-scale abstract paintings.-Biography:Born to actress Fannie Brice and gambler/criminal Nicky Arnstein, April 23, 1921, he spent his early years living with his mother and his sister Frances , while their father was in prison on a variety of charges...
(1921-2008), painter - Thomas ChimesThomas ChimesThomas Chimes was an influential painter and artist from Philadelphia. His work is in some important public collections, including those of the Philadelphia Museum of Art , the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts .-...
(1921-2009), painter - Norris EmbryNorris EmbryNorris Embry was an American neo-expressionist artist born on January 14, 1921 in Louisville, Kentucky.He grew up in East Orange, New Jersey outside New York City and Evanston, Illinois in the Chicago area, attending public schools through high school. Later, he studied at St. John's College in...
(1921-1981), painter - Al JaffeeAl JaffeeAbraham Jaffee , known as Al Jaffee, is an American cartoonist. He is notable for his work in the satirical magazine Mad, including his trademark feature, the Mad Fold-in. As of 2010, Jaffee remains a regular in the magazine after 55 years and is its longest-running contributor...
(born 1921), cartoonist - Joe StefanelliJoe Stefanelli (painter)Joe Stefanelli also known as Joseph J. Stefanelli belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose influence and artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized around the world...
(born 1921), painter - Anne TruittAnne TruittAnne Truitt was a major American artist of the mid-20th century; she is associated with both minimalism and Color Field artists like Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland....
(1921–2004), sculptor - Ralph Burke TyreeRalph Burke TyreeRalph Burke Tyree was born June 30, 1921 in Irvine, Kentucky and moved to Delhi, California as an infant. He was awarded a scholarship to the California College of the Arts for a portrait he painted of his future wife, Marguerite Almeida and also studied at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts...
(1921-1979), painter - Leona WoodLeona WoodLeona Wood was a highly regarded 20th century American painter, dancer, writer and co-founder of the Aman International Folk Ensemble. Her early paintings were considered a part of the Surrealism school.-Biography:...
(1921-2008), painter
1922
- Leonard BaskinLeonard BaskinLeonard Baskin was an American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.-Life and work:...
(1922–2000) sculptor, printmaker - Leland BellLeland BellLeland Bell was an American painter.Leland Bell was a self-taught painter whose passion for the discipline of painting has inspired and influenced many. He was also a fierce advocate for artists that he admired like Karl Knaths, Jean Arp, Piet Mondrian, Balthus, Alberto Giacometti, André Derain,...
(1922–1991), painter - Nell BlaineNell BlaineNell Blair Walden Blaine was an American landscape painter and watercolorist.-Life:She studied at the Richmond School of Art....
(1922-1996), painter - Richard DiebenkornRichard DiebenkornRichard Diebenkorn was a well-known 20th century American painter. His early work is associated with Abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His later work were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.-Biography:Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr...
(1922–1993), painter, printmaker - Kahlil Gibran (sculptor)Kahlil Gibran (sculptor)Kahlil Gibran 1922-2008 was a painter and sculptor born in Boston, Massachusetts; he lived in that city all his life...
(born 1922), sculptor, inventor, painter - Charlotte GilbertsonCharlotte GilbertsonCharlotte Gilbertson is an American painter and print maker.-Artistic Influences:Charlotte's artistic inspirations are rooted in Greek mythology, the French artist Paul Cézanne, Fernand Léger's modern abstractionism, and neo-Primitivist representations of the people of Papua New Guinea.-Childhood...
(born 1922), painter, printmaker - Leon GolubLeon GolubLeon Golub was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively.He was married to and collaborated with the artist Nancy Spero...
(1922–2004), painter - Grace HartiganGrace HartiganGrace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School in the 1950s.-Biography and early career:...
(1922–2008), painter - Julius HatofskyJulius HatofskyAccording to the celebrated New York art critic Hilton Kramer:-Biography:Julius Hatofsky was born in Ellenville, in upstate New York, in 1922, and first studied art as a teenager in the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project art classes...
(1922-2006), painter - Albert KreschAlbert KreschAlbert Kresch is a New York School painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. One of the original members of the Jane Street Gallery in the 1930s, he exhibited in later years at Tibor de Nagy Gallery and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries...
(born 1922), painter - Harvey LittletonHarvey LittletonHarvey Littleton is an American educator and glass artist. Born in Corning, New York, he grew up in the shadow of Corning Glassworks, where his father headed Research and Development during the 1930s...
(born 1922), glass artist - Stan MastersStan MastersStan Masters was an American realist painter from the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Missouri.-Life of Stan Masters:Masters was the son and grandson of railroad workers...
(1922-2005), painter - Robert de Niro, Sr.Robert De Niro, Sr.Robert Henry De Niro, Sr. was an American abstract expressionist painter and the father of actor Robert De Niro.-Life and career:...
(1922–1993), painter - Jules OlitskiJules OlitskiJules Olitski was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.-Early life:Olitski was born Jevel Demikovski in Snovsk, in the Russian SFSR , a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Russian government...
(1922–2007), painter - Ray ParkerRay Parker (painter)Raymond Parker was born in 1922 and he died in 1990. He was known as an Abstract expressionist painter who also is associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction...
(1922-1990), painter - Theodoros StamosTheodoros StamosTheodoros Stamos , was a Greek American artist. He is one of the youngest painters of the original group of abstract expressionist painters , which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko...
(1922–1997), painter - Richard StankiewiczRichard StankiewiczRichard Stankiewicz was an American sculptor, known for his work in scrap metal.Stankiewicz was born in Philadelphia, but spent his formative years in Detroit. He began painting and sculpting while in the United States Navy, in which he served from 1941 until 1947...
(1922–1983) - H. C. WestermannH. C. WestermannH. C. Westermann was an American printmaker and sculptor whose art constituted a scathing commentary on militarism and materialism...
(1922-1981), sculptor
1923
- Diane ArbusDiane ArbusDiane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....
(1923–1971), photographer - David AronsonDavid AronsonDavid Aronson is a painter and Emeritus Professor of Art at Boston University.Aronson has taught at Boston University since 1955, where he formed the Fine Art Department. As an artist, he has exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Berlin and Copenhagen,...
(born 1923), painter - Richard ArtschwagerRichard ArtschwagerRichard Artschwager is an American painter, illustrator and sculptor, born in 1923 in Washington, D.C.. Artschwager is best known for his stylistic independence; although he has associations with the Pop Art movement, Conceptual art and Minimalism....
(born 1923), painter, sculptor - Robert BeauchampRobert BeauchampRobert Beauchamp was an American figurative painter and arts educator. Beauchamp's paintings and drawings are known for depicting dramatic creatures and figures with expressionistic colors. His work was described in the New York Times as being "both frightening and amusing,"...
(1923-March 1995), painter - Ernest BriggsErnest BriggsErnest Briggs was an active participant in the later wave of Abstract Expressionism, the revolution in abstract painting that secured New York City's position as the art capital of the world in the post-World War II period.-Biography:...
(1923–1984), painter - Jess CollinsJess CollinsJess Collins , simply known today as Jess, was an American visual artist.- Biography :Jess was born Burgess Franklin Collins in Long Beach, California. He was drafted into the military and worked on the production of plutonium for the Manhattan Project...
(1923–2004), painter, collage artist - Sam FrancisSam FrancisSamuel Lewis Francis was an American painter and printmaker.-Early life:...
(1923–1994), painter, printmaker - Shirley JaffeShirley JaffeShirley Jaffe, abstract painter and sculptor, was born in New Jersey, USA, in 1923 and educated at Cooper Union in New York City. She moved to Paris in 1949 as a young painter and has carried on her career primarily in France, although she returns regularly to the United States where she has...
(born 1923), painter - Paul JenkinsPaul Jenkins (United States painter)- Biography :He was born in 1923 in Kansas City, Missouri. In Kansas City, the artist met Frank Lloyd Wright who was commissioned by the artist's great-uncle, the Rev. Burris Jenkins, to rebuild his church after a fire. Also during his years in Kansas City, the young Jenkins visited Thomas Hart...
(born 1923), painter - Ellsworth KellyEllsworth KellyEllsworth Kelly is an American painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the Minimalist school. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing the simplicity of form found similar to the work of John McLaughlin. Kelly often employs bright colors to...
(born 1923), painter, printmaker - Roy LichtensteinRoy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement...
(1923–1997), painter, sculptor, printmaker - Knox MartinKnox MartinKnox Martin is an American painter, sculptor and muralist.Born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 till 1950. He is one of the leading members of New York School - a group of artists and writers. He lives and works in New York City."Art is...
(born 1923), painter, sculptor, muralist - Fred MitchellFred Mitchell (artist)Fred Mitchell belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose influence and artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized around the world...
(born 1923), painter - Larry RiversLarry RiversLarry Rivers was an American artist, musician, filmmaker and occasional actor. Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, New York and Zihuatanejo, Mexico.-Biography:...
(1923–2002), painter
1924
- George BrechtGeorge BrechtGeorge Brecht , born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil...
(1924-2008), Fluxus artist, composer - Robert FrankRobert FrankRobert Frank , born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American...
(born 1924), filmmaker, photographer - Michael GoldbergMichael GoldbergMichael Goldberg was an American abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his gestural action paintings, abstractions and still-life paintings. His work was recently seen in September 2007 in a solo exhibition at Knoedler & Company in New York City, as well as several exhibitions at...
(1924–2007), painter - Douglas HueblerDouglas HueblerDouglas Huebler was an American conceptual artist.-Life and career:Douglas Huebler grew up in rural Michigan during the Depression and served in the Marines in World War II...
(1924–1997), conceptual artist - John LeveeJohn LeveeJohn Levee is an American abstract expressionist painter who has worked in Paris since 1949. His father was M. C. Levee.-Background:...
(born 1924), painter - Kenneth NolandKenneth NolandKenneth Noland was an American abstract painter. He was one of the best-known American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School...
(1924-2010), painter - Philip PearlsteinPhilip PearlsteinPhilip Pearlstein is an American painter, and part of the contemporary Realist school.-Biography:Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and received his Masters in art history at New York University. He was a friend of Andy Warhol from...
(born 1924), painter, printmaker - Beverly PepperBeverly PepperBeverly Pepper is a pioneering sculptor known for her monumental works,site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement.- Early Life and Education :...
(born 1924), sculptor, painter - George SegalGeorge Segal (artist)George Segal was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with a National Medal of Arts in 1999.-Works:...
(1924–2000), sculptor - Peter VoulkosPeter VoulkosPeter Voulkos popular name of Panagiotis Voulkos, was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art....
(1924–2002), ceramic artist - Charles WaterhouseCharles Waterhouse (artist)Charles Waterhouse is an American painter, illustrator and sculptor renowned for using United States Marine Corps historical themes as the motif for his works. His art spans subjects from Tun Tavern, the birthplace of the U. S...
(born 1924), painter, illustrator & sculptor
1925
- John AltoonJohn AltoonJohn Altoon , an American artist, was born in Los Angeles, California to immigrant Armenian parents. From 1947–1949 he attended the Otis Art Institute, from 1947 to 1950 he also attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, and in 1950 the Chouinard Art Institute. Altoon was a prominent...
(1925–1969), painter - Karl BenjaminKarl BenjaminKarl Benjamin is an American painter of vibrant geometric abstractions who rose to fame in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and subsequently produced a critically acclaimed body of work that explores a vast array of color relationships...
(born 1925), painter - Robert ColescottRobert ColescottRobert H. Colescott, was an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being African-American. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris...
(1925-2009), painter - Paul GeorgesPaul GeorgesPaul Georges was an American painter. He died at his home at Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, aged 77.He painted large-scale figurative allegories and satirical self-portraits....
(1925-2002), painter - Joseph GlascoJoseph GlascoJoseph Glasco was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and sculptor, best known for being at one time the youngest artist represented in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.-New York:...
(1925–1996), painter - Duane HansonDuane HansonDuane Hanson was an American artist based in South Florida but born in Minnesota, a sculptor known for his lifecast realistic works of people, cast in various materials, including polyester resin, fibreglass, Bondo and bronze...
(1925–1996), sculptor - Joan MitchellJoan MitchellJoan Mitchell was a "second generation" abstract expressionist painter. She was an essential member of the American Abstract expressionist movement, even though much of her career took place in France. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few...
(1925–1992), painter, printmaker - Robert RauschenbergRobert RauschenbergRobert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...
(1925-2008), all media - Emmett WilliamsEmmett WilliamsEmmett Williams was an American poet and visual artist.Williams was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and grew up in Virginia, and lived in Europe from 1949 to 1966...
(1925–2007), collage artist, concrete poet
1926
- Hannelore BaronHannelore BaronHannelore Baron was an artist whose work has become known for the highly personal, book-sized, abstract collages and box constructions that she began exhibiting in the late 1960s. Born in Dillingen/Saar, Germany, she and her family fled persecution in Nazi Germany in 1938 and relocated to the...
(1926–1987), collage artist - Wallace BermanWallace BermanWallace Berman was an American visual and assemblage artist. He has been called the "father" of assemblage art and a "crucial figure in the history of postwar California art".-Personal life and education:...
(1926–1976), assemblage artist - Stanley BoxerStanley BoxerStanley Boxer was an American artist best known for thickly painted abstract works of art. He was also an accomplished sculptor and printmaker....
(1926-2000), painter - Edward ClarkEdward Clark (artist)Edward Clark also known as Ed Clark is an African American abstract expressionist painter and one of the early experimenters with shaped canvas in the 1950s.Edward Clark stated:-Biography:...
(born 1926), painter - Rosalyn DrexlerRosalyn DrexlerRosalyn Drexler is a Pop artist, novelist, Obie Award-winning playwright, and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter. She is represented by Pace Gallery.-Early life:...
(born 1926), painter - Everett Raymond Kinstler (born 1926), painter
- Ed MosesEd Moses (artist)Ed Moses is an American artist based in the Los Angeles area.Born near Long Beach and educated in the mid-1950s at UCLA, Moses was one of the abstract artists with a one-man show at the legendary Los Angeles Ferus Gallery , in the cadre of fellow artists Wallace Berman, Billy Al Bengston, Robert...
(born 1926), painter - Elva NampeyoElva NampeyoElva Nampeyo was an American studio potter. She was born in the Corn Clan house where her grandmother Nampeyo resided, atop Hopi First Mesa. She was the daughter of Fannie Nampeyo and Vinton Polacca. As a child Elva would watch her grandmother make pottery and play with the clay...
(1926–1985), potter, ceramic artist - George Earl OrtmanGeorge Earl OrtmanGeorge Earl Ortman is an American painter, printmaker, constructionist and sculptor. His work has been referred to as Neo-Dada, Pop art,Minimalism, and Hard Edge...
(born 1926), painter - Roland PetersenRoland PetersenRoland Petersen is an American painter and printmaker of Danish birth.Petersen was born in Endelave, Denmark in 1926. He studied at University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, California College of Arts and Crafts, Atelier 17 , Islington Studio, London, the Print Workshop,...
(born 1926), painter - Betye SaarBetye SaarBetye Irene Saar is an American artist, known for her work in the field of assemblage. Her education included a time at the University of California, Los Angeles, from where she received a degree in design in 1949, and graduate studies in printmaking and education at Pasadena City College,...
(born 1926), assemblage artist - Charles SeligerCharles SeligerCharles Seliger was an American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Manhattan June 3, 1926, and he died on 1 October 2009, in Westchester County, New York...
(1926-2009), painter - Nancy SperoNancy SperoNancy Spero was an American visual artist.-Life and work:Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. She was married to, and collaborated with artist Leon Golub....
(1926-2009), painter, printmaker, collage artist - Jack YoungermanJack Youngerman-Biography:Jack Youngerman, was born 1926, St. Louis, MO, moved in Louisville, KY in 1929. He studied art at the University of North Carolina from 1944 to 1946 under a wartime navy training program, and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1947....
(born 1926), painter
1927
- John Chamberlain (born 1927), sculptor
- Tony DeLapTony DeLapTony DeLap in Oakland, California, is a West Coast artist, known for his abstract sculpture utilizing illusionist techniques and meticulous craftsmanship...
(born 1927), sculptor - Peter ForakisPeter ForakisPeter Forakis was an American artist known as an abstract geometric sculptor. The son of a Greek immigrant, he grew up on the Wyoming prairie until the age of 10 when his family moved to Oakland, California. Eventually they settled in Modesto, California...
, (1927-2009), sculptor - Al HansenAl HansenAlfred Earl "Al" Hansen was an American artist considered as one of the most important Fluxus figures. He was a Norwegian American....
(1927–1995), performance artist, collage artist, Fluxus artist - Ray JohnsonRay JohnsonRaymond Edward Johnson , known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art...
(1927–1995), collage artist, mail artist - Wolf KahnWolf KahnWolf Kahn is a German-born American painter.Kahn is known for his combination of realism and Color Field, and known to work in pastel and oil paint. He studied under Hans Hofmann, and also graduated from the University of Chicago...
(born 1927), painter - Alex KatzAlex KatzAlex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...
(born 1927), painter, printmaker - Allan KaprowAllan KaprowAllan Kaprow was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years...
(1927–2006), painter, assemblagist, performance artist - Edward KienholzEdward KienholzEdward Kienholz was an American installation artist whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. From 1972 onwards, he assembled much of his artwork in close collaboration with his artistic partner and wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz...
(1927–1994), installation artist, sculptor - Alfred LeslieAlfred LeslieAlfred Leslie is an American artist and filmmaker. He first achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of realistic figurative paintings.-Biography:...
(born 1927), painter - John MasonJohn Mason (artist)John Mason is a contemporary American artist. From very early on, Mason’s work focused on exploring the physical properties of clay and its “extreme plasticity.” Mason is recognized for his focus and steady investigation of mathematical concepts relating to rotation, symmetry, and modules as well...
(born 1927), ceramic artist - Jack RothJack RothJack Roth was a 20th century American painter who developed a style as an Abstract Expressionist, and as a Color Field painter...
(1927–2004), painter - Lillian SchwartzLillian SchwartzLillian F. Schwartz is an American artist who is known for being a creator of 20th century computer-developed art. One notable work she created is Mona Leo, where she morphed the image of a Leonardo da Vinci self-portrait with the Mona Lisa.She made one of the first digitally created films to be...
(born 1927), Digital artist - Kenneth SnelsonKenneth SnelsonKenneth Snelson is a contemporary sculptor and photographer. His sculptural works are composed of flexible and rigid components arranged according to the idea of 'tensegrity', although Snelson does not use the term....
(born 1927), sculptor - Anne TabachnickAnne TabachnickAnne Tabachnick was an American expressionist painter whose unique, colorful style drew inspiration from the New York school of Abstract Expressionism, the Old Masters, and East Asian calligraphy painting.- Biography :...
(1927–1995), painter - Ernest TrovaErnest TrovaErnest Tino Trova was a self-trained American surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor. Best known for his signature image and figure series, The Falling Man, Trova considered his entire output a single "work in progress." Trova used classic American comic character toys in some of his pieces...
(1927-2009), sculptor
1928
- Pat AdamsPat AdamsPat Adams is an American painter whose work is described as modernist and abstract. She was a student of Max Beckmann, and an early supporter of the Zabriskie Gallery.-Biography:...
(born 1928), painter - ArmanArmanArman was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Pierre Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman is a painter who moved from using the objects as paintbrushes to using them as the painting itself...
(1928–2005), painters, sculptor, experimental artist - Alice BaberAlice BaberAlice Baber was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oils and watercolor.Alice was born in Charleston, Illinois. She grew up in Kansas, Illinois and Miami, Florida, her family traveled south to Florida yearly because of Alice poor health. They settled in Illinois when World War...
(1928–1982), painter - Thomas DowningThomas DowningThomas Downing was an American painter, associated with the Washington Color Field Movement.-Life and work:Thomas Downing was born in Suffolk, Virginia. He studied at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1948. He then studied at the Pratt...
(1928–1985), painter - Helen FrankenthalerHelen FrankenthalerHelen Frankenthaler is an American abstract expressionist painter. She is a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work in six decades she has spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work...
(born 1928), painter, printmaker - Ralph GoingsRalph GoingsRalph Goings is an American painter closely associated with the Photorealism movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s...
(born 1928), painter - Wally HedrickWally HedrickWally Bill Hedrick was a seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture, gallerist, and educator who came to prominence in the early 1960s...
(1928–2003), painter, collage artist - Al HeldAl HeldAl Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings.-Background and education:...
(1928–2005), painter, printmaker - Robert IrwinRobert Irwin (artist)Robert Irwin is an American Installation artist. He lives and works in San Diego, California.-Beginnings:Robert Irwin was born in 1928 in Long Beach, California to Robert Irwin and Goldie Anderberg Irwin...
(born 1928), installation artist - Robert IndianaRobert IndianaRobert Indiana is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement.-Life and work:Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana. His family relocated to Indianapolis, where he graduated from Arsenal Technical High School...
(born 1928), painter, sculptor, printmaker - Donald JuddDonald JuddDonald Clarence Judd was an American artist associated with minimalism . In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy...
(1928–1994), sculptor - Sol LeWittSol LeWittSolomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....
(1928–2007), conceptual artist, installation artist, sculptor, printmaker - Nathan OliveiraNathan OliveiraNathan Oliveira was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor, born in Oakland, California to Portuguese parents...
(1928-2010), painter, printmaker - Dextra Nampeyo Quotskuyva, (born 1928), potter, ceramic artist
- Paul ResikaPaul ResikaPaul Resika was born and raised in 1928 in New York City. He is a well-known New York artist who chaired the Parsons School of Design MFA program from 1978-1990. He is a member of the National Academy and a former student of Hans Hofmann.-External links:**...
(1928–), painter - Julian StanczakJulian StanczakJulian Stanczak is an American painter and printmaker. The artist lives and works in Seven Hills, Ohio with his wife, the sculptor, Barbara Stanczak.- Biography :...
(1928–), painter - Cy TwomblyCy TwomblyEdwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. was an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors...
(1928-2011), painter, sculptor - Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
(1928–1987), painter, filmmaker, printmaker - John WesleyJohn Wesley (artist)John Wesley was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1928. He is a pop artist.After holding a series of odd jobs, he began painting at the age of 22...
(born 1928), painter
1929
- Ida ApplebroogIda ApplebroogIda Applebroog is a notable American painter. Her work is included in many public collections in the United States. During the decade of the 1990s, she received multiple honors including the College Art Association Distinguished Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, an Honorary Doctorate of Fine...
(born 1929), painter - Jo BaerJo BaerJosephine Gail "Jo" Baer, born Josephine Kleinberg August 7, 1929, is an American artist, whose works are associated with minimalist art...
(born 1929), painter - John ButtonJohn Button (artist)John Button was an American artist, well-known for his city-scapes. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley then moved to New York City in the early 1950s...
(1929-1982), painter - Jay DeFeoJay DeFeoJay DeFeo was a visual artist associated with the Beat generation who worked c.1950-1989 in the San Francisco Bay Area....
(1929–1989), painter, visual artist - Jules FeifferJules FeifferJules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long-run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays...
(born 1929), cartoonist - Howard KanovitzHoward KanovitzHoward Kanovitz was a pioneering painter in the Photorealist and Hyperrealist Movements, which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s in response to the abstract art movement. - Life :...
(1929-2009), painter - Lyman KippLyman KippLyman Kipp is a sculptor and painter who creates pieces that are composed of strong vertical and horizontal objects and are often painted in bold primary colors recalling arrangements by De Stijl Constructivists...
(born 1929), sculptor - Nicholas KrushenickNicholas KrushenickNicholas Krushenick was one of the forerunners of the pop art movement.Krushenick began showing his work publicly in New York in 1957, at the age of 28...
(1929–1999), painter - Gabriel LadermanGabriel LadermanGabriel Laderman was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and '60s.He studied with a number of leading American painters, including Hofmann, de Kooning, and Rothko....
(born 1929), painter - Clement MeadmoreClement MeadmoreClement Meadmore was an Australian-American sculptor known for massive outdoor steel sculptures.-Biography:...
(1929-2005), sculptor - Claes OldenburgClaes OldenburgClaes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects...
(born 1929), sculptor - Charles O. PerryCharles O. PerryCharles Owen Perry was an American sculptor particularly known for his large-scale public sculptures....
(1929–2011), sculptor - Neil WelliverNeil WelliverNeil Welliver was an American-born modern artist, best known for his large-scale landscape paintings inspired by the deep woods near his home in Maine....
(1929-2005), painter
Born 1930–1939
1930- Richard AnuszkiewiczRichard AnuszkiewiczRichard Anuszkiewicz is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.-Life and work:Richard Anuszkiewicz trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio , and then with Josef Albers at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut where he earned his...
(born 1930), painter, sculptor, printmaker - Allan D'Arcangelo (1930–1998), painter, graphic artist, printmaker
- Robert ArnesonRobert ArnesonRobert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at UC Davis for four decades.- Career :...
(1930–1992), sculptor, ceramicist - Marisol EscobarMarisol EscobarMaria Sol Escobar , otherwise known simply as Marisol, is a sculptor born in Paris of Venezuelan lineage, living in Europe, the United States and Caracas.-Education:...
(born 1930), sculptor, printmaker - Jasper JohnsJasper JohnsJasper Johns, Jr. is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.-Life:Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina with his paternal grandparents after his parents' marriage failed...
(born 1930), painter, sculptor, printmaker - Ken KerslakeKen KerslakeFine artist Ken Kerslake was, according to Dr. Tom Dewey of the University of Mississippi,"one of a handful of printmaker-educators responsible for the growth of printmaking in the southeast in the years following World War II." Kerslake's teaching career was spent at the University of Florida in...
(1930-2006), printmaker, painter - Lee LozanoLee LozanoLee Lozano was an American painter, and visual and conceptual artist.-Early years:Born Lenore Knaster in Newark, New Jersey, she started to use the name "Lee" at the age of fourteen, often preferring to go by the simpler, if more enigmatic "E." She attended the University of Chicago as an...
(1930-1999), painter - Robert NatkinRobert NatkinRobert Natkin was an American born abstract painter whose work is associated with Abstract expressionism, Color field painting, and Lyrical Abstraction....
(1930-2010), painter - Manuel NeriManuel NeriManuel Neri is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.- Biography :...
(born 1930), sculptor, painter - Deborah RemingtonDeborah RemingtonDeborah Remington was an American painter. She lived and worked in New York City and Pennsylvania. Remington was a veteran of more than 30 solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions including 3 Whitney Museum of American Art annuals...
(1930–2010), painter, printmaker - Faith RinggoldFaith RinggoldFaith Ringgold is an African American artist, best known for her painted story quilts. She is professor emeritus in the University of California, San Diego visual art department.-Life and artwork:...
(born 1930), painter and fabric artist - Robert RymanRobert RymanRobert Ryman is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He is best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lives and works in New York.-Early life and career:...
(born 1930), painter - Susan WeilSusan WeilSusan Weil is an American artist best known for her experimental three-dimensional paintings, which combine figurative illustration with explorations of movement and space. In the late 1940s Weil was involved in a relationship with Robert Rauschenberg...
(born 1930), painter - Gahan WilsonGahan WilsonGahan Wilson is an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations...
(born 1930), cartoonist
1931
- John BaldessariJohn BaldessariJohn Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
(born 1931), conceptual artist, printmaker - John Nelson BattenbergJohn Nelson BattenbergJohn Nelson Battenberg is an American sculptor.Battenberg was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1931. An artist named John Goray first influenced him when Battenberg was about 10 years old. Battenberg did his undergraduate work in art at various Midwestern universities. He also attended the Ruskin...
(1931 - ) - Lee BontecouLee BontecouLee Bontecou is an American artist who was born 15 January 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. She attended the Art Students League of New York from 1952 to 1955, where she studied with the sculptor William Zorach. She received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Rome in 1957-1958 and the Louis...
(born 1931), sculptor, printmaker - Audrey FlackAudrey FlackAudrey Flack is an American photorealist painter, printmaker, and sculptor.Flack studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953. She earned a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University. She studied art history at...
(born 1931), painter - Rolland GoldenRolland GoldenRolland Harve Golden is a visual artist and known mainly for his realism, abstract realism and "Borderline-Surrealisterm", a term he uses to describe a style of his where the subject is "not entirely impossible, but highly unlikely." He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in American Art and Marquis...
(born 1931), abstract realist painter - R.C. Gorman (1931–2005). painter
- Raymond HanRaymond HanRaymond Han is an American painter who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1931. After study with Willson Young Stamper at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Han moved to New York City and studied at the Art Students League of New York with Frank Mason and Robert Beverly Hale...
(born 1931-), painter - Budd HopkinsBudd HopkinsBudd Hopkins was an American painter, sculptor, and prominent figure in abduction phenomenon, and related UFO research.-Life:Born in 1931 and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia...
(1931–2011) - Howard MehringHoward MehringHoward Mehring was a twentieth century painter born in Washington, D.C.Howard Mehring is associated with Color Field painting and the Washington Color School and the artists at Jefferson Place Gallery. Mehring and Robert Gates both received grants from THE Woodward Foundation to travel in Europe...
(1931–1978), painter - Malcolm MorleyMalcolm MorleyMalcolm Morley is an English artist now living in the United States. He is best known as a photorealist.-Early life:Morley was born in north London. He had a troubled childhood, and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison...
(born 1931), painter, printmaker - Robert MorrisRobert Morris (artist)Robert Morris is an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd but he has also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement and installation...
(born 1931), sculptor, conceptual artist - Tom WesselmannTom WesselmannTom Wesselmann was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.-Early years:...
(1931–2004), painter, collage artist
1932
- Robert BechtleRobert BechtleRobert Bechtle is an American painter, born in San Francisco, California, on May 14, 1932. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts, now the California College of the Arts, in Oakland, California.Except for his military service...
(born 1932), painter - Emilie Benes BrzezinskiEmilie Benes BrzezinskiEmilie Benes Brzezinski, born Emilie Anna Benes in 1932 in Geneva, Switzerland, is an American sculptor.-Education and career:Emilie Benes earned a fine arts degree at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States...
, (born 1932), sculptor - James Lee ByarsJames ByarsJames Lee Byars was an artist specializing in installation sculpture and in performance art...
(1932–1997), installation artist, sculptor, performance artist - Craig KauffmanCraig Kauffman (artist)Craig Kauffman was an artist who has exhibited since 1951. Kauffman’s primarily abstract paintings and wall relief sculptures are included in over 20 museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate Modern, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the...
(1932-2010), painter, sculptor - Emily MasonEmily MasonEmily Mason is an American abstract painter.Mason is known for her work in Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. She was born and raised in New York City, where she continues to reside....
(born 1932), painter - Nam June PaikNam June PaikNam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....
(1932–2006), Fluxus, installation artist,
1933
- William AnastasiWilliam AnastasiWilliam Anastasi is an American painter and visual artist. He has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1960s...
(born 1933), painter - ChryssaChryssaChryssa Vardea Mavromichali is a Greek American artist who works in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally...
(born 1933), sculptor - Guy CoheleachGuy CoheleachGuy Coheleach is an American wildlife artist, best known for his paintings of big cats.Coheleach was born in New York City in 1933 and graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in 1956...
(born 1933), painter - Bruce ConnerBruce ConnerBruce Conner was an American artist renowned for his work in assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography, among other disciplines.-Early life:...
(1933-2008), filmmaker, assemblage artist, sculptor, painter, collagist, graphic artist and photographer - Dale EldredDale EldredDale Eldred was an internationally acclaimed sculptor renowned for large-scale sculptures that emphasized both natural and generated light.-Biography:...
(1933-1993), sculptor - Dan FlavinDan FlavinDan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.-Early life and career:...
(1933–1996), sculptor - Sam GilliamSam GilliamSam Gilliam is internationally recognized as one of America's foremost Color Field Painter and Lyrical Abstractionist artists....
(born 1933), painter, printmaker - Phillip HeffertonPhillip HeffertonPhillip Hefferton is an American pop artist from Detroit, Michigan, known for his paintings of banknotes. A friend of artist Robert Dowd, he entered the Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, where he studied painting with Sarkis Sarkisian. In 1958-9 he began drawing "common objects"...
(born 1933) - John Stuart IngleJohn Stuart IngleJohn Stuart Ingle was an American contemporary realist artist, known for his meticulously rendered watercolor paintings, typically still lifes. Some criticism has characterized Ingle's work as a kind of magic realism...
(born 1933) watercolorist - Alison KnowlesAlison KnowlesAlison Knowles in New York City is an American visual artist known for her soundworks, installations, performances, and publications. Knowles was very active in the Fluxus movement, and continues to create work inspired by her Fluxus experience....
(born 1933) Fluxus performance artist, sound artist, papermaker, printmaker - Charlotte MoormanCharlotte MoormanMadeline Charlotte Moorman Garside was an American cellist and performance artist.She was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied cello from age ten and won a scholarship to Centenary College where she took her B.A. in music in 1955. She received her M.A...
(1933–1991), Fluxus, performance artist - Yoko OnoYoko Onois a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
(born 1933) installation artist, sculptor, filmmaker - James RosenquistJames RosenquistJames Rosenquist is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.-Background and education:...
(born 1933), painter and muralist, printmaker - Mark di SuveroMark di SuveroMarco Polo "Mark" di Suvero is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born Marco Polo Levi in Shanghai, China in 1933 to Italian expatriates. He immigrated to San Francisco, California in 1942 with his family. From 1953 to 1957, he attended the University of California, Berkeley to study...
(born 1933), sculptor
1934
- Don BachardyDon BachardyDonald Jess "Don" Bachardy is an American portrait artist. He resides in Santa Monica, California.- Life and work :Born in Los Angeles, California, Bachardy was the life partner of writer Christopher Isherwood, whom he met on Valentine's Day 1953, when he was 18 and Isherwood was 48. They...
(born 1934), portrait artist - Bill BarrettBill Barrett (artist)Bill Barrett is an American sculptor, painter and jeweller.He is considered a central figure in the second-generation of American metal sculptors and is internationally known for his abstract sculptures in steel, aluminum and bronze....
(born 1934), sculptor, painter - Billy Al BengstonBilly Al BengstonBilly Al Bengston is an American artist and sculptor who lives and works in Venice, California. He was educated at Los Angeles City College Los Angeles, CA , California College of Arts & Crafts Oakland, CA , and the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA .After seeing the work of Jasper Johns at the...
(born 1934), painter, sculptor - Walter Darby BannardWalter Darby BannardWalter Darby Bannard , also known as Darby Bannard, is an American abstract painter.Bannard attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University, where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with Frank Stella, which continued after graduation and eventuated in the extreme...
(born 1934), painter - Llyn FoulkesLlyn FoulkesLlyn Foulkes is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles.As a student at Chouinard Art Institute , Foulkes began exhibiting with the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in 1959. He held his first one-man exhibition at Ferus in 1961. Other early solo exhibitions included the Pasadena Art Museum ...
(born 1934), painter - John McCrackenJohn McCrackenJohn Harvey McCracken was a contemporary artist who lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico and New York.- Education/teaching :...
(1934-2011), sculptor - Jay MilderJay MilderJay Milder is an American artist and a figurative expressionist painter from the second generation New York School.Old Testament themes such as Jacob's Ladder and Noah’s Ark, and the Jewish mystical beliefs of the Kabbalah, are recurring themes in Milder’s paintings which are presented as...
(born 1934), painter - Brian O'Doherty aka Patrick Ireland (born 1934), sculptor, painter, installation artist, conceptual artist
- Yvonne JacquetteYvonne JacquetteYvonne Jacquette , is an American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillistic technique.-Life:She grew up in Stamford, Connecticut.She...
(born 1934) painter, printmaker - Irving PetlinIrving PetlinIrving Petlin is an American artist and painter renowned for his mastery of the pastel medium and collaborations with other artists and for his work in the "series form" in which he uses the raw material of pastel, oil paint and unprimed linen, and finds inspiration in the work of writers and...
(born 1934), painter - Yvonne RainerYvonne RainerYvonne Rainer is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental. Her work is classified as minimalist art.- Early life :...
(born 1934), performance artist, choreographer, dancer - Dorothea RockburneDorothea RockburneDorothea Rockburne is an abstract painter drawing inspiration primarily from her deep interest in mathematics and astronomy. In 1950 she moved to the United States to attend Black Mountain College, where she studied with mathematician Max Dehn, a lifelong influence on her work...
(born 1934), painter - Peter SaulPeter SaulPETER SAUL is an American painter. His work has connections with Pop Art, Surrealism,and Expressionism. His early use of pop culture cartoon references in the late 1950s and very early 1960s situates him as one of the few fathers of the Pop Art movement...
(born 1934), painter - Marjorie StriderMarjorie StriderMarjorie Strider is an American painter, sculptor and performance artist best known for her three-dimensional paintings and site-specific soft sculpture installations.-Biography:...
(born 1934), sculptor - Neil WilliamsNeil Williams (artist)Neil Williams was an American painter. Williams was an abstract painter primarily known for his pioneering work with shaped canvases in the early 1960s. His paintings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are associated with geometric abstraction, hard-edge painting, color field, and lyrical abstraction,...
(1934-1988), painter
1935
- Carl AndreCarl AndreCarl Andre is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. His sculptures range from large public artworks to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American...
(born 1935), minimalist sculptor - Eleanor AntinEleanor AntinEleanor Antin is an American photographer, author, and artist working with video, film, performance, and drawing. Originally from New York, USA, she is currently based in Southern California where she is a professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego...
(born 1935), performance artist, filmmaker, installation artist - Christo (born 1935), environmental installation artist
- Walter De MariaWalter De Maria-Early life and career:De Maria was born in Albany, California on October 1, 1935. He studied history and art at the University of California, Berkeley from 1953 to 1959. Although trained as a painter, De Maria soon turned to sculpture and began using other media...
(born 1935), sculptor - Jim DineJim DineJim Dine is an American pop artist. He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended Walnut Hills High School, the University of Cincinnati, and received a BFA from Ohio University in 1957. He first earned respect in the art world with...
(born 1935), painter, sculptor, printmaker - Kenneth PriceKenneth PriceKenneth Price is an American ceramic artist and printmaker who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1935. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, before receiving his BFA degree from the University of Southern California in 1956...
(born 1935), ceramist - Mel RamosMel RamosMel Ramos is a U.S. figurative painter, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art. Born in Sacramento, California, he gained his greatest popularity in association with the Pop Art movement of the 1960s....
(born 1935), painter - Carol WaldCarol WaldCarol S. Wald was an American artist who was also widely known for her talents as an illustrator. Her collages and paintings appeared in Time, Fortune, and Ms, and on the covers of Business Week, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Saturday Review.Carol Wald was born in Detroit, Michigan,...
(1935-2000), artist and illustrator
1936
- Edward AvedisianEdward AvedisianEdward Avedisian was an American abstract painter who came into prominence during the 1960s. His work was initially associated with Color field painting and in the late 1960s with Lyrical Abstraction.-Early career:He studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...
(1936–2007), painter - Richard EstesRichard EstesRichard Estes is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters...
(born 1936), painter, printmaker - Gregory GillespieGregory GillespieGregory Joseph Gillespie was an American magic realist painter.-Life and career:He was born in Roselle Park, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he became a nondegree student at Cooper Union in New York...
(1936–2000), painter - Hans HaackeHans HaackeHans Haacke is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York.- Early life :Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, a well-known and influential English printmaker,...
(born 1936), conceptual artist - Richard HaasRichard HaasRichard John Haas is an American muralist who is best known for architectural murals and his use of the Trompe l'oeil style.-Works:...
(born 1936), muralist - Eva HesseEva HesseEva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany...
(1936–1970), sculptor - Dennis HopperDennis HopperDennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
(1936–2010), actor, photographer, painter, other media - Joan JonasJoan JonasBorn in 1936 in New York City, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.She began her career in New York City as a sculptor...
(born 1936), video, performance artist, other media - Richard PionkRichard PionkRichard Cletus Pionk was an American artist who worked in the media of pastels and oil painting and who lived, worked and taught in New York City, New York. Pionk studied classical still-life painting by spending hours in museums. He studied still-life painting in the Brooklyn Museum and other New...
(1936–2007), pastellist, painter - Lucas SamarasLucas SamarasLucas Samaras , is an artist, born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal. While at Rutgers, he joined Gamma Sigma . He participated in Kaprow's "Happenings," and posed for Segal's plaster sculptures...
(born 1936) photographer, sculptor, printmaker - Frank StellaFrank StellaFrank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant within the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.-Biography:...
(born 1936), painter, printmaker - DeWain ValentineDeWain ValentineDe Wain Valentine is an American minimalist sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. He is best known for his translucent glass, fiberglass and cast polyester resin sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects....
(born 1936), sculptor - Leo ValledorLeo ValledorLeo Valledor was a Filipino-American painter who pioneered the Hard-edge painting style. During the 1960s he was a member of the Park Place Gallery in Soho, New York, which exhibited many influential and significant artists of the period. He exhibited in several prominent galleries and museums,...
(1936–1989), painter
1937
- Peter CampusPeter CampusPeter Campus, is an American born artist, known for his pioneering interactive and single channel video work of the early 1970s, alongside an extensive body of photographic and digital video works to the present day...
(born 1937), video artist, photographer - Reginald CaseReginald CaseReginald Case was an artist who made American Folk Art collages and Hollywood iconographic mixed-media assemblages and sculptures.-Life and work:...
(born 1937), Painter, Collagist, Sculptor - Ronald DavisRonald DavisRonald Davis , born 1937, is an American painter whose work is associated with Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Shaped canvas painting, Color field painting, and 3D Computer Graphics...
(born 1937), painter - Red GroomsRed GroomsRed Grooms is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life...
(born 1937), multimedia artist, printmaker - Robert MangoldRobert MangoldRobert Mangold is an American minimalist artist.- Works :“Robert Mangold’s paintings,” wrote Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times in 1997, “are more complicated to describe than they seem, which is partly what’s good about them: the way they invite intense scrutiny, which, in the nature of good...
(born 1937), painter, printmaker - Peter MaxPeter MaxPeter Max is a German-born Jewish American artist. At first, works in this style appeared on posters and were seen on the walls of college dorms all across America. Max then became fascinated with new printing techniques that allowed for four-color reproduction on product merchandise...
(born 1937) printmaker, graphic designer - Larry PoonsLarry PoonsLawrence Poons , better known as Larry Poons, is an abstract painter who was born in Tokyo, Japan. He studied from 1955 to 1957 at the New England Conservatory of Music, with the intent of becoming a professional musician...
(born 1937), painter - Charles Ross (artist)Charles Ross (artist)Charles Ross , is an American sculptor and earthwork artist. He was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A., and M.A. in Sculpture in 1962....
(born 1937), sculptor - Edward RuschaEdward RuschaEdward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California...
(born 1937), painter, printmaker, photographer, conceptual artist - Fritz ScholderFritz ScholderFritz Scholder was one of the most renowned Native American artists of the 20th century. Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Scholder was one-quarter Luiseño, a California Mission tribe. Scholder's most influential works were post-modern in sensibility and somewhat Pop Art in execution as he sought...
(1937–2005), painter, printmaker, graphic artist - Bob ThompsonBob Thompson (painter)Bob Thompson was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were appropriated from the Old Masters. He was very prolific in his eight-year career, producing over 1000 works before his death in Rome, Italy in 1966. The Whitney Museum in New...
, (1937-1966), painter - William T. WileyWilliam T. WileyWilliam T. Wiley is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance, and pinball. At least some of Wiley's work has been referred to as Funk art....
(born 1937), painter, printmaker - Larry ZoxLarry ZoxLawrence "Larry" Zox was an American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionist, Color Field painter and a Lyrical Abstractionist, although he did not readily use those categories for his work....
(1937–2006), painter
1938
- Joan BrownJoan BrownJoan Brown was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement....
(1938–1990), painter - Vija CelminsVija CelminsVija Celmins is an American artist.-Early life:Vija Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family from Latvia when she was ten years old. She and her family settled in Indiana...
(born 1938), painter, graphic artist, printmaker - Janet FishJanet FishJanet Fish is a contemporary American artist. She paints still life paintings, some of light bouncing off reflective surfaces, such as plastic wrap containing solid objects and empty or partially filled glassware....
(born 1938), painter - Robert GrahamRobert Graham (sculptor)Robert Graham was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America.-Biography:...
(1938-2008), sculptor - Dick HigginsDick HigginsDick Higgins was a composer, poet, printer, and early Fluxus artist. Higgins was born in Cambridge, England, but raised in the United States in various parts of New England, including Worcester, Massachusetts, Putney, Vermont, and Concord, New Hampshire.Like other Fluxus artists, Higgins studied...
(1938–1998), Fluxus artist, composer, writer - Robert H. HudsonRobert H. HudsonRobert Hudson is an American artist who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and grew up in Richland, Washington. He received a B.F.A in 1961 and an M.F.A. in 1963, both from the San Francisco Art Institute....
(born 1938), sculptor - Brice MardenBrice MardenBrice Marden , is an American artist, generally described as Minimalist, although his work defies specific categorization. He lives in New York and Eagles Mere.Marden is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery.-Life:...
(born 1938), painter, printmaker - Eugene J. MartinEugene J. MartinEugene James Martin was a prolific African American visual artist.-Art:Eugene J...
(1938–2005), collagist, painter, graphic artist - Clark MurrayClark MurrayClark Murray is an American sculptor who is best known for his large outdoor constructions of welded and painted steel pipes.Sculptures by Clark Murray include:...
(born 1938), sculptor, painter - Jim NuttJim NuttJames T "Jim" Nutt is an American artist who was a founding member of the Chicago surrealist art movement known as the Chicago Imagists, or the Hairy Who...
(born 1938), painter - Dennis Oppenheim (1938-2011), sculptor, installation and earth artist
- Robert SmithsonRobert SmithsonRobert Smithson was an American artist famous for his land art.-Background and education:Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York....
(1938–1973), sculptor, installation and earth artist - Pat SteirPat SteirPat Steir is an American painter and printmaker.-Education:Steir was born in 1940 in Newark, New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City. She attended the Pratt Institute in New York from 1956 to 1958, and Boston University College of Fine Arts from 1958 to 1960. She then returned to Pratt,...
(born 1938), painter
1939
- Peter AlexanderPeter Alexander (artist)Peter Alexander is an American artist. A member of the Light and Space artistic movement in southern California in the 1960s, he is best known for his resin sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
, (born 1939), sculptor - Larry BellLarry Bell (artist)Larry Bell is a contemporary American artist and sculptor. He lives and works in Taos, New Mexico, and maintains a studio in Venice, California. From 1957 to 1959 he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles as a student of Robert Irwin, Richards Ruben, Robert Chuey, and Emerson Woelfer...
(born 1939), sculptor - Scott BurtonScott BurtonScott Burton was an American sculptor and performance artist best known for his large-scale furniture sculptures in granite and bronze.-Early years:...
(1939-1989), sculptor - Judy ChicagoJudy ChicagoJudy Chicago is a feminist artist, author, and educator.Chicago has been creating artwork since the mid 1960s. Her earliest forays into the art world coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevance...
(born 1939), installation artist, sculptor - William EgglestonWilliam EgglestonWilliam Eggleston , is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries—which, until the 1970s, often tended to privilege work by photographers making black-and-white prints.- Early years...
(born 1939), photographer - Edward J. FraughtonEdward J. FraughtonEdward J. Fraughton , American artist, sculptor and inventor is primarily known for his epic monumental works and individual collector editions that often relate to the history of the American West. Fraughton's stylistic goals follow the American Neo-classic/Beaux-Arts, impressionistic realism...
(born 1939), sculptor, inventor - Nancy GravesNancy GravesNancy Graves was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon...
(1939–1995), sculptor, painter, printmaker - Robert LostutterRobert LostutterRobert Lostutter is a Chicago-based artist. He was a member of the Chicago Imagists, a breakaway group of surrealist iconoclasts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who showed in the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969 and later....
(born 1939), painter - Ed PaschkeEd PaschkeEdward Francis Paschke was a Polish American painter. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a career in art...
(1939–2004), painter, printmaker - Carolee SchneemannCarolee SchneemannCarolee Schneemann is an American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois. Her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the...
(born 1939), performance artist - Richard SerraRichard SerraRichard Serra is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.-Early life and education:...
(born 1939), sculptor, printmaker - Mierle Laderman UkelesMierle Laderman UkelesMierle Laderman Ukeles is a New York City-based artist known for her feminist and service oriented artwork. In 1969 she wrote a manifesto entitled Maintenance Art—Proposal for an Exhibition, challenging the domestic role of women and proclaiming herself a "maintenance artist"...
(born 1939), feminist artist, installation artist - Jack WhittenJack WhittenJack Whitten is an American abstract painter.- Biography :Whitten was born in Bessemer, Alabama, the son of a seamstress, twice widowed. His father, a coal-miner, died while Whitten was a child...
(born 1939), painter
Born 1940–1949
1940- Vito AcconciVito AcconciVito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...
(born 1940), conceptual artist, installation artist, performance artist, filmmaker - Mel BochnerMel BochnerMel Bochner is an American conceptual artist. Mr. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University...
(born 1940), conceptual artist - Chuck CloseChuck CloseCharles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...
(born 1940), painter, printmaker - John ConnellJohn ConnellJohn Connell was a contemporary American artist. His works included sculpture, painting, drawing, and writing....
(1940–2009), painter, sculptor, printmaker - Mimi GrossMimi GrossMimi Gross is a New York City born artist. She is the daughter of the sculptor Chaim Gross. From 1963-1976 she was married to the artist Red Grooms who was her collaborator on many projects...
(born 1940), painter - Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007), painter, printmaker
- Gladys NilssonGladys NilssonGladys M. Nilsson is an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art...
(born 1940), painter - Jaune Quick-To-See SmithJaune Quick-To-See SmithJaune Quick-To-See Smith is a Native American contemporary artist. Notably her work is held in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Modern Art in New York City.- Biography :Born in 1940...
(born 1940), painter, printmaker - Barbara RossiBarbara RossiBarbara Rossi is a Chicago artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. She first exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969...
(born 1940), painter - Joan SnyderJoan SnyderJoan Snyder is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her paintings have been exhibited at several museums, including the de Saisset Museum and the Jewish Museum.-Painting styles:...
(born 1940), painter - Mym TumaMym TumaBorn in Berwyn, Illinois, Mym Tuma aka Marilynn Thuma, studied at Northwestern University in Evanston; at Stanford University in California and at New York University. After graduation, she experimented with three dimensional works in her studio that she set up in Lake Chapala, Mexico.An exhibit...
(born 1940), painter, mixed media - Hannah WilkeHannah WilkeHannah Wilke was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist.-Biography:...
(1940–1993), all media - Peter YoungPeter Young (artist)Peter Young, is an American painter who was born in Pittsburgh, Pa, January 2, 1940. He is primarily known for his abstract paintings that have been widely exhibited in the United States and in Europe since the 1960s. His work is associated with Minimal Art, Post-minimalism, and Lyrical Abstraction...
, (born 1940), painter
1941
- Lynda BenglisLynda BenglisLynda Benglis is an American sculptor known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. After earning a BFA from Newcomb College in 1964, Benglis moved to New York, where she lives and works today...
(born 1941), sculptor - Dale ChihulyDale ChihulyDale Chihuly is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.-Biography:Chihuly graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington. He enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959...
(born 1941), glass sculptor - John De Andrea (born 1941), sculptor
- Mary KellyMary Kelly (artist)Mary Kelly is an American conceptual artist, feminist, educator, and writer. has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installations and theoretical writings. Kelly’s work mediates between conceptual art and the more intimate...
(born 1941), conceptual artist - Bruce NaumanBruce NaumanBruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives in Galisteo, New Mexico....
(born 1941), installation artist, video artist, printmaker - Martin PuryearMartin PuryearMartin Puryear is an African American sculptor. He works in media including wood, stone, tar, and wire, and his work is a union of minimalism and traditional crafts.-Life:...
(born 1941), sculptor, printmaker - John SeeryJohn SeeryJohn Seery is an American artist who is associated with the lyrical abstraction movement. He was born in Maspeth, New York, was raised in Flushing, Queens and as a teen, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.- Biography :...
(born 1941), painter - Keith SonnierKeith SonnierKeith Sonnier is a Postminimalist, performance, video and light artist. Sonnier was one of the first artists to use light in sculpture in the 1960s, and has been one of the most successful with this technique...
(born 1941), sculptor - Richard TuttleRichard TuttleRichard Dean Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line.- Biography :...
(born 1941), sculptor, painter, installation artist
1942
- Jonathan BorofskyJonathan BorofskyJonathan Borofsky is an American sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Maine.Borofsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 1964, after which he continued his studies at France's Ecole de Fontainebleau and received his...
(born 1942), painter, sculptor, installation artist - Jerry Dolyn BrownJerry Dolyn BrownAmerican folk artist Jerry Dolyn Brown, better known as Jerry Brown , is a traditional stoneware pottery maker who lives and works in Hamilton, Alabama. He is a 1992 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship award and 2003 recipient of the Alabama Folk Heritage...
(born 1942), folk artist, potter - Rhea CarmiRhea CarmiRhea Carmi , is an Israeli-American abstract expressionist and mixed-media artist.-Life and work:...
(born 1942), abstract expressionistAbstract expressionismAbstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...
and mixed-media artistMixed mediaMixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct... - Dan ChristensenDan ChristensenDan Christensen, the American abstract painter, was born in Cozad, Nebraska on October 6, 1942, he died in Easthampton, New York on January 20, 2007....
(1942–2007), painter - Susan CrileSusan CrileSusan Crile is an artist, primarily a painter and printmaker. She has had over 50 solo exhibitions, and her work is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Phillips Collection, and...
(born 1942), painter - Michael KabotieMichael KabotieMichael Kabotie was a Hopi silversmith, painter, and sculptor.-Background:Michael Kabotie was the son of the famous Hopi artist Fred Kabotie, and he grew up in the village of Shungopavi. Kabotie graduated from Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1961...
(1942–2009), painter, silversmith - Dan GrahamDan GrahamDan Graham , is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery....
(born 1942), conceptual artist, performance artist - Jann HaworthJann HaworthJann Haworth is an American Pop artist. A pioneer of soft sculpture, she is best known as the co-creator of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.-Early years:...
(born 1942), sculptor - Bob RossBob RossRobert Norman "Bob" Ross was an American painter, art instructor, and television host. He is best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a television program that ran for 12 years on PBS stations in the United States.-Personal life:Ross was born in Daytona Beach, Florida, and...
(1942–1995), painter, television artist - Lawrence WeinerLawrence WeinerLawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...
(born 1942), conceptual artist - William T. WilliamsWilliam T. WilliamsWilliam T. Williams was born in Cross Creek, North Carolina, United States. He received a BFA degree from Pratt Institute in 1966 and studied at The Skowhegan School of Art. In 1968 he received an MFA degree from Yale University School of Art and Architecture...
(born 1942), painter
1943
- Michael Asher (born 1943), conceptual artist, installation artist
- Robert Butler (born 1943), painter
- Cora CohenCora CohenCora Cohen is an American Abstract Painter. Cohen lives and works in Long Island City, New York. Her works are in many major public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Swedish State Art Council, The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Berlin, The Weatherspoon Art...
(born 1943), painter - Ron CooperRon Cooper (artist)Ron Cooper is a west-coast based American artist born in 1943 who started his career in the late ’60s in Los Angeles. He currently resides in Taos, New Mexico. By 1973, he had already participated in numerous international solo and group shows with pieces in the permanent collections of the...
(born 1943), artist - Robert CrumbRobert CrumbRobert Dennis Crumb —known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded...
(born 1943), cartoonist - Gordon Matta-ClarkGordon Matta-ClarkGordon Matta-Clark was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls.-Life and work:Both of Gordon Matta-Clark's...
(1943–1978), situationist, site-specific artist, performance artist - Simon GaonSimon gaonSimon Gaon is an American painter, Expressionist, and action painter. He is best known for his intense, tempestuous, action oriented paintings of the cityscape...
(born 1943), painter - David HammonsDavid HammonsDavid Hammons is an African-American artist mostly known for his works in and around New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.Much of his work, including Spade with Chains , reflects his commitment to the civil rights and Black Power movements...
(born 1943), installation artist, sculptor - David R. PrenticeDavid R. PrenticeDavid R. Prentice is an American artist.Prentice was born in Hartford, Connecticut and studied at the Art School of the University of Hartford from 1962 to 1964, after which he worked as a studio assistant to Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Alexander Liberman and Malcolm...
(born 1943), painter - Martha RoslerMartha RoslerMartha Rosler is an American artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She graduated from Brooklyn College and the University of California, San Diego . Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture...
(born 1943), video, photo-text, installation, performance art - Suze RotoloSuze RotoloSusan Elizabeth Rotolo , known as Suze Rotolo , was an American artist, but is perhaps best known as Bob Dylan's girlfriend between 1961 and 1964 and a strong influence on his music...
(1943–2011), book artist - James TurrellJames TurrellJames Turrell is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York...
(born 1943), installation artist - Jerry WilkersonJerry WilkersonJerry Oliver Wilkerson was a St. Louis, Missouri artist known for his contemporary pointillistic style of painting, and as a supporter of local business and talent. After completing his BS at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, in 1966, Wilkerson obtained his MFA from Washington University in...
(1943–2007), painter
1944
- Don EddyDon EddyDon Eddy is an American painter who gained initial fame as a photorealist; but his recent works have veered into the realm of metaphysics.In the 1970s, Eddy's works paid homage to cars and the urban cityscape...
(born 1944), painter - Louis DelsarteLouis DelsarteLouis J. Delsarte is an African American artist known for what has sometimes been called his "illusionistic" style. He is a painter, muralist, printmaker, and illustrator. When Delsarte was growing up, he was surrounded by music including jazz, opera, musicals, and the blues...
(born 1944) painter - Michael HeizerMichael HeizerMichael Heizer is a contemporary artist specializing primarily in large-scale sculptures and earth art .Heizer was born in Berkeley, California in 1944; and he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Traveling to New York City in 1966, he began his career producing more conventional, small-scale...
(born 1944), sculptor, earth artist - Allan McCollumAllan McCollumAllan McCollum is a contemporary American artist who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944, and now lives and works in New York City. He has spent over forty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing most recently on...
(born 1944), conceptual artist, sculptor, all media - Richard MockRichard MockRichard Mock was a printmaker, painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. Mock was best known for his linocut illustrations that appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times from 1980 through 1996....
(1944–2006), painter - Richard RappaportRichard RappaportRichard Rappaport, born 1944 in Pittsburgh, is a classically trained painter of portraits and large-scale figurative works whose pictorial evolution has spiraled towards and away from the Renaissance ideal for half a century....
(born 1944) painter - Fred H. RosterFred H. RosterFred H. Roster is an American sculptor who was born in Palo Alto, California. He received an MA in ceramics from San José State University in 1968. He came to Hawaii in 1969 on his honeymoon and decided to stay. In 1970, he earned an MFA in sculpture from the University of Hawaii at Manoa...
(born 1944), sculptor - Allen RuppersbergAllen RuppersbergBorn in 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio. Allen Ruppersberg is one of the first generation of American Conceptual artists that changed the way art was thought about and made. His work includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books.- Biography :...
(born 1944), conceptual artist, installation artist
1945
- DonrayDonrayDonray is a contemporary American artist in the style of Post-Modern Expressionism with elements of Surrealism, Futurism and Fauvism....
(born 1945), painter - Carole FeuermanCarole FeuermanCarole A. Feuerman is an American artist and hyper-realistic sculptor. She currently lives and works in New York, New York. Feuerman is most known for her resin sculptures painted in oil, but she also utilizes other media such as bronze and stone...
(born 1945), sculptor - Charles FincherCharles FincherCharles Pugsley Fincher is an American cartoonist and lawyer. His cartoons and comics focus on the law.-Education:...
(born 1945), cartoonist - Glenda GreenGlenda GreenGlenda Allen Green is an American artist, academic and author. Her experiences in painting a portrait of Jesus Christ in 1992 led her to write a book of her inner conversations with Jesus which has become a best seller.-Career:...
(born 1945) painter - Jack GoldsteinJack GoldsteinJack Goldstein was a Canadian born, California-based performance and conceptual artist turned painter in the 1980s art boom.-Early life and education:...
(1945–2003), conceptual artist, filmmaker, painter - Benjamin Harjo, Jr.Benjamin Harjo, Jr.Benjamin Harjo, Jr. is an award-winning Absentee Shawnee-Seminole painter and printmaker from Oklahoma.-Background:Harjo is half-Seminole and half-Shawnee and is enrolled in the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. Harjo’s father was the late Benjamin Harjo, Sr., a full blood Seminole. Harjo’s...
(born 1945), painter, printmaker - Neil JenneyNeil JenneyNeil Jenney is a self-taught artist born in 1945. He attended Massachusetts College of Art in 1964. In 1966 he moved to New York City where he currently resides....
(born 1945), painter - Charles Hollis JonesCharles Hollis JonesCharles Hollis Jones is an American artist and furniture designer who is currently being recognized by the Smithsonian Institution for his pioneering use of acrylic and lucite....
(born 1945), furniture designer - Joseph KosuthJoseph KosuthJoseph Kosuth , is an American conceptual artist. Kosuth lives in New York and Rome.-Early life and career:Kosuth was born in Toledo, Ohio. He attended the Toledo Museum School of Design from 1955 to 1962 and studied privately under the Belgian painter Line Bloom Draper. In 1963, Kosuth enrolled at...
(born 1945), conceptual artist - Barbara KrugerBarbara KrugerBarbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...
(born 1945), photographer, graphic artist, sculptor - Suzanne LacySuzanne LacySuzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist, educator, writer, and former public servant. She describes her work, which includes "installations, video, and large-scale performances", as focusing on "social themes and urban issues." She also served in the education cabinet of Jerry Brown, then...
(born 1945), installations, video, performance artist - Paul McCarthyPaul McCarthyPaul McCarthy , is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.-Life:McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. He went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute receiving a BFA in painting...
(born 1945), sculptor, installation artist, video artist - Peter ReginatoPeter ReginatoPeter Reginato , is an American abstract sculptor.Reginato was born in Dallas, Texas, but grew up in the hills outside Oakland, California and he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. He began making abstract sculpture in 1965 and moved to New York City in 1966 to pursue his career as a sculptor...
(born 1945), sculptor - Judy RifkaJudy RifkaJudy Rifka, an American artist, first emerged in the 1970s as a painter and video artist, and is associated with Colab, Tribeca, the Lower East Side arts scene of that period, and such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rene Ricard, John Ahearn, Richard Mock, Ron Gorchov, Becky Howland, Keith...
(born 1945), painter, video artist - Susan RothenbergSusan RothenbergSusan Rothenberg is a contemporary painter who lives and works in New Mexico, USA.-Background:Rothenberg was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1945...
(born 1945), painter, printmaker - Sean ScullySean ScullySean Scully is an Irish-born American painter and printmaker who has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. His work is collected in major museums worldwide.-Life and work:...
(born 1945), painter, printmaker - Carol SuttonCarol Sutton (artist)Carol Lorraine Sutton; born September 3, 1945, is a multi-disciplined artist born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA and now living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an award winning painter whose works on canvas and paper have been shown in 32 solo exhibits as well as being included in 94 group shows...
(born 1945), painter - Daisy YoungbloodDaisy YoungbloodDaisy Youngblood is an American modern sculptor and ceramic artist. She grew up in North Carolina and currently lives in New Mexico. She was a 2003 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant"....
(born 1945), ceramic artist, sculptor
1946
- Charles ArnoldiCharles ArnoldiCharles Arnoldi, also known as Chuck Arnoldi and as Charles Arthur Arnoldi is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. He was born April 10, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio....
(born 1946), painter - Dennis AshbaughDennis AshbaughDennis John Ashbaugh is an American painter and artist from New York. He is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings, in his 1992 work Designer Gene. Ashbaugh's use of light and colour in his large-scale paintings of autoradiographs have drawn comparison with Mark Rothko...
(born 1946), painter - Alice AycockAlice Aycock-Biography:Aycock studied at Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in 1968. She then went to New York City where she studied for her masters at Hunter College, and where she was taught and supervised by Robert Morris; she graduated in 1971...
(born 1946), sculptor - Frances BagleyFrances BagleyFrances Bagley is an American sculptor who was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee on April 7, 1946. In 1969 she received a BFA in painting from Arizona State University , in 1971 an MA from Arizona State University and in 1980 an MFA in sculpture from the University of North Texas...
(born 1946), American sculptor - Betty BeaumontBetty BeaumontArtist Betty Beaumont lives and works in New York City, New York. Beaumont is now a U. S. Citizen. She works in the field of environmental art, creating installations out of waste products.-Life and work:...
(born 1946), site-specific artist, all media - Chris BurdenChris BurdenChristopher "Chris" Burden is an American artist working in performance, sculpture, and installation art.-Education:Burden studied for his B.A...
(born 1946), performance artist, sculptor - T.C. Cannon (1946–1978), painter
- Don Gummer (born 1946), sculptor
- Nabil KansoNabil KansoNabil Kanso is a Lebanese-American painter born in Beirut, Lebanon.His works deal with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and are marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the paint and often done on large-scale formats...
(born 1946), painter - Anthony McCallAnthony McCallAnthony McCall is a British-born American Avant-Garde artist, specializing in cinema/projected film.thumb|Anthony McCall at Gallery Zander , Cologne...
(born 1946), installation artist, projected film - Robert MapplethorpeRobert MapplethorpeRobert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men...
(1946–1989), photographer - Lonnie OrtegaLonnie OrtegaLonnie Ortega is an American artist specializing in aviation art.- Background :Lonnie Ortega was born in Southern California and is one of six children...
(born 1946), aviation artist - David Reed (artist)David Reed (artist)David Reed is a contemporary American conceptual and visual artist.-Art:David Reed is known as a colorist and for creating long, narrow abstract paintings on canvas that are hung either lengthwise or vertically and feature several images resembling enlarged photographs of swirling brushstrokes...
(born 1946), painter - Jamie WyethJamie WyethJames Browning Wyeth is a contemporary American realist painter. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth...
(born 1946), painter
1947
- Laurie AndersonLaurie AndersonLaura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
(born 1947), experimental performance artist, musician - Sarah CharlesworthSarah CharlesworthSarah Charlesworth is a well-known American conceptual artist and photographer. She was born in East Orange, New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1969 and now lives in New York City...
(born 1947), conceptual artist, photographer - Ronnie LandfieldRonnie LandfieldRonnie Landfield is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction, , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery.Landfield is...
(born 1947), painter - Louise LawlerLouise LawlerLouise Lawler is a U.S. artist and photographer. From the late 1970s onwards, Lawler's work has focused on the presentation and marketing of artwork. Much of this work consists of photographs of other peoples' artwork and the context in which it is viewed...
(born 1947), photographer - Sherrie LevineSherrie LevineSherrie Levine is an American photographer and appropriation artist.-Education:Levine received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969. In 1973, she earned an M.F.A. from the same institution....
(born 1947), conceptual artist - Richard MinskyRichard MinskyRichard P. Minsky is an American scholar of bookbinding and a book artist. He is the founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City.-Background:...
(born 1947) bookbinder and cover artist - Stephen MuellerStephen MuellerStephen Mueller was an American painter whose color field and Lyrical Abstraction canvases took a turn towards pop. He earned his B.F.A. in painting from the University of Texas, Austin in 1969 and his M.F.A...
, (1947-2011), painter - Linda RidgwayLinda RidgwayLinda Ridgway is an American artist who was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1947. She earned a BFA from Louisville School of Art in Anchorage, Kentucky and an MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana....
(born 1947), sculptor - Bill StonehamBill StonehamWilliam Stoneham is an artist and writer who is notable for painting eBay's 'haunted painting' The Hands Resist Him, which became an Internet meme....
(born 1947), feature film (creature shop), surrealist, illustrator - James SchoppertJames SchoppertRobert James "Jim" Schoppert , was a Tlingit Alaska Native born in Juneau, Alaska. His father was of German descent and his mother Tlingit. During his life, Schoppert became one of the most prodigious and influential Alaska Native artists of the twentieth century. His work includes carving,...
(born 1947), Alaska Native Artist
1948
- Eric FischlEric FischlEric Fischl is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker.-Early life:Fischl was born in New York City and grew up on suburban Long Island; his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1967...
(born 1948), painter, printmaker - David GeiserDavid GeiserDavid Geiser is an American painter and creator of several underground comix.- Life and works :David Geiser is an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rochester, New York in 1948. He studied at the University of Vermont, École des Beaux-Arts, and the Art Students League...
(born 1948), painter - Jonathan LaskerJonathan LaskerJonathan Lasker is an American artist.Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California....
(born 1948), painter - Ana MendietaAna MendietaAna Mendieta was a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is known for her "earth-body" art work....
(1948–1985), performance artist - Adrian PiperAdrian PiperAdrian Margaret Smith Piper is a first-generation conceptual artist and analytic philosopher who was born in New York City and lived for many years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts before emigrating from the United States...
(born 1948), conceptual artist - Hollis SiglerHollis SiglerHollis Sigler was a Chicago-based artist whose paintings addressed her life with breast cancer. She died of the disease in 2001, at the age of 53. She received degrees from both Moore College of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago...
(1948-2001), painter, printmaker - Brian WoodBrian Wood (artist)Brian Wood , is a visual artist working with multiple media in photography, painting, drawing and printmaking in New York City.- Biography :...
(born 1948), film maker, multiple media, painter, photographer
1949
- Ross BlecknerRoss Bleckner-Life and work:"'I always absolutely thought there was a difference between being a young artist and an important young artist,' said Mr. Bleckner, who grew up in Hewlett, L.I., graduated in 1971 from New York University and earned an M.F.A...
(born 1949), painter - Deborah ButterfieldDeborah ButterfieldDeborah Kay Butterfield is an American sculptor. She divides her time between a ranch in Bozeman, Montana and studio space in Hawaii...
(born 1949), sculptor - Stephen HickmanStephen HickmanStephen Hickman is an award-winning American artist, illustrator, sculptor and author. He is best known for his work in science fiction and fantasy with over 350 book and magazine covers to his credit. His efforts have brought an extra dimension to the stories of Robert A. Heinlein, H. P....
(born 1949), illustrator, sculptor - Geoffrey LaurenceGeoffrey LaurenceGeoffrey Laurence is an American realist painter. He lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Laurence was born in Paterson, New Jersey. Child of Holocaust survivors, he was brought up and educated in London, England...
(born 1949), painter - Richard PrinceRichard PrinceRichard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975...
(born 1949), painter, photographer, sculptor - Archie RandArchie RandArchie Rand is an artist from Brooklyn, New York. Rand's work as a painter and muralist is displayed around the world, including in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de...
(born 1949), painter, muralist - Barbara SchwartzBarbara SchwartzBarbara Schwartz was an American abstract artist and art teacher.Schwartz was born in Philadelphia. She studied at Carnegie Mellon University for her BFA. She moved to New York and had her first solo show in 1975 at the Willard Gallery...
(1949–2006), painter, sculptor - Laurie SimmonsLaurie SimmonsLaurie Simmons is an American artist and photographer currently working in New York.- Personal life :Laurie Simmons was born in Long Island, New York, in 1949. She received a BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1971...
(born 1949), photographer - Mark TanseyMark TanseyMark Tansey is an American postmodern painter best known for monochromatic works, elaborate paintings incorporating hidden text, images and symbols and his invented "color wheel" approach to painting, in which a large, wooden wheel consisting of three rows of ambiguous words is spun—the results...
(born 1949), painter
Born 1950–1959
1950- Lesley DillLesley DillLesley Dill is an American contemporary artist and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is represented by George Adams Gallery, New York and Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans.-Education:...
(born 1950), all media - Jenny HolzerJenny HolzerJenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York.-Education:...
(born 1950), conceptual artist - Jack Reilly (born 1950), painter
- Mary Michael ShelleyMary Michael ShelleyMary Shelley is an American folk artist with no formal visual art training. Her art work has variously been described as naïve, primitive or self-taught. She graduated from Cornell University in 1972 with a degree in English and Creative Writing, and has lived her entire adult life in Ithaca, NY...
(born 1950), carver, painter - Ira ShermanIra ShermanIra D. Sherman is an American-born sculptor.Sherman's sculptural work uses materials and shapes from science and technology, yet “bio-engineered” to interact with the audience or viewer in a uniquely human way. Many of Sherman’s pieces are, in fact, "prostheses" created around a humorous social...
(born 1950), sculptor - Glennray TutorGlennray TutorGlennray Tutor is an American painter who is known for his photorealistic paintings. He is considered to be part of the Photorealism art movement. His paintings are immersed with bright colors, nostalgic items, metaphor, and with a complete focus on detail...
(born 1950), painter
1951
- Douglas BourgeoisDouglas BourgeoisDouglas Bourgeois is an American sculptor and figurative painter who was born in Gonzales, Louisiana and grew up in St. Amant, Louisiana. He received a BFA from Louisiana State University in 1974....
(born 1951), sculptor and figurative painter - Louisa ChaseLouisa ChaseLouisa L. Chase is an American neo-expressionist painter, and printmaker.-Life:She grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Yale School of Art in 1971, from Syracuse University with a B.F.A. in 1973, and from Yale School of Art with an M.F.A. in 1975...
(born 1951), painter - Mary HeebnerMary HeebnerMary Heebner Mary Heebner works in several mediums including painting, photography and handmade artists books. Her work is exhibited internationally, and is in collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the University of Chicago...
(born 1951), painter - Gary HillGary HillGary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide . He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C...
(born 1951), video installation artist - Joseph NechvatalJoseph NechvatalJoseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual art digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.-Life and work:Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago...
(born 1951), digital painter - Nic NicosiaNic NicosiaNic Nicosia is an American art photographer who was born in Dallas, Texas. He received a BS in radio-television-film, with a concentration in motion pictures, from the University of North Texas in 1974. He was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant in 1984 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in...
(born 1951), American art photographer - Michael SmithMichael Smith (performance artist)Michael Smith is an American artist born in Chicago, in 1951. He is an influential figure in performance art, video art, and installation art. In the 1980s, he was perceived as "the quirky Ed Sullivan" of the time.-Mike:...
(born 1951), performance, video, and installation artist - Julian SchnabelJulian SchnabelJulian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....
(born 1951), painter, filmmaker - Bill ViolaBill ViolaBill Viola is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media...
(born 1951), video artist
1952
- David EmDavid Em-Life and work:David Em is one of the first artists to make art with pixels. He was born in Los Angeles and grew up in South America. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and film directing at the American Film Institute....
(born 1952), digital art - Ken Feingold (born 1952), installation artist, all media
- Sam HavadtoySam HavadtoySam Havadtoy is a British born Hungarian-American interior designer, contemporary painter and owner of Gallery 56. He is well known for being part of the artist circle of New York including – among others - Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono and Jasper Johns.- Early life :Havadtoy was born in...
(born 1952), painter, interior designer - Kayla KomitoKayla KomitoKayla Komito is a Tibetan thanka painter. She began showing her personal work, on the general theme of the spiritual feminine, with the San Francisco visionary artists in 1975...
(born 1952), visionary and thanka artist - Tom OtternessTom OtternessTom Otterness is an American sculptor whose works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums in New York---most notably in Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and in the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station---and other cities around the world...
(born 1952), sculptor - Clifford RossClifford RossClifford Ross is an American visual artist who has worked in multiple media, including sculpture, painting, photography and video. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of...
(born 1952), painter, photographer, video - David SalleDavid SalleDavid Salle is an American painter who helped define postmodern sensibility by combining figuration with a varied pictorial language of multi-imagery...
(born 1952), painter
1953
- Larry Dell Alexander (born 1953), painter
- Sean K. L. BrowneSean K. L. BrowneSean Kekamakupaa Lee Loy Browne is a contemporary sculptor who was born in Hilo, Hawaii. He attended the Kamehameha Schools and then earned a BA in studio art from the University of Redlands in 1975. In 1981, he studied marble carving under Paoli Silverio in Pietrasanta, Italy and was later...
(born 1953), sculptor - James CasebereJames CasebereJames Casebere is an American contemporary artist and photographer living in New York.-Biography:James Casebere, born in Lansing, Michigan, grew up outside of Detroit. He attended Michigan State University and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a BFA in 1976...
(born 1953), photographer - Philip-Lorca diCorciaPhilip-Lorca diCorciaPhilip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New...
(born 1953), photographer - April GornikApril GornikApril Gornik is an American artist, known for her American landscape paintings.Her work Storm and Fires is included into the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, as well as in many other national museums and private collections.In 2007, The Smithsonian Art Collectors Program...
(born 1953), painter - Michael HafftkaMichael HafftkaMichael Hafftka is an American figurative expressionist painter living in New York City. Hafftka was born in Manhattan to Eva and Simon Hafftka, European refugees and Holocaust survivors. Raised in the Bronx, he attended public schools and experimented with several creative forms before he...
(born 1953), painter - Peter HalleyPeter Halley-Early Life and Career:Halley first came to prominence as a result of the geometric paintings rendered in intense day-glo colours that he produced in the early 1980s. His practice as an artist is usually associated with minimalism, neo-geo, and neo-conceptualism...
(born 1953), painter - Robert LongoRobert LongoRobert Longo is an American painter and sculptor. Longo became famous in the 1980s for his "Men in the Cities" series, which depicted sharply dressed businessmen writhing in contorted emotion.-Early life and education:...
(born 1953) sculptor, graphic artist - Csaba MarkusCsaba MarkusCsaba Markus is an artist, painter, sculptor and publisher. As an artist he primarily works in the field of printmaking, with a particular focus on serigraphy. His work also includes oil painting, drawing, photography and sculpture.-Life and work:...
(born 1953) painter, sculptor, graphic artist - Charles Ray (artist)Charles Ray (artist)Charles Ray is a Los Angeles-based sculptor. He is known for his strange and enigmatic sculptures that draw the viewer’s perceptual judgments into question in jarring and unexpected ways...
(Born 1953) sculptor - Carrie Mae WeemsCarrie Mae WeemsCarrie Mae Weems is an award-winning photographer and artist. Her photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity...
(born 1953), photographer - Stephen WestfallStephen WestfallStephen Westfall is an American painter, critic, and professor at Bard College.He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.A. and M.F.A...
(born 1953) painter, art critic
1954
- Robert GoberRobert GoberRobert Gober is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs.-Life and work:...
(born 1954), sculptor - Joseph HavelJoseph HavelJoseph Havel is a modernist American sculptor who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He earned a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship in 1987 and a Louis Comfort Tiffany...
(born 1954), sculptor - Mike Kelley (born 1954), all media
- Karen KilimnikKaren KilimnikKaren Kilimnik is an American painter and installation artist.-Life and work:Karen Kilimnik trained at Temple University, Philadelphia.Her installations reflected a young viewpoint of pop culture...
(born 1954), painter, installation artist - Stephen LittleStephen LittleStephen Little is an American Asian art scholar, museum administrator and artist.Dr. Little's father was a linguist and cultural attaché for the government of the United States. Stephen was raised in Indonesia, Cambodia, Burma, and Turkey, not living in the United States until age 11. He...
(born 1954), painter - Cindy ShermanCindy ShermanCindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
(born 1954), photographer - Kiki SmithKiki SmithKiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century...
(born 1954), sculptor, printmaker, all media - Randy SoudersRandy SoudersRandy Souders is an American painter in the realistic and magic realism traditions. He is best known for highly detailed works painted with acrylic on wood panel , and sometimes on canvas...
(born 1954), painter - Fred WilsonFred Wilson (artist)Conceptual artist Fred Wilson describes himself as of "African, Native American, European and Amerindian" descent. Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1999 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 2003. Wilson represented the United States at the Biennial Cairo in 1992 and the...
(born 1954), conceptual artist, printmaker - David WojnarowiczDavid WojnarowiczDavid Wojnarowicz was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s.-Biography:...
(1954–1992), painter, photographer
1955
- Roni HornRoni HornRoni Horn is an American visual artist and writer. Horn's oeuvre, which spans almost four decades, encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography, language, and site-specific installation. The granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, she was born in New York and lives and works in New York...
(born 1955), sculptor, photographer - Jeff KoonsJeff KoonsJeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....
(born 1955), sculptor - Barbara JanuszkiewiczBarbara JanuszkiewiczBarbara Morrison Januszkiewicz is an American painter, multi-media artist and filmmaker. She specializes in watercolor painting in a hybrid style – 'realism handled in a impressionist manner'. Her artwork has appeared predominantly in the Washington, D.C., area, including the Phillips Collection,...
(born 1955), visual artist - Christian MarclayChristian MarclayChristian Marclay is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film...
(born 1955), visual artist, composer - Philip TaaffePhilip TaaffePhilip Taaffe is an American artistTaaffe was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and studied at the Cooper Union in New York, gaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977....
(born 1955), painter, printmaker - Jeffrey VallanceJeffrey VallanceJeffrey Karl Reese Vallance is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California....
(born 1955), conceptual artist
1956
- Mark Beard (artist)Mark Beard (artist)Mark Beard is an American artist. Beard works in prints, paint, and as a sculptor, in addition to being a noted stage set designer...
(born 1956) painter, sculptor, set designer - Julian HattonJulian HattonJulian Burroughs Hatton III is an American landscape abstract artist from New York City whose paintings have appeared in galleries in the United States and France. The New York Times described his painting style as "vibrant, playful, semi-abstract landscapes" while New York Sun art critic John...
(born 1956), painter - Soraida MartinezSoraida MartinezSoraida Martinez is a contemporary abstract expressionist artist who creates hard-edge paintings. She was born in Harlem, New York City, USA on July 30, 1956....
(born 1956), painter - Alison SaarAlison SaarAlison Saar is an American artist who was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Laurel Canyon, California. Her parents were Betye Saar, a well-known African American artist, and Richard Saar, an art conservationist. Both parents encouraged their three daughters, all artists, to look at...
(born 1956), sculptor, installation artist - Fred TomaselliFred TomaselliFred Tomaselli is an American artist. He is best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin...
(born 1956), painter
1957
- Julie AultJulie AultJulie Ault works as an artist, curator, and editor, and has been one of the cofounders of , a New York-based artists collaborative that has produced over fifty exhibitions and public projects exploring relationships between politics and aesthetics....
(born 1957), collaborative artist, curator - Felix Gonzalez-TorresFélix González-TorresFelix Gonzalez-Torres was an American, Cuban-born visual artist."For Felix it was much more powerful to assume that the gay and straight audience was the same audience, that being a Cuban-born American is the same as being an American. And being American was something he was extremely proud of."...
(1957–1996), sculptor, installation artist, interdisciplinary - Jim HodgesJim Hodges (artist)Jim Hodges is a New York-based installation artist.Hodges was born in Spokane, Washington in 1957. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Fort Wright College in 1980 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 1986.Since the late 1980s, Hodges has...
(1957), sculptor - Tony OurslerTony OurslerTony Oursler is a multimedia and installation artist.- Tapes, Installations: 1977-1989:Tony Oursler is known for his fractured-narrative handmade video tapes including The Loner, 1980 and EVOL 1984. These works involve elaborate sound tracks, painted sets, stop-action animation and optical special...
(born 1957), video, performance and installation artist
1958
- Wayne BarloweWayne BarloweWayne Douglas Barlowe is an American science fiction and fantasy painter. He has paintedover 300 book and magazine covers and illustrations for many major book publishers, as well as Life magazine, Time, and Newsweek...
(born 1958), science fiction and fantasy painter - Keith HaringKeith HaringKeith Haring was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.-Early life:...
(1958–1990), graphic artist, muralist, sculptor, printmaker - Wendy W. JacobWendy W. JacobWendy W. Jacob is an American artist who works as an urban interventionist.-Life and work:Wendy Jacob received her bachelor's degree from Williams College in 1980, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Chicago.She has created installations and interventions in social...
(born 1958), sculptor - Thomas KinkadeThomas KinkadeThomas Kinkade is an American painter of popular and commercial realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via The Thomas Kinkade Company...
(born 1958), painter - Christie RepasyChristie RepasyChristie Repasy is an American floral artist born in Maywood, California.- About the Artist :Christie Repasy has been painting since she was in the second grade. By age 14 she was painting furniture for friends and neighbors. Her first accomplishment was a high school art contest she won...
(born 1958), floral painter - James RombergerJames RombergerJames Romberger is an American fine artist and cartoonist known for his depictions of New York City's Lower East Side.Romberger's pastel drawings of the ravaged landscape of the Lower East Side and its citizens are in many public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
(born 1958), pastels, comics - Kenny ScharfKenny ScharfKenny Scharf is an American painter who lives in Brooklyn, New York. The artist received his B.F.A in 1980 at the School of Visual Arts located in New York City. Scharf's works consist of popular culture based shows with made up science-related backgrounds...
(born 1958), painter - Renee StoutRenee StoutRenée Stout is a contemporary artist known for assemblage artworks dealing with her personal history and African American heritage....
(born 1958), assemblagist - Francesca WoodmanFrancesca WoodmanFrancesca Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring herself and female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, who are blurred , who are merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured...
(1958–1981), photographer
1959
- Anne ChuAnne ChuAnne Chu is an artist based in New York.She graduated from Philadelphia College of Art in 1982 and received her MFA from Columbia University in 1985....
(born 1959), sculptor - Maya LinMaya LinMaya Ying Lin is an American artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. She is the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.-Personal life:...
(born 1959), installation artist - Jerry WeissJerry Weiss (artist)Jerry Weiss is an American figurative, landscape, portrait painter and writer. As a student he studied classical drawing; he initially focused on portraits, and began to paint landscapes during the 1980s....
(born 1959), painter
Born 1960–1969
1960- Jean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel BasquiatJean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting.-Early life:...
(1960–1988), painter - Joe BoudreauJoe BoudreauJoe Boudreau is an American artist.Born in Vincennes, Indiana, Boudreau moved with his family to Baltimore, Maryland at the age of seven. It was in Baltimore that he spent most of his formative years and where he resolved to be an artist...
(born 1960), painter - Bob EggletonBob EggletonBob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. Eggleton has been honored with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times, first winning in 1994. He also won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for his art book "Greetings From Earth"...
(born 1960), science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. - Glenn LigonGlenn LigonGlenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. He engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life.-Early life and career:...
(born 1960), conceptual artist, all media - Jack PiersonJack PiersonJack Pierson is a photographer and an artist. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books...
(born 1960), sculptor, photographer, other media - Lorna SimpsonLorna SimpsonLorna Simpson is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex...
(born 1960), photographer
1961
- Sam DurantSam DurantSam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music,...
(born 1961), variety of media - Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photographer and visual artist
- Catherine OpieCatherine OpieCatherine Opie is an American artist specializing in issues within documentary photography. Throughout her work she has investigated aspects of community, making portraits of many groups including LGBT community; surfers; and most recently high school football players. She is also interested in...
(born 1961), photographer - Rirkrit TiravanijaRirkrit TiravanijaRirkrit Tiravanija is a contemporary artist residing in New York. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element...
(born 1961), conceptual artist, installation artist
1962
- Patrick ChingPatrick ChingPatrick Ching is a wildlife artist, ornithological illustrator, and author of children's books including coloring books. He also owns the in Waimanalo, Hawaii on the island of Oahu.Patrick Ching, is known as Hawaii's Nature Artist...
(born 1962) - Gregory CrewdsonGregory CrewdsonGregory Crewdson is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.-Life and career:Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY...
(born 1962), photographer - John CurrinJohn CurrinJohn Currin is an American painter. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner. His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance, popular culture magazines, and...
(born 1962), painter - Lisa YuskavageLisa YuskavageLisa Yuskavage is a contemporary American painter who lives and works in New York City. Her figurative oil painting is known for its engagement with the female form. Her name is pronounced yus-CAH-vitch....
(born 1962), painter
1963
- Steve BogdanoffSteve BogdanoffSteve Bogdanoff is an American artist who is internationally known for originating a technique for creating fresco secco-style artworks. Bogdanoff is also recognized for his skill in creating self-produced limited-edition giclée prints, and has the distinction of being selected out of all of the...
(born 1963), painter, fresco artist, muralist - Kathy ButterlyKathy ButterlyKathy Butterly Kathy Butterly Kathy Butterly (born in Amityville, New York1963 is an American sculptor.In 2005 she lived in New York.Her work has been compared to that of George Ohr, manifested in "a penchant for crumpled shapes, twisted and pinched openings, and making . ....
(born 1963), sculptor - Jon CoffeltJon CoffeltJohnny Lee Coffelt born is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes book arts and curates art exhibitions.-Background:...
(born 1963), painter, sculptor, book arts, curator
1964
- Janine AntoniJanine AntoniJanine Antoni is a contemporary artist whose work focuses mostly on process. She often uses her whole body or different parts of it, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and brain as tools and with them performs everyday activities to create her artwork.She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College...
(born 1964), sculptor, installation artist - Margarete BagshawMargarete BagshawMargarete Bagshaw is an American artist. She is the daughter of artist Helen Hardin and grand daughter of artist Pablita Velarde. Together, they form one of the only three generational female painting dynasties known...
(born 1964), painter, clay artist - Jason TeraokaJason TeraokaJason Jun Teraoka is a figurative painter who was born in Kapaʻa, Hawaiʻi. He is a 4th generation Japanese-American who lives and works in Honolulu, and is largely self-taught...
(born 1964), painter
1965
- Andrea FraserAndrea FraserAndrea Fraser is a New York-based performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of institutional critique. She is currently a member of the Art Department faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles.-Position:...
(born 1965), performance artist - Tom FriedmanTom Friedman (artist)Tom Friedman American conceptual sculptor known for his work employing everyday material, such as toothpicks or sugar cubes in intricate geometric arrangements. Friedman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Washington University in St. Louis, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic...
(born 1965), sculptor - Elizabeth PeytonElizabeth PeytonElizabeth Joy Peyton is an American painter who rose to popularity in the mid-1990s. She is a contemporary artist best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends and boyfriends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy...
(born 1965), painter - Jason RhoadesJason RhoadesJason Rhoades was an installation artist who enjoyed critical acclaim, if not widespread public recognition, at the time of his death, and who was eulogized by some critics as one of the most significant artists of his generation...
(1965–2006), installation artist - Brian RutenbergBrian RutenbergBrian Christopher Rutenberg , is an American abstract painter.Rutenberg received his BFA from the College of Charleston in 1987 and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1989...
(born 1965), abstract painter - Andrea ZittelAndrea ZittelAndrea Zittel is an American practicing sculptor, installation artist, and Relational artist.-Early Life:Born in Escondido, California in 1965, Zittel graduated from San Pasqual High School in 1983...
(born 1965), sculptor, installation artist
1966
- Rachel HarrisonRachel HarrisonRachel Harrison is a sculptor based in New York.Harrison's work has been seen in many exhibitions including:‘Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Beck’ at Arndt & Partner in Berlin,...
(born 1966), sculptor, photographer - Josiah McElhenyJosiah McElhenyJosiah McElheny is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects . He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant"...
(born 1966), sculptor, glass artist - Roxy PaineRoxy PaineRoxy Paine is an American artist. He was educated at both the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York....
(born 1966), sculptor, kinetic art
1967
- Matthew BarneyMatthew BarneyMatthew Barney is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video...
(born 1967), multimedia artist, sculptor, filmmaker - Harrell FletcherHarrell FletcherHarrell Fletcher is an American artist in Portland, Oregon who creates socially engaged interdisciplinary projects.-Early work:While completing his degree at California College of Arts and Crafts, Fletcher began collaborating with artist Jon Rubin...
(born 1967), socially engaged interdisciplinary projects
1968
- Doug AitkenDoug Aitken-Early life and career:Doug Aitken was born in Redondo Beach, California in 1968. In 1987, he initially studied magazine illustration with Philip Hays at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena before graduating in Fine Arts in 1991. He moved to New York in 1994 where he had his first solo...
(born 1968), multimedia artist - Manuel Rivera-OrtizManuel Rivera-OrtizManuel Rivera-Ortiz is an American documentary photographer of Puerto Rican descent, the author of several photographic collections and the recipient of a number of awards. He is best known for his documentary photographs of people's living conditions in less developed countries...
(born 1968), documentary photographer
1969
- Inka EssenhighInka EssenhighInka Essenhigh is a painter based in New York.Essenhigh studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio and the School of Visual Arts in New York ....
(born 1969), painter - Dana E. LevinDana E. LevinDana Levin is an American Classical Realism painter. Trained in Florence, Levin is established as a portrait, landscape, still life, figurative, and interior painter.-Life and work:...
(born 1969), Classical Realist painter - Kara WalkerKara WalkerKara Walker is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes, such as The Means to an End--A Shadow Drama in Five Acts.-Biography:Walker was born in...
(born 1969), collage artist, painter, printmaker, installation artist
Born 1970–1979
1970- Shepard FaireyShepard FaireyFrank Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, in which he appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. His...
(born 1970), painter, printmaker, illustrator and muralist
1972
- Kelly SuedaKelly SuedaKelly Sueda is a painter who was born and raised in Hawaii. He received a BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco and the University of San Francisco. He has shown his paintings in both solo and group shows in Hawaii and on the mainland...
(born 1972) - Charlie White (born 1972), photographer
1973
1976
- William PowhidaWilliam PowhidaWilliam Powhida is a visual artist and former art critic born in 1976 in New York. His work addresses the contemporary art industry.Topics have included creating an "enemies" list as well as letters addressed to contemporary curators , collectors and critics, requesting recognition...
(born 1976), drawing
1977
- Becca BernsteinBecca BernsteinBecca Bernstein is an American artist. She lives and paints in Oregon and Scotland.-Life and work:Becca Bernstein graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon and studied at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City...
(born 1977), painter - David HerbertDavid Herbert (artist)David Herbert is an American sculptor. He remakes cultural icons such as Mickey Mouse, Superman and a VHS cassette.-Life and work:...
(born 1977), sculpture, installation and video - Tim LokiecTim LokiecTim Lokiec is an artist based in New York. He creates multiple, disconnected images to make a work, often using pens, markers and screen-printing to address subjects including drugs, bathrooms, sex and rainbows.-Life and work:...
(born 1977), 2-D mixed media