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American Artists
American Artists by their Movement and Famous Works
Term | Definition |
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Benjamin West | Historical Painter - The Death of General Wolfe; The Death of Nelson; Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky; Penn's Treaty with the Indians; Portrait of Dr. Richard Price; Treaty of Paris; The Battle of the Boyne |
John Copley | Historical/Portrait Painter - Watson and the Shark, Portrait of Mrs. Theodore Atkinson Jr., The Defeat of the Earl of Chatham |
Gilbert Stuart | Historical/Portrait Painter - The Skater, Lansdowne Portrait, Athenaeum Portrait |
James Whistler | Tonalist Painter - Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother; Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle; Symphony in White, No. 1; Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge |
John James Audubon | Painter of Birds and Nature Scenes - The Birds of America |
Nathaniel Currier and James Ives | Makers of Popular Lithographs - The American National Game of Baseball; The Life of a Fireman |
Mary Cassatt | Impressionist Painter - The Child's Bath; Little Girl in a Blue Armchair; The Boating Party; The Cup of Tea; Young Mother Sewing; Children Playing on the Beach; Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly; In the Loge; Mother and Child; Lilacs in a Window |
Thomas Eakins | Realist Painter - The Gross Clinic; Max Schmitt in a Single Scull; The Agnew Clinic; William Rush and His Model |
Winslow Homer | Realist/Landscape Painter - Gulf Stream; Breaking Storm; The Hurricane; Eight Bells; Long Branch, New Jersey; The Reaper; High Cliff |
Henry Tanner | Realist Painter - Pomp at the Zoo; Joachim Leaving the Temple; The Banjo Lesson; The Thankful Poor; The Young Sabot Maker; Daniel in the Lions' Den; The Resurrection of Lazarus; The Seine; Sodom and Gomorrah; The Annunciation |
Emanuel Leutze | Realist/Historical Painter - Christopher Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca; The Storming of Teocalli by Cortez and his Troops; Washington Crossing the Delaware; Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way |
Samuel Morse | Realist Painter - Dying Hercules; Jonas Platt; Judgement of Jupiter; The House of Representatives; The Chap of the Virgin; Captain Demaresque of Gloucester, Massachusetts; The Gallery of the Louvre |
John Sargent | Realist Painter - Portrait of Madame X; El Jaleo; The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit; Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose; Lady Agnew of Lochnaw |
Thomas Cole | Hudson River School Painter - The Titan's Goblet; The Course of Empire; The Oxbow; The Voyage of Life |
Frederic Edwin Church | Hudson River School Painter - Niagara; The Heart of the Andes; Cotopaxi |
Thomas Benton | Regionalist Painter - America Today; Indiana Murals; Social History of Missouri; Achelous and Hercules |
George Caleb Bingham | Regionalist Painter - Fur Traders Descending the Missouri; The Election Series; The Jolly Flatboatmen; Raftsmen Playing Cards |
John Steuart Curry | Regionalist Painter - Tornado Over Kansas; Tragic Prelude; Spring Shower; Morning Landscape |
Grant Wood | Regionalist Painter - American Gothic; Stone City, Iowa; The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere; Fall Plowing; Daughters of Revolution; Sentimental Ballad |
Grandma Moses | Regionalist Painter - The Old Checkered Inn in Summer; Catching the Thanksgiving Turkey; Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City; Sugaring-Off |
Chuck Close | Photorealist Painter - Mark; Lucas; Paul; Robert Square Fingerprint II |
Malcolm Morley | Photorealist Painter - Tackle; Family Portrait; Black Rainbow Over Oedipus at Thebes; Man Overboard |
Richard Estes | Photorealist Painter - Telephone Booths |
Jasper Johns | Pop Art Painter - Three Flags |
Robert Rauschenberg | Pop Art Painter - Canyon; Monogram; Estate |
Andy Warhol | Pop Art Painter - Campbell's Soup Cans; Marilyn Diptych; 3 Coke Bottles; Eight Elvises; Thirteen Most Wanted Men; Exploding Plastic Inevitable; Green Coca-Cola Bottle; Silver Car Crash; Portrait of Seymour H Knox; Reigning Queens; Cars |
Roy Lichtenstein | Pop Art Painter - Whaam!; Ten Dollar Bill; I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It!; Look Mickey; Sleeping Girl; Drowning Girl; Varoom!; Engagement Ring; Electric Cord |
Georgia O'Keeffe | Precisionist Painter - The Flag; Red and Orange Streak; Blue and Green Music; A Storm; My Shanty, Lake George; Black Iris; Oriental Poppies; The Lawrence Tree; Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue; Jimson Weed |
Charles Sheeler | Precisionist Painter - Upper Deck; Rolling Power; Steam Turbine; Suspended Power; Yankee Clipper |
Jackson Pollock | Abstract Expressionist Painter - Mural; Number 17 A; No 5. 1948; Mural on Indian Red Ground; Autumn Rhythm (Number 30); Convergence; Blue Poles (Number 11, 1952); The Deep |
Willem de Kooning | Abstract Expressionist Painter - Woman III; Woman VI; Interchange; Police Gazette; Woman-Ochre |
Franz Kline | Abstract Expressionist Painter - Nijinsky; Leda; Requiem; Crow Dancer; UNTITLED |
Mark Rothko | Abstract Expressionist Painter - White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose); No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red); No. 61 (Rust and Blue); No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue); Black in Deep Red; Black on Maroon; Four Darks in Red; Orange, Red, Yellow |
Horace Pippin | Abstract Expressionist Painter - Crucifixion; Holy Mountain Series; John Brown Going to His Hanging; Lady of the Lake; Mr. Prejudice |
Edward Hopper | Realist Painter - Automat; Chop Suey; Nighthawks; Office in a Small City; Girl at Sewing Machine; Coast Guard Station, Two Lights, Maine; Manhattan Bride Loop; Early Sunday Morning; Room in New York; East Wind Over Weehawken; Macombs Dam Bridge |
Ben Shahn | Realist Painter - The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti; Jersey Homesteads Mural |
Andrew Wyeth | Realist Painter - Christina's World; Winter Fields; Public Sale; Winter 1946; Wind from the Sea; Trodden Weed; Evening at Kuerners; The Helga Pictures; Flood Plain |
Norman Rockwell | Realist Painter - Four Freedoms; Rosie the Riveter; The Love Song; We, Too, Have a Job to Do; Tough Call; The Scoutmaster; The Rookie; Saying Grace; The Problem We All Live With; Russian Schoolroom |
Christo | Conceptual Artist - Wrapped Coast; Valley Curtain; Running Fence; Surrounded Islands; The Pont Neuf Wrapped; The Umbrellas; Wrapped Reichstag; The Gates; The Floating Piers; L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped |
Frederick Remington | Sculptor - The Bronco Buster; The Rattlesnake |
Gutzon Borglum | Sculptor - Mount Rushmore; Stone Mountain; General Philip Sheridan; The Aviator |
Alexander Calder | Sculptor - Flamingo; Mountains and Clouds; Cirque Calder; Floating Clouds; Snow Flurry; The Whirling Ear; Homage to Jerusalem; The Four Elements |
William Thornton | Architect - US Capitol; The Octagon House; Woodlawn Mansion; Tudor Place; Prospect Hill |
James Hoban | Architect - The White House; William Seabrook House; Oak Hill; Belcamp House |
Samuel McIntire | Architect - Chestnut Street District; Peirce-Nichols House |
Benjamin Latrobe | Architect - Old Baltimore Cathedral; Virginia State Penitentiary; Modifications to US Capitol; Baltimore Basilica |
John A Roebling | Architect - Brooklyn Bridge; Cincinnati-Covington Bridge |
Charles Bulfinch | Architect - Hollis Street Church; Boston Common; Harvard University Hall; US Capitol Rotunda |
Henry Hobson Richardson | Architect - Trinity Church; Richardson Olmsted Campus; North Easton Station |
George Goethals | Architect - Panama Canal |
Louis Sullivan | Architect - Wainwright Building; Guaranty Building; McVicker's Theater; Van Allen Building; National Farmers Bank |
Frank Lloyd Wright | Architect - Fallingwater; Kentuck Knob; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum; Johnson Wax Headquarters; Taliesin; Robie House; Unity Temple; Larkin Administration Building; price Tower; Graycliff; Westhope; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church; Dana-Thomas House |
Philip Johnson | Architect - Glass House; Seagram Building (with van der Rohe); 550 Madison Avenue; IDS Tower; PPG Place; Crystal Cathedral |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Architect - Barcelona Pavilion; Seagram Building (with Johnson); Crown Hall; Farnsworth House; Highfield House; 860—880 Lake Shore Drive; One Charles Center; New National Gallery; Toronto-Dominion Centre; Tugendhat House; Westmount Square |
Louis Kahn | Architect - Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban; Yale University Art Gallery; Salk Institute; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Philips Exeter Academy Library; Kimbell Art Museum |
IM Pei | Architect - John F Kennedy Presidential Library; Louvre Pyramid; Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong; Museum of Islamic Art; Indian University Art Museum; Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Miho Museum |
Minoru Yamasaki | Architect - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; Torre Picasso; Rainier Tower; IBM Building; World Trade Center; Pruitt-Igoe |