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Even More Artists
| Description | Artist |
|---|---|
| American: Arrangement in Gray and Black #1: The Artist's Mother; The White Girl: Symphony in White No. 1 | James McNeill Whistler |
| American, born in Iowa, regional painter: American Gothic | Grant Wood |
| Italian, killed a man over a wager on a tennis match and fled to Malta: Supper at Emmaus | Caravaggio |
| American, second woman to join the Impressionists, frequently painted mothers and children: The Boating Party, The Bath | Mary Cassatt |
| Italian, goldwork, Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa, Salt Cellar of Francis I which was stolen in 2003, wrote an entertaining autobiography | Benvenuto Cellini |
| French, Post-Impressionist painter, many still lifes with fruit: The Card Players | Paul Cezanne |
| Russian, lived mainly in France, stained windows for Israel: I and the Village, Green Violinist | Marc Chagall |
| American born in Bulgaria, weird stunts of wrapping things on large scale, called "Environmental Art": The Gates in New York, Running Fence - a nylon ribbon which extended through two California counties | Christo |
| Leading English landscape painter: The Hay Wain | John Constable |
| American, foremost artist of colonial American: The Boy with a Squirrel, Watson and the Shark | John Singleton Copley |
| American, forced to resign from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts because of his advocacy for painging nudes: The Gross Clinic | Thomas Eakins |
| Spanish, real name was Domenikos Theotokopoluos: View of Toledo, The Burial of Count Orgaz | El Greco |
| Dutch, once credited with inventing oil painting: Arnolfini Wedding, Ghent Altarpiece (With his brother) | Jan Van Eyck |
| American Sculptor: Lincoln Memorial statue, The Minute Man (of Concord) | Daniel Chester French |
| American, invented the geodesic dome | Buckmister Fuller |
| American, painted lonely street scenes: Nighthawks | Edward Hopper |
| French, leading Neoclassic painter, studied under David: La Grand Odalisque | Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres |
| American, founder of Pop Art, uses everyday sights in his work: Three Flags | Jasper Johns |
| Russian, founder of the avant-garde Blaue Reiter Group; teacher at Bauhaus: The Blue Rider | Wassily Kandinsky |
| Swiss, associated with the Blaue Reiter Group: The Twittering Machine | Paul Klee |
| Austrian, major figure in the Art Nouveau movement, painting - The Kiss | Gustav Klimt |
| American, Pop Artist known for paintings based on comic strips: Whaam | Roy Lichtenstein |
| Belgian, leading surrealist painter, picture of a pipe with inscription - This is not a pipe: The Castle of Pyrenees | Rene Magritte |
| Norwegian, bizarre images of terror, despair, and isolation: The Scream | Edvard Munch |
| Greek Sculptor: The Discus Thrower | Myron |
| American, lived in New Mexico and used Southwestern landscapes in her works, married to famous photoprapher, Alfred Stieglitz: Black Iris, Cow's Skull, Red, White, and Blue | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| American, named his children after great masters of art: The Staircase Group, The Artist in His Studio, painted first portrait of George Washington | Charles Wilson Peale |
| Architect: John Hancock Tower in Chicago, East Wing of National Gallery of Art in DC, Rock 'n Roll Museum, Glass Pyramid at Louvre | I M Pei |
| Greek, none of his original works survive: Zeus of Olympia is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world | Phidias |
| Spanish: founded Cubism with Braque: Guernica, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | Pablo Picasso |
| French, Impressionist sculptor: The Burghers of Calais, The Thinker, The Kiss, The Gates of Hell | Auguste Rodin |
| British, founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848: Proserpine | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| French, post-impressionist, often painted jungles: The Repast of the Lion, The Sleeping Gypsy | Henri Rousseau |
| Flemish, major Baroque artist: The Descent from the Cross, Raising of the Cross | Peter Paul Rubens |
| French, Pointillism or Neoimpressionism: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, The Bathers | Georges Seurat |
| American, did portraits of Jefferson, Washington, Madison | Gilbert Stuart |
| English architect, known for rebuilding London after the Great Fire: St. Paul's Cathedral | Christopher Wren |
| American architect, member of the "Prairie School:" Falling Water, Robie House, Guggenheim Museum | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| American, rural landscapes and portraits: Christina's World, Helga Pictures - 240 drawings of his neighbor, Helga, father was an illustrator | Andrew Wyeth |
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