American Artist
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Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American painter whose gestural abstractions merged figuration with expressive brushwork, reshaping modern art’s trajectory across five decades.
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Barkley L. Hendricks
Explore Barkley L. Hendricks, the American painter and photographer known for striking portraits of Black Americans, bold color, realism, photography, landscapes, and works on paper.
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Stan Miller
Stan Miller has painted in watercolor for more than thirty years, building a patient, observant style in Spokane, Washington. He once earned a poor grade in his first watercolor class, retook…
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Michael Klein
Michael Klein is an American painter known for floral still lifes built on classical technique and a Midwestern eye for honest color. He also paints portraits, including a grand prize winning…
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Pavel Sokov
Pavel Sokov is a Russian born portrait painter who left a marketing career to study classical drawing at Watts Atelier. His Gravitas series paints scientists with the same care usually reserved…
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Kinuko Y. Craft
Kinuko Y. Craft is a Japanese American illustrator whose richly detailed paintings turn myths and fairy tales into modern classics. Trained in Japan and Chicago, she has created book covers, opera…
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John Jude Palencar
John Jude Palencar is an American illustrator known for haunting, symbolic book covers for authors like Tolkien, King, and Le Guin. Working in layered acrylic washes, he turns fear and mystery…
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Daniel Garber
Daniel Garber was an American painter and a leading voice of Pennsylvania Impressionism, known for luminous scenes of Bucks County and the Delaware River. He often anchored his landscapes with a…
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Jack Sorenson
Jack Sorenson paints the American West the way he actually lived it, having grown up driving stagecoaches and working as a gunfighter at Six Gun City in Texas. His warm, story…
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Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian born American painter who became one of the strongest voices in Social Realism, using art to speak for workers and immigrants. His series on the Sacco…
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Victor Wang
Victor Wang is a Chinese American painter whose portraits carry the weight of memory, migration, and a childhood shaped by the Cultural Revolution. He returns often to sunflowers, once a symbol…
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Bryan Mark Taylor
Bryan Mark Taylor is an American landscape painter who mixes classical training with a restless love of travel, catching small, atmospheric moments wherever he goes. He also invented the STRADA easel,…
