Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

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Fukuoka City Museum

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Fukushima Ichiro

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Fukushima Ichirō

Japanese

1920 - 1975

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Fulani

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Fulchran Jean Harriet

French

1778 - 1805

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Fulda, Elisabeth

American

American, active c. 1935

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Fulgencio Lazo Amaya

Mexican

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Fuller, Arthur Davenport

American

American, 1889 - 1966

Fuller, George

Fuller, George

American

American, 1822 - 1884

George Fuller (January 17, 1822 – March 21, 1884) was an American figure and portrait painter.

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Fuller, Isaac

English

English, 1606 - 1672

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Fuller, Larry

active 1970s

Fuller, Martin

Fuller, Martin

American

American, active 1930/1940

Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity". Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. He also served as the second World President of Mensa International from 1974 to 1983. Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents and many honorary doctorates. In 1960, he was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal from the Franklin Institute. He was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1967, on the occasion of the 50-year reunion of his Harvard class of 1917 (from which he had been expelled in his first year). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968. The same year,...