Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Fuller, R. Buckminster

American

American, 1895 - 1983

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,...

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Fuller, Sue

American

American, 1914 - 2006

Sue Fuller (August 11, 1914 – April 19, 2006) was an American sculptor, draughtsman, author, teacher and printmaker who created three-dimensional works with thread. She was a student of Hans Hofmann in 1934, Stanley Hayter in 1943, and Josef Albers in 1944. She was awarded the Alumni Merit Award by Carnegie Mellon University in 1974, and the Lifetime Achievement Award by Women's Caucus for Art in 1986. A passionate devotee of modern art, Sue Fuller began her career as a printmaker then used some of the techniques she experimented with to develop an original form of sculpture.

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Fuller White

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Fullwood, John

British

British, active 1874 - 1931

John Fullwood (1854–1931) was an English landscape painter and etcher.

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Fulper Pottery

American

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Fulper Pottery Company

Fulton, Hamish

Fulton, Hamish

British

British, born 1946

Hamish Fulton (born 1946) is an English walking artist. Since 1972 he has only made works based on the experience of walks. He translates his walks into a variety of media, including photography, illustrations, and wall texts. His work is contained in major museums' collections, such as the Tate Britain and MoMA. Since 1994 he has been creating group walks for the public. Fulton argues that "walking is an artform in its own right" and argues for wider acknowledgement of walking art.

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Fulwider, Edwin L.

American

American, 1913 - 2004

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Fulwider, Kathryn

American

American, 1916 - 2003

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Fumagalli, Barbara

American

American, born 1926

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Fumagalli, Frank

American

American, born Italy, c. 1895 - 1958

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Fumat, Xavier

American

American, born 1963