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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Gilles Demarteau

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Gilles Demarteau

French

1722 - 1776

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Gilles Hardouyn

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Gille, Sighard

German

German, born 1941

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Gilles-Lambert Godecharle

Belgian

1750 - 1835

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Gilles Louis Chrétien

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Gilles Marie Oppenord

French

1672 - 1742

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Gilles Peress

Gillespie, Gregory

Gillespie, Gregory

American

American, 1936 - 2000

Gregory Joseph Gillespie (November 29, 1936 – April 26, 2000) was an American magic realist painter.

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Gillette French

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Gill, Eugene

American

American, active c. 1935

Gilliam, Sam

Gilliam, Sam

American

American, 1933 - 2022

Sam Gilliam ( GHIL-ee-əm; November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) was an American abstract painter, sculptor, and arts educator. Born in Mississippi and raised in Kentucky, Gilliam spent his entire adult life in Washington, D.C., eventually being described as the "dean" of the city's arts community. Originally associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington-area artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s, Gilliam moved beyond the group's core aesthetics of flat fields of color in the mid-60s by introducing both process and sculptural elements to his paintings. Following early experiments in color and form, Gilliam became best known for his Drape paintings, first developed in the late 60s and widely exhibited across the United States and internationally over the following decade. These works comprise unstretched paint-stained canvases or industrial fabric without stretcher bars that he suspended, draped, or arranged on the ground in galleries and outdoor spaces. Gilliam has been recognized as the first artist to have "freed the canvas" from the stretcher in this specific way, putting his paintings in conversation with...