Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
39,743 artists in the collection
Gilles Demarteau
Gilles Demarteau
French
1722 - 1776
Gilles Hardouyn
Gille, Sighard
German
German, born 1941
Gilles-Lambert Godecharle
Belgian
1750 - 1835
Gilles Louis Chrétien
Gilles Marie Oppenord
French
1672 - 1742
Gilles Peress
Gillespie, Gregory
American
American, 1936 - 2000
Gregory Joseph Gillespie (November 29, 1936 – April 26, 2000) was an American magic realist painter.
Gillette French
Gill, Eugene
American
American, active c. 1935
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...