Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

Guston, Philip

Guston, Philip

American

American, born Canada, 1913 - 1980

Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a Canadian and American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years". He frequently depicted racism, antisemitism, fascism and American identity, as well as—especially in his later most cartoonish and mocking work—the banality of evil. In 2013, Guston's painting To Fellini set an auction record at Christie's when it sold for US$25.8 million. Guston was a founding figure in the mid-century New York School, which established New York as the new center of the global art world, and his work appeared in the famed Ninth Street Show and in the avant-garde art journal It is. A Magazine for Abstract Art. By the 1960s, Guston had renounced abstract expressionism and was helping pioneer a modified form of representational art known as neo-expressionism. "Calling American abstract art 'a lie' and 'a sham,' he pivoted to making paintings in a dark, figurative style, including satirical drawings...

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Gutekunst, Frederick F.

American

1831 - 1917

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Guterl, Raymond

American

American, 1901 - 1971

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Gutfreund, Otto

Czech

Czech, 1889 - 1927

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Gu Tianzhi

Chinese

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Gutiérrez, Ana Rosa

Cuban

Cuban, 1947 - 2005

Gutierrez, Martine

Gutierrez, Martine

American

American, born 1989

Martine Gutierrez, also known by moniker Martine (born Martín Gutierrez, April 16, 1989), is an American visual and performance artist. Her work focuses on identity, and how perception of self is formed, expressed, and perceived. She has created music videos, billboard campaigns, episodic films, photographs, live performance artworks, and a satirical fashion magazine investigating identity as both a social construct and an authentic expression of self. Martine's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums, notably the Central Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Also an actor, Martine portrays Vanesja in Fantasmas on HBO. In 2025, Gutierrez was announced as a Guggenheim Fellow.

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Gutierrez, Nicola

Spanish

Spanish, active 1743

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Gutman, Bernhard

American

American, 1869 - 1936

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Gutmann, John

American

American, born Poland, 1905 - 1998

John Gutmann (1905 – June 12, 1998) was a German-born American photographer and painter.

Guttenberg, Carl

Guttenberg, Carl

German

German, 1743 - 1790

Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg (also Carl-Gottlieb, Carl Gottfried) (near Nuremberg, 21 August 1743 – Paris, 20 May 1790) was a German draughtsman and engraver. He received his initial training in Nuremberg and Bern before traveling to Paris in 1767 to study under the engraver Jean Georges Wille. After a brief sojourn in Basel (1772–73), he lived and worked in Paris, producing portraits, calligraphy, and illustrations from his own designs and those of other artists.

Guttenberg, Heinrich

Guttenberg, Heinrich

German

German, 1749 - 1818

The House of Guttenberg is a wealthy Franconian family that was noble until all legal privileges of royalty and nobility were abolished in Germany in 1919 following the German revolution and proclamation of the republic at the end of World War I. It traces its origins back to 1149 with a Gundeloh von Blassenberg (Plassenberg), though the first mention in a document is dated 1158. The name Guttenberg is derived from Guttenberg in present-day Bavaria, and it was adopted by a Heinrich von Blassenberg around 1310.