Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

31,194 artists in the collection

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Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel

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Adolph Friedrich Vollmer

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Adolph Gottlieb

Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter who also made sculpture and became a printmaker.

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Adolph Larsen

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Adolph Treidler

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Adolphus H. A. Wing

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Adolph von Menzel

German

1815 - 1905

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A. Dorph

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Ad Reinhardt

Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an American abstract painter and art theorist active in New York City for more than three decades. As a theorist he wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art, and monochrome painting. Most famous for his "black" or "ultimate" paintings, he claimed to be painting the "last paintings" that anyone can paint. He believed in a philosophy of art he called Art-as-Art and used his writing and satirical cartoons to advocate for abstract art and against what he described as "the disreputable practices of artists-as-artists". He was a member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism. He was also a member of The Club, the meeting place for the New York School abstract expressionist artists during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Adriaan de Lelie

Adriaen Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer

The Smokers is a painting by the Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer, painted in about 1636, probably in Antwerp. It hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. The oil-on-wood painting measures 46.40 by 36.80 centimetres (18.27 in × 14.49 in) and is signed by the artist.

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Adriaen Brouwer