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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Buddeus, Julius

German

German, active 1830s - 1852

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Budíková, Jana

Czech

Czech, born 1946

Jana Budíková (born 12 June 1946) is a Czech painter and printmaker. Budíková graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where she studied from 1965 until 1971. She has been a member of the groups Umělecká beseda and Hollar during her career. She is a relative of the composer Otakar Jeremiáš. She has exhibited her work extensively throughout the Czech Republic. A silkscreen by Budíková, Dedìkace/Dedication of 1995, is owned by the National Gallery of Art.

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Budington, Jonathan

American

American, c. 1779 - 1823

Budnik, Dan

Budnik, Dan

American

American, 1933 - 2020

Daniel Budnik (May 20, 1933 – August 14, 2020) was an American photographer noted for his portraits of artists and photographs of the Civil Rights Movement and Native American life.

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Bud Sagendorf

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Buechner, Edward W.

American

American, 1890 - 1938

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Buell, Alice Standish

American

American, 1892 - 1960

Alice Standish Buell (February 4, 1892 – March 18, 1960) was an American artist and printmaker. She was active in Chicago and New York City. Buell studied at Oberlin College and graduated with a B.A. degree in 1914, and at the Art Students League of New York. She was married to social worker, Josiah Bradley Buell in 1917. In the 1920s she worked for the YWCA organization. She also served as a director and later vice president of the Art Students League of New York. Her artwork is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art.

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Buell & Seaver

American

American, active 1850s - 1870s

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Buen Retiro Porcelain Factory

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Buergerniss, Carl

American

American, 1877 - 1956

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Buesem, Jan Jansz. van

Dutch

Dutch, c. 1600 - after 1649

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Bufalini, Francesco

Italian

Italian, active 1670/1684

Francesco Antonio Bufalini was a draftsman, copper plate engraver and architect from the circle of Carlo Fontana, working in Rome and Urbino. From 1688 to 1707 he is documented as a member of the Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon and as an architect sottomaestro delle strade, whose duties encompassed those of surveyor, engineer, conservator and planning officer in Rome. A recent discovery in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, of two rare and uncatalogued preparatory drawings for prints attributed to Bufalini, provide insight into the "calco" technique of transferring images onto plates to be etched or engraved. The drawings were treated with an oil and resin mixture, then placed face down onto a sheet of copy paper coated in chalk covering the plate. The design was then gone over with a stylus, transferring the image to be etched. Because of their use as working tools in an invasive print process, the survival of such drawings is a rarity. Bufalini's surviving preparatory drawings, c. 1683, are views of the exterior and a longitudinal section of St Peter's Basilica in Rome.