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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Burnham, Thomas Rice

American

American, 1834 - 1893

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Burn Smeeton

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Burns, Milton James

American

American, 1853 - 1933

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Burrage, Barbara

American

American, born 1900

Barbara Burrage (1900 – 1989) was an American printmaker. She was married to printmaker Alexander Raoul Stavenitz, whom she sometimes collaborated with. Her work is included in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Princeton University Art Museum.

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Burrell

American

American, active c. 1935

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Burr, George Elbert

American

American, 1859 - 1939

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Burroughs, Edward R.

American

American, 1902 - 1983

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Burroughs, Henry Jr.

American

American, 1918 - 2000

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Burroughs, Margaret

American

American, 1915 - 2010

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (November 1, 1915[a] – November 21, 2010), also known as Margaret Taylor Goss, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs or Margaret T G Burroughs, was an American visual artist, writer, poet, educator, and arts organizer. She co-founded the Ebony Museum of Chicago, now the DuSable Museum of African American History. An active member of the African-American community, she also helped to establish the South Side Community Art Center, whose opening on May 1, 1941 was dedicated by the first lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. There, at the age of 23, Burroughs served as the youngest member of its board of directors. A long-time educator, she spent most of her career at DuSable High School. Taylor-Burroughs was a prolific writer, with her efforts directed toward the exploration of the Black experience and toward children, especially to their appreciation of their cultural identity and to their introduction and growing awareness of art. She is also credited with the founding of Chicago's Lake Meadows Art Fair in the early 1950s.

Burroughs, William S.

Burroughs, William S.

American

American, 1914 - 1997

William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced both underground and popular culture and literature. Much of Burroughs's work is highly experimental and features unreliable narrators. Also noted as semi-autobiographical, his work often drew from his experiences with drug addiction, and featured his various places of residence as settings in much of his work. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique. His writing also engaged frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, constant preoccupations in both his fiction and real life. Born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri, Burroughs attended Harvard University, where he studied English, then anthropology as a postgraduate, and went on to medical school in Vienna. In 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army to serve during World War II. After being turned down by both the Office of Strategic Services and the Navy, he veered into substance abuse, beginning with morphine and developing a heroin addiction that would affect...

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Burrows, Larry

British

British, 1926 - 1971

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Burrows, Robert

British

British, 1810 - 1883