Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
39,743 artists in the collection
Cheri Eisenberg
Chermayeff, Ivan
American
American, 1932 - 2017
Ivan Chermayeff HonRDI (June 6, 1932 – December 2, 2017) was a British-born American graphic designer and artist. He is best known as co-founder of graphic design firm Chermayeff & Geismar. Chermayeff created logotypes for the Smithsonian Institution, New York Museum of Modern Art, and Harper Collins publishing house, as well as numerous poster designs, book covers, architectural sculptures, exhibitions, illustrations, and fine art. Chermayeff is credited with introducing the concept of design as problem-solving and inventing the modern graphic design profession.
Cheron, Elisabeth Sophie
French
French, 1648 - 1711
Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (French pronunciation: [elizabɛt sɔfi ʃeʁɔ̃]; 3 October 1648 – 3 September 1711) was a French painter and polymath. Known primarily today for her artworks, during her lifetime she was also acclaimed as a poet, musician, translator, and academician.
Chéron, Louis
French
French, 1660 - 1725
C. Herrick Hammond
Cherry, Herman
American
American, 1909 - 1992
Herman Cherry (1909–1992) was a non-objective abstract painter who participated in all five of the artist-curated Stable Gallery exhibitions in Manhattan between 1953 and 1957 and who received his first New York solo exhibition at Stable in 1955. In the early 1930s, he was a student first of the synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright at the Art Students League of Los Angeles and next of the regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York. Afterward, Cherry managed a small gallery within a Hollywood bookshop where he gave Philip Guston his first exhibition and where his own first solo was later held. Having transitioned from social realism to cubist-inspired abstraction in the 1940s, Cherry joined with the artists who later became collectively known as the New York School in establishing a style that later became known as Abstract expressionism. Key members of this group were Cherry's friends Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning. Cherry's mature works were entirely abstract. Known as a masterful colorist, he often received favorable attention from critics and art historians. In 1984, the art historian Helen A. Harrison wrote: "At a time when many artists...
Cherubino Alberti
Chéry
Chéry (French pronunciation: [ʃeʁi]) is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.
Cheryl Sanders
Cheryl Warrick
Cheryl Warrick
American
Chesney, Lee R.
American
American, 1920 - 2016
This is an alphabetical list of songs written or co–written by the American songwriter David Lee Murphy.