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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Colescott, Warrington

American

American, 1921 - 2018

Warrington Wickham Colescott Jr. (March 7, 1921 – September 10, 2018) was an American artist, he is best known for his satirical etchings. He was a master printmaker and operated Mantegna Press in Hollandale, Wisconsin, with his wife and fellow artist Frances Myers. Colescott died on 10 September 2018, at the age of 97.

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Coles, John, Jr.

American

American, c. 1778 - 1854

Cole, Thomas

Cole, Thomas

American

American, 1801 - 1848

Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an American artist who founded the Hudson River School art movement. He painted romantic landscapes and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility, he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil on canvas. His paintings are typically allegoric and often depict small figures or structures set against moody and evocative natural landscapes. They are usually escapist, framing the New World as a natural eden contrasting with the smog-filled cityscapes of Industrial Revolution-era Britain, in which he grew up. His works, often seen as conservative, criticize the contemporary trends of industrialism, urbanism, and westward expansion.

Cole, Timothy

Cole, Timothy

American

American, 1852 - 1931

Timothy Cole (1852 – 17 May 1931) was an American wood engraver.

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Colette Randrianasolo

Malagasy

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Cole Walker

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Cole Weston

Cole, Willie

Cole, Willie

American

American, born 1955

Willie Cole (born 1955 in Somerville, New Jersey) is a contemporary American sculptor, printer, and conceptual and visual artist. His work uses contexts of postmodern eclecticism, and combines references and appropriation from African and African-American imagery. He also has used Dada’s readymades and Surrealism’s transformed objects, as well as icons of American pop culture or African and Asian masks.

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C. O. Lewis

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Colgan, J.N.

American

American, active c. 1935

Colibert, Nicolas

Colibert, Nicolas

French

French, 1754-1806

Nicolas Colibert (1750–1806) was a French painter and engraver. He was born in Paris. He executed in the dotted style some landscapes after Casanova, and about 1782 came to London, where he produced two oval plates of 'Pity' and 'Youth,' and two subjects from 'Evelina.' During the Revolution he returned to Paris and engraved several of Schall's designs for 'Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon,' published in 1791, and some illustrations after Monsiau to the poem 'La Mort d'Abel,' published in 1793. Colibert died in London in 1806.

Coli, Giovanni

Coli, Giovanni

Italian

Italian, 1636 - 1681

Giovanni Coli (1636–1691) was an Italian painter from Lucca, active in the Baroque style. He trained with Pietro Paolini in Lucca and then moved to Rome to work under Pietro da Cortona. He often worked alongside Filippo Gherardi. With Coli, Gherardi was initially a trainee of Pietro Paolini in Lucca. In Venice, Coli and Gherardi also completed frescoes (1670–72) of the dome of the church of San Nicolò da Tolentino with a fresco of the Glory of San Nicolò, and in the massive decoration of the church of San Pantalon. In Venice, Coli and Gherardi frescoed the Library of San Giorgio Maggiore.