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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Cowherd, Darryl

American

American, born 1940

Darryl Cowherd (born 1940) is an American photographer and writer known for his association with the Black Arts Movement. Cowherd attended Roosevelt University and also studied in Europe. Cowherd settled in Chicago in 1964. He was a founding member of the Organization of Black American Culture and contributed to the 1967 South Side mural Wall of Respect. Cowherd's work was included in the 2025 exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 at the National Gallery of Art. His photographs are in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art.

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Cowin, Eileen

American

American, born 1947

Eileen Cowin (born 1947) is a Los Angeles–based artist known for photography, video and mixed-media installations that draw on the language of mass media and art history and explore the relationship between narrative, fiction and non-fiction, memory and experience. Associated with the 1970s Los Angeles experimental photography scene and the Pictures Generation artists, her work combines familiar human situations and carefully chosen gestures, expressions and props to create enigmatic images whose implied, open-ended stories viewers must complete. Cowin has exhibited in more than forty solo shows in the United States and abroad, including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Armory Center for the Arts and Contemporary Arts Center. Her work is included in more than forty institutional collections, including LACMA, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Smithsonian American Art Museum. She has been recognized with awards and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, LACMA, the City of Los Angeles (COLA), Public Art Fund (New York), and the Sundance...

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Cowles, Maude Alice

American

American, 1871 - 1905

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Cowtan (Firm)

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Cox, Anthony

active 1970s

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Cox, David

British

British, 1783 - 1859

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Cox, Douglas

American

American, 1917 - 1982

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Coxe, Reginald Cleveland

American

American, 1855 - 1926

Cox, Gardner

Cox, Gardner

American

American, 1906 - 1988

Matthew Bevan Cox (born July 2, 1969) is an American former mortgage broker, admitted mortgage fraudster, con man, and true crime author who has written several stories paralleling his real life crimes. Cox falsified documents to make it appear that he owned properties, and then fraudulently obtained several mortgages on them for five to six times their actual worth. He acquired millions of dollars this way; estimates report the amount at between US$15 million and $55 million. Cox's first conviction occurred in 2002 when he was sentenced to probation for mortgage fraud. He then sold the mortgage company he owned in a Tampa, Florida-area firm. He began his life as a dedicated criminal in central Florida after that offense, before fleeing the area when his activities were discovered. His crime spree continued across the southern and southwestern United States, eventually landing him on the United States Secret Service's Most Wanted list. He was aided by several female accomplices, some of whom are in prison or have served time there for their participation in his fraudulent mortgage practices. Cox was arrested on November 16, 2006. Indicted on 42 counts, and facing prison sentences of...

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Coxie, Michiel, I

Flemish

Flemish, 1499-1592

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Cox, John Rogers

American

American, 1915 - 1990

John Rogers Cox (March 24, 1915 – January 25, 1990) was an American painter from Terre Haute, Indiana. His style and subject matter align him with the Regionalist (American scene painting) and Magic Realist landscape tradition.

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Cox, Kenyon

American

American, 1856 - 1919