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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Eddie Squires

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Eddins, Homer

American

American, 1902 - 1958

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Eddy, E.C.

American

American, 1882 - 1969

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Edel

American

American, active c. 1900s

Edelfelt, Albert

Edelfelt, Albert

Finnish

Finnish, 1854 - 1905

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 – 18 August 1905) was a Finnish painter noted for his naturalistic style and Realist approach to art. He lived in the Grand Duchy of Finland and made Finnish culture visible abroad, before Finland gained independence. He was considered the greatest Finnish artist of the second half of 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, and one of the most prominent contributors to the Golden Age of Finnish Art.

Edelinck, Gerard

Edelinck, Gerard

Flemish

Flemish, 1640 - 1707

Gérard Edelinck (20 October 1640 (baptized) – 2 April 1707) was a copper-plate engraver and print publisher of Flemish origin, who worked in Paris from 1666 and became a naturalized French citizen in 1675.

Edelinck, Nicolas-Etienne

Edelinck, Nicolas-Etienne

French

French, 1681 - 1767

Nicolas-Étienne Edelinck (9 April 1681 – 11 May 1767) was a French engraver, was born to a family of engravers in Paris, the eighth son of Gérard Edelinck. Although he had the advantage of his father's instruction, and of studying in Italy, he never rose above mediocrity. He engraved some portraits, and a few plates for the Crozat Collection. He died in Paris in 1768. Among other prints by him are the following: Gerard Edelinck; after Tortebat. Cardinal Giulio de' Medici; after Raphael. Count Baldassare Castiglione; after the same. Philip, Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, on horseback; after J. Ranc. Adrien Baillet. John Dryden; after Kneller. The Virgin and Infant; after Correggio. Vertumnus and Pomona; after J. Ranc.

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Edelson, Mary Beth

American

American, 1933 - 2021

Mary Elizabeth Edelson (née Johnson; February 6, 1933 – April 20, 2021) was an American artist and pioneer of the feminist art movement, deemed one of the notable "first-generation feminist artists". Edelson was a printmaker, book artist, collage artist, painter, photographer, performance artist, and author. Her works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She began her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago and continued as she pursued her Bachelor's and Master of Fine Arts degrees. She taught art at the college level, including School of Art and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art's Dupont Center for Advanced Studies. Inspired by Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and Édouard Manet, she made paintings of mothers and children in the 1960s. During that decade, she owned a gallery in Indianapolis. Her art changed markedly in the 1970s when she shifted to performance and other forms of art, as well as how women are depicted in art. Her studies of philosophy and psychology greatly influenced her art, both in terms of content and medium. Important works of...

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Edelson, S.

American

American, active c. 1950

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Ed Flood

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Edgar Allen Kestner

American

1916 - 1995

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Edgar Bartolucci