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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Ei-Q

Japanese

Japanese, 1911 - 1960

Ei-Q (瑛九, Eikyū; April 28, 1911 – March 10, 1960, in English occasionally "Q. Ei" or "Ei Kyu") was a Japanese artist who worked in a variety of media, including photography and engraving.

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Eiseman, Frank

American

American, active c. 1935

Eisen, Charles

Eisen, Charles

French

French, 1720 - 1778

Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (17 August 1720 – 4 January 1778) was a French painter and engraver.

Eisen, David

Eisen, David

American

American

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Eisenhauer, Lette

Eisenhauer, Lette

American

American, born 1935

Originale (Originals, or "Real Characters"), musical theatre with Kontakte, is a music theatre work by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in collaboration with the artist Mary Bauermeister. It was first performed in 1961 in Cologne, and is given the work number 12+2⁄3 in Stockhausen's catalogue of works.

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Eisenlohr, Edward G.

American

American, 1872 - 1961

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Eisenmann, Georg

German

German, active last third 18th century

Eisenman, Nicole

Eisenman, Nicole

American

American, born France, 1965

Nicole Eisenman (born 1965) is a French-born American artist known for her oil paintings and sculptures. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize (2013), and has thrice been included in the Whitney Biennial (1995, 2012, 2019). On September 29, 2015, she won a MacArthur Fellowship award for "restoring the representation of the human form a cultural significance that had waned during the ascendancy of abstraction in the 20th century." Eisenman lives in Brooklyn.

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Eishosai Choki

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Eishōsai Chōki

Japanese

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Eisman, Harry

American

American, active c. 1935

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Eisner, Anne

American

American, 1911 - 1967

Anne Eisner Putnam (1911–1967) was an abstract and landscape painter, watercolorist, and collector of African art, originally from New York where she also died. She became a writer, best known for her book Madami: My Eight Years of Adventure with the Congo Pygmies. This was an account of her time and experiences in the Belgian Congo. She and her husband, Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953) met in the USA in 1945 and lived together on Martha's Vineyard and in New York City. They later moved to Africa and later married on July 28, 1948 in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa), in the Belgian Congo, what is now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Her husband was a Harvard graduate and student of anthropology who, beginning in the 1930s, established what became known as Camp Putnam along the Epulu River in the Belgian Congo. Camp Putnam was on the edge of the Ituri rainforest of the Belgian Congo, near the home of the pygmies. They ran Camp Putnam for paying tourists, a hotel giving an African experience. At the same time, they also ran a medical clinic and offered legal aid to local people. Among the Putnams’ many outsiders, both tourists and researchers, was anthropologist Colin...