Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

Ferrato, Donna

Ferrato, Donna

American

American, born 1949

Donna Ferrato (born 1949) is a photojournalist and activist known for her coverage of domestic violence and her documentation of the New York City neighborhood of Tribeca. Ferrato has worked for Life, Time, People, The New York Times, and Mother Jones. Her photographs have won various awards and have appeared in solo exhibitions in museums and galleries. She has been a member of the executive board of directors for the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and was president and founder of the non-profit Domestic Abuse Awareness (501-c3).

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Ferraù Fenzone

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Ferren, John

American

American, 1905 - 1970

John Millard Ferren (October 17, 1905 – July 1, 1970) was an American artist and educator. He was active from 1920 until 1970 in San Francisco, Paris and New York City.

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Ferrer, Rafael

American

American, born 1933

Rafael Ferrer (born 1933) is a Puerto Rican artist. He was a 1993 recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a 2011 recipient of an Annalee and Barnett Newman Foundation Grant. He is the half-brother of actor José Ferrer and half-uncle of actor Miguel Ferrer.

Ferretti, Domenico

Ferretti, Domenico

Italian

Italian, 1701 - 1774

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico), also called Giandomenico d'Imola (15 June 1692 – 18 August 1768), was an Italian Rococo style painter from Florence. His fresco style was influenced by Sebastiano Ricci's lively, colourful, and pastel-hued frescoes in the Palazzo Fenzi.

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Ferretti, Giovanni Domenico

Italian

Italian, 1692 - 1768

Ferri, Ciro

Ferri, Ciro

Italian

Italian, 1634 - 1689

Ciro Ferri (1634 – 13 September 1689) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and painter, the chief pupil and successor of Pietro da Cortona.

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Ferrill, Martin Edgar

American

American, 1836 or 1837 - 1897

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Ferrill, Mikki

American

American, born 1937

Valeria “Mikki” Ferrill (born 1937) is an American photographer. Ferrill was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1937. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1986 her work was included in the exhibition Two Schools: New York and Chicago Contemporary African-American Photography of the 60s and 70s at the at the Kenkeleba Gallery as well as the exhibition On Freedom: The Art of Photojournalism at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Ferrill's work was part of the 2024 exhibition Transformations: American Photographs From the 1970s at the Philadelphia Art Museum. In the 2025 her work was included in the exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 at the National Gallery of Art. Fanner's photographs are in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Gallery of Art, and the Philadelphia Art Museum.

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Ferri, Ronoldo

American

American, born 1932

S.M.S (Shit Must Stop) is a collection of artist's portfolios that are conceived by William Copley and Dimitri Petrov as they speak about the long relationships with the artists. The collection was published biweekly from February to December 1968. Each issue is composed of diverse art pieces, created by individual artist that were important at that period. The portfolios has a wide range of different aspects such as dada, surrealism, and pop art that includes photography, sound, drawings and writings. Six portfolios containing eleven to thirteen objects were produced in unsigned editions of 2000. There were 100 copies for a deluxe edition. Almost all of the 73 artists solely signed their contributions for the deluxe portfolio, while a few others chose to sign, number and/or date. Reportedly, there were also a very small handful of artists who did not sign at all. This project has been inspired by the Fluxus movement, which encouraged diverse artists to come together as a form of a protest against galleries, not agreeing to them having the authority to determine the value of art. So by bringing artist together without any establishments, which by means, without being judged and determined...

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Ferris, A. F. & Co.

American

American, active 1880s

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Ferris, Edythe

American

American, born 1897

Edythe Ferris (1897–1995) was an American artist. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.