American+Visual+Artists


 * American Visual Artists**
 * Thomas Moran – Yellowstone Basin
 * Thomas Eakins – 1876 – “Gross Clinic” rejected by art jury because of uncompromising realism.
 * William LeBaron Jenney – (1832 – 1907) designed first skyscraper with a load-bearing structural frame of steel
 * Winslow Homer
 * George Eastman – Kodak camera
 * Frank Lloyd Wright
 * Alfred Stieglitz – publishes //Camera Work//
 * Ashcan School – urban realists
 * Marcel Duchamp – cubism and “readymades”
 * Jacob Lawrence – (1917 – 2000) painter
 * Romare Bearden – 1912-1988
 * James Van Der Zee – (1886-1983) photographer
 * Grant Wood – “American Gothic”
 * Thomas Hart Benton – American Gothic movement
 * Ansel Adams – photographer
 * Imogen Cunningham – photographer
 * Edward Weston – photographer
 * Maya Lin – Vietnam Memorial and Southern Poverty Law Center
 * Grandma Moses – “primitive” painting
 * Georgia O’Keefe
 * Diego Rivera
 * Frida Kahlo
 * Jackson Pollack – (married to Krasner)
 * Dorothea Lange
 * Walker Evans and James Agee
 * The Photo League – Harlem Document
 * Edward Hopper
 * Lee Krasner – modern painter (married to Pollack)
 * Edward Calder – mobiles
 * Henry Moore – modern sculpture
 * Philip Johnson – glass house
 * Mies VanDer Rohe – Seagram’s building
 * Jasper Johns
 * Buckminster Fuller – art, math, architecture
 * Simon Rodia – Watts Towers
 * Henry O. Tanner – painter
 * Andy Warhol – pop art
 * Claes Oldenburg - BIG sculpture
 * Roy Lichtenstein – comic-inspired large paintings
 * Robert Smithson – Spiral Jetty
 * Walter DeMaria – Lightning Field
 * Chris Burden – Shot his own arm (is it art?)
 * James Turrell – light sculpture
 * Alexander Gardner & Matthew Brady
 * Edward Muybridge – early camera work using many shots to show movement
 * Augusta Savage – Harlem Renaissance sculptor
 * Louise Nevelson – construction and collage work (boxes)
 * Ed Kienholz
 * Judy Chicago – feminist political art
 * “Maria” pottery of the Four Corners area of the Southwest
 * Frederick Remington – quintessential western artist – painting and bronze
 * R.C. Gorman – contemporary Native American artist
 * Stan Lee – Marvel comics
 * Margaret Bourke-White – bold photojournalist, WWII and Gandhi
 * Gutzon Borglum – Mount Rushmore
 * Korczak Zilolkowski – Crazy Horse memorial being carved out of a mountain
 * Isamu Noguchi – very modern, smooth abstract sculptor
 * Gordon Parks – photographer, actor, director – many hats!
 * Maxfield Parrish – 1920s popular illustrator, amazing skies, atmospheric
 * Carl Barks – Scrooge McDuck – from Oregon!
 * George Bellows – boxing picture
 * Leroy Neiman – sports, art. Washes of color
 * Clinedinst – action, battle picture
 * Gilbert Stuart
 * Benjamin West
 * John Singleton
 * John James Audubon
 * Henry O. Tanner
 * Frederick E. Church
 * George Caleb Bingham
 * Thomas Cole
 * Edward Hicks – peaceable kingdom
 * The Luminists
 * Robert S. Duncan
 * George Caitlin – idea of “nation’s park”
 * Karl Bodmer
 * Edwin Romanzo Elmer
 * Bierstadt
 * William Michael Harnett
 * John Frederick Peto
 * William Merritt Chase
 * Mary Casatt
 * James M. Whistler
 * Thomas Doughty
 * Eastman Johnson
 * Jacob Riis
 * Edward M. Bannister
 * John Singer Sargent
 * Lewis Hine, photographer