Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

31,194 artists in the collection

Bertoia, Harry

Bertoia, Harry

American

American, born Italy, 1915 - 1978

Harry Bertoia (March 10, 1915 – November 6, 1978), son of Giuseppe Antonio Bertoia and Maria Secunda Mussio, was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer.

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Bertoldo di Giovanni

Italian

Florentine, c. 1430/1440 - 1491

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Bertram A. Weber

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Bertram Mackennal

Australian

1863 - 1931

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Bertram Potter

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Bertram Reibel

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Bertrand Andrieu

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Bertrand Goldberg

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Bertrand Goldberg Associates

Bertrand, James

Bertrand, James

French

French, 1823 - 1887

Jean-Baptiste "James" Bertrand (25 March 1823 Lyon - 26 Sept 1887 Orsay, Seine-et-Oise), was a French painter and lithographer. Bertrand was also known as James Bertrand. At first he was a student of Étienne Rey (1789–1867) and later of Jean-Claude Bonnefond (1796–1860) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon from 1840 to 1843. Alphonse Périn (1798–1874) suggested that he move to Paris, where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and had his first Salon exhibition in 1857. He spent 11 years working with Périn and his teacher and friend Victor Orsel, decorating the chapel of the Eucharist in the Paris Church of Notre Dame de Lorette and in 1854 started work on reproductions of work by Orsel. Bertrand travelled in Italy between 1857 and 1862. Returning to Paris, he befriended sculptors such as Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Alexandre Falguière and Auguste Clésinger. Influenced by his sculptor contacts, Bertrand devoted himself from 1866 to allegories and genre scenes, departing from his early Nazarene style. These were heroic depictions of the great heroines of history and literature, as in the Death of Sappho (1867), the Death of Virginie (1869), the Death of Manon Lescaut (1870) and...

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Bertrand, Raymond

American

American, 1909 - 1986

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Bert R. Elliott