Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

31,194 artists in the collection

Blackburn, Robert

Blackburn, Robert

American

American, 1920 - 2003

Robert Hamilton Blackburn (December 12, 1920 – April 21, 2003) was an African-American artist, teacher, and master printmaker.

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Black & Chase

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Blackfeet

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Black, James Wallace

American

American, 1825 - 1896

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BlackMass Publishing

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Blackmon, Julie

American

American, born 1966

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Blackshear, Kathleen

American

American, 1897 - 1988

Kathleen Blackshear (1897–1988) was an American Modernist artist known for her sensitive depictions of African-American subjects.

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Black, Wendell

American

American, 1919 - 1972

Wendell & Wild is a 2022 American animated Gothic comedy horror film directed by Henry Selick from a screenplay written by Selick and Jordan Peele (who are also producers), based on Selick's and Clay McLeod Chapman's unpublished book of the same name. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as the titular characters with Angela Bassett, Lyric Ross, James Hong, and Ving Rhames in supporting roles. This was Selick's first feature film since Coraline (2009). Selick began developing his stop-motion animation feature with Key and Peele set to star in November 2015. The distribution rights were picked up by Netflix in March 2018. Other voice cast were confirmed in March 2022. Production was done remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, with filming taking place in Portland, Oregon. It premiered at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2022, was released in select theaters on October 21, 2022, and made its streaming release in Netflix on October 28, 2022. It received generally positive reviews from critics who welcomed Selick's return and praised its stop-motion animation and characters, but criticized its screenplay. The film is dedicated to Mark Musumeci, an electricity...

Bladen, Ronald

Bladen, Ronald

American

American, born Canada, 1918 - 1988

Ronald Bladen (July 13, 1918 – February 3, 1988) was a Canadian-born American painter and sculptor. He is particularly known for his large-scale sculptures. His artistic stance, was influenced by European Constructivism, American Hard-Edge Painting, and sculptors such as Isamu Noguchi and David Smith. Bladen in turn had stimulating effect on a circle of younger artists including Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and others, who repeatedly referred to him as one of the 'father figures' of Minimal Art.

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Blaeu, Willem Jansz.

Dutch

Dutch, 1571 - 1638

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Blaine, Nell

American

American, 1922 - 1996

Nell Blair Walden Blaine (July 10, 1922 – November 14, 1996) was an American landscape painter, expressionist, and watercolorist. From Richmond, Virginia, she had most of her career based in New York City and Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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Blair Hughes-Stanton