Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

31,194 artists in the collection

Blast, Karl H.

Blast, Karl H.

American

American, active 1830

A blast injury is a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion. Blast injuries occur with the detonation of high-order explosives as well as the deflagration of low order explosives. These injuries are compounded when the explosion occurs in a confined space.

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Blatas, Arbit

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Blaustein, Al

American

American, 1924 - 2004

Alfred H. Blaustein (1924-2004) was an American painter and printmaker.

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Blauvelt & Hubbard

American

American, active 1860s

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Blechen, Carl

German

German, 1798 - 1840

Bleckner, Ross

Bleckner, Ross

American

American, born 1949

Ross Bleckner (born May 12, 1949) is an American artist. He currently lives and works in New York City. His artistic focus is on painting, and he held his first solo exhibition in 1975. Some of his art work reflected on the AIDS epidemic.

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Blees, Joseph Hubert

Dutch

Dutch, 1826 - 1907

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Bleifeld, Stanley

American

American, 1924 - 2011

Stanley Bleifeld (August 28, 1924 – March 26, 2011) was an American sculptor. He lived between Weston, Connecticut, and Pietrasanta, Italy.

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Bleker, Gerrit Claesz

Dutch

Dutch, active 1628 - 1656

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B. Leo Steif

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B. Leo Steif & Co.

Bléry, Eugène

Bléry, Eugène

French

French, 1805 - 1887

Eugène Stanislas Alexandre Bléry (3 March 1805–7 June 1887), was a French engraver. He was born into a military family at Fontainebleau, where his father taught mathematics and fortifications at the military school. The school transferred in 1808 to Saint-Cyr, where it became the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr and where Bléry spent his youth. Under the patronage of the comtesse de Montalivet, he became skilled in lithography as early as the 1820s, and learned acquaforte etching soon afterwards. With the encouragement of his Montalivet patrons, he established a reputation for etchings and engravings of countryside scenes, trees and wild flowers. He was known for working out of doors, which was unusual for engravers at the time. He later became the teacher of the celebrated etcher of street-scenes of Paris, Charles Méryon. He died at his home in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.