Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

31,194 artists in the collection

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Bolus, Michael

British

British, born South Africa, 1934 - 2013

Born in South Africa, Michael Edward Bolus was an artist and teacher who settled in England in 1957 and studied at St Martin's School of Art from 1958 to 1962, studying under Anthony Caro. After a brief period living in Cape Town he returned to London in 1964 to begin a teaching post at St Martin's and the Central School of Art and Design. Bolus had his first UK solo exhibition at Waddington Galleries in 1968, which has exhibited a number of his sculptures since then. As a student his earliest work was modelled or sculpted in stone, but Bolus soon abandoned these traditional techniques in favour of working with steel and aluminium, materials that allowed him to explore the notions of balance and the extension of form which had long interested him. For the New Generation show in 1965 he exhibited a series of polychromatic sculptures taking the form of abstract shapes cut out of sheet aluminium, placed flat on the ground or stood on edge. A good example of this group of works is, Bowbend, 1964. In 1966 Bolus took part in the "Primary Structures" exhibition at the Jewish museum in New York. The same year he was given his first one-man show in America at the Kornblee Gallery. In the 1970s...

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Bomar, Bill

American

American, 1919 - 1991

William "Bill" Purinton Bomar Jr. (December 30, 1919 – November 26, 1991) was an American painter who was a member of the Fort Worth Circle.

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Bonanno, Carman

American

American, born 1901

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Bonaparte, Roland-Napoléon

French

French, 1858 - 1924

Bonasone, Giulio

Bonasone, Giulio

Italian

Bolognese, c. 1500/1510–after 1574

Giulio Bonasone (c. 1498 – after 1574) (or Giulio de Antonio Buonasone or Julio Bonoso) was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been lost. He is better known as an engraver and is believed to have trained with Marcantonio Raimondi. He worked mainly in Mantua, Rome and Venice and with great success, producing etchings and engravings after the old masters and his own designs. He signed his plates B., I.B., Julio Bonaso, Julio Bonasone, Juli Bonasonis, Julio Bolognese Bonahso. He has been regarded an engraver with extraordinary skills in reproducing, as he could accurately convey the sources' compositions, colours, and essence. Moreover, he expressed his understanding about the controversies about religion and culture in his time through his prints. He is considered among the most important and productive engravers of the sixteenth century.

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Bonaventura Bisi

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Bonaventure M. Lebert

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Bonazza, Giovanni

Italian

Venetian, active Venice and Padua, 1654 - 1736

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Bon Boullongne

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Bond, Charles V.

American

American, c. 1825 - 1866

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Bond, Douglas

American

American, born 1937

Douglas E. Bond (born October 29, 1958) is an American author. He is not to be confused with the musician and singer-songwriter, Douglas Burke Bond, Jr., who goes by the stage name, Hatchatorium, and is also a writer/author. Douglas E. Bond has written more than 30 books, primarily of historical fiction. He earned a master's degree in Teaching (MIT) from St. Martin's University, and a Preliminary Certificate in Theology from Moore Theological College. He was the English and history instructor at Covenant High School (CHS) in Tacoma, Washington from 1993 to 2015, receiving the 2005 Teacher Award from the Pierce County Library Foundation and Arts Commission, and the 2015 Teacher of the Year award from the Optimist Club. After more than two decades of positive performance reviews, he was terminated without process from CHS after the release of his book Grace Works! (And Ways We Think It Doesn't). Along with full-time writing and editing duties, he is Director for the Oxford Creative Writing Master Class and adjunct instructor in church history at Western Reformed Seminary. Bond is lyricist for New Reformation Hymns and wrote the hymns for the 2017 Rise & Worship album, with music composed...

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Bond, William

British

British, active c. 1799/1833