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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Bourget, Camille

French

French, active 19th century

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Bourg-la-Reine Factory

French

Bourke-White, Margaret

Bourke-White, Margaret

American

American, 1904 - 1971

Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was known as an architectural and commercial photographer for the first half of her career, representing corporate clients and highlighting the success of industrial capitalism with black and white images of steel factories and skyscrapers. In 1930, she became the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of the Soviet Union. In 1933, NBC commissioned her to create a monumental photo mural about radio for its rotunda at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, then considered the largest photo mural in the world. The success of her corporate commissions led her to work at Fortune magazine in the 1930s. She took the photograph of the construction of Fort Peck Dam that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine. The second half of her career represents her transition from corporate photography to photojournalism, beginning with her work during the Great Depression documenting the people of the Dust Bowl. Her collaboration with novelist Erskine Caldwell in You Have Seen Their Faces (1937) resulted in seventy-five photos depicting the lives of poor, rural sharecroppers...

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Bourne, Samuel

British

British, 1834 - 1912

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Boutet de Monvel, Bernard

French

French, 1881 - 1913

Boutet de Monvel, Louis Maurice

Boutet de Monvel, Louis Maurice

French

French, 1850 - 1913

Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (18 October 1850 – 16 March 1913) was a French painter and illustrator best known for his watercolours for children's books. He was a major figure in nineteenth-century children's book illustration.

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Boutet, Henri

French

French, 1851 - 1919

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Boutourlin, Hélène

French

French, active 1830s

Bout, Peeter

Bout, Peeter

Flemish

Flemish, 1658 - 1719

Pieter Bout (between 1640 and 1645 – between 17 June 1689 and 1719) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He is known mainly for his landscapes, city, coast and country views and architectural scenes painted in a style reminiscent of earlier Flemish masters such as Jan Brueghel the Elder. His clear and soft palette announces the 18th century.

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Bouts, Dirck

Netherlandish

Netherlandish, c. 1415/1420 - 1475

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Bouttats I, Frederick

Flemish

Flemish, 1590 - 1661

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Bouttats II, Frederick

Flemish

Flemish, 1610 - 1676