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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Brooks, Adele

American

American, c. 1874 - 1943

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Brookshaw, George

British

British, active 1812

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Brookshaw, Richard

British

British, 1736 - in or after 1804

Brooks, James

Brooks, James

American

American, 1906 - 1992

James David Brooks (October 18, 1906 – March 9, 1992) was an American Abstract Expressionist, muralist, abstract painter, art teacher, and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts.

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Brooks, Mary Edith

American

American, active c. 1935

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Brooks, Mildred Bryant

American

American, 1901 - 1995

Mildred Bryant Brooks (1901–1995) was an American printmaker, and teacher. She taught at Stickney Memorial Art School for many years, and was a co-founder of The Six Print Club. She was known for her etchings the California landscape and trees.

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Brooks, Milton

American

American, 1901 - 1956

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Brooks, Thomas

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Broome, Lloyd

American

American, 1902 - 1983

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Bror Hjorth

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Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt

Brosamer, Hans

Brosamer, Hans

German

German, c. 1500 - 1552 or 1554

Hans Brosamer (born in the late 1490s, probably in Fulda; died c. 1554) was a German draughtsman, printmaker and painter of the Renaissance period. His life has left hardly any documentary trace, other than his prints, but he was active in Fulda from 1536 to 1545, and later worked in Erfurt. His works include over 600 woodcuts, mostly illustrations for books of various sorts, but also a number of independent prints. He produced 38 engravings (as listed by Hollstein), and a number of drawings, mostly with his monogram. As a painter, a number of portraits of figures from the local elites, normally at half-length, are attributed to him. On account of the small size of his engravings he is counted among the Little Masters, and many of these are rather derivative of others in the group, such as Jacob Binck and Heinrich Aldegrever, and of Lucas Cranach the Elder in his portraits. One of his woodcuts was in contrast very large, and no doubt intended to be pasted to walls. This was his David and Bathsheba, built up from nine blocks, and printed in 1554, his last dated work; unsurprisingly, it is very rare. His woodcuts include a hostile Caricature of Luther with Seven Heads (1529). He...