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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Bryner, Jean

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Bryson, Bernarda

American

American, 1903 - 2004

Bernarda Bryson Shahn (March 7, 1903 – December 12, 2004) was an American painter and lithographer. She also wrote and illustrated children's books including The Zoo of Zeus and Gilgamesh. The artist Ben Shahn was her "life companion" and they married in 1969, shortly before his death.

Bry, Theodor de

Bry, Theodor de

Flemish

Flemish, 1528 - 1598

Theodor de Bry (also Theodorus de Bry; 1528 – 27 March 1598) was a Walloon engraver, goldsmith, editor and publisher, famous for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced de Bry, a Protestant, to flee his native, Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands. He moved around Europe, starting from his birth on the city of Liège in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, then to Strasbourg, Antwerp, London and Frankfurt, where he settled. De Bry created a large number of engraved illustrations for his books. Most of his books were based on first-hand observations by explorers, even if De Bry himself, acting as a recorder of information, never visited the Americas. To modern eyes, many of the illustrations seem formal but detailed.

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Bubb, James George

British

British, 1782 - 1853

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Bubley, Esther

American

American, 1921 - 1998

Esther Bubley (February 16, 1921 – March 16, 1998) was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives. She worked for several agencies of the American government and her work also featured in several news and photographic magazines.

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Bucci, Andrew A.

American

American, 1922 - 2014

Bucci, Anselmo

Bucci, Anselmo

Italian

Italian, 1887 - 1955

Anselmo Bucci (25 May 1887 – 19 November 1955) was an Italian painter and printmaker.

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Buchel, Charles

Buchholz, Wolff

Buchholz, Wolff

German

German, born 1935

Christine Ann Buchholz (born 2 April 1971 in Hamburg) is a German politician and was member of the Bundestag, the German federal diet from 2009 to 2021 for the Die Linke. A progressive activist, Bucholz is a member of Marx21, a network of trotskyists within Die Linke broadly aligned with the International Socialist Tendency.

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Buck, Adam

British

British, 1759 - 1833

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Buck, Henry Bennett

American

American, 1900 - 1982

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Buckler, John Chessell

British

British, 1793 - 1894