Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
31,194 artists in the collection
Bryner, Jean
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
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.
Bubb, James George
British
British, 1782 - 1853
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.
Bucci, Andrew A.
American
American, 1922 - 2014
Bucci, Anselmo
Italian
Italian, 1887 - 1955
Anselmo Bucci (25 May 1887 – 19 November 1955) was an Italian painter and printmaker.
Buchel, Charles
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.
Buck, Adam
British
British, 1759 - 1833
Buck, Henry Bennett
American
American, 1900 - 1982
Buckler, John Chessell
British
British, 1793 - 1894