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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Cunningham, Richenda

British

British, 1782 - 1855

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Cunningham, William Phelps

American

American, 1903 - 1980

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Cupisnique

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Curnock, James Jackson

British

British, 1839 - 1891

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Currier & Ives

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Currier & Ives

American

1834 - 1907

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Currier, Nathaniel

American

American, 1813 - 1888

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Curry, Al

American

American, active c. 1935

Curry, John Steuart

Curry, John Steuart

American

American, 1897 - 1946

John Steuart Curry (November 14, 1897 – August 29, 1946) was an American painter whose career spanned the years from 1924 until his death. He was noted for his paintings depicting rural life in his home state, Kansas. Along with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, he was hailed as one of the three great painters of American Regionalism of the first half of the twentieth century. Curry's artistic production was varied, including paintings, book illustrations, prints, and posters. Curry was Kansas's best-known painter, but his works were not popular with Kansans, who felt that he did not portray the state positively. Curry's paintings often depicted farm life and animals, tornadoes, prairie fires, and the violent Bleeding Kansas period (featuring abolitionist John Brown, who at the time was derided as a fanatical traitor) – subjects that Kansans did not want to be representative of the state. Curry was commissioned to create murals for the Kansas State Capitol, and he completed two: Kansas Pastoral, and his most famous and controversial work, Tragic Prelude, which he considered his greatest. Reaction was so negative that the Kansas Legislature passed a measure to keep them, or future works...

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Curry, Noble

American

American, 1894 - 1981

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Curtis, Asahel

American

American, 1874 - 1941

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Curtis Bean