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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Draper, Henry

American

American, 1837 - 1882

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Draper, Louis

American

American, 1935 - 2002

Louis Hansel Draper (September 24, 1935 – February 18, 2002) was a New York-based American photographer known for his images of Harlem in the 1960s and was founding member of the Kamoinge Workshop. His work was featured in several volumes of the publication, The Black Photographers Annual. In addition to his images of everyday people in urban settings, Draper photographed significant artists, intellectuals, and civil rights leaders like Fannie Lou Hamer, John Coltrane, Malcolm X, Miles Davis, and Langston Hughes. Draper's work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, among many other museums, public and private collections.

Draper, William Franklin

Draper, William Franklin

American

American, 1912 - 2003

William Franklin Draper (December 24, 1912 – October 26, 2003) was an American painter and a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.

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Drawing Architecture Studio

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Drawn

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Drebbel, Cornelis Jacobsz

Dutch

Dutch, 1572 - 1633

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Dreber, Heinrich

German

German, 1822 - 1875

Dreier, Katherine Sophie

Dreier, Katherine Sophie

American

American, 1877 - 1952

Katherine Sophie Dreier (September 10, 1877 – March 29, 1952) was an American artist, lecturer, patron of the arts, and social reformer. Dreier developed an interest in art at a young age and was afforded the opportunity of studying art in the United States and in Europe due to her parents' wealth and progressive attitudes. Her sister Dorothea, a Post-Impressionist painter traveled and studied with her in Europe. She was most influenced by modern art, particularly by her friend Marcel Duchamp, and due to her frustration with the poor reception that the works received, she became a supporter of other artists. She was co-founder of the Society of Independent Artists and the Société Anonyme, which had the first permanent collection of modern art, representing 175 artists and more than 800 works of art. The collection was donated to Yale University. Her works were exhibited in Europe and the United States, including the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art. Dreier was also an active suffragette, attending the sixth convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Stockholm, Sweden as a delegate. She was the head of the New York City's German-American Committee of the Woman...

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Dreskin-Haig, Jeanet Elizabeth

American

American, born 1952

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Dressler, August Wilhelm

German

German, 1886 - 1970

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Drevet, Claude

French

French, 1697 - 1781

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Drevet, Pierre

French

French, 1663 - 1738