Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

29,499 artists in the collection

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Allen, Anne

French

French, active 1790s

Allen, Courtney

Allen, Courtney

American

American, 1896 - 1969

Courtney Allen Curtis (born April 12, 1981) is an American former politician who served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018. He represented the 73rd District, which includes such north St. Louis County municipalities as Ferguson, Berkeley, Kinloch, Woodson Terrace, St. Ann, Cool Valley, Hazelwood, Normandy, Bridgeton, and Edmundson. A native of Ferguson, Missouri, Curtis was a vocal figure during the unrest over the shooting of Michael Brown. In 2018 he was sentenced to 21 months in prison for using campaign funds for personal use.

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Allen, Eldon

American

American, 1920 - 1998

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Allen Erskine Philbrick

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Allen George Newman

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Allen Hess

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Allen, James E.

American

American, 1894 - 1964

James Edmund Allen (February 23, 1894 – September 9, 1964) was an American illustrator, printmaker, and painter. His works include a significant body of lithographs and etchings showing steelworkers, pipe workers, and other aspects of American industrial life, carefully composed compositions depicting "the daily heroism of America's industrial workers." Allen was also a prolific illustrator who, working mostly in oil, contributed numerous illustrations to stories in popular magazines of the day. He has been misidentified in many references as James Edward Allen.

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Allen Jones

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Allen, Joseph

British

British, c. 1770 - 1839

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Allen, Luther

American

American, 1780 - 1821

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Allen, Mariette Pathy

American

American, born Egypt, 1940

Mariette Pathy Allen (Alexandria, 1940) is a photographer for the transgender, genderfluid, and intersex communities and a writer. She has published five books, Transformations: Cross-dressers and Those Who Love Them (1989), Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade (1994), The Gender Frontier (2004), TransCuba (2014) and Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand (2017). She is an activist for gender consciousness and reflects positivity towards underrepresented communities.

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Allen Porter