Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
31,194 artists in the collection
Gebel, Matthes
German
German, c. 1500 - 1574
Gechtoff, Sonia
American
American, 1926 - 2018
Sonia Gechtoff (September 25, 1926 – February 1, 2018) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Her primary medium was painting, but she also created drawings and prints.
Geddes, Andrew
British
British, 1789 - 1844
Geddes, Andrew
Gedney, William
American
American, 1932 - 1989
William Gale Gedney (October 29, 1932 – June 23, 1989) was an American documentary and street photographer. It wasn't until after his death that his work gained momentum and is now widely recognized. He is best known for his series on rural Kentucky, and series on India, San Francisco and New York shot in the 1960s and 1970s.
Geerlings, Gerald
American
American, 1897 - 1998
Gerald Kenneth Geerlings (April 18, 1897 – January 25, 1998) was an American artist, printmaker, architect, and author. Geerlings is known for his early-20th century architectural etchings, aquatints, and intaglio prints depicting the rise of American metropolises and urbanization during the interwar period. His prints showcase the Gilded Age and Art Deco architecture of American cities, often depicting the skylines and early skyscrapers of New York City and Chicago.
Geer, R. Mrs.
American
American, 1830 - 1900
Geertgen tot Sint Jans
Netherlandish
1460 - 1490
Geffroy, Gustave
French
French, 1855 - 1926
Gego
Venezuelan
German, 1912 - 1994, active Venezuelan
Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1994), known as Gego, was a modern German-Venezuelan visual artist. Gego is perhaps best known for her geometric and kinetic sculptures made in the 1960s and 1970s, which she described as "drawings without paper".
Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt)
Gehr, Mary
American
American, 1914 - 1997
Mary Gehr (1910–1997) was an American painter and printmaker. Born in Chicago, Gehr studied at Smith College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology; her instructors included Paul Wieghardt and Misch Kohn. After attending Smith she danced with the Chicago Opera Company for four seasons, and she spent three years with the Ruth Page-Stone Ballet; she had a featured role in the premiere of the ballet Frankie and Johnny. During her career Gehr specialized in batik and intaglio. She worked as an illustrator as well, producing illustrations for over two dozen books for Children's Press, some of which she also wrote. Several of her pieces are in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago; she is also represented in the holdings of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Library of Congress. Gehr was married to the designer Burt Ray, who predeceased her; she was also a loving stepmother to Burt’s daughter, Virginia, and to two granddaughters, Sharon and Diane.