Alex Katz

Alex Katz

male, 82 years old
New York State Museum, printmaker, The Cooper Union, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine artist, Skowhegan…Art Museum, University, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum Of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, BrooklynMuseum
Alex Katz (born July 24 1927) is an American figural artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings,...

William Wegman

male, 66 years old
Funney/ Strange, wexner center for the arts, BrooklynMuseum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, California State University, Long Beach…Norton Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum
William Wegman (b. 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own...
Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold

female
from Philadelphia, Alexei Brodovitch, The Misfits, BrooklynMuseum, Magnum Photos, Harper's Bazaar
Eve Arnold, born on April 21, 1912 (several sources incorrectly claim 1913), is an American photojournalist and was the first female member of the...
Linda Nochlin

Linda Nochlin

female
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Representing Women, Women, Art, and Power And Other Essays, BrooklynMuseum, American, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Professor and art historian Linda Nochlin is a leader in feminist art history studies. In 1971, the magazine "ArtNews" published an essay whose...
Lady Pink

Lady Pink

female
Queen, Groningen Museum, Moore College of Art, Ambato, Wild Style, BrooklynMuseum…whitney museum
Lady Pink (b. Sandra Fabara, Ambato, Ecuador, 1964) was raised in Queens, NY. In 1979 she started writing graffiti and soon was well known as...
Devorah Sperber

Devorah Sperber

female
abstraction, Pointillist, optical illusions, BrooklynMuseum, horizon, Installation artist
Devorah Sperber is an American installation artist known for creating works out of spools of thread, chenille pipe cleaners and map tacks that act...
William Baziotes

William Baziotes

male, deceased (1963)
surrealist, artist, American, Surrealism, national academy of design, modern painter…guggenheim museum, museum of modern art, BrooklynMuseum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
William Baziotes was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. Born and raised in Pittsburgh,...

John Matos

male
Bronx, silk screened canvas, New York City trains, Eric Clapton Stratocaster, Eric Clapton Signature Stratocaster, screen-printing…BrooklynMuseum, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Crash (b. John Matos, Bronx, New York, Oct. 11, 1961) is a famous graffiti artist. As early as 13, John Matos was spray painting New York City...

Charles Desmarais

male
American, Art historian, Art curator, pritzker prize, BrooklynMuseum
Charles Desmarais is an art museum curator and director. He is known for his early patronage of now-prominent architects. He hired Stanley...
Peter Trippi

Peter Trippi

male
New York University, J. W. Waterhouse, Fine Art Connoisseur, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, American Arts Alliance, Association of Art Museum Director…Baltimore Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, BrooklynMuseum, Dahesh Museum
Peter Trippi is Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur, the bimonthly magazine that serves informed collectors of 18th, 19th, and 20th century painting and...