Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement.

Holger Cahill was the National Director of the Federal Art Project (FAP), a federal patron of art that existed between 1935 and 1943 as part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration. Cahill worked to bring the Pragmatic philosophy of American thinker and author of Democracy and Education John Dewey to bear in federal art, seeking to fashion a more democratic aesthetic that was accessible to the average American. He died in 1960.

Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 - June 23, 1980) was an American artist, a painter, and one of the leading figures in Abstract Expressionism.

William Baziotes was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Baziotes began his formal art training in 1933 at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He studied with Charles Curran, Ivan Olinsky, Gifford Beal, and Leon Kroll. He was employed by the Federal Art Project in the late 1930s.

Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt ("Ad" Reinhardt) (December 24, 1913-August 30, 1967) was a painter, writer, and pioneer of conceptual and minimal art. He was also a critic of abstract expressionism. Reinhardt's earliest exhibited paintings avoided representation, but show a steady progression away from objects and external reference.

Ilya Bolotowsky (1907-1981) became a leading early 20th-century painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced Cubism and Geometric Abstraction and was much influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. He was born in St. Petersburg, Bolotowsky immigrated to America in 1923 and, settling in New York City, attended the National Academy of Design. He became associated with a group called The Ten, …

Conrad Marca-Relli (1913- 2000) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline Conrad Marca-Relli and others became a leading art movement of the postwar era.

Werner Drewes was a German-American painter and printmaker, born in 1899 in Canig, Germany. Since his death in 1985, recognition of Drewes's important role and impact on twentieth century American art has steadily grown among collectors and curators. A student at the Bauhaus during the 1920s, Drewes, along with Lyonel Feininger and László Moholy-Nagy, was one of the first artists to convey the groundbreaking concepts of that school to the United States via his painting, …

Harry Gottlieb was a painter, screenprinter, lithographer, and educator, was born in Bucharest, Romania. He immigrated to America in 1907, and his family settled in Minneapolis. From 1915 to 1917, Gottlieb attended the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. After a short stint as an illustrator for the U.S. Navy, Gottlieb moved to New York City; he became a scenic and costume designer for Eugene O’Neill’s Provincetown Theater Group.

Santiago Martinez Delgado Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Santiago Martínez established his reputation as the most prominent muralist in Colombia and during the 1940’s, he is also known for his masterfull watercolors, illustartions and wood carvings. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts under the tutoring of Ruth VanSickle Ford, in 1933 was awarded the Logan Medal of the arts for a mural at the Chicago International Fair Century of Progress.

Henry Wilmer "Mike" Bannarn (b. 1910 - d. 1965) was an African-American artist born in Wetumpka, Hughes County, Oklahoma on July 17, 1910. When he was still a child, the family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota where he discovered his talent for art. He worked as a Works Progress Administration artist for the Federal Art Project and taught art at the Harlem Community Art Center in New York City, where he was a noted contemporary, …

Carl Morris (1911-1993) was an American artist. Morris was born in Yorba Linda, California and he studied at the Chicago Art Institute and in Paris and Vienna. He opened the Spokane Art Center through the Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. He met his wife, sculptor Hilda Grossman (Deutsch) when he recruited her as a teacher for the center. Other notable teachers at the center include Guy Anderson and Clyfford Still.

William Sommer was an American Modernist painter. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was largely self-taught, but received instruction early on from artist and commercial lithographer Julius Melchers. He apprenticed with the Detroit Calvert Lithograph Company for seven years. In 1890 he traveled to Europe where he trained with Professors Johann Herterich, Ludwig Schmid, and Adolph Menzel. In 1907 he accepted a position with the Otis Lithograph Company of Cleveland, Ohio.

Leon Bibel (1913-1995) was a Polish-American painter and printmaker during the Great Depression. His themes were the social condition of workers and the politics of protest and war, although cityscapes and landscapes were included among his works. He later developed works in wood of especially Jewish themes. These included fanciful miniature buildings influenced by European spice boxes, figures and objects within shadow boxes, and in one case a synagogue ark.

Albert Kotin (1907 - 1980) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline and others became a leading art movement of the postwar era.

Charles Umlauf, was an American sculptor, who was born is South Haven, Michigan on July 17, 1911 and died in 1994. He studied with Albin Polasek at the Art Institute of Chicago starting in 1929. Three years later he moved on into the "real world", ending up as an assistant to Lorado Taft at his Midway Studio. After a year of that he returned to the AIC where he remained until 1937.

Alton S. Tobey (5 November 1914 - 4 January 2005), the American artist, was a painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and teacher of art. He was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and in 1934 won a scholarship to the Yale University School of Fine Arts. After his military service, he completed his masters degree at Yale and taught there for a period.

Lee Gatch (1902-1968), the American artist, was born in a rural community near Baltimore. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in the early 1920s and then studied in Europe for a few years before returning to the United States. Although he is best known for his nature-inspired abstract works, he also worked for a time as a muralist for the WPA. Today his work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, …

Arnold Friedman was an American Modernist painter. He was born in Corona, Queens, worked for the Federal Art Project and studied at the Art Students League in New York under the tutelage of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. In 1909, he took a six-month leave of absence from his job to study art in Paris. During this time, he was introduced to the styles of Impressionism and Cubism. He exhibited with many of the most avant-garde venues and dealers of the period, …

Eleanor Coen is a lithographer and painter born in 1916 in Normal, Illinois. Both a student and teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Coen studied there with Boris Anisfeld, Francis Chapin and Max Kahn. She married Kahn in 1942. Her works often depicted urban landscapes in a signature figurative expressionist style. From 1939 to 1940, Coen participated in the Depression-era Federal Art Project in Chicago, where she worked alongside with Santiago Martinez Delgado.

Minna Wright Citron (1896 - 1991) was an American painter and printmaker. Her early prints focus on the role of women, sometimes in a satirical manner, in a style known as urban realism. Minna was born in Newark, New Jersey. She became a practicing artist after marrying and having two children. When she was 28 she attended the School of Applied Design for Women and Art Students League(1928-35). In 1934 she divorced and moved to Union Square, …

Harry Shoulberg (1903-1995) was among the early group of WPA artists working in the screen print (serigraph) medium, as well as oil.

Lucile Lloyd (August 28 1894 - February 25 1941) was an American muralist. Lloyd was born in [[Cincinnati, Ohio. She worked in her father's studio and apprenticed in his stained-glass and textile design shop. She attended school at the Woman's Art School at Cooper Union in New York City and won two scholarships to the Art Student's League.

Charles Ragland Bunnell (born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1897, died in Colorado in 1968), was an American painter, printmaker, and muralist. He moved to Colorado Springs in 1915 and was thereafter associated with that city. As a WPA artist from 1934 to 1941 he executed many commissioned murals in a sturdy, somewhat abstracted figurative style. He was also noted for his colorful Western landscapes.

Lynd Kendall Ward (26 June 1905 - 28 June 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, and son of Methodist minister and prominent political organizer Harry F. Ward. He illustrated some 200 juvenile and adult books. Ward worked in wood engraving, watercolor, oil, brush and ink, lithography and mezzotint. Ward spent his childhood in Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey. When he was in the first grade, Ward discovered that his last name spelled "draw" backwards, …

Millard Sheets : Biography Born in 1907 and raised on a farm in Pomona, Millard Sheets grew up surrounded by the landscapes that would inspire his work. After winning his first painting award at the Los Angeles County Fair when he was only eleven, Sheets met Theodore Modra, the director of the art department at the fair. Modra became a mentor to Sheets, and introduced the young man to art beyond Pomona.

Mildred Waltrip was born in 1911 in Madisonville, Kentucky. She was educated in the Chicago Public Schools and studied at The Art Institute from 1926 to 1933. She traveled to Paris where she studied with Fernand Leger. She became a mural painter during the Federal Art Project and a designer and commercial artist.

Holger Cahill was a novelist, art critic, museum curator, an authority on the folk art of the United States and the arts of Central America, and national director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Projects Administration from 1935 to 1943. He was the son of Bjorn Jonsson and Vigdis Bjarndottir of Skogarstrond, Iceland, where he was born in 1887 and christened Sveinn Kristjan Bjarnarson. Cahill died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1960.

Harry Gottlieb received his training at the Minneapolis School of Art, specializing in design. He began his career in New York as a wallpaper designer. After a few months he became a stage manager and scene designer in Provincetown. He then settled in Woodstock, New York and began painting. He was on the Federal Art Project both in Woodstock and in New York City. In 1931 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship and spent the next year traveling abroad.