- Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. The illegitimate son of a notary, Messer Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, … - Philippe de Montebello
Philippe de Montebello (born 1936) is a French-born museum curator. As of 2007 he is the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the longest-serving director in the institution's history and considered one of the best. - Thomas Hoving
Thomas P.F. Hoving (born January 15, 1931), is an American museum executive and consultant and the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. - Arthur M. Sackler
Arthur M. Sackler was an American physician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He attended New York University School of Medicine and graduated with an M.D. In 1960 Sackler started publication of "Medical Tribune", a weekly medical newspaper. He established the Laboratories for Therapeutic Research in 1938. - Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas of historical materialism, German idealism, … - Euphronios
Euphronios was a Greek painter and potter of red-figure vases, active in Athens between 520 and 470 BC, the time of the Persian Wars. Very little is known about his life other than what can be derived from the vases he signed (a total of eighteen survive, of which eight bear his name as painter and twelve bear his name as potter). Early in his career, Euphronios was apparently one of the leading vase-painters in Athens, … - J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. - Howard Gilman
Howard Gilman (15 February, 1924 - 3 January 1998) was the founder of the Gilman Paper Company. He was born and raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He attended the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, New York and received his bachelor's degree in 1944 from Dartmouth College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He served in the Navy during part of World War II. He died of a heart attack at age 73, in January of 1998 at his White Oak Plantation near Jacksonville, Florida. - William Turner
William Turner was an English painter who specialised watercolour landscape views, strongly rooted in Oxfordshire and the city of Oxford. He was a contemporary of the more famous artist J. M. W. Turner and his style was not dissimilar. He is often known as William Turner of Oxford or just Turner of Oxford to disambiguate him from his more well-known namesake. Many of Turner's paintings depicted the countryside around Oxford. - Josef Albers
Josef Albers was a German artist, mathematician and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century. Albers was born in Bottrop, Westphalia (Germany). He studied art in Berlin, Essen, and Munich before enrolling as a student at the prestigious Weimar Bauhaus in 1920. He began teaching in the preliminary course of the Department of Design in 1922, … - Roger Vivier
Roger Vivier was a French fashion designer who specialized in women's shoes. He designed extravagant richly-decorated shoes that he described as sculptures. He is credited with the invention of the stiletto spike heel by using a thin rod of steel encased in wood or plastic to support the woman's weight. He has been called the "Fragonard of the shoe" and his shoes "the Faberge of footwear" by critics. Ava Gardner, Queen Elizabeth II and The Beatles were all Vivier customers. - Leon Levy
Leon Levy (1926-2003) was, according to his obituary in "Forbes" magazine, a "Wall Street investment genius and prolific philanthropist," who helped create both mutual funds and hedge funds. He co-founded the mutual fund manager Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. in 1959. There he started dozens of mutual funds that, at his death, had grown to manage more than $120 billion. - Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore (born 1947 in New York City) is an American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. Stephen Shore was interested in photography from an early age. Self-taught, he received a photographic darkroom kit at age six. He began to use a 35mm camera three years later and made his first color photographs. At ten he received a copy of Walker Evans's book, … - Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 - April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. The wealth of Church's father allowed him to pursue his interest in art from a very early age. At eighteen years of age, Church became the pupil of Thomas Cole in Palenville, New York. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Design five years later, in 1849. - Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero is a neo-figurative Colombian artist, self-titled "the most Colombian of Colombian artists." He won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958, He paints and draws in a style somewhat similar to Pablo Picasso whilst he lived in Dinard, Brittany, 1922, for example "Deux femmes courant sur la plage" (The Course). He strives in all his work to capture an essential part of himself and his subjects through color and form. - Henry Geldzahler
Henry Geldzahler (1935, Antwerp, Belgium-August 16, 1994, Southampton, New York<sup></sup>) was a well-known curator of contemporary art in the late 20th century. Unlike most curators at the time, he befriended many of the artists he was interested in, and socialized with them as if he were just another artist. Artists he associated with included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Larry Stanton. - Everett Shinn
Everett Shinn (born November 6, 1876, Woodstown, New Jersey; died May 1, 1953, New York City) was an American painter and illustrator and member of the Ashcan School. He was one of "The Eight", the group of American artists who first exhibited together at New York's Macbeth Gallery in 1908. He was known for his pastel renditions of New York street scenes. Shinn studied industrial design at the Spring Garden School in Philadelphia from 1888 to 1890. - Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999. - Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson (born September 5, 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American photographer. He has been a member of Magnum since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, have been widely exhibited and published in a number of books. - Ron Arad
Ron Arad (b. 1951) is an industrial designer, artist and architect. He attended the Jerusalem Academy of Art between 1971-73 and the Architectural Association in London from 1974-79. He has produced furniture and lighting design for many (mainly Italian) companies including Alessi, Vitra, Flos, Artemide and Kartell. His most notable industrial design works include the Tom Vac stackable chair for Vitra, and the Book Worm for Kartell. - Judith Leiber
Judith Leiber (born Judith Peto in 1921 in Budapest, Hungary) is a world-renowned designer of haute couture handbags. Judith Peto was the first woman to join the handbag-makers guild in Budapest. A Jew, she escaped the Holocaust of World War II to the safety of the Swiss house when her father was able to obtain a Swiss schutzpass, a document that gave the bearer safe passage(this pass is on view at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC). - Thutmose
"The King's Favourite and Master of Works, the Sculptor Thutmose" (also spelled Djhutmose and Thutmosis) is thought to have been the official court sculptor of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten in the latter part of his reign. - William Anastasi
William Anastasi (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1933) is an American painter and visual artist. He has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1960s. His work is predominantly abstract and his works are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, the National Gallery of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. - Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (8 March 1828-4 April 1887), though all but forgotten today, transformed art museums in the United States through two bequests to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Her will gave her large collection of popular contemporary paintings to the Museum, supplementing this with a cash legacy of $200,000. Her collection gave the Metropolitan its first significant representation of the kinds of paintings that appealed to the general public. - Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin (1922 - 2000) was an American sculptor and artist. - Harry Burton
Harry Burton was an English Egyptologist and archaeological photographer. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he is best known for his photographs of excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Kings at the beginning of the 20th century. His most famous photographs may be those he took documenting Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. "The Times" published 142 of these images on February 21, 1923. *Worked for Theodore M. Davis until 1914 *After 1914, … - Roger Fry
Roger Eliot Fry was an English artist and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, as he matured as a critic he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. The first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, … - Emanuel Leutze
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze was a German American history painter. Leutze was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg, Germany, was brought to America as a child, and then returned to Germany as an adult. His parents settled first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, then at Fredericksburg, Va. He received his first instruction in art from J. A. Smith, a portrait painter in Philadelphia. In 1840 one of his pictures attracted attention and procured him several orders, … - Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard (1942 -) is a Polish-American abstract sculptor. Born in a German refugee camp, she emigrated to Connecticut with her family in 1950, and later studied art at Columbia University. There, she developed her distinctive style: folded, organic forms constructed from sawn and chiseled cedar beams, sometimes painted or blackened with graphite. Her sculptures are frequently monumental in scale and exhibited outdoors. - John Taylor Johnston
John Taylor Johnston was born in 1820, the son of John Johnston. Johnston was the founding president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. He was born and grew up in Greenwich Village, and graduated from New York University in 1839. Johnston constructed the first marble mansion of New York, as his residence at No. 8 Fifth Avenue. - Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well-known as a portrait painter. According to "Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat", Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter. He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen. - Mark Tobey
Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 - April 24, 1976) was an American Abstract Expressionism Painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of the Northwest." Senior in age and experience, Tobey had a strong influence on the others. Friend and mentor, Tobey shared their interest in philosophy and Eastern religions. - Lowery Stokes Sims
Lowery Stokes Sims is currently adjunct curator for the permanent collection at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Visiting Professor at Queens College, Hunter College and Cornell University. She served as Executive Director and then President of The Studio Museum in Harlem from 2000-2006. Prior to 2000, she was Curator of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked since 1972 as an educator and curator. - James R. Houghton
James R. Houghton Chairman Emeritus Corning Incorporated Mr. Houghton joined Corning in 1962. He was elected a vice president of Corning and general manager of the Consumer Products Division in 1968, vice chairman in 1971, chairman of the executive committee and chief strategic officer in 1980 and chairman and chief executive officer in April 1983, retiring in April 1996. Mr. Houghton was the non-executive chairman of the Board of Corning from June 2001 to April 2002. - Betty Woodman
Betty Woodman is an American ceramic artist. A retrospective of her work was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 25 – July 30, 2006. The exhibit covered her over fifty-year career working with clay and her focus on the vase form. Her daughter, Francesca Woodman, was an influential photographer before her suicide at the age of 22. She is represented by the Max Protetch Gallery. http://www.maxprotetch.com - John Stewart Kennedy
John Stewart Kennedy (1830 - 1909) was an American capitalist and philanthropist. He was born near Glasgow in Scotland, received a scant education in school, studied in his spare moments as a clerk, and at 20 was sent to America by a London iron firm, in whose branch house in Glasgow he worked for four years. Then he came again to New York and entered business with Morris K. Jessup. From this partnership he retired in 1867 and from active business in 1883, … - Henri-Edmond Cross
Henri-Edmond Cross, was a French pointillist painter. Cross was born in Douai and grew up in Lille. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. His early works, portraits and still lifes, were in the dark colors of realism, but after meeting with Claude Monet in 1883, he painted in the brighter colors of Impressionism. In 1884, Cross cofounded the Société des Artistes Indépendants with Georges Seurat. He went on to become one of the principal exponents of Neo-Impressionism. - Benny Andrews
Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 - November 10, 2006) was an American painter, print-maker, creator of collages and educator. He was born November 13, 1930 in Plainview, Georgia and died November 10, 2006 in Brooklyn, New York. Andrews was an African American who was one of 10 children of sharecroppers and was raised in the Southern United States while it was still segregated. - Worthington Whittredge
Worthington Whittredge (May 22, 1820 - February 25, 1910) was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford. He traveled widely and excelled at landscape painting, many examples of which are now in major museums. - William Trost Richards
William Trost Richards (June 3, 1833 - April 17, 1905) was an important American landscape artist associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement. Richards first public showing was part of an exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts, organized by artist Albert Bierstadt in 1858. In the 1870s, he produced many acclaimed watercolor views of the White Mountains, several of which are now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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