Yoshio Taniguchi

Yoshio Taniguchi

male
Hōryū-ji, Genichiro Inokuma, Yoshirō Taniguchi, Nagano Prefectural Museum, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron…Tokyo National Museum, museumofmodernart
Yoshio Taniguchi is a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York which was reopened in November 20,...
Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson

male, deceased (2005)
architect, MoMA, american institute of architect, Pritzker Architecture Prize, pritzker prize, Pritzker Prize winner…Harvard Graduate School of Design, museumofmodernart, Department of Architecture
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906- January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was...
Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen

male, deceased (1973)
The Fighting Lady, Luxembourgian American, documentary, Documentary film, luxembourg, Portrait photographer…naturalized citizen of the United States, art gallery, museumofmodernart, museum, fine art
Edward Steichen was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, born in Bivange, Luxembourg. His family moved to the...
Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly

male, 86 years old
painter, color field painting, shaped canvas, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, G.I. Bill, Ecole des Beaux-Arts…museumofmodernart
Ellsworth Kelly (b. Newburgh, New York, May 31, 1923) is an American painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color field painting...
Brice Marden

Brice Marden

male, 71 years old
triptych, Briarcliff Manor, Jewish Museum, diptych, Gabor Peterdi, minimalist…Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, museumofmodernart, abstract art, Masters of Japanese Calligraphy, MFA from the Yale School of Art and Architecture
Brice Marden (born October 15, 1938), American, generally described as a Minimalist artist, although his work defies specific categorization. He...
John Szarkowski

John Szarkowski

male, deceased (2007)
New York University faculty, Harvard University faculty, Cornell University faculty, Polish-American, death by stroke, from Wisconsin…University of Wisconsin alumni, fine art photography, Walker Art Center, museumofmodernart, art history
John Szarkowski (December 18, 1925 - July 7, 2007) was an influential photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski...
Josef Albers

Josef Albers

male, deceased (1976)
Interaction of Color, graham foundation, westphalia, Dessau, Black Mountain College, Essen, Germany…museumofmodernart, metropolitan museum of art
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...
Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard

male, deceased (1947)
painter, modern painter, Art Nouveau, French, museumofmodernart, Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni…art institute of chicago, landscape art
Pierre Bonnard (October 3, 1867 - January 23, 1947) was a French painter and printmaker.
Robert Ryman

Robert Ryman

male, 79 years old
minimalism, Monochrome painting, American Academy of Arts and Letters, museumofmodernart, tate gallery, From Tennessee…conceptual art
Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. The...
Kara Walker

Kara Walker

female, 39 years old
Rhode Island School of Design alumni, African-American, Postmodern artist, race, Atlanta College Of Art, PBS…Master of Fine Arts, Walker Art Center, Bachelor of Fine Arts, museumofmodernart, museum of contemporary art
Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary American artist who is best known for her exploration of race, gender, sexuality, and...