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Laura Cunningham Wilson (born October 13, 1939) is an American photographer. She has completed seven books of photography and text: Watt Matthews of Lambshead (1989), Hutterites of Montana (2000), Avedon at Work: In the American West (2003), Grit and Glory: Six-Man Football (2003), That Day: Pictures in the American West (2015), From Rodin to Plensa: Modern Sculpture at the Meadows Museum ...
Alfred Jacob Miller (January 2, 1810 – June 26, 1874) was an American artist best known for his paintings of trappers and Native Americans in the fur trade of the western United States. He also painted numerous portraits and genre paintings in and around Baltimore during the mid-nineteenth century.
Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909, Museum of Modern Art.One of the cornerstones of 20th-century modern art.. 20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of late-19th-century painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others who were essential for the development of modern art.
Leta Peer (1964–2012), painter and fine art photographer; Julieta Schildknecht (born 1960), Swiss-Brazilian photographer and journalist; Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908–1942), prolific writer and photographer, leaving some 50 photo reports documenting the rise of the Nazis in Germany and her travels to the Middle East and the United States
Las Meninas has long been recognised as one of the most important paintings in the history of Western art. The Baroque painter Luca Giordano said that it represents the "theology of painting", and in 1827 the president of the Royal Academy of Arts Sir Thomas Lawrence described the work in a letter to his successor David Wilkie as "the true ...
Adrien Broom (born 1980), fashion and fine art photographer specializing in images of young women; Zoe Lowenthal Brown (1927–2022), fine art photography, documentary photographic "visual essays", and portraiture. Esther Bubley (1921–1998), expressive photos of ordinary people, later specializing in children in hospitals and other medical themes
Back in July of 2003, Vanity Fair gathered the hottest talent and threw them all onto the cover of their magazine, resulting in one of the most iconic photos of all time. Photo cred: Vanity Fair ...
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, who was born into the wealthy Vanderbilt family and married into the Whitney family.