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Bahruz Kangarli
Bahruz Kangarli (Bəhruz Kəngərli, 1892–1922) was an Azerbaijani painter and graphic artist from Nakhchivan, the first Azerbaijani with specialized art education, who produced nearly 2,000 works, including the "Refugees" series.
Balthus
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, 1908–2001), French figurative painter of adolescent girls, street scenes, and interiors; self-taught, Piero della Francesca-influenced, Villa Medici director 1961–1976, Praemium Imperiale 1991.
Beauford Delaney
Beauford Delaney (1901–1979) was an American modernist painter from Knoxville, Tennessee, known for pastel portraits of prominent African Americans, Greenwich Village street scenes, and luminous yellow abstractions.
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu (1911–1975) was a Turkish painter, muralist, mosaicist, and poet who brought Anatolian folk motifs and kilim patterns into modern Turkish painting and large public mosaics.
Ben Enwonwu
Ben Enwonwu was a Nigerian painter and sculptor who fused Igbo artistic traditions with European modernist techniques, becoming one of the most influential African artists of the 20th century.
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was a Lithuanian-born American painter, muralist, and photographer, a leading Social Realist who depicted workers and social injustice from the Great Depression onward.
Benode Behari Mukherjee
Benode Behari Mukherjee (বিনোদ বিহারী মুখোপাধ্যায়, 1904–1980) was an Indian painter and muralist of the Santiniketan school, best known for his 80-foot Hindi Bhavan mural and for working after going blind in 1957.
Bill Traylor
Bill Traylor was an African American self-taught artist, born into slavery in Alabama, who made over 1,000 drawings and paintings beginning around 1939 at about age 85.
Biren De
Biren De (বীরেন দে, 1926–2011) was an Indian Bengali painter known for the Neo-Tantric style he developed in the 1960s, blending geometric abstraction with Tantric symbols.
Bohumil Kubišta
Bohumil Kubišta was a Czech painter, graphic artist, and art theorist, counted among the founders of Czech modern painting and a pioneer of Cubism in the Czech lands.
Boris Grigoriev
Boris Grigoriev, full name Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev (Борис Григорьев), was a Russian painter of the School of Paris, known for psychological portraits and the peasant cycle Raseya.
Boris Kustodiev
Boris Kustodiev (Борис Кустодиев) was a Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, and theater designer, 1878 to 1927, best known for festive images of fairs, Maslenitsa, and merchant women.
Cândido Portinari
Cândido Portinari, born Candido Torquato Portinari, was a Brazilian painter and muralist best known for the War and Peace panels at the United Nations headquarters.
Carlo Carrà
Carlo Carrà (1881–1966) was an Italian painter and writer who co-founded Futurism and, with Giorgio de Chirico, Metaphysical Painting, later painting austere landscapes and still lifes.
Carlo Levi
Carlo Levi (1902-1975), Turin-born Italian painter, physician, writer, and anti-fascist; author of Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, member of the Six Painters of Turin, confined in Lucania 1935-36, senator 1963-1972.
Carlos V. Francisco
Carlos V. Francisco, known as Botong Francisco, was a Filipino painter and muralist from Angono, Rizal, who revived mural painting and was posthumously named National Artist for Painting in 1973.
Cesar Legaspi
Cesar Legaspi (1917–1994) was a Filipino painter, a member of the Thirteen Moderns and the postwar Neo-Realist movement, who depicted labor and poverty in a Cubist style and was named National Artist in 1990.
Charles Burchfield
Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) was an American painter best known for watercolor landscapes of nature scenes and small-town and industrial America, honored with the first one-person show at MoMA in 1930.
Charles Demuth
Charles Demuth was an American painter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, known for watercolors and for Precisionism, with works including My Egypt and I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold.
Charles Sheeler
Charles Sheeler was an American painter and photographer whose sharply defined, geometric images of barns, skyscrapers, and factories made him a central figure of the Precisionist movement.
Charles White (artist)
Charles Wilbert White (1918–1979) was an American artist whose figurative drawings and prints depicted African American history, labor, and dignity over a four-decade career in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
Charlotte Salomon
Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish painter who created Life? or Theater? (1940–1942). This autobiographical cycle of gouache paintings was completed in exile in southern France.
Chen Shizeng
Chen Shizeng, original name Chen Hengke (1876–1923), was a Chinese painter, critic, and educator who defended literati painting in Beijing and was the decisive early patron of Qi Baishi.
Chen Shuren
Chen Shuren (陳樹人; 1884–1948) was a Chinese painter, poet, and Kuomintang politician who co-founded the Lingnan School of painting with Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng, reforming traditional ink painting.
Cheng Shifa
Cheng Shifa (程十发, 1921–2007), original name Cheng Tong, was a Chinese painter of the Shanghai school known for the "Cheng style" and for directing the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy.
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (চিত্তপ্রসাদ ভট্টাচার্য, 1915–1978) was an Indian painter and graphic artist, known by his first name after rejecting his Brahmanical surname, chiefly remembered for eyewitness sketches of the 1943 Bengal famine.
Chun Kyung-ja
Chun Kyung-ja (천경자; 1924–2015) was a South Korean painter of colored Oriental painting, known as the "magician of colors" for her vivid depictions of women, flowers, and snakes.
Constant Permeke
Constant Permeke (1886–1952) was a Belgian painter and sculptor, the leading representative of Flemish Expressionism, best known for monumental, dark-toned images of fishermen, farmers, and the Flemish coast.
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896, Chihuahua), Mexican muralist of Los Tres Grandes with Rivera and Orozco; communist militant, founder of the 1936 New York Experimental Workshop influencing Pollock, and creator of The March of Humanity at the Polyforum.
David Burliuk
David Burliuk (Давид Бурлюк, 1882–1967) was a Ukrainian-born painter and poet regarded as the father of Russian Futurism; he co-wrote the 1912 manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste.