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David Kakabadze
David Kakabadze (დავით კაკაბაძე, 1889–1952) was a Georgian avant-garde painter, set designer, and inventor, a leading figure of Georgian modernism who patented a glassless 3D film projector.
Dia al-Azzawi
Dia al-Azzawi (ضياء العزاوي), born 1939, is an Iraqi painter and sculptor, a major figure of Arab modernism who has worked from exile in London since 1976.
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (1886–1957), Mexican muralist and founder of the Mexican mural movement; los tres grandes with Orozco and Siqueiros; SEP, Chapingo, National Palace, Detroit Industry murals; Rockefeller Center's Man at the Crossroads destroyed over its Lenin portrait.
Dong Xiwen
Dong Xiwen (董希文) was a Chinese oil painter and educator whose 1953 painting The Founding of the Nation became an exemplar of Chinese-style oil painting.
Dora Carrington
Dora Carrington (1893–1932), English painter and decorative artist of the Bloomsbury circle, known as Carrington; Slade-trained portraitist and landscape painter devoted to Lytton Strachey, rarely exhibited in her lifetime, revived posthumously.
Duncan Grant
Duncan Grant (1885-1978), Scottish painter and decorative artist, central Bloomsbury Group figure, Omega Workshops co-director, and lifelong partner of Vanessa Bell at Charleston, Sussex; known for Post-Impressionist painting and queer erotic drawings.
Édouard Vuillard
Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) was a French painter and printmaker, a member of the Nabis, known for small, densely patterned paintings of domestic interiors with family and friends.
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American realist painter and printmaker of urban solitude and New England light; Nighthawks (1942), Early Sunday Morning (1930), House by the Railroad, first MoMA acquisition.
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Austrian Expressionist painter and draftsman of Viennese Modernism, protégé and rival heir of Gustav Klimt; known for angular self-portraits, over 2,500 works on paper, 1912 imprisonment, and 1918 Secession breakthrough before dying of Spanish flu at 28.
El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky (Эль Лисицкий), born Lazar Markovich Lisitskii (1890–1941), was a Russian avant-garde painter, architect, and designer known for his geometric Prouns, exhibition designs, and role linking Suprematism and Constructivism.
Emil Filla
Emil Filla was a Czech Cubist painter, sculptor, and art theorist, born in Chropyně in Moravia in 1882, a leading figure of Czech Cubism in Prague.
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde, born Hans Emil Hansen, was a German-Danish painter and printmaker among the leading German Expressionists, known for religious pictures, seascapes, and flower watercolors.
Emily Carr
Emily Carr (1871–1945), Canadian painter and writer of Victoria, British Columbia; associated with but never a member of the Group of Seven. Known for Pacific Northwest forest landscapes and First Nations totem-pole paintings, Klee Wyck (1941), and late recognition after the 1927 National Gallery exhibition.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), German Expressionist painter and printmaker, founder of Die Brücke in Dresden in 1905; known for Berlin street scenes, Alpine works, Nazi 'degenerate art' persecution, and 1938 suicide in Davos.
Faiq Hassan
Faiq Hassan (فائق حسن) was an Iraqi painter and educator called the father of Iraqi modern art, known for his depictions of villagers, workers, and horse riders.
Federico Cantú
Federico Cantú (Federico Heraclio Cantú Garza, 1907 or 1908–1989) was a Mexican painter, muralist, and sculptor known for the emblematic sculpture of the Mexican Social Security Institute.
Feng Zikai
Feng Zikai (丰子恺, 1898–1975) was a Chinese painter and essayist, pioneer of modern Chinese manhua, known for simple ink cartoons of children and daily life.
Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger (1881–1955) was a French painter born in Argentan, Normandy, counted among the major figures of modern art and a pioneer of Cubism whose work spans the first half of the twentieth century.
Fernando Amorsolo
Fernando Amorsolo (1892–1972) was a Filipino painter famous for backlit rural genre scenes and the dalagang bukid, trained under Fabián de la Rosa and in Madrid, and the first posthumous National Artist of the Philippines in 1972.
Flávio de Carvalho
Flávio de Carvalho, born Flávio de Rezende Carvalho, was a Brazilian engineer, architect, painter, and writer in São Paulo, a forerunner of performance art in Brazil.
Florine Stettheimer
Florine Stettheimer was an American painter, poet, and theatrical designer who chronicled Jazz Age New York and designed the sets for Gertrude Stein's opera Four Saints in Three Acts.
Frances Macdonald
Frances Macdonald, later Frances Macdonald MacNair, was a Scottish artist and designer of the Glasgow Style, a member of The Four with her sister Margaret, Mackintosh, and MacNair.
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia was a French painter and writer, born and died in Paris, who moved through Impressionism, abstraction, and Dada, leading the Dada movement in New York alongside Marcel Duchamp.
Francisco Toledo
Francisco Benjamín López Toledo (1940–2019) was a Mexican Zapotec artist from Juchitán, Oaxaca, known for painting, printmaking, and sculpture, and widely called the most important living Mexican artist.
František Kupka
František Kupka, also known as Frank or François Kupka, was a Czech-born painter who settled in Paris and pioneered abstract painting, exhibiting the Amorpha series at the 1912 Salon d'Automne.
Franz Marc
Franz Marc (1880–1916), German Expressionist painter and co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter with Kandinsky in Munich; known for symbolic animal paintings like Red Horses and Large Blue Horses, his color symbolism, and death at Verdun in 1916.
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, 1907–1954), Mexican painter of Coyoacán's Casa Azul; 143 paintings, 55 self-portraits; wife of Diego Rivera; rejected the Surrealist label; work declared Mexican national artistic monument in 1984.
Fu Baoshi
Fu Baoshi (傅抱石, 1904–1965) was a Chinese painter, art historian, and seal carver who led the renewal of traditional Chinese landscape painting and founded the New Jinling School.
G. R. Santosh
G. R. Santosh, also known as Ghulam Rasool Santosh, was a Kashmiri painter and poet who pioneered Neo-Tantra in modern Indian art and won the Sahitya Akademi award in 1979.
Gabriele Münter
Gabriele Münter was a German Expressionist painter and co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter who worked in Murnau and donated major Blue Rider works to Munich's Lenbachhaus in 1957.