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Gaganendranath Tagore
Gaganendranath Tagore (গগনেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 1867–1938) was an Indian painter, cartoonist, and stage designer of Calcutta, a nephew of Rabindranath Tagore and pioneer of modernist Indian painting.
Gao Jianfu
Gao Jianfu (高劍父, 1879–1951) was a Chinese painter and art educator who, with his brother Gao Qifeng and Chen Shuren, founded the reformist Lingnan School of painting.
Gao Qifeng
Gao Qifeng (高奇峰, 1889–1933) was a Chinese painter from Panyu, Guangdong, one of the founders of the Lingnan school, known for eagles, lions, and tigers.
George Grosz
George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, was a German-born painter and caricaturist of Berlin Dada and New Objectivity, known for satirizing Weimar militarism and bourgeois society.
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963), French painter co-founder of Cubism with Pablo Picasso after their 1907 meeting; Fauve painter turned Cubist at L'Estaque, inventor of papier collé in 1912, wounded in World War I, later painted Louvre ceiling Birds.
Georges Rouault
Georges Rouault (1871–1958), French painter and printmaker trained under Gustave Moreau; exhibited with the Fauves in 1905 but developed a somber, religiously inflected style of clowns, judges, and Christ, best known for the Miserere engraving series.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), American modernist painter of magnified flowers, New Mexico landscapes, bones, and skyscrapers; promoted by and married to Alfred Stieglitz; subject of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.
Gerald and Sara Murphy
Gerald (1888–1964) and Sara (1883–1975) Murphy, American expatriates in Paris from 1921, hosts of Villa America at Cap d'Antibes; Gerald a Precisionist-Cubist painter of Razor and Watch, model for Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night.
Gerard Sekoto
Gerard Sekoto (1913–1993) was a South African painter and pioneer of urban Black art, known for township scenes and for spending most of his life in exile in Paris.
Gerda Wegener
Gerda Wegener (1885–1940), born Gerda Gottlieb, Danish painter and illustrator of Paris fashion magazines such as La Vie Parisienne and Vogue; wife and portraitist of Lili Elbe; Art Deco erotic art; Arken 2015 retrospective.
Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) was an Italian painter, a leading Futurist best known for his 1912 motion studies such as Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash.
Gino Severini
Gino Severini was an Italian painter, born in Cortona in 1883, who signed the Futurist painting manifesto in 1910 and linked Futurism with the Parisian avant-garde.
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978), Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, founder of Metaphysical Painting with Carlo Carrà; his enigmatic piazzas and mannequins shaped Surrealism, though he never joined the movement.
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who spent nearly his whole life in Bologna painting small still lifes of bottles, jugs, and pots.
Gopal Ghose
Gopal Ghose (গোপাল ঘোষ, 1913–1980) was an Indian modernist painter from Calcutta and a founding member of the Calcutta Group in 1943, known for vibrant watercolor and pastel landscapes.
Grant Wood
Grant Wood (1891–1942), Iowa painter of American Gothic (1930), leading American Regionalist alongside Benton and Curry; studied in Munich, taught at University of Iowa, wrote Revolt Against the City.
Group of Seven (artists)
Group of Seven (Algonquin School), Canadian landscape-painting collective founded 1920, disbanded 1933; founders Carmichael, Harris, Jackson, Johnston, Lismer, MacDonald, Varley; national-school wilderness painting, first show 1920 Toronto.
Gwen John
Gwen John (Gwendolen Mary John, 1876-1939), Welsh painter and sister of Augustus John, Rodin's model and lover, known for quiet portraits of solitary women in muted tones; died in Dieppe in 1939.
Han van Meegeren
Han van Meegeren (Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, 1889–1947), Dutch painter and celebrated art forger who faked Vermeers, de Hooches, and Frans Hals; his Supper at Emmaus fooled experts, and he beat a Nazi-collaboration death charge by proving his forgeries.
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer was a German-born artist associated with Surrealism, famous for constructing and photographing life-sized, anatomically reconfigurable female dolls published in Minotaure in 1934.
Hayami Gyoshū
Hayami Gyoshū (1894–1935), real name Makita Eiichi, was a Japanese nihonga painter who reinvented his style until dying of typhoid at forty, best known for Dancing in the Flames.
Hector Hyppolite
Hector Hyppolite (1894–1948) was a self-taught Haitian painter, a former shoemaker and house painter from Saint-Marc who became celebrated in four years for brightly colored images of Vodou spirits, birds, and flowers.
Helene Schjerfbeck
Helene Schjerfbeck (born Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck, 1862–1946) was a Finnish painter celebrated as Finland's most important figure and portrait painter, known above all for her late self-portraits.
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (1869–1954), French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, leader of Fauvism and Picasso's great rival. Known for Woman with a Hat, Dance, the Nice odalisques, and the late gouache cut-outs including Jazz and the Vence chapel.
Hernando R. Ocampo
Hernando R. Ocampo, better known as H.R. Ocampo, was a Filipino painter and writer, a central figure of Philippine modern art declared a National Artist in 1991.
Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), Swedish painter and spiritualist; De Fem séance group member; creator of The Paintings for the Temple (1906–1915); made abstract paintings by 1906, before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich, and was rediscovered by the 1986 LACMA and 2018 Guggenheim exhibitions.
İbrahim Çallı
İbrahim Çallı was a Turkish Impressionist painter, born in Çal in 1882, who led the 1914 Generation bringing French modern painting to Turkey and taught until 1947.
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Ibrahim El-Salahi (إبراهيم الصلحي), born in 1930, is a Sudanese painter and foundational figure of African modernism who co-founded the Khartoum School, blending Arabic calligraphy with modernist art.
Igor Grabar
Igor Grabar (1871–1960) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art historian, a leading master of Russian impressionism and editor of the first multivolume History of Russian Art.
Ilya Mashkov
Ilya Mashkov (1881–1944) was a Russian and Soviet painter, a founder and leader of the Jack of Diamonds group, known above all as a colorist and master of still life.