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Richard Serra
Richard Serra (1938–2024), American sculptor of monumental site-specific Cor-Ten steel works and early molten-lead process pieces; creator of Tilted Arc (removed 1989), Torqued Ellipses, and The Matter of Time at Guggenheim Bilbao.
Richard Thompson (cartoonist)
Richard Thompson (1957–2016) was an American illustrator and cartoonist, creator of the comic strip Cul de Sac and the Washington Post panel Richard's Poor Almanac, who won the 2011 Reuben Award.
Richard Williams (animator)
Richard Edmund Williams (1933–2019) was a Canadian–British animator, animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), creator of the long-gestating The Thief and the Cobbler, and author of the standard animation textbook The Animator's Survival Kit.
Rick Baker
Rick Baker (Richard Alan Baker), American special makeup effects artist; record seven Oscars for Makeup from eleven nominations; first Makeup Oscar winner (1982) for An American Werewolf in London; protégé of Dick Smith; known for Star Wars, Thriller, Men in Black, The Grinch.
Rick Griffin
Rick Griffin (Richard Alden Griffin, 1944-1991), American psychedelic poster artist, Zap Comix founder, Big Five member, creator of Murphy, the Flying Eyeball poster, and the Grateful Dead's Aoxomoxoa cover.
Rick Jones (character)
Rick Jones (Richard M. Jones), Marvel Comics character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962). Teen sidekick to the Hulk, Captain America (as Bucky), and Captain Mar-Vell; his distress call formed the Avengers.
Rick Veitch
Rick Veitch (born 1951, Bellows Falls, Vermont) is an American comics artist and writer, Swamp Thing penciller and writer, creator of Brat Pack, The Maximortal, Rare Bit Fiends, and Can't Get No, and Vermont's fourth Cartoonist Laureate.
Rilakkuma (リラックマ)
Rilakkuma (リラックマ) is a lounging costume bear character created by San-X, debuting September 2003, living at office worker Kaoru's home with Korilakkuma and Kiiroitori; known for Rilakkuma Stores, Production I.G anime, and broad licensing.
Rineke Dijkstra
Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch photographer and video artist, born 1959 in Sittard, Netherlands, known for large-format frontal portraits of people in transitional states, especially adolescents.
Rinko Kawauchi
Rinko Kawauchi (川内倫子, born 1972) is a Japanese photographer known for small, luminous square-format images of everyday life, who broke through with three photobooks in 2001.
Rinpa
Rinpa (琳派), also called the Sōtatsu-Kōrin school, is a school of Japanese decorative painting and crafts founded in Kyoto around 1615 by Tawaraya Sōtatsu and Hon'ami Kōetsu.
Río Bec style
The Río Bec style is a Classic Maya architectural style of Campeche, Mexico, flourishing from about 550 to 950 CE and known for its decorative false towers.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit Tiravanija (ฤกษ์ฤทธิ์ ตีระวนิช), born in Buenos Aires in 1961, is a Thai contemporary artist whose installations and cooking works treat human interaction as the material of art.
Rising Sea
Rising Sea is a monumental 2019 sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, made of flattened liquor bottle caps stitched with copper wire, held by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Rita Letendre
Rita Letendre (1928–2021) was a Canadian abstract painter, printmaker, and muralist of Abenaki heritage who began with the Automatistes in Montreal and became known for hard-edged, luminous arrow and ray paintings.
Roar, China!
Roar, China! (怒吼吧，中国！) is a 1935 black-and-white woodcut by the Chinese artist Li Hua, depicting a bound, blindfolded man straining toward a dagger as a symbol of national awakening.
Rob Liefeld
Rob Liefeld (born 1967) is an American comic book artist, co-creator of Deadpool and Cable at Marvel, and a 1992 co-founder of Image Comics, where his Youngblood was the first published comic.
Robert Adam
Robert Adam (1728–1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer, and furniture designer who led British Neoclassicism; with his brothers he created the Adam Style, influential across Europe and North America.
Robert Campin
Robert Campin, accepted by most art historians as the Master of Flémalle, was a Flemish painter active in Tournai who founded realistic oil painting alongside Jan van Eyck.
Robert Crumb
Robert Crumb (R. Crumb), American cartoonist born 1943 in Philadelphia, founder of Zap Comix and creator of Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, and Keep On Truckin'; lives in Sauve, France; subject of Dan Nadel's 2025 biography.
Robert Davidson (artist)
Robert Davidson, whose Haida name is Guud San Glans, is a Canadian artist of Haida descent known for totem poles, prints, and sparking the Haida art renaissance in 1969.
Robert De Niro Sr.
Robert De Niro Sr. (1922-1993), American New York School painter, sculptor, and poet, father of actor Robert De Niro; figurative expressionist trained by Albers and Hofmann, first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century 1946, Guggenheim Fellow 1968.
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau (1912–1994) was a French humanist photographer known for black-and-white pictures of everyday Parisian life and his 1950 image of a couple kissing outside the city hall.
Robert Falk
Robert Rafailovich Falk (Роберт Рафаилович Фальк, 1886–1958) was a Russian and Soviet painter and theater designer who co-founded the avant-garde Jack of Diamonds society and worked in Paris from 1928 to 1938.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (1924–2019), Swiss-born American photographer and filmmaker, author of The Americans (Les Américains), the 83-image 1958/1959 Guggenheim-funded photobook that reshaped documentary photography.
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial
The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial is a bronze relief by Augustus Saint-Gaudens on Boston Common, dedicated in 1897 to Colonel Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts, one of the first Black regiments.
Robert Graham (sculptor)
Robert Graham (1938-2008), Mexican-born American sculptor based in Venice, California, known for bronze civic monuments: Olympic Gateway, FDR Memorial, Duke Ellington and Joe Louis monuments, and realistic female nudes.
Robert Henri
Robert Henri, born Robert Henry Cozad, was an American painter and teacher who led the Ashcan School and organized the independent 1908 exhibition of The Eight.
Robert Hughes (critic)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes (1938–2012) was an Australian art critic, Time magazine's chief art critic for over three decades and creator of The Shock of the New.
Robert Irwin (artist)
Robert Irwin was an American painter and installation artist who investigated perception and space. He was a leading figure in the West Coast Light and Space movement.