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The Yellow Christ
The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune) is an 1889 oil painting by Paul Gauguin, showing a yellow Christ crucified in a Breton field before three praying peasant women.
The Yellow Kid
The Yellow Kid, officially Mickey Dugan, was an 1890s comic character by R. F. Outcault, first in Pulitzer's New York World's Hogan's Alley (1895), then Hearst's Journal; the Pulitzer-Hearst fight over him produced the term yellow journalism and the first merchandised comic character.
The Young Lady with the Shiner
The Young Lady with the Shiner (The Shiner, Girl with a Black Eye) is a 1953 Norman Rockwell oil painting of a grinning schoolgirl with a black eye outside the principal's office. It was the Saturday Evening Post cover of May 23, 1953, modeled by Mary Whalen, and is held at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.
Theaster Gates
Theaster Gates (born 1973) is an American artist from Chicago who combines ceramics and sculpture with restoring derelict South Side buildings into archives and cultural spaces.
Theo Burrell
Theo Burrell (Theodora Helen Burrell, 1986–2026) was a Scottish antiques specialist, auctioneer at Lyon & Turnbull, and BBC Antiques Roadshow ceramics expert who campaigned for brain tumour research after a 2022 glioblastoma diagnosis.
Theo van Gogh (art dealer)
Theo van Gogh (Theodorus van Gogh, 1857-1891), Dutch art dealer, younger brother of painter Vincent; Goupil & Cie/Boussod, Valadon & Cie Paris branch manager, Vincent's financial supporter, co-collector; distinct from his namesake great-grandnephew.
Theodor Kittelsen
Theodor Severin Kittelsen (1857–1914) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator best known for his illustrations of Asbjørnsen and Moe's folktales and mythical creatures like trolls and the plague figure Pesta.
Théodore Chassériau
Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), French painter and printmaker born in Saint-Domingue; Ingres's pupil who fused Ingres's line with Delacroix's color; known for the Cour des Comptes murals, The Tepidarium, and the 1844 Othello prints.
Théodore Géricault
Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), French Romantic painter of The Raft of the Medusa (Salon 1819, Louvre), self-taught via copying the Louvre, painter of horses, shipwreck drama, and portraits of the insane.
Theophanes the Cretan
Theophanes the Cretan (Theophanis Strelitzas) was a Greek monk and Cretan School painter, born in Heraklion, whose frescoes at Meteora and Mount Athos shaped post-Byzantine painting.
Theosophy and visual arts
Theosophy and visual arts: influence of the 1875 Blavatsky-Olcott esoteric movement on modern painting, shaping Symbolism and abstraction through Kandinsky, Mondrian, Hilma af Klint, Kupka, Thought-Forms color symbolism, and Ringbom's scholarship.
Theotokos of the Sign
The Theotokos of the Sign, or Znamenie, is an Eastern Orthodox icon type showing the Virgin with hands raised and the Christ child in a medallion on her chest.
There Comes Papa
There Comes Papa is an 1893 oil painting by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma, depicting a Malabar lady gesturing to her young son the arrival of his father.
Third Imperial (Fabergé egg)
Third Imperial (Fabergé egg), the 1887 Imperial Easter egg by Fabergé with a Vacheron Constantin clock, given by Alexander III to Maria Feodorovna; lost after 1917, found at a US flea market, authenticated by Wartski in 2014 and sold for $33 million.
Thirteen Emperors Scroll
The Thirteen Emperors Scroll (Lidai diwang tu) is a Chinese handscroll in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, showing thirteen emperors from the Han to the Sui dynasty.
Thirty-Six Poets scroll
The Thirty-Six Poets scroll (鶴下絵三十六歌仙和歌巻, Tsuru-shita-e Sanjūrokkasen waka-kan) is a 17th-century Japanese handscroll pairing Kōetsu's calligraphy with Sōtatsu's gold and silver cranes, held in the Kyoto National Museum.
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) is Hokusai's ca. 1830–33 woodblock print series, 46 prints published by Nishimuraya Yohachi, including The Great Wave and Red Fuji, pioneering Prussian blue landscape prints.
Thiruvalluvar Statue
Thiruvalluvar Statue (திருவள்ளுவர் சிலை), 133-foot granite statue of the Tamil poet at Kanniyakumari beside the Vivekananda Rock Memorial; by V. Ganapathi Sthapati, unveiled January 1, 2000 by M. Karunanidhi; heights encode the Tirukkural's 133 chapters.
Thomas Annan
Thomas Annan (1829–1887) was a Scottish photographer and a pioneer of documentary photography, best known for The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, photographs of the city's slums made between 1868 and 1871 before their demolition.
Thomas Banks
Thomas Banks (1735–1805) was an English neoclassical sculptor, remembered for poetic funerary monuments such as the Penelope Boothby monument and the first war monument erected in St Paul's Cathedral.
Thomas Bewick
Thomas Bewick (1753–1828) was an English wood engraver in Newcastle upon Tyne who rebuilt wood engraving as a practical technique and set the standard for illustrated natural history books.
Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779) was an English cabinetmaker and furniture designer whose London workshop furnished great Georgian houses like Harewood, and whose 1754 pattern book named an era.
Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), English-born American landscape painter based in Catskill, New York; founder of the Hudson River School. Known for The Course of Empire, The Oxbow, and The Voyage of Life.
Thomas Crawford (sculptor)
Thomas Crawford was an American neoclassical sculptor who spent most of his career in Rome and created more exterior sculpture of the United States Capitol than any other sculptor.
Thomas Dambo
Thomas Dambo, born in 1979 in Odense, Denmark, is a Danish recycle artist and designer known for monumental troll sculptures built from discarded wood in 19 countries.
Thomas Dozol
Thomas Dozol (born 1975, Fort-de-France, Martinique) is a French photographer and artist based in New York and Berlin, known for intimate post-shower portrait series like I'll Be Your Mirror and for multiple-exposure works layering an entire film roll into one print.
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, and influential teacher who worked in Philadelphia, known for uncompromising portraits, rowing scenes, and The Gross Clinic.
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), English portrait and landscape painter of Sudbury, Bath, and London; rival of Reynolds, favorite of George III, Royal Academy founder, experimental draftsman who fixed drawings in skim milk.
Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), American Regionalist painter and muralist from Neosho, Missouri; led Regionalism with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, painted America Today and the Missouri Capitol murals, taught Pollock, and was the first artist on Time's cover.
Thomas Kinkade
Thomas Kinkade (1958-2012), American "Painter of Light," built a mass-market art empire selling millions of signed reproductions through 350+ galleries while critics rejected his work; died 2012 of accidental overdose.