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Wendy Ramshaw
Wendy Ramshaw (1939–2018) was a British artist and designer from Sunderland who transformed jewelry through sculptural stacking ring sets and large-scale metalwork; her work sits in over 70 museum collections.
Wendy Red Star
Wendy Red Star (born 1981, Billings, Montana) is an Apsáalooke (Crow) multimedia artist whose photography and archival works challenge colonial narratives; she won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2024.
Werner Bischof
Werner Bischof (1916–1954) was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist known for humanist black-and-white reportage of postwar Europe and Asia, and the first photographer to join Magnum Photos after its founders.
Werner Bronkhorst
Werner Bronkhorst (born 2001, Pretoria) is a South African-born, Sydney-based contemporary painter of hyper-realistic miniature figures on thick textured acrylic grounds and charcoal car drawings, known for viral process videos, the HIGH Berlin show, and a $283,800 Phillips auction debut.
West African lost-wax casting
West African lost-wax casting (cire perdue) shapes a wax model, melts it out of a clay mold, and pours in metal, used in West Africa for centuries before 1484.
Western Desert art
Western Desert art is a movement of contemporary Aboriginal painting that began in 1971 at Papunya in central Australia, when senior men painted traditional ceremonial designs in acrylic.
Western Indian painting
Western Indian painting is the pre-Mughal manuscript painting style of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Malwa from the 11th to 16th centuries, known for angular figures and protruding farther eyes.
Western Motel
Western Motel is a 1957 oil painting by Edward Hopper depicting a woman on the bed of a sunlit motel room, held by the Yale University Art Gallery.
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, also known as Westward Ho!, is an 1862 mural by Emanuel Leutze in the United States Capitol depicting pioneers and Manifest Destiny.
Whaam!
Whaam! is Roy Lichtenstein's 1963 two-panel Pop Art painting of a fighter jet destroying an enemy plane, based on DC's All American Men of War no. 89, held at Tate Modern since 1966.
Whang-od
Whang-od Oggay (Maria Oggay), Butbut Kalinga mambabatok of Buscalan, Tinglayan, Kalinga; hand-tap batok tattooist born around 1917, Dangal ng Haraya 2018 and Presidential Medal of Merit 2024 recipient, known as the last but not only traditional Kalinga tattoo master.
What the Water Gave Me
What the Water Gave Me (Lo que el agua me dio) is a 1938 oil painting by Frida Kahlo, showing a bathtub full of floating symbols from her life.
Wheatfield with Crows
Wheatfield with Crows (Korenveld met kraaien) is Van Gogh's July 1890 oil on canvas, 50.5 x 103 cm, Van Gogh Museum, long mislabeled his last painting; Tree Roots was actually final.
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Gauguin's 1897–98 Tahitian masterpiece D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?, a 139.1 × 374.6 cm frieze read right to left from birth to death, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since 1936.
Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?
Where Does the Dust Itself Collect? is a 2004 installation by the Chinese artist Xu Bing, who blew dust gathered from Lower Manhattan after 9/11 across a gallery floor.
Whimsigoth
Whimsigoth (whimsical goth) is an aesthetic blending gothic darkness with celestial, witchy, and nature motifs in fashion and interiors; rooted in 1990s style, named online around 2022, revived via TikTok and Practical Magic.
Whistler's Mother
Whistler's Mother, properly Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, is James McNeill Whistler's 1871 oil portrait of his mother Anna McNeill Whistler, painted in London, bought by France in 1891, and held at the Musée d'Orsay.
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is a 1950 oil painting by Mark Rothko, sold in 2007 for a then-record 72.84 million dollars.
White Lady of Brandberg
The White Lady of Brandberg is a famous rock painting in Namibia's Brandberg massif, now identified as a male San hunter or shaman painted in white pigment.
White Rose of York
White Rose of York (rose argent): white heraldic rose adopted in the 14th century as the badge of the royal House of York, Yorkist emblem in the Wars of the Roses, later the symbol of Yorkshire.
White Shaman panel
The White Shaman panel, also called the White Shaman mural, is a prehistoric rock painting in Pecos River Style on the Pecos River in southwest Texas.
White-Robed Guanyin
White-Robed Guanyin (Chinese: Baiyi Guanyin, 白衣观音) is a form of the bodhisattva Guanyin depicted in white robes, typically seated on a rock beside water with a willow vase.
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue is a series of four large abstract paintings by the American painter Barnett Newman, made between 1966 and 1970.
Wide shot
Wide shot (WS), also called long shot or full shot: a camera framing showing a subject head-to-toe with substantial environment, used for establishing shots, master shots, scale, and spatial context; distinct from full shot and extreme wide shot.
Widows and orphans
Widows and orphans are typographic faults: stranded single lines at the top or bottom of pages or columns. Covers definitions, terminology disputes, CSS widows/orphans properties, and fixes in InDesign, LaTeX, and web text-wrap.
Wiener Werkstätte
The Wiener Werkstätte ("Vienna Workshop") was a Viennese artists' cooperative, founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, that made fine furniture, jewelry, and fashion until 1932.
Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam (1902–1982) was a Cuban painter who fused Cubism and Surrealism with Afro-Cuban imagery, trained in Havana and Madrid, and best known for The Jungle.
Wikipedia mascots
Wikipedia mascots include the community-created Wikipe-tan and Wikipede and the Foundation’s 25th-anniversary Baby Globe, alongside the encyclopedia’s puzzle-globe emblem.
Wildwood: Follow the Crows
Wildwood: Follow the Crows is a free Portland, Oregon public art trail of 30 hand-painted crow sculptures launched August 7, 2026 by LAIKA and Wild in Art, benefiting OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital and promoting the stop-motion film Wildwood.
Wilhelm Busch
Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), German humorist poet, draftsman, and painter, creator of Max und Moritz (1865) and precursor of the modern comic; also wrote Die fromme Helene and Eduards Traum.