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Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900–1990) was a German industrial designer and silversmith who trained at the Bauhaus in Weimar and became known for its 1924 table lamp and mass-produced glassware.
Wilhelmina Geddes
Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955) was an Irish stained-glass artist of the Arts and Crafts movement, known for the Ottawa war memorial and Ypres Te Deum window.
Will Eisner
Will Eisner (1917–2005), American comics artist and writer, creator of The Spirit (1940) and A Contract with God (1978), pioneer of the graphic novel, co-founder of the Eisner-Iger Studio, and namesake of the Eisner Awards.
Willard Van Dyke
Willard Van Dyke (1906–1986) was an American photographer and documentary filmmaker who co-founded Group f/64 in 1932 and directed film at the Museum of Modern Art.
Willem Claesz. Heda
Willem Claesz. Heda (1594–1680) was a Dutch still-life painter who spent his career in Haarlem and was one of the originators of the tonal, monochrome breakfast and banquet still life.
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School, known for the Woman series, black-and-white abstractions, gestural landscapes, and a drawing practice that blurred drawing and painting.
Willem van de Velde the Younger
Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707) was a Dutch Golden Age marine painter who moved to England in 1672 under the patronage of Charles II.
William Blake
William Blake (1757–1827), English poet, painter, and printmaker of the Romantic Age; inventor of relief etching for his illuminated books (Songs of Innocence, Milton, Jerusalem); unrecognized in life, now canonical.
William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington
William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington, also known as Bill Burlington, is a British photographer who founded Lismore Castle Arts in Ireland and is Chancellor of the University of Derby.
William De Morgan
William De Morgan was an English ceramicist and tile designer of the Arts and Crafts movement, and a close colleague of William Morris, who later became a successful novelist.
William Edmondson
William Edmondson (c. 1874–1951) was a self-taught American sculptor from Nashville, Tennessee, known for carving limestone figures and for his 1937 solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
William Eggleston
William Eggleston (born 1939), American photographer called the father of color photography; his 1976 MoMA show and William Eggleston's Guide legitimized color fine-art photography through saturated dye-transfer prints of the everyday South.
William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was a British scientist, mathematician, and politician who invented the calotype, patented in 1841, whose negative-positive process underpinned photography until the digital era.
William Henry Jackson
William Henry Jackson (1843–1942) was an American painter and photographer who took the first photographs of Yellowstone, helping persuade Congress to create the world's first national park in 1872.
William Hogarth
William Hogarth (1697–1764), London-born painter and engraver, pioneer of British satirical print series such as A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, and Marriage A-la-Mode, and namesake of the 1735 Engravers' Act.
William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt (1827–1910), English painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Millais and Rossetti; known for The Light of the World, The Scapegoat, and Holy Land travels.
William Kent
William Kent (1685–1748) was an English architect and designer who shaped the early Georgian era by reviving Palladianism and applying a distinctive natural style to his architecture and landscape designs.
William Kentridge
William Kentridge (born 1955, Johannesburg) is a South African artist, film-maker, and opera director known for the Drawings for Projection charcoal animations, The Nose at the Met, and the Centre for the Less Good Idea.
William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) was an American painter and one of the era's most influential art teachers, known for portraits, still lifes, and Impressionist landscapes of urban parks and the Shinnecock Hills.
William Michael Harnett
William Michael Harnett (1848–1892) was an Irish-born American painter who led American trompe l'oeil still-life painting, depicting pipes, books, and currency with such realism that viewers felt they could grasp them.
William Michael Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919), English art critic, literary editor, and Inland Revenue civil servant; founder member and secretary of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, editor of The Germ, and editor-biographer of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti.
William Morris
William Morris (1834–1896), English designer, writer, and socialist, led the Arts and Crafts movement, founded Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861, relaunched as Morris & Co. 1875) and the Kelmscott Press (1891), famed for 'useful or beautiful' design ideals.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), French academic painter of La Rochelle, Salon favorite, Prix de Rome 1850, Académie des beaux-arts 1876, painter of Naissance de Vénus and Les Oréades.
Willie Bester
Willie Bester is a South African artist, born in 1956, known for paintings and assemblages built from scrap metal and found objects that critique apartheid.
Willy Ronis
Willy Ronis (1910–2009) was a French photographer and a leading figure of humanist photography, known for black-and-white images of working-class Paris, including Le petit Parisien.
Wim Crouwel
Wim Crouwel, born Willem Crouwel (1928–2019), was a Dutch graphic designer and typographer who created New Alphabet and Gridnik and co-founded the studio Total Design in 1963.
Winchester Psalter
The Winchester Psalter, also called the Psalter of Henry of Blois, is an illuminated Romanesque psalter made at Winchester around 1150, famous for its 38 full-page miniatures.
Wind God and Thunder God Screens
Wind God and Thunder God Screens (Fūjin Raijin-zu byōbu) is a pair of 17th-century gold-leaf screens by Tawaraya Sotatsu, held at Kennin-ji temple in Kyoto.
Wind in the Pines Among Ten Thousand Valleys
Wind in the Pines Among Ten Thousand Valleys (萬壑松風圖) is a monumental 1124 landscape hanging scroll by the Song painter Li Tang, held in Taipei.
Windland Smith Rice
Windland Smith Rice (Sandra Windland "Wendy" Smith Rice, 1970-2005) was an American nature photographer for National Geographic and Nature's Best Photography; the Windland Smith Rice International Awards are named for her and her family endowed the Smithsonian program.