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Daphne Odjig
Daphne Odjig (1919–2016) was a Canadian painter of Odawa, Potawatomi, and English heritage who co-founded the Indian Group of Seven and received the Order of Canada.
Daphne Selfe
Daphne Selfe (1928–2026), British model and Guinness World Records holder as the oldest professional female model (95 years 158 days in 2023). Career began 1949, revived at 70 with Red or Dead and Models 1; died aged 97.
Daredevil (Marvel Comics series)
Daredevil (Marvel Comics series): the ongoing Marvel comic starring blind lawyer Matt Murdock, created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett in Daredevil #1 (April 1964). Distinguished by Frank Miller's 1980s run, Born Again, the Bendis/Maleev era, and the 2026 Stephanie Phillips/Lee Garbett volume.
Daria-i-Noor
The Daria-i-Noor (دریای نور, "sea of light") is a pale pink diamond of about 182 carats, among the Iranian crown jewels exhibited in Tehran.
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics, founded 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, is an American comic publisher known for Hellboy, Sin City, licensed Star Wars and manga lines, now owned by Embracer Group.
Darkroom
Darkroom: a light-tight room for developing film and printing photographs under red or amber safelights using developer, stop bath, and fixer. Emerged with the 1839 daguerreotype; revived by community darkrooms amid the film photography resurgence.
Darren Le Gallo
Darren Le Gallo (born 1974, Landstuhl, Germany) is an American surrealist-expressionist painter, actor, and filmmaker, husband of actress Amy Adams; directed the 2022 feature debut Sam & Kate with Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek.
Dash Snow
Dash Snow (Dashiell A. Snow) was an American photographer and collage artist who documented New York's downtown scene; he died of a drug overdose in 2009, aged 27.
Daswanth
Daswanth was a Hindu painter at Akbar's Mughal court, active from the mid-1560s until his death in 1584, remembered as a leading master of early Mughal painting.
Dave Dave
Dave Dave (born David Rothenberg, 1976-2018) was an American conceptual artist in Las Vegas, set on fire by his father Charles Rothenberg in 1983 at age 6, later a friend of Michael Jackson, known for the 'Lifted' series.
David (Bernini)
Bernini's David (1623-1624) is a 170 cm white marble sculpture in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese; it shows David mid-action before hurling the stone at Goliath, with Bernini's own features in the face.
David (Donatello, marble)
Donatello's marble David, commissioned 1408 for Florence Cathedral and moved to the Palazzo della Signoria in 1416, now in the Bargello; distinct from his bronze David and the Casa Martelli marble.
David (Michelangelo)
David (Michelangelo): colossal 517 cm white marble statue of the biblical hero, carved 1501-1504 in Florence from a block abandoned by Agostino di Duccio and Antonio Rossellino; commissioned for the cathedral, placed at Palazzo Vecchio, now in the Galleria dell'Accademia.
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896, Chihuahua), Mexican muralist of Los Tres Grandes with Rivera and Orozco; communist militant, founder of the 1936 New York Experimental Workshop influencing Pollock, and creator of The March of Humanity at the Polyforum.
David Bailey
David Bailey (born 1938) is a British photographer famous for 1960s Vogue fashion and portrait work, Box of Pin-Ups (1965), the Black Trinity with Duffy and Donovan, and inspiring Blow-Up.
David Bromstad
David Bromstad, American artist and HGTV host, won Design Star season 1 in 2006, hosted Color Splash 2007-2012, and has hosted My Lottery Dream Home since 2015.
David Burliuk
David Burliuk (Давид Бурлюк, 1882–1967) was a Ukrainian-born painter and poet regarded as the father of Russian Futurism; he co-wrote the 1912 manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste.
David Choe
David Choe, also known as Dave Choe, is an American painter and muralist of Korean descent whose Facebook mural stock was reportedly worth about $200 million by 2012.
David Dees
David Eugene Dees (1957-2020), American commercial illustrator for Sesame Street Magazine, Disney, and Sea-Monkeys packaging, later known for layered conspiracy-themed digital collages on 9/11, chemtrails, and anti-Semitic themes.
David Douglas Duncan
David Douglas Duncan (1916–2018) was an American photojournalist best known as the signature photographer of the Korean War and a close friend of Pablo Picasso.
David Drake
David Drake, known in his lifetime as Dave the Potter, was an enslaved African American potter and poet in Edgefield, South Carolina, active from about 1801 to the 1870s.
David Driskell
David Driskell (1931–2020) was an American artist and art historian known as the founding father of African American art history, curator of the 1976 exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art.
David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt (1930–2018) was a South African documentary photographer who chronicled South African life from 1948 through apartheid, publishing books such as On the Mines and In Boksburg.
David Hamilton (photographer)
David Hamilton (1933–2016) was a British photographer based in France, famous for soft-focus portraits of young women, best-selling books like Rêves de Jeune Filles, and L'Air du Temps advertising; his reputation collapsed after rape allegations and his 2016 death in Paris.
David Hammons
David Hammons (born 1943) is an American artist who transforms everyday and discarded materials into charged symbols of the Black American experience, working outside the gallery system.
David Hockney
David Hockney (1937–2026), British painter and printmaker of A Bigger Splash and the pool paintings, Polaroid joiners, Secret Knowledge optics thesis, iPad works, and the $90.3 million Portrait of an Artist record.
David Kakabadze
David Kakabadze (დავით კაკაბაძე, 1889–1952) was a Georgian avant-garde painter, set designer, and inventor, a leading figure of Georgian modernism who patented a glassless 3D film projector.
David Koloane
David Nthubu Koloane (1938–2019) was a South African painter, curator, and educator whose expressive works depicted Johannesburg's urban life under apartheid; he co-founded the FUBA Gallery, the Thupelo workshops, and the Bag Factory Artists' Studios.
David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle (born 1963, Connecticut) is an American photographer and director of kitsch pop surrealism, hired by Andy Warhol's Interview at 17, known for hand-painted negatives, celebrity portraits, Rize (2005), and fine art since 2006.
David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli (born 1960) is an American comics artist and writer known for Daredevil: Born Again and Batman: Year One with Frank Miller, the City of Glass adaptation with Paul Karasik, and his award-winning graphic novel Asterios Polyp (2009).