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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Norwegian painter and printmaker of The Scream, Symbolist and precursor of Expressionism; four Scream versions on cardboard, experimental mixed-media technique, bequest forming Oslo's Munch Museum collection.
Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–1898), English Pre-Raphaelite painter and decorative artist, Morris & Co.'s foremost stained-glass designer, famed for Arthurian paintings, the Grosvenor Gallery, and the Adoration of the Magi tapestry.
Edward Hicks
Edward Hicks (1780–1849) was an American Quaker minister and self-taught folk painter of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, known for his many Peaceable Kingdom paintings, which were rediscovered in the 1930s.
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American realist painter and printmaker of urban solitude and New England light; Nighthawks (1942), Early Sunday Morning (1930), House by the Railroad, first MoMA acquisition.
Edward Kienholz
Edward Kienholz (1927–1994) was a self-taught American assemblage artist and installation pioneer who built life-size tableaux from junk, co-founded the Ferus Gallery, and collaborated with his wife Nancy from 1972.
Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen (Eduard Jean Steichen; 1879–1973) was a Luxembourgish-American photographer, painter, and curator, the highest-paid commercial photographer of his era and first MoMA director of photography.
Edward Tingatinga
Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932–1972) was a Tanzanian self-taught painter who founded the Tingatinga style, painting animals in bright enamel on board from 1968 to 1972.
Edward Weston
Edward Weston (1886–1958), American modernist photographer of sharp-focus black-and-white still lifes, nudes, and Western landscapes; Group f/64 cofounder, first photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, subject of MoMA retrospectives.
Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), American illustrator and painter based in England, known for Shakespearean illustrations for Harper's, the Boston Public Library Holy Grail murals, and Pennsylvania Capitol murals.
Edwin Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873), Victorian Britain's foremost animal painter, portraitist of Queen Victoria, and designer of the Trafalgar Square lions; known for The Monarch of the Glen and The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner.
Edwin Schlossberg
Edwin Schlossberg (born 1945) is an American artist, designer, and author, founder of ESI Design and husband of Caroline Kennedy. He pioneered interactive museum design with the 1977 Brooklyn Children's Museum and holds Columbia's first combined doctorate in physics and literature.
Eel Spearing at Setauket
Eel Spearing at Setauket is an 1845 oil painting by William Sidney Mount showing a Black woman spearing eels from a boat, widely treated as his best-known work.
Effie Gray
Effie Gray (Euphemia Chalmers Gray, 1828–1897), Scottish artists' model and Lady Millais. Married John Ruskin in 1848, annulled that marriage for non-consummation in 1854, then married John Everett Millais and managed his career.
Effigy
Effigy: a material image or likeness of a person, from Latin effigies. Covers funeral and wax effigies (Westminster Abbey, Madame Tussaud tradition) and figures hanged or burned in effigy in protest and ritual.
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele (1890–1918), Austrian Expressionist painter and draftsman of Viennese Modernism, protégé and rival heir of Gustav Klimt; known for angular self-portraits, over 2,500 works on paper, 1912 imprisonment, and 1918 Secession breakthrough before dying of Spanish flu at 28.
Egyptian modern art
Egyptian modern art is a modernist visual art movement centered in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, combining French academic training with Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic traditions.
Ehon
Ehon (絵本, literally "picture book") is a Japanese illustrated book, either woodblock-printed or hand-painted, that developed from picture scrolls and flourished in the Edo period.
Eight Elvises
Eight Elvises is a 1963 Andy Warhol silkscreen painting repeating eight images of Elvis Presley on a silver canvas, unique and sold for $100 million in 2008.
Eight Friends of Zhushan
The Eight Friends of Zhushan (珠山八友) were a group of porcelain painters in Jingdezhen, China, who formed a society in 1928 and created the new famille rose style.
Eight Principles of Yong
The Eight Principles of Yong (永字八法, yǒng zì bā fǎ) is a Chinese calligraphy precept set using the character 永 to teach the eight basic brushstrokes.
Eight Views of Xiaoxiang
Eight Views of Xiaoxiang (Japanese Shōshō hakkei) is a set of eight Chinese landscape-painting subjects, first painted by Song Di in the late eleventh century.
Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji
Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji (Hujia shiba pai tu) is a Ming dynasty handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting the Han poet Cai Yan.
Eikoh Hosoe
Eikoh Hosoe (細江英公, born Toshihiro Hosoe, 1933–2024) was a Japanese photographer and filmmaker, a defining figure of postwar Japanese photography known for the Ordeal by Roses series with Yukio Mishima.
Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was an Irish-born furniture designer, lacquer artist, and architect based in France, whose villa E-1027 and tubular-steel furniture are icons of the Modern movement.
Ejiri in Suruga Province
Ejiri in Suruga Province (Sunshū Ejiri, 駿州江尻) is a woodblock print by Hokusai from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, showing travelers in a gust of wind.
Ekpu figures
Ekpu figures are dramatically elongated wooden ancestor sculptures carved by the Oron people of southeastern Nigeria to honor named male lineage elders, a tradition that declined after the 1930s.
Ektachrome
Ektachrome is a family of color reversal slide films made by Eastman Kodak, introduced in 1946 and processed in E-6 chemistry, with couplers built into the emulsion unlike Kodachrome.
El Anatsui
El Anatsui (born 1944) is a Ghanaian sculptor based in Nsukka, Nigeria, best known for large wall hangings assembled from thousands of folded aluminum liquor-bottle caps.
El Greco (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος)
El Greco (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, 1541–1614), Cretan-born painter of the Spanish Renaissance; trained in Byzantine icons, Venice, and Rome; settled in Toledo, painting The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and elongated, visionary religious works.
El Lissitzky
El Lissitzky (Эль Лисицкий), born Lazar Markovich Lisitskii (1890–1941), was a Russian avant-garde painter, architect, and designer known for his geometric Prouns, exhibition designs, and role linking Suprematism and Constructivism.