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Eric Haze
Eric Haze (born 1961, New York City), also tagged SE3, is an American graffiti artist, graphic designer, and painter; founding member of The Soul Artists, SVA BFA 1985, designer of hip-hop-era logos (LL Cool J, EPMD, Beastie Boys, Tommy Boy), founder of the Haze streetwear brand, and G-SHOCK collaborator since 1998.
Eric Ravilious
Eric Ravilious (1903–1942) was a British watercolourist, wood engraver, and designer of Wedgwood ceramics, known for South Downs landscapes and war art.
Erich Salomon
Erich Salomon (1886–1944) was a German photojournalist who pioneered candid photography of politicians and diplomats with a small hidden camera, becoming a founding figure of modern photojournalism.
Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann, born 1947 in Stadthagen, Germany, is a German typographer and type designer who founded MetaDesign and FontShop and designed FF Meta and ITC Officina.
Erika Cosby
Erika Cosby, known professionally as Erika Ranee, is an American abstract painter born 1965 in Los Angeles, daughter of Bill and Camille Cosby; MFA UC Berkeley, works in acrylic, spray paint, shellac and collage, collected by the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Ernest Cole
Ernest Cole, born Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, was a South African documentary photographer who became the first black freelance photojournalist. His work brought international attention to life under apartheid.
Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller (1905–1982), American cartoonist who created the comic strip Nancy, taking over Fritzi Ritz in 1925 at age 19 and building each gag backward from the final 'snapper' panel.
Ernst Barlach
Ernst Barlach was a German sculptor and printmaker known for his bulky peasant figures and monuments. His style was shaped by a 1906 journey to Russia and Ukraine.
Ernst Gombrich
Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001) was an Austrian-born British art historian and director of the Warburg Institute whose The Story of Art sold over 8 million copies.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), German Expressionist painter and printmaker, founder of Die Brücke in Dresden in 1905; known for Berlin street scenes, Alpine works, Nazi 'degenerate art' persecution, and 1938 suicide in Davos.
Erotic art
Erotic art is art whose subject is sexual love or desire, from Greek eros. Distinguished from pornography by contested aesthetic criteria; shaped by censorship from Japanese shunga to algorithmic moderation.
Erotica
Erotica: sexual content in art, literature, or objects, distinguished from pornography by tone and artistic intent; Levinson's tripartite scheme, Maes's line-drawing debate, feminist critiques, and a history from prehistory to museums.
Erté
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff, Роман Петрович Тыртов), 1892–1990, Russian-born French Art Deco fashion illustrator and stage designer; 240+ Harper's Bazaar covers, Folies-Bergère and Hollywood costumes, late bronzes.
Erwin Eisch
Erwin Eisch (1927–2022) was a German glass artist, painter, and printmaker from Frauenau in the Bavarian Forest who, with American Harvey K. Littleton, is regarded as a founder of the studio glass movement.
Escena de Avanzada
Escena de Avanzada, a term coined by critic Nelly Richard, names Chilean experimental artists and writers who opposed the Pinochet dictatorship from the late 1970s, working with performance and urban intervention.
Escutcheon (heraldry)
Escutcheon (heraldry): the shield or shield-shaped surface bearing a coat of arms, from Old French escuchon. Covers heater and lozenge shapes, inescutcheons of pretence, marshalling, tincture rules, and hatchments.
Esquiline Treasure
The Esquiline Treasure is a collection of Late Roman silver discovered in 1793 at the foot of the Esquiline Hill in Rome and held by the British Museum.
Esther Mahlangu
Esther Mahlangu, born 1935, is a South African Ndebele artist who adapted traditional geometric mural painting to canvas, cars, and architecture, painting a BMW Art Car in 1991.
Etching
Etching is an intaglio printmaking process in which acid bites lines into a copper, zinc, or iron plate through a drawn-through ground; unlike engraving, acid rather than a burin makes the recesses that hold ink.
Ethiopian church mural painting
Ethiopian church mural painting is the tradition of monumental painted wall decoration in the churches of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, with the earliest known works dating to the 12th or 13th century.
Ethiopian church wall painting
Ethiopian church wall paintings are religious murals in Ethiopian Orthodox churches depicting biblical scenes, the Virgin Mary, saints, and angels, a tradition dating from the 4th century AD.
Ethiopian icon diptychs and triptychs
Ethiopian icon diptychs and triptychs are two- and three-panel painted devotional images on wood, often hinged, that spread in fifteenth-century Ethiopia under Emperor Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob and typically show the Virgin and Child flanked by archangels.
Ethiopian manuscript illumination
Ethiopian manuscript illumination is the painted decoration of Ethiopian Orthodox Christian manuscripts in Ge'ez, produced from late antiquity to the present with a distinctive palette and vine-like harag ornament.
Ethiopian processional crosses
Ethiopian processional crosses (mäsqäl, Amharic/Ge'ez; the processional type is qäqwami mäsqäl) are large metal crosses on staffs carried by Ethiopian Orthodox priests in processions and festivals.
Ettore Sottsass
Ettore Sottsass, also known as Ettore Sottsass junior, was an Italian architect and designer famous for his Olivetti work and for founding the Memphis group in 1981.
Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget (1857–1927), French photographer of vieux Paris; also Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget. Made ~10,000 documentary photographs of Paris on 18×24 cm glass negatives; championed posthumously by Berenice Abbott, acquired by MoMA in 1968.
Eugène Boudin
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), Honfleur-born French marine and beach painter, precursor of Impressionism, nicknamed "king of skies" by Corot, teacher of Monet, first Impressionist exhibition 1874.
Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863), French Romantic painter and muralist, leader of French Romanticism; painted Liberty Leading the People, Death of Sardanapalus, Women of Algiers; worked at Saint-Sulpice; studio-museum at 6 rue de Fürstenberg, Paris.
Eugène Fromentin
Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876) was a French painter and writer, known for Orientalist paintings of Algeria, the psychological novel Dominique (1863), and the art criticism classic Les Maîtres d'autrefois.
Eustace Tilley
Eustace Tilley is the top-hatted, monocled dandy drawn by Rea Irvin for the first issue of The New Yorker in February 1925, peering at a butterfly through his monocle.