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Frank Bowling
Frank Bowling, born Richard Sheridan Franklin Bowling in British Guiana in 1934, is a Guyanese-British painter of large, color-saturated abstract canvases, the first Black artist elected to the Royal Academy.
Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta (1928–2010), American fantasy illustrator famous for his 1966 Conan the Adventurer cover, Death Dealer, and Tarzan paintings; his Man Ape Conan cover sold for $13.5 million in 2025.
Frank Gohlke
Frank Gohlke, born in 1942, is an American landscape photographer known for grain elevators, tornado damage, and the aftermath of the Mount St. Helens eruption.
Frank Horvat
Frank Horvat, born Francesco Horvat (1928–2020), was a photographer based in France who brought reportage style, street realism, and humor to fashion photography of the late 1950s and 1960s.
Frank Hurley
Frank Hurley (James Francis Hurley, 1885–1962), Australian photographer and filmmaker, official photographer on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition and Shackleton's Endurance expedition, composite-print pioneer, and AIF official war photographer in both world wars.
Frank Quitely
Frank Quitely, also known as Vincent Deighan, is a Scottish comic book artist born in 1968. He is known for his work on All-Star Superman and The Invisibles.
Frank Stella
Frank Stella (1936–2024), American painter, sculptor, and printmaker; Black Paintings of 1958–59 launched Minimalism; later shaped canvases, reliefs, Moby Dick series, prints with Kenneth Tyler, and architectural projects.
Frankenthal porcelain
Frankenthal porcelain is hard-paste porcelain made in Frankenthal, Palatinate, from 1755 to 1800, founded by Paul Anton Hannong and later a state manufactory under Elector Carl Theodor.
Franks Casket
The Franks Casket is an early eighth-century whalebone box carved with runic inscriptions and scenes from Roman, Christian, and Germanic tradition, held in the British Museum.
Frans Floris
Frans Floris, born Frans de Vriendt (about 1516 to 1520, died 1570), was a Flemish painter who led Romanism in sixteenth-century Antwerp, running a workshop of more than 100 pupils.
Frans Hals
Frans Hals (c. 1582/83-1666), Haarlem Dutch Golden Age painter of portraits and genre scenes, master of loose visible brushwork and laughing sitters, five civic guard group portraits, rediscovered by the Impressionists.
Frans Snyders
Frans Snyders, also spelled Frans Snijders, was a Flemish painter of Antwerp, born in 1579 and died in 1657, known for animal still lifes, hunting scenes, and market and pantry pictures.
František Drtikol
František Drtikol (1883–1961) was a Czech photographer and painter who raised Czech photography to a European art form, known above all for his Art Deco female nudes of the 1920s.
František Kupka
František Kupka, also known as Frank or François Kupka, was a Czech-born painter who settled in Paris and pioneered abstract painting, exhibiting the Amorpha series at the 1912 Salon d'Automne.
Franz Kline
Franz Kline (1910–1962), American Abstract Expressionist of the New York School, known for large black-and-white gestural enamel paintings such as Mahoning, made from projected telephone-book studies with house-painting brushes.
Franz Marc
Franz Marc (1880–1916), German Expressionist painter and co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter with Kandinsky in Munich; known for symbolic animal paintings like Red Horses and Large Blue Horses, his color symbolism, and death at Verdun in 1916.
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) was a German-Austrian sculptor active in Vienna and Pressburg, best known for the Character Heads, about 69 busts with extreme facial expressions made from 1770.
Fraser Album
The Fraser Album is a set of over ninety watercolours of the people of India, commissioned by the Scottish Fraser brothers in Delhi between 1815 and 1820.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (Auguste Bartholdi, 1834–1904), Alsatian French sculptor born in Colmar, creator of the Statue of Liberty, the Lion de Belfort, and the Champollion monument; the 2026 Orsay retrospective and Camille Claudel exhibition distinguish this artist.
Frédéric Bazille
Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870), Montpellier-born French painter of early impressionism, Gleyre studio friend of Monet, Renoir and Sisley, Salon exhibitor 1866-1870, killed at Beaune-la-Rolande in the Franco-Prussian War.
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923–2014) was an Ivorian artist who invented a writing system for the Bété language and recorded his people's oral traditions in thousands of small drawings.
Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), leading Hudson River School landscape painter trained by Thomas Cole; creator of Niagara, The Heart of the Andes, and Olana. Distinct from the later painter F. Edwin Church (1876–1975).
Frederic Goudy
Frederic Goudy (1865–1947) was an American type designer and printer who created more than 100 typefaces, including Goudy Old Style, and ran the Village Press.
Frederic Leighton
Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton of Stretton (1830–1896), was a British painter and sculptor who led the Royal Academy from 1878 and painted Flaming June (1895).
Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington (1861-1909), American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer of the Old West; created 22 bronze subjects including The Broncho Buster and over 3,000 works; an easterner from Canton, New York, not a westerner, unrelated to Remington Arms.
Frederick Sommer
Frederick Sommer (1905–1999) was an American photographer born in Italy who worked in Prescott, Arizona, known for desert landscapes, still lifes, and cameraless cellophane images.
Free Comic Book Day
Free Comic Book Day (FCBD), annual comic-industry giveaway on the first Saturday in May since 2002, founded by retailer Joe Field; 40+ million free comics given away; since 2026 split with Marvel's Comics Giveaway Day.
Freedom Force (comics)
Freedom Force (Marvel Comics) is a 1985 government-sponsored mutant team formed when Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants took a federal pardon, battled the X-Men, and preceded the federal X-Factor.
Freer Canteen
The Freer Canteen is a mid-13th-century Ayyubid brass canteen with silver inlay, made in Syria or northern Iraq and held at the Freer Gallery in Washington.
Fremont Troll
The Fremont Troll is an 18-foot concrete sculpture of a troll clutching a real Volkswagen Beetle, installed October 31, 1990 under Seattle's Aurora Bridge by Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter, and Ross Whitehead for the Fremont Arts Council.