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Georg Raphael Donner
Georg Raphael Donner (1693–1741) was an Austrian sculptor, medallist, and goldsmith, the leading Austrian sculptor of the 18th century, known for the Donnerbrunnen fountain in Vienna.
George Bellows
George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925), American realist painter of the Ashcan School; known for boxing paintings like Both Members of This Club and Dempsey and Firpo, New York urban scenes, and Maine seascapes; died at 42 of appendicitis.
George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879) was an American painter and Missouri politician, known as "the Missouri Artist" for genre scenes of river boatmen and election-day crowds.
George Catlin
George Catlin (1796–1872) was an American self-taught painter, author, and showman who traveled the frontier in the 1830s recording Native American life in his Indian Gallery, now held by the Smithsonian.
George Cruikshank
George Cruikshank (1792–1878) was a British caricaturist, etcher, and book illustrator called the modern Hogarth, known for illustrating Dickens's Oliver Twist and for temperance works like The Bottle.
George Eastman
George Eastman (1854–1932) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York, popularizing photography through the Kodak camera and roll film.
George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) was an English painter and sculptor, among the most successful British artists of the 19th century, known for portraits of the Victorian elite.
George Grosz
George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, was a German-born painter and caricaturist of Berlin Dada and New Objectivity, known for satirizing Weimar militarism and bourgeois society.
George Hepplewhite
George Hepplewhite (died 1786) was an English cabinetmaker and furniture designer whose name identifies a neoclassical furniture style known for shield-backed chairs and tapered legs.
George Hoyningen-Huene
George Hoyningen-Huene (1900–1968) was a Russian-born American fashion and portrait photographer who defined the elegant look of French Vogue in the 1920s and 1930s, later working in Hollywood.
George Inness
George Inness was an American landscape painter, born in Newburgh, New York, in 1825, who moved from Hudson River School detail toward the hazy style called Tonalism.
George Lilanga
George Lilanga (1934–2005) was a Tanzanian Makonde artist best known for colorful paintings and sculptures of shetani, playful devil figures performing scenes of daily life in Tanzanian villages and cities.
George Maciunas
George Maciunas (Jurgis Mačiūnas, 1931–1978), Lithuanian-born American artist and founder and chairman of Fluxus; coined the name in 1961, organized Fluxus festivals, published Fluxus 1 and fluxkits, drew the 1973 Fluxus chart, and created the SoHo Fluxhouse Cooperatives.
George Morrison (artist)
George Morrison (1919–2000) was an Ojibwe American abstractionist from Grand Portage, Minnesota, who joined the New York Abstract Expressionist scene and painted horizon-line Lake Superior landscapes.
George Nelson (designer)
George Nelson (1908–1986) was an American architect and furniture designer who, as director of design at Herman Miller, created the Ball Clock, Bubble Lamps, and Marshmallow Sofa and shaped postwar American modernism.
George Pemba
George Pemba, full name George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba (1912–2001), was a South African painter known for portraits and depictions of township life in the Eastern Cape.
George Petty
George Petty (George Brown Petty IV, 1894–1975), American pin-up artist; creator of the airbrushed "Petty Girl" in Esquire from 1933, pioneer of the gatefold/centerfold, source of Memphis Belle nose art, not the 17th-century mezzotint sitter of the same name.
George Platt Lynes
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955) was an American photographer known for fashion and portrait work in major magazines and for his ballet photographs of Balanchine and Kirstein's companies.
George Romney (painter)
George Romney (painter), 1734–1802, English portraitist rivalling Reynolds and Gainsborough; painted Emma Hamilton over 60 times; left 1,719 catalogued portraits and 18 surviving cartoons.
George Stubbs
George Stubbs (1724–1806) was a British painter and anatomist best known for his accurate portraits of horses and for The Anatomy of the Horse (1766).
George Washington Vanderbilt II
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), youngest son of William Henry Vanderbilt, art collector and builder of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina; married Edith Dresser, father of Cornelia, died after an appendectomy.
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963), French painter co-founder of Cubism with Pablo Picasso after their 1907 meeting; Fauve painter turned Cubist at L'Estaque, inventor of papier collé in 1912, wounded in World War I, later painted Louvre ceiling Birds.
Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), Lorraine Baroque painter of candlelit nocturnes and austere daylight genre scenes; Caravaggesque, forgotten until Hermann Voss's 1915 rediscovery; about 40 autograph works, 18 signed, 2 dated.
Georges Rouault
Georges Rouault (1871–1958), French painter and printmaker trained under Gustave Moreau; exhibited with the Fauves in 1905 but developed a somber, religiously inflected style of clowns, judges, and Christ, best known for the Miserere engraving series.
Georges Seurat
Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859–1891), French painter, founder of Neo-Impressionism and originator of pointillism, using dots of pure color; creator of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte and seven large canvases of modern Parisian life.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), American modernist painter of magnified flowers, New Mexico landscapes, bones, and skyscrapers; promoted by and married to Alfred Stieglitz; subject of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.
Georgios Klontzas
Georgios Klontzas (Γεώργιος Κλόντζας) was a Greek painter, scribe, and scholar of the Cretan school who worked in Candia, Crete, in the late sixteenth century.
Gerald and Sara Murphy
Gerald (1888–1964) and Sara (1883–1975) Murphy, American expatriates in Paris from 1921, hosts of Villa America at Cap d'Antibes; Gerald a Precisionist-Cubist painter of Razor and Watch, model for Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night.
Gerald Scarfe
Gerald Scarfe (born 1 June 1936, London) is an English political cartoonist and designer, Sunday Times cartoonist for 50 years, known for Pink Floyd's The Wall art, Disney's Hercules, and Yes Minister titles.
Gerard Bhengu
Gerard Bhengu (1910–1990) was a self-taught South African painter from southern Natal, known for photo-real watercolour and sepia-ink portraits and scenes of rural Zulu life.