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Haripura panels

The Haripura panels are large tempera-on-paper paintings of rural workers, made in 1937 by Nandalal Bose at Mahatma Gandhi's behest for the 1938 Congress session at Haripura, Gujarat.

Harnaaz Sandhu (ਹਰਨਾਜ਼ ਕੌਰ ਸੰਧੂ)

Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu (ਹਰਨਾਜ਼ ਕੌਰ ਸੰਧੂ), Indian actor and model, Miss Universe 2021, the 70th edition in Eilat, Israel; India's third winner after Sushmita Sen and Lara Dutta; Hindi debut Baaghi 4.

Harriet Hosmer

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer was an American neoclassical sculptor who spent most of her career in Rome, the first American woman to gain an international sculpting reputation.

Harriet Primrose, Countess of Rosebery

Harriet Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, born Harriet Clapham, is a British art adviser who married Harry Primrose, 8th Earl of Rosebery, in 2022, becoming countess in 2024.

Harrison Begay

Harrison Begay, also known as Haashké yah Níyá, was a Diné (Navajo) painter and printmaker who became one of the most widely known Native American artists of the 20th century.

Harrison Marks

Harrison Marks (George Harrison Marks, 1926–1997), English glamour photographer and film director. Founded Kamera magazine with Pamela Green in 1957; made Naked as Nature Intended and Come Play With Me.

Harrow County

Harrow County is a 32-issue southern gothic folk horror comic by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook, published by Dark Horse from 2015 to 2018, about Emmy, possibly the reincarnation of the witch Hester Beck, with watercolor art, an Eisner nomination, a Syfy option, and Tales from Harrow County sequels.

Harry Bertoia

Harry Bertoia, born Arri Bertoia (1915–1978), was an Italian-born American artist and designer known for sounding metal sculptures and the wire Diamond chair he made for Knoll.

Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan (1912–1999) was an American photographer known for spare, lyrical images of his wife Eleanor, nature, and the city, and for decades of influential teaching.

Harry Clarke

Harry Clarke (Henry Patrick Clarke, 1889–1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator who made about 55 stained-glass commissions and illustrated Poe and Andersen.

Harvey Littleton

Harvey Littleton (1922–2013) was an American glass artist and educator, considered the father of the studio glass movement, who led the pivotal 1962 Toledo workshops.

Hasegawa school

The Hasegawa school (長谷川派) was a Japanese school of painting founded by Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539–1610), active from the Momoyama period into the early Edo period and ranked alongside the Kanō school.

Hashiguchi Goyō

Hashiguchi Goyō (橋口五葉, born Kiyoshi, died 1921) was a Japanese painter, book designer, and woodblock printmaker who helped launch the shin hanga movement with images of beautiful women.

Hayami Gyoshū

Hayami Gyoshū (1894–1935), real name Makita Eiichi, was a Japanese nihonga painter who reinvented his style until dying of typhoid at forty, best known for Dancing in the Flames.

HD-2D

HD-2D (HD2D) is Square Enix's trademarked art style blending 2D pixel art sprites with 3D environments, coined for Octopath Traveler (2018) by Acquire, and used in Triangle Strategy, Live A Live, the Dragon Quest HD-2D remakes, and Octopath Traveler II.

He Chaozong

He Chaozong (何朝宗), also known as He Lai, was a Chinese porcelain sculptor of the Dehua kilns in Fujian, celebrated in the late Ming dynasty for his white porcelain figures of Guanyin.

Head of a Woman

Head of a Woman (Onna no kao) is the title of related 1912 works by Japanese Yōga painter Yorozu Tetsugorō, the best known an oil painting, Woman with a Boa.

Head of Sargon

The Head of Sargon is a life-size copper-alloy head of an Akkadian king from about 2300 BC, excavated at Nineveh in 1931 and held in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

Heart symbol

Heart symbol (♥): stylized scalloped shape for love and the Sacred Heart. First love imagery in the c. 1255 Roman de la Poire; scalloped form 14th century; popular in 16th-century Europe.

Heathcliff (comic strip)

Heathcliff is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by George Gately, debuting September 3, 1973, about a silent, mischievous orange tabby who torments dogs and raids fish markets; distinguished from Garfield by its silent single-panel format and its succession to Peter Gallagher in 1998.

Heather McCartney

Heather McCartney (née Heather Louise See, born 1962, Tucson) is an American-British potter, daughter of Linda McCartney and adopted daughter of Paul McCartney; launched the 1999 Heather McCartney Houseware Collection.

Héctor Germán Oesterheld

Héctor Germón Oesterheld (1919–disappeared 1977) was an Argentine comic-book scriptwriter who created El Eternauta, founded Editorial Frontera, and was disappeared by the military dictatorship in 1977.

Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard (1867–1942) was a French architect and designer, the leading figure of Art Nouveau in France, best known for the cast-iron entrances he designed for the Paris Métro stations.

Hector Hyppolite

Hector Hyppolite (1894–1948) was a self-taught Haitian painter, a former shoemaker and house painter from Saint-Marc who became celebrated in four years for brightly colored images of Vodou spirits, birds, and flowers.

Heide circle

The Heide circle was a group of avant-garde Australian artists, including Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, gathered around the Melbourne home of patrons John and Sunday Reed.

Heiji Monogatari Emaki

The Heiji Monogatari Emaki (平治物語絵巻, Illustrated Scrolls of the Tale of Heiji) are Kamakura-period Japanese handscrolls depicting the Heiji Rebellion of 1159, famed for dynamic battle scenes.

Heike Monogatari Emaki

Heike Monogatari Emaki (平家物語絵巻) is the Japanese illustrated handscroll tradition depicting The Tale of the Heike, the war chronicle of the rise and fall of the Taira clan at the end of the Heian era.

Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer)

Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957), German photographer and Reichsbildberichterstatter, was Adolf Hitler's personal photographer; his Munich studio, picture books such as Hitler wie ihn keiner kennt, and portrait monopoly created the Führer's public image, and he was convicted as a denazification Major Offender.

Helch

Helch (c. 1991–2026) was the pseudonym of an anonymous British graffiti writer whose roller-lettered HELCH tag covered London viaducts and motorway bridges from 2018; he showed at BSMT Space and died aged 34.

Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), American abstract painter, invented the soak-stain technique of pouring thinned paint onto unprimed canvas; her Mountains and Sea (1952) bridged Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, influencing Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.