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Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt (1913–2009) was an American photographer and cinematographer noted for street photography of New York City, especially children at play in working-class neighborhoods and her later color work.
Helen Martins
Helen Martins (1897–1976) was a South African self-taught artist who, with craftsman Koos Malgas, transformed her Nieu-Bethesda home into the Owl House and Camel Yard, now a National Heritage Site.
Helena Christensen
Helena Christensen (born 1968, Copenhagen) is a Danish-Peruvian supermodel of the 1990s, original Victoria's Secret Angel, face of "Wicked Game," and later a photographer, Nylon co-founder, strangelove nyc co-founder, and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
Helene Schjerfbeck
Helene Schjerfbeck (born Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck, 1862–1946) was a Finnish painter celebrated as Finland's most important figure and portrait painter, known above all for her late self-portraits.
Hélio Oiticica
Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980) was a Brazilian artist known for evolving from geometric abstraction to creating participatory art. His major works include the immersive environment Tropicália and the Parangolés series.
Hello Kitty (ハローキティ)
Hello Kitty (ハローキティ), full name Kitty White, is Sanrio's mouthless white character with a red bow, designed by Yuko Shimizu in 1974; a global kawaii licensing icon, 50th anniversary 2024, ranked 5th in the 2025 Sanrio poll.
Hello, World (photograph)
Hello, World is Reid Wiseman’s April 2026 Artemis II photograph of the moonlit Earth from Orion, showing auroras, city lights, Venus, and zodiacal light.
Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton (Helmut Neustädter, 1920–2004), German-born fashion photographer for French Vogue, known for erotically charged black-and-white images like Rue Aubriot and Big Nudes, books White Women and SUMO, and the Berlin Newton Foundation.
Helter Skelter I
Helter Skelter I is a 2007 mixed-media collage by American artist Mark Bradford, built from posters and paper salvaged from South Los Angeles streets, sanded to expose a turbulent abstract surface.
Helvetia
Helvetia is the Latin name for Switzerland, from the Gaulish Helvetii tribe, and the female national personification of the country; it underlies Confoederatio Helvetica and the proposed original name of the 1957 Helvetica typeface.
Helvetica
Helvetica, originally Neue Haas Grotesk, is the 1957 Swiss neo-grotesque sans serif by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas Type Foundry, renamed Helvetica in 1960, famous for neutrality, corporate identity use, and versions Neue Helvetica (1983) and Helvetica Now (2019).
Hemba ancestor figures
Hemba ancestor figures, called singiti, are carved wooden statues made by the Hemba people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to honor male ancestors, mainly chiefs and lineage founders.
Hemhem crown
Hemhem crown (hmhm, 'cry out'): ancient Egyptian triple-atef solar headdress with ram's horns, sun disks, plumes and uraei, worn tilted on the nemes by pharaohs, Kushite royalty, and divine children like Harpokrates.
Hendra Gunawan
Hendra Gunawan (1918–1983) was an Indonesian painter and sculptor known as the "people's painter" for his vivid depictions of villagers and revolutionary fighters.
Hendrick Goltzius
Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) was a Dutch mannerist engraver, print publisher, draftsman, and painter of Haarlem, famed for swelling-line engraving, pen works, the Meisterstiche, and his Danaë painting.
Hendrick ter Brugghen
Hendrick ter Brugghen, also spelled Terbrugghen (1588–1629), was a Dutch painter and the leading Utrecht Caravaggist, who returned from Rome in 1614 and developed a personal style of softer light and paler, more varied color.
Henning Koppel
Henning Koppel (1918–1981) was a Danish sculptor and designer whose fluid, organic silverwork for Georg Jensen after World War II helped define Danish design internationally.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), French photographer and Magnum co-founder, master of the 35mm Leica and the 'decisive moment', author of The Decisive Moment (1952).
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) was a French painter, lithographer, and poster artist who depicted the nightlife of Montmartre, Paris, turning performers like La Goulue and Jane Avril into celebrities.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915), born Henri Gaudier, French sculptor and Vorticist in London, pioneer of direct carving, killed at Neuville-Saint-Vaast aged 23; influenced Moore and Hepworth.
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (1869–1954), French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, leader of Fauvism and Picasso's great rival. Known for Woman with a Hat, Dance, the Nice odalisques, and the late gouache cut-outs including Jazz and the Vence chapel.
Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), called Le Douanier, French self-taught painter and Paris octroi toll collector; exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1886; famed for about 20 jungle paintings like The Sleeping Gypsy, painted from Parisian sources without ever leaving France.
Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss (1904–1972) was an American industrial designer who led a major design consultancy from 1929, designed the Bell System's desk telephones, and pioneered anthropometrics, the systematic use of human body measurements in product design.
Henry Ford Hospital
Henry Ford Hospital, also titled The Flying Bed, is a 1932 oil painting on sheet metal by Frida Kahlo, depicting her naked on a hospital bed after her miscarriage in Detroit in July 1932.
Henry Fuseli
Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741–1825), Swiss-born Romantic painter, draughtsman, and writer active in London; ordained pastor turned painter of The Nightmare, Royal Academy Professor of Painting, and Milton Gallery creator.
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986), British sculptor famous for monumental bronze reclining figures and mother-and-child themes, Shelter Drawings, 1948 Venice Biennale prize, and the Henry Moore Foundation founded 1977.
Henry Munyaradzi
Henry Munyaradzi, also known as Henry Mudzengerere, was a self-taught Zimbabwean stone sculptor (1931–1998) who joined the Tengenenge community in 1967 and became a leading Shona sculpture figure.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American painter who settled in Paris in 1891 and won international acclaim for his religious paintings, including The Banjo Lesson.
Henry Peach Robinson
Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901) was a British photographer, trained as a painter, who championed photography as a fine art and was best known for the combination print Fading Away (1858).
Henry Raeburn
Sir Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) was a Scottish portrait painter who worked almost exclusively in Edinburgh, painting about 1,000 portraits and famous for Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch.