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Alice Neel
Alice Neel (1900–1984) was an American portrait painter known for psychologically acute depictions of friends, family, artists, activists, and her Spanish Harlem neighbors, painted figuratively while abstraction dominated American art.
Alina Szapocznikow
Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973) was a Polish sculptor and Holocaust survivor who settled in Paris and cast fragments of her own body in polyester and polyurethane, exploring fragility, sensuality, and mortality.
Alison Lapper
Alison Lapper (born 1965) is a British mouth-and-foot artist, MBE, born with phocomelia; subject of Marc Quinn's Trafalgar Square statue Alison Lapper Pregnant (2005) and the 2012 Paralympics replica.
All Star Comics
All Star Comics (All-Star Comics) was a DC predecessor anthology series, 1940–1951, 57 issues, that introduced the Justice Society of America in #3 (December 1940) and Wonder Woman in #8, then became All Star Western.
Allan Houser
Allan Houser (born Allan Capron Haozous) was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor and painter, one of the most influential Native American artists of the 20th century.
Allan Ramsay (artist)
Allan Ramsay (1713–1784) was a Scottish portrait painter, son of the Edinburgh poet of the same name, who became Principal Painter to King George III.
Allen Jones (artist)
Allen Jones (born 1937, Southampton) is a British Pop Art painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Royal Academician since 1986, best known for erotic fiberglass furniture sculptures such as Hatstand, Table, Chair (1969) and large steel public works.
Allies Day, May 1917
Allies Day, May 1917 is an oil painting by the American Impressionist Childe Hassam showing Fifth Avenue in New York decorated with the flags of the United States, Great Britain, and France.
Almond Blossoms
Almond Blossoms (Almond Blossom, 1890) is Vincent van Gogh's oil painting of white almond branches against a blue sky, painted at Saint-Rémy as a gift for his newborn nephew Vincent Willem and held by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Alonso Cano
Alonso Cano (1601–1667) was a Spanish Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect, born and died in Granada, regarded as the founder of the Baroque painting school of Granada.
Alonzo Clemons
Alonzo Clemons (born 1958, one source says 1954) is an American animal sculptor and prodigious savant of Boulder, Colorado, who after a childhood head injury gained the ability to sculpt anatomically accurate animals in under 20 minutes; best known for the life-sized bronze Three Frolicking Foals.
Alphonse Mucha
Alphonse Mucha (Alfons Maria Mucha, 1860–1939), Czech Art Nouveau painter and poster artist famous for Sarah Bernhardt posters like Gismonda, le style Mucha, and the Slav Epic.
Altar of the Virgin Mary (Creglingen)
The Altar of the Virgin Mary (Marienaltar) is a limewood retable by Tilman Riemenschneider in the Herrgottskirche at Creglingen, Germany, carved about 1505 to 1510.
Altar Q
Altar Q is a carved stone altar at the Maya site of Copán, Honduras, dedicated in 776, with portraits of all sixteen rulers of the city's dynasty.
Altina Schinasi
Altina Schinasi (1907–1999), American artist and designer, invented the Harlequin "cat-eye" eyeglass frame in the late 1930s, won the 1939 Lord & Taylor American Design Award, and later directed the Oscar-nominated documentary George Grosz' Interregnum.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966) was an American-born photographer who later became a British citizen, known for Pictorialist portraits and for the Vortographs, the first intentionally abstract photographs.
Amagumo tea bowl
The Amagumo tea bowl (雨雲茶碗, "Rain cloud") is a black raku tea bowl made by Hon'ami Kōetsu in the 17th century, held in the Mitsui Memorial Museum in Tokyo.
Amanda de Cadenet
Amanda de Cadenet (born 1972, London) is a British photographer, TV host, and entrepreneur; former The Word presenter, Vogue-cover photographer, creator of The Conversation, and founder of Girlgaze.
Amanda Ungaro
Amanda Ungaro, born 1984 in Londrina, Brazil, is a former fashion model, onetime UN diplomat for Grenada, and ex-partner of Paolo Zampolli; deported from the US in 2025, she drew 2026 attention for claims about the Epstein and Trump circles.
Amar Nath Sehgal
Amar Nath Sehgal (1922–2007) was an Indian modern sculptor whose works on human suffering, such as Anguished Cries and The Captive, won him the Padma Bhushan.
Ambigram
Ambigram: typographic art readable in multiple orientations, coined by Douglas Hofstadter (1983–84), developed by Scott Kim and John Langdon; types include rotational, mirror, chain, and figure/ground designs.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Ambrogio Lorenzetti (died 1348/49) was an Italian painter of the Sienese school and younger brother of Pietro Lorenzetti, known for the Good and Bad Government frescoes in Siena.
Ambrosian Iliad
The Ambrosian Iliad, also known as Ilias picta, is a fragmentary 5th- or 6th-century illuminated manuscript of Homer's Iliad kept in Milan.
Ambrotype
An ambrotype is a unique photograph made by underexposing a collodion negative on glass and backing it with black, making it appear positive; popular from the 1850s.
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Italian painter and sculptor of the School of Paris, known for elongated portraits and nudes, a 1909–1914 carving period, the police-closed 1917 Weill show, and about 420 paintings and 30 sculptures.
American colonial portraiture
American colonial portraiture is the painted portraiture of Britain's North American colonies from the seventeenth century to the Revolution, a luxury genre displaying the sitter's wealth and status.
American Gothic
American Gothic is Grant Wood's 1930 oil-on-beaverboard painting of a pitchfork-holding farmer and a woman before an Eldon, Iowa Carpenter Gothic house, held by the Art Institute of Chicago and modeled on his sister Nan and dentist Dr. B.H. McKeeby.
American Gothic, Washington, D.C.
American Gothic, Washington, D.C. is a 1942 gelatin silver photograph by Gordon Parks showing Ella Watson, an FSA cleaning worker, standing with a broom and mop before an American flag.
American Impressionism
American Impressionism is the adaptation of French Impressionism by painters in the United States from the mid-1880s into the 1920s, led by Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, and John Twachtman.
American Landscape
American Landscape is a 1930 oil painting by Charles Sheeler depicting the Ford River Rouge plant near Detroit in a hard-edged Precisionist style; it is held at the Museum of Modern Art.