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Howling Wolf's Fort Marion Drawings
Ledger drawings by Southern Cheyenne artist Howling Wolf, made while he was imprisoned at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, from 1875 to 1878, plus drawings made after his release.
Hoysala architecture
Hoysala architecture is a Hindu temple style that flourished under the Hoysala Empire in Karnataka, India, in the 12th and 13th centuries, known for star-shaped plans.
Hu Zhao
Hu Zhao (胡昭, 162–250), courtesy name Kongming, was a Chinese scholar-recluse and calligrapher from Yingchuan who refused all offers of office from Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.
Hu Zhengyan
Hu Zhengyan (胡正言) was a Chinese painter, seal carver, and publisher of the late Ming and early Qing who ran the Ten Bamboo Studio in Nanjing.
Hua Yan
Hua Yan (华嵒, 1682–1756), courtesy name Qiuyue, was a Qing dynasty Chinese painter, poet, and calligrapher known for his small freehand bird-and-flower style and association with the Yangzhou school.
Huamanga School
The Huamanga School (escuela huamanguina) is a Peruvian artistic tradition of Huamanga, today Ayacucho, covering colonial religious painting and sculpture and the art school founded there in 1952.
Huang Binhong
Huang Binhong (黄宾虹) was a Chinese landscape painter, art historian, and educator, one of the masters of modern Chinese painting, known for his dense, layered-ink late landscapes.
Huang Cheng
Huang Cheng (黄成) was a Chinese lacquer master of the late Ming dynasty, active around 1567 to 1572, who wrote the Xiushilu, the only surviving pre-modern Chinese treatise on lacquering.
Huang Shiling
Huang Shiling, also known by his courtesy name Huang Mufu, was a Chinese seal carver and calligrapher (1849–1908) who founded the Yishan, or Lingnan, school of seal carving.
Huang Yi
Huang Yi (黄易, 1744–1802) was a Qing dynasty epigrapher, seal carver, calligrapher, and painter from Hangzhou, counted among the Eight Masters of Xiling in seal carving.
Huang Yongyu
Huang Yongyu (黄永玉, 1924–2023) was a self-taught Chinese painter, printmaker, and writer of Tujia ethnicity, known for bold, humorous ink paintings of lotus flowers and animals.
Huang Zhou
Huang Zhou (黄胄), born Liang Gantang, was a Chinese painter of figures and animals, celebrated for his donkeys and for fusing sketching with ink-brush painting.
Huangshan School
The Huangshan School (黄山画派) is a group of Chinese landscape painters of the late Ming and early Qing known for depicting Huangshan, led by Hongren, Mei Qing, and Shitao.
Huayu Lu
Huayu lu, also known as Recorded Remarks on Painting by Monk Bitter Melon, is an eighteen-chapter treatise on painting theory written by the early Qing painter-monk Shitao.
Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert (1733–1808), French landscape painter and etcher called "Robert des Ruines"; trained in Rome with Panini and Piranesi, court artist and royal garden designer, Louvre curator after imprisonment in the Revolution.
Hudson River School
The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American landscape painting movement, the first distinctly American art movement, founded by Thomas Cole and based in New York City.
Huexotzinco Codex
The Huexotzinco Codex, also called the Huejotzingo Codex, is an eight-sheet Nahuatl pictorial manuscript made in 1531 as courtroom evidence in Hernán Cortés's lawsuit against Spanish colonial judges.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie
Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Donald Duck's triplet nephews, created from Al Taliaferro's idea, debuting in print on October 17, 1937 and in the 1938 short Donald's Nephews; later Junior Woodchucks and DuckTales stars.
Hugo Strange
Hugo Strange, also Professor or Dr. Hugo Strange, is a DC Comics Batman supervillain created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, debuting in Detective Comics #36 (February 1940) before the Joker. Known for the Monster Men, deducing Batman's identity, and Arkham City.
Hugo van der Goes
Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440–1482) was a Flemish painter, probably born in Ghent, who combined the styles of Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden.
Hugo van Lawick
Hugo van Lawick, Baron Hugo van Lawick (1937-2002), Dutch wildlife photographer and filmmaker; sent by National Geographic to Gombe in 1962, he filmed Jane Goodall's chimpanzee research, married her 1964-1974, and spent three decades filming the Serengeti.
Huichol yarn painting
Huichol yarn painting is a Mexican art form made by the Huichol (Wixáritari) people, who press colorful yarn into beeswax on wooden boards to depict gods, myths, and shamanic visions.
Huike Showing His Severed Arm
Huike Showing His Severed Arm (慧可断臂図) is a 1496 ink hanging scroll by the Japanese Zen painter Sesshū Tōyō, showing Huike offering his severed arm to Bodhidharma.
Human Figure Riding a Dragon
Human Figure Riding a Dragon (人物御龙帛画, Silk Painting of a Man Riding on a Dragon) is a Warring States silk painting from a Chu tomb at Zidanku, Changsha, China's oldest surviving portrait painting on silk.
Human Figure with Dragon and Phoenix
A Warring States silk painting unearthed in 1949 from a Chu tomb at Changsha, showing a noblewoman with a dragon and phoenix guiding her soul upward.
Humphrey Spender
Humphrey Spender (John Humphrey Spender, 1910–2005) was a British documentary photographer, brother of poet Stephen Spender, best known for the Worktown photographs he took in Bolton for Mass Observation.
Hunterston Brooch
The Hunterston Brooch is an early medieval penannular brooch of gilded silver with amber mounts, made around AD 700 and found on the Hunterston estate in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1826.
Hussein Shariffe
Hussein Shariffe (حسين شريف; 1934–2005) was a Sudanese painter, poet, and filmmaker affiliated with the Khartoum School who turned to experimental cinema in the 1970s.
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Hyacinthe Rigaud, born Hyacinthe Rigau y Ros, was a French painter (1659–1743) who became the leading portraitist of Louis XIV's court, known for the 1701 Louis XIV portrait.
Hyperart Thomasson
Hyperart Thomasson (超芸術トマソン) is a concept by Genpei Akasegawa for useless, aesthetically maintained objects attached to buildings, named after baseball player Gary Thomasson, first found in Tokyo in 1972 and popularized by a 1982 Shashin Jidai serial.