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Ivan Kramskoi
Ivan Kramskoi was a Russian painter and portraitist who led the 1863 Revolt of the Fourteen against the Imperial Academy of Arts and organized the Peredvizhniki traveling exhibitions.
Ivan Meštrović
Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962) was a Croatian sculptor, architect, and writer, whose work included the Well of Life in Zagreb and the Gregory of Nin monument.
Ivan Shishkin
Ivan Shishkin, also Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Иван Иванович Шишкин), was a Russian realist landscape painter of forests, known for Rye and Morning in a Pine Forest.
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan
Repin's 1885 oil painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, 16 November 1581, at the Tretyakov Gallery: tsar cradling his fatally wounded son, censored in 1885, attacked in 1913 and 2018.
Ivory carving
Ivory carving is the craft of shaping elephant-tusk ivory into sculpture and decorative objects, with walrus tusk and bone as substitutes; its Gothic golden age centered on Paris from about 1230 to 1380.
Izapa Stela 5
Izapa Stela 5 is a large carved stone monument from the ancient Mesoamerican site of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, its dense scene centered on a fruit-bearing tree.
Iznik tiles
Iznik tiles are underglaze-painted ceramic wall tiles produced in Iznik, western Anatolia, from the 15th to the early 18th century, used to decorate Ottoman mosques, palaces, and tombs.
J. C. Leyendecker
J. C. Leyendecker (1874–1951), German-born American illustrator, painted 322 Saturday Evening Post covers and created the Arrow Collar Man for Cluett Peabody; mentor to Norman Rockwell, partner of model Charles Beach.
J. M. W. Turner
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), English Romantic landscape and marine painter famed for luminous light and atmosphere; Royal Academician at 26, creator of the Liber Studiorum and the 1856 Turner Bequest at Tate.
J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere
J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere (1930–2014) was a Nigerian photographer best known for the Hairstyles series, nearly a thousand black-and-white photographs of Nigerian women's hairstyles taken from behind.
Jacek Malczewski
Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929) was a Polish symbolist painter and draftsman, regarded as the father of Polish symbolism and a central figure of the Young Poland movement.
Jack B. Yeats
Jack B. Yeats (Jack Butler Yeats, 1871–1957), Irish painter and brother of W.B. Yeats; Sligo-raised illustrator turned oil painter, known for The Liffey Swim and expressive late style.
Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg, 1917-1994), American comic book artist called the King of Comics; co-created Captain America with Joe Simon and, with Stan Lee at Marvel, the Fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor, X-Men, and Avengers; created DC's Fourth World and Darkseid; known for foreshortening, the squiggle, and the Kirby Krackle.
Jack of Diamonds (art group)
Jack of Diamonds (Бубновый валет) was a society of Moscow painters of the early Russian avant-garde, founded in 1911 and the largest such creative association.
Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald: on November 24, 1963, at 11:21 a.m., Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot accused Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters during a jail transfer, an event broadcast live on television.
Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano (born Jack Hoggan; 1951–2025), Scottish self-taught figurative painter of Methil, Fife. His The Singing Butler (1992) became Britain's bestselling art print and set a £744,800 auction record for a Scottish painting in 2004; he died in Nice, France, in 2025.
Jack Whitten
Jack Whitten (1939–2018) was an American abstract painter and sculptor from Bessemer, Alabama, who invented new acrylic techniques, including a rake-like tool called the Developer.
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock (Paul Jackson Pollock, 1912–1956), American Abstract Expressionist painter of Cody, Wyoming, famous for drip paintings made 1947–1951 with enamel paint poured on floor canvases; married to Lee Krasner, backed by Peggy Guggenheim, died in a 1956 car crash.
Jacob Arabo
Jacob Arabo (Yakov Arabov, born 1965, Tashkent) is the Uzbekistan-born founder of Jacob & Co., known as Jacob the Jeweler, who built a hip-hop-driven jewelry empire and moved into high-complication diamond-set watches like the Five Time Zone and Astronomia.
Jacob Epstein
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959) was an American-born British sculptor who settled in London in 1905, known for direct carving, controversial public commissions, and Oscar Wilde's tomb.
Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678) was a Flemish Baroque painter and tapestry designer of Antwerp who, alongside Rubens and Van Dyck, ranked among the three great Flemish masters of the seventeenth century.
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), American painter of African American history and life, creator of the 60-panel Migration Series (1940-41), split between MoMA and the Phillips Collection; first African American artist whose work MoMA acquired, in 1942.
Jacob van Ruisdael
Jacob van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/29–1682), Dutch Golden Age landscape painter, most versatile of his generation; 694 paintings, 13 etchings; pupil Hobbema; influenced Constable and Turner.
Jacqueline Roque
Jacqueline Roque (1927–1986), Picasso's second wife and final model, met him in 1952 at Madoura pottery in Vallauris, married him in 1961, and inspired some two hundred portraits until his 1973 death.
Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot (1592–1635) was a French printmaker and draftsman from Nancy who produced over 1,400 etchings and is best known for the antiwar series Les Grandes Misères de la guerre.
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was a French photographer and painter known for spontaneous black-and-white images of Belle Époque Paris, motor racing, aviation, and leisured high society.
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), French Neoclassical painter, Prix de Rome 1774, Convention deputy who voted Louis XVI's death, First Painter to the Emperor 1804, exiled to Brussels as regicide in 1816.
Jade burial suit of Dou Wan
The jade burial suit of Dou Wan (窦绾金缕玉衣) is a Western Han funerary garment of 2,160 jade plaques sewn with gold wire, excavated in 1968.
Jade burial suit of Liu Sheng
The jade burial suit of Liu Sheng is a full-body suit of 2,498 jade plaques sewn with gold wire, unearthed intact in 1968 from his tomb at Mancheng, Hebei.
Jade mask of Pakal
The jade mask of Pakal is a Maya funerary mosaic mask covering the face of K'inich Janaab' Pakal, ruler of Palenque, buried in 683 CE and found in 1952.