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Jadeite Cabbage
The Jadeite Cabbage (翠玉白菜) is a Qing dynasty jadeite carving of a Chinese cabbage with a katydid and locust on its leaves, in Taipei's National Palace Museum.
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings is an allegorical Mughal miniature by Bichitr, painted around 1615–18 and held at the Freer Gallery of Art.
Jain miniature painting
Jain miniature painting is the tradition of small illustrated manuscript painting made for Jain communities in Gujarat and Rajasthan from about the 11th to 16th centuries.
Jak Katarikawe
Jak Katarikawe was a Ugandan-born, Kenya-based self-taught painter, a pioneer of modern East African art known for dreamlike paintings of village life and long-horned Ankole cattle.
Jakhodo
Jakhodo (작호도), also written hojakdo, is a Korean folk painting genre depicting a tiger and magpies, placed on house gates for luck during the Joseon dynasty.
Jakob Tuggener
Jakob Tuggener (1904–1988) was a Swiss photographer, filmmaker, and painter from Zurich, counted among the most important figures of 20th-century Swiss photography alongside Werner Bischof and Robert Frank.
James Barnor
James Barnor, born 1929 in Accra, is a Ghanaian photographer who documented Ghana's independence, shot for DRUM magazine in London, and pioneered color photography in Ghana.
James Ensor
James Sidney Ensor, also known as Edouard Ensor, was a Belgian painter and printmaker and founding member of Les XX, known for his grotesque art and monumental work.
James Gillray
James Gillray (1756–1815) was a British printmaker and caricaturist whose satirical etchings of politicians, royalty, and social life made him the leading graphic satirist of his age.
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was an American painter and printmaker who worked in London and Paris, led the Aesthetic movement's art for art's sake, and painted Whistler's Mother.
James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey (born 1948) is an American photojournalist who has documented wars and famines since 1981. A Time contract photographer, he has won the Robert Capa Gold Medal five times.
James O'Barr
James O'Barr, born in Detroit in 1960, is an American comics writer and artist best known for creating The Crow, a gothic graphic novel adapted into a 1994 film.
James Thornhill
James Thornhill (1675/1676–1734) was an English decorative history painter who executed the Painted Hall at Greenwich and scenes inside the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
James Thurber
James Thurber (1894-1961), American humorist and New Yorker cartoonist, author of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"; lost one eye in childhood, went nearly blind, still drew and dictated.
James Tissot
James Tissot (Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1836–1902), French painter and etcher of Nantes, famed for Parisian and Victorian high-society genre scenes, his London exile after 1871, Kathleen Newton, and his late illustrated Life of Christ.
James Turrell
James Turrell (born 1943, Los Angeles) is an American Light and Space artist working in light and perception, known for Skyspaces (over 100, including the 2026 ARoS Dome), Ganzfelds, and the unfinished Roden Crater observatory in Arizona.
James Van Der Zee
James Van Der Zee (1886–1983), American portrait photographer of Harlem; ran Guarantee Photo Studio with wife Gaynella Greenlee; chronicled the Harlem Renaissance, photographed Garvey's UNIA, and was rediscovered by the Met's 1969 Harlem on My Mind show.
James Welling
James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American photographer whose work since the mid-1970s moves between abstraction and figuration, exploring the materials and possibilities of photography.
Jamini Roy (যামিনী রায়)
Jamini Roy (যামিনী রায়), 1887–1972, Indian modernist painter from Beliatore, Bengal, who rejected academic realism for Kalighat and patua folk styles, ran a mass-production kharkhana, won the Padma Bhushan, and was named one of India's nine masters.
Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages
The Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages (JKAACL) is the cultural academy of Jammu and Kashmir, established in 1958 to promote the region's languages and arts.
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Jan Brueghel the Elder, nicknamed "Velvet Brueghel," was a Flemish painter of landscapes, flowers, and allegories, active in Antwerp, court painter to Archduke Albert, and a close collaborator of Rubens.
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
Jan Davidsz. de Heem, born Johannes van Antwerpen (1606–1684), was a Dutch still-life painter famed for sumptuous flower and banquet pieces painted in Leiden and Antwerp.
Jan Jacob Lodewijk ten Kate
Jan Jacob Lodewijk ten Kate (1850–1929) was a Dutch painter of landscapes, seascapes, portraits, and genre pieces, and son of the poet Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate.
Jan Lievens
Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and printmaker who worked closely with Rembrandt in Leiden and later painted for courts in London and Antwerp.
Jan Luyken
Jan Luyken, also spelled Luiken, was a Dutch poet, etcher, and illustrator of the Dutch Golden Age, known for Het Menselyk Bedryf trade pictures and the 1685 Martyrs' Mirror etchings.
Jan Matejko
Jan Matejko, born Jan Alojzy Matejko, was a Polish painter, 1838 to 1893, who founded Poland's national school of historical painting in Kraków with over 300 canvases.
Jan Saudek
Jan Saudek (born 1935 in Prague) is a Czech art photographer known for staged, erotically charged photographs of nude figures, printed in black and white and hand-colored from 1977.
Jan Steen
Jan Havicksz Steen (1626–1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Leiden best known for humorous genre scenes of chaotic households; "a Jan Steen household" remains a Dutch saying for a disorderly home.
Jan Toorop
Jan Toorop (Johannes Theodorus Toorop, 1858–1928) was a Dutch-Indonesian painter and graphic artist, born in Java, whose Symbolist and Art Nouveau work shaped Dutch art around 1900.
Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck (Johannes de Eyck), Netherlandish court painter to Philip the Good (1425–1441), master of layered oil technique, completed the Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, painted the Arnolfini Portrait, signed nine works with motto 'Als ich kan'.