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Joe Deal
Joe Deal (1947–2010) was an American photographer known for deadpan, square-format pictures of the man-altered Western landscape and his central role in the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert (1926–2012), Polish-born American comic book artist, writer, editor, and founder of the Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey; known for Hawkman, Sgt. Rock, Enemy Ace, Tarzan, and Fax from Sarajevo.
Joe Quesada
Joe Quesada, born Joseph Quesada in 1962, is an American comic book artist, writer, and editor who served as Marvel Comics' Editor-in-Chief from 2000 and later Chief Creative Officer.
Joe Ranft
Joe Ranft (Joseph Henry Ranft, 1960-2005) was Pixar's head of story, an Oscar-nominated co-writer of Toy Story, and voice of Heimlich, Wheezy, Jacques, Lenny, and Red; he died in a 2005 Mendocino County car crash and became a Disney Legend in 2006.
Joe Shuster
Joe Shuster (1914-1992), Canadian-born Cleveland cartoonist, co-created and drew Superman and Lois Lane with Jerry Siegel; sold all rights cheaply in 1938, fought DC in court, regained byline and pension in the 1970s.
Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is an American street, portrait, and landscape photographer who pioneered color photography as art in the 1960s and photographed Ground Zero after 2001.
Joel Sternfeld
Joel Sternfeld, born in New York in 1944, is an American photographer known for large-format color images of the American landscape, including the landmark 1987 book American Prospects.
Jogen Chowdhury
Jogen Chowdhury (যোগেন চৌধুরী) is an Indian figurative painter born in 1939 in what is now Bangladesh, known for cross-hatched ink and pastel works and awarded the Padma Bhushan.
Johannes Itten
Johannes Itten was a Swiss expressionist painter and teacher who led the Bauhaus preliminary course from 1919 to 1923 and wrote The Art of Color (1961).
Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), Dutch Golden Age painter of Delft known as the 'Sphinx of Delft'; only about 35-37 paintings attributed, including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Milkmaid, and View of Delft, rediscovered by Thoré in the 19th century.
John Bauer
John Bauer (1882–1918) was a Swedish painter and illustrator whose dark forest scenes of trolls and princesses for the annual Bland tomtar och troll shaped Swedish images of folklore.
John Berger
John Berger (1926–2017), British writer, painter, and Marxist art critic; author of Ways of Seeing (1972 BBC series and book) and Booker Prize-winning novel G.; collaborator of photographer Jean Mohr; settled in Quincy, French Alps.
John Broome (writer)
John Broome, born Irving Broome, was an American comic book writer best known for scripting DC Comics' Silver Age Flash and Green Lantern stories and co-creating Hal Jordan.
John Bull
John Bull is the national personification of the United Kingdom and especially England, created by John Arbuthnot in The History of John Bull (1712) and popularized in Punch cartoons as a stout farmer in a Union Jack waistcoat with a bulldog.
John Byrne (comics)
John Byrne (comics creator), born 1950 in England, Canadian-raised writer-artist of Uncanny X-Men with Claremont, Fantastic Four, and DC's 1986 Man of Steel Superman relaunch; returned in 2026 with X-Men: Elsewhen.
John Callahan (cartoonist)
John Michael Callahan (1951-2010), American Portland cartoonist, quadriplegic from a 1972 car crash, known for black-humor disability cartoons in 200+ newspapers, the autobiography Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, and the animated series Pelswick and Quads.
John Cassaday
John Cassaday (Johnny Mac Cassaday, 1971–2024), American comic book artist, writer, and TV director; co-creator of Planetary with Warren Ellis, artist of Astonishing X-Men, Captain America, Star Wars; three straight Eisner Awards 2004–2006.
John Chamberlain (sculptor)
John Angus Chamberlain (1927–2011), American sculptor and filmmaker of crushed-car-part assemblages; Shortstop (1958), Black Mountain College, Guggenheim retrospectives 1971 and 2012, three-dimensional Abstract Expressionism.
John Constable
John Constable (1776–1837), English landscape painter of the Suffolk Stour Valley, known for The Hay Wain, his Hampstead cloud studies of 1820–23, and his rivalry with Turner.
John Crome
John Crome (1768–1821), known as Old Crome, was an English landscape painter and etcher of Norwich who founded the Norwich School and painted local scenes like Mousehold Heath.
John Deakin
John Deakin (1912–1972) was an English photographer best known for uncompromising portraits of the 1950s Soho bohemian set and for photographs on which Francis Bacon based several major paintings.
John Derian
John Derian (company founder, designer of decoupage) founded John Derian Company Inc. in 1989; his East Village, NYC studio makes decoupage glassware from 18th- and 19th-century prints, sold in three shops and through Target and Astier de Villatte collaborations.
John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais (1829–1896), English painter and cofounder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848; painted Ophelia, Isabella, and Christ in the House of His Parents; later RA President and baronet.
John Flaxman
John Flaxman (1755–1826) was a British neoclassical sculptor, the leading one in late eighteenth-century Britain, who designed for Wedgwood's jasperware and became famous across Europe for his pure outline illustrations of Homer and Dante.
John Frederick Kensett
John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872) was an American landscape painter and former engraver, a leading second-generation Hudson River School artist best known for luminist scenes of Newport and Lake George.
John Greycrow
John Greycrow, formerly Scalphunter, is a Marvel Comics mutant mercenary created by Claremont, Romita Jr., and Dan Green; first appearing in Uncanny X-Men #210 (1986), he led the Marauders in the Mutant Massacre and later joined the Hellions and X-Men.
John Heartfield
John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891–1968) was a German artist and pioneer of political photomontage, best known for anti-fascist images in the AIZ weekly during the Weimar Republic and Nazi era.
John Hinde
John Hinde (John Wilfrid Hinde, 1916–1997) was an English photographer, a pioneer of color photography in Britain and founder of John Hinde Ltd, whose postcards of Ireland and British holiday resorts were widely circulated.
John James Audubon
John James Audubon, also known as J. J. Audubon, was a French-American ornithologist and artist. His masterwork, The Birds of America, features 435 life-size, hand-colored prints of North American species.
John Koenakeefe Mohl
John Koenakeefe Mohl (1903–1985) was a South African painter and art teacher who founded the White Studio in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, and painted township and rural scenes.