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John La Farge
John La Farge (1835–1910), American painter, muralist, and stained-glass pioneer of the American Renaissance; inventor-patentee of opalescent glass windows, Trinity Church Boston decorator, Tiffany's rival, and author of An Artist's Letters from Japan.
John Marin
John Marin (1870–1953) was an early American modernist painter and etcher known for semi-abstract views of Manhattan and Maine, and received a MoMA retrospective in 1936.
John Martin (painter)
John Martin was an English Romantic painter who created vast, apocalyptic scenes. His major works, including The Last Judgement, were celebrated for their dramatic scale and detail.
John Michael Rysbrack
John Michael Rysbrack, born Jan Michiel Rijsbrack (1694–1770), was a Flemish sculptor who settled in London in 1720 and, with his rival Roubiliac, led sculpture in Georgian Britain.
John Muafangejo
John Muafangejo (1943–1987) was a Namibian printmaker, born in Angola, internationally known for his black-and-white linocuts depicting Kwanyama culture, mission life, Bible stories, and the injustices of apartheid.
John Ostrander
John Ostrander, American comic book writer from Chicago; creator of the modern Suicide Squad and Amanda Waller at DC (1987) and co-creator of Grimjack with Timothy Truman at First Comics (1984).
John Pule
John Pule (John Puhiatau Pule), born 1962 in Liku, Niue, is a Niuean New Zealand painter, poet, and novelist who adapts the nineteenth-century Niuean art of hiapo barkcloth into contemporary painting.
John Romita Jr.
John Romita Jr. (John Salvatore Romita, born 1956, New York City) is an American comic book artist, son of John Romita Sr., known for Marvel's Iron Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, Kick-Ass, and DC's Superman; not a true junior by birth.
John Romita Sr.
John Romita Sr. (1930–2023), American comic book artist and Marvel art director; drew The Amazing Spider-Man from 1966, co-created Mary Jane Watson, designed Wolverine, the Punisher, and Luke Cage.
John Ruskin
John Ruskin (1819–1900), English art and social critic: championed Turner in Modern Painters, wrote The Stones of Venice and Unto This Last, opposed classical economics, and influenced Morris, Proust, and Gandhi.
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), American expatriate portraitist of the Edwardian era, trained with Carolus-Duran in Paris; his 1884 Madame X scandal drove him to London, and he later painted watercolors and Boston murals.
John Singleton Copley
John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) was an American-born painter, the leading portraitist of Britain's North American colonies who moved to London in 1774 and painted history scenes like Watson and the Shark.
John Sloan
John French Sloan (1871–1951), American painter and etcher of the Ashcan School and The Eight; New York urban realist, The Masses art director, Art Students League teacher, record sale Easter Eve $3,032,000.
John Smibert
John Smibert (1688–1751) was a Scottish-born portrait painter, the first academically trained artist to build a portrait career in colonial America, settling in Boston in 1729.
John Steell
Sir John Steell (1804–1891) was a Scottish sculptor, regarded for fifty years as Scotland's leading sculptor, known for the Scott Monument statue and Edinburgh's bronze Wellington.
John Steuart Curry
John Steuart Curry was an American painter and muralist of the 1930s Regionalist movement, alongside Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, known for Tragic Prelude in the Kansas State Capitol.
John Tenniel
Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914), Victorian illustrator and chief Punch political cartoonist, illustrated Lewis Carroll's Alice books (42 illustrations, 1865/1871) and was the first cartoonist knighted, in 1893.
John Trumbull
John Trumbull (1756-1843), American painter of the Revolution, aide to Washington, creator of the Capitol Rotunda's four history paintings including Declaration of Independence, and founder of Yale's Trumbull Gallery, the first American college art museum.
John White (colonist and artist)
John White was an English watercolourist and cartographer who painted the earliest surviving European images of Indigenous Americans and governed the 1587 Roanoke "Lost Colony".
John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) was a British painter known for images of women from classical myth and Victorian poetry, including The Lady of Shalott (1888).
Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula
Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula (c. 1918/1920s to 2001) was a Luritja/Pintupi painter and founding artist of the Papunya Tula movement, best known for layered over-dotting and Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa (1972).
Jonathan Hickman
Jonathan Hickman (born 1972) is an American comic book writer and artist known for The Nightly News, East of West, Marvel's Fantastic Four, Avengers, Secret Wars (2015), the Krakoa-era X-Men, and the relaunched Ultimate Universe.
Jonathan Hoefler
Jonathan Hoefler is an American typeface designer, founder of the type foundry Hoefler&Co, known for Gotham, Knockout, Mercury, Sentinel, and Archer; the company was acquired by Monotype in 2021.
Joos van Cleve
Joos van Cleve, also recorded as Joos van der Beke, was a Netherlandish painter who ran one of Antwerp's most productive workshops, leaving more than 300 paintings.
Joram Mariga
Joram Mariga (1927–2000) was a Zimbabwean stone sculptor, widely regarded as the father of the Shona sculpture movement, who carved in Nyanga from the 1950s and mentored its first-generation artists.
Jorge González Camarena
Jorge González Camarena (1908–1980) was a Mexican painter, sculptor, and muralist of the second generation of Mexican muralism, known for a system of geometric harmonies.
Jōruri-ji Amida Triad
The Jōruri-ji Amida Triad is a group of nine wooden seated statues of Amida Nyorai at Jōruri-ji temple in Kizugawa, Kyoto, Japan, all National Treasures.
José Agustín Arrieta
José Agustín Arrieta (1803–1874) was a Mexican painter who spent his career in Puebla, known for costumbrista scenes of everyday life and dining-room still lifes.
José Chávez Morado
José Chávez Morado (1909–2002) was a Mexican painter, printmaker, and muralist of the Escuela Mexicana de Pintura, known for murals at Ciudad Universitaria and Guanajuato.
José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) was a Mexican painter, one of Los Tres Grandes muralists with Rivera and Siqueiros, known for expressionist murals on human suffering.