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Andy Warhol 1928–1987Visual Arts & DesignPop art pioneer whose Campbell's soup cans and celebrity portraits defined contemporary American art.Georgia O'Keeffe 1887–1986Visual Arts & DesignModernist painter known for her enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes.Norman Rockwell 1894–1978Visual Arts & DesignIllustrator whose idealized depictions of American life graced magazine covers for nearly 50 years.Charles M. Schulz 1922–2000Visual Arts & DesignCartoonist who drew Peanuts for fifty years and made Charlie Brown a national figure.Ansel Adams 1902–1984Visual Arts & DesignLandscape photographer whose Western images and zone system shaped American photographic practice.Jackson Pollock 1912–1956Visual Arts & DesignAbstract expressionist whose drip painting technique revolutionized modern art.Edward Hopper 1882–1967Visual Arts & DesignRealist painter whose depictions of urban isolation, like Nighthawks, became iconic American images.Mark Rothko 1903–1970Visual Arts & DesignAbstract expressionist known for his large color-field paintings that evoke deep emotional responses.Winslow Homer 1836–1910Visual Arts & DesignPainter and illustrator whose seascapes and scenes of American life captured the nation's spirit.John Singer Sargent 1856–1925Visual Arts & DesignPainted the Gilded Age at full length, then closed the portrait studio at the height of the demand.Dorothea Lange 1895–1965Visual Arts & DesignDocumentary photographer whose Depression-era images defined the visual record of the 1930s.Mary Cassatt 1844–1926Visual Arts & DesignImpressionist painter and printmaker who depicted the intimate bonds between mothers and children.RMRobert Mapplethorpe 1946–1989Visual Arts & DesignPhotographer whose retrospective set off the 1989 fight over public arts fundingJean-Michel Basquiat 1960–1988Visual Arts & DesignNeo-expressionist painter who rose from graffiti artist to one of the most celebrated artists of the 1980s.Walker Evans 1903–1975Visual Arts & DesignPhotographer of the Depression-era American SouthDADiane Arbus 1923–1971Visual Arts & DesignPhotographer whose square-format portraits remade American documentary photographyAlexander Calder 1898–1976Visual Arts & DesignSculptor who invented the mobile and whose kinetic sculptures changed modern art.Keith Haring 1958–1990Visual Arts & DesignStreet artist whose bold, cartoon-like figures addressed social issues and brought art to public spaces.Richard Avedon 1923–2004Visual Arts & DesignPut movement into fashion photography, then stripped his subjects bare against white paper.Isabella Stewart Gardner 1840–1924Visual Arts & DesignArt collector who built and filled Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumRoy Lichtenstein 1923–1997Visual Arts & DesignPop artist whose comic-strip-inspired paintings became icons of 1960s American art.Annie Leibovitz b. 1949Visual Arts & DesignPortrait photographer whose Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair work defined American celebrity imagery.James Whistler 1834–1903Visual Arts & DesignPainter and etcher best known for Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, commonly called Whistler's Mother.Grant Wood 1891–1942Visual Arts & DesignRegionalist painter best known for American Gothic, one of the most parodied images in American art.Gordon Parks 1912–2006Visual Arts & DesignPhotographer for Life magazine and first Black director of a major Hollywood studio film.Willem de Kooning 1904–1997Visual Arts & DesignAbstract expressionist whose gestural paintings helped define the New York School.Jeff Koons b. 1955Visual Arts & DesignSculptor of Rabbit, Balloon Dog and Michael Jackson and BubblesFrederic Remington 1861–1909Visual Arts & DesignPainter and sculptor whose depictions of the American West defined the cowboy mythos.Louise Bourgeois 1911–2010Visual Arts & DesignFrench-American sculptor whose giant spider sculptures and psychologically intense works explored trauma.Jasper Johns b. 1930Visual Arts & DesignPainter and printmaker whose Flag and Target paintings bridged Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.Thomas Eakins 1844–1916Visual Arts & DesignRealist painter celebrated for his anatomically precise portraits and scenes of athletes and surgeons.BKBarbara Kruger b. 1945Visual Arts & DesignText-over-photograph art that addresses the viewer directlyCindy Sherman b. 1954Visual Arts & DesignPhotographed herself as hundreds of other women and insisted that none of it was a self-portrait.Jacob Lawrence 1917–2000Visual Arts & DesignPainter whose Migration Series chronicled the Great Migration of African Americans to the North.Charles Eames 1907–1978Visual Arts & DesignDesigner who with Ray Eames produced molded plywood and fiberglass furniture for American manufacturers.Robert Rauschenberg 1925–2008Visual Arts & DesignMixed-media artist whose Combines broke down boundaries between painting and sculpture.Isamu Noguchi 1904–1988Visual Arts & DesignSculptor and designer whose works blend Japanese and American modernist traditions.Alfred Stieglitz 1864–1946Visual Arts & DesignPhotographer and gallerist who established photography as fine art and promoted American modernists.Romare Bearden 1911–1988Visual Arts & DesignArtist who used collage to depict African American life and culture in the 20th century.Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848–1907Visual Arts & DesignSculptor whose public monuments, including the Shaw Memorial, are among America's finest.Faith Ringgold 1930–2024Visual Arts & DesignArtist and author whose story quilts combine painting, quilting, and narrative to explore Black identity.Chuck Close 1940–2021Visual Arts & DesignPhotorealist painter who created monumental portrait grids and continued working after paralysis.Paul Rand 1914–1996Visual Arts & DesignGraphic designer who created corporate identities for IBM — UPS and ABC.Kara Walker b. 1969Visual Arts & DesignContemporary artist whose silhouette installations confront the brutal history of American slavery and racism.Charles Burchfield 1893–1967Visual Arts & DesignPainter known for his visionary watercolors of nature and American small-town life.BABenny Andrews 1930–2006Visual Arts & DesignAfrican American painter and sculptor whose collage works addressed civil rights and social justice.