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Ansel Adams 1902–1984Arts & LettersLandscape photographer whose Western images and zone system shaped American photographic practice.Benny Andrews 1930–2006Arts & LettersAfrican American painter and sculptor whose collage works addressed civil rights and social justice.Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960–1988Arts & LettersNeo-expressionist painter who rose from graffiti artist to one of the most celebrated artists of the 1980s.Romare Bearden 1911–1988Arts & LettersArtist who used collage to depict African American life and culture in the 20th century.Louise Bourgeois 1911–2010Arts & LettersFrench-American sculptor whose giant spider sculptures and psychologically intense works explored trauma.Charles Burchfield 1893–1967Arts & LettersPainter known for his visionary watercolors of nature and American small-town life.Alexander Calder 1898–1976Arts & LettersSculptor who invented the mobile and whose kinetic sculptures changed modern art.Mary Cassatt 1844–1926Arts & LettersImpressionist painter and printmaker who depicted the intimate bonds between mothers and children.Chuck Close 1940–2021Arts & LettersPhotorealist painter who created monumental portrait grids and continued working after paralysis.Willem de Kooning 1904–1997Arts & LettersAbstract expressionist whose gestural paintings helped define the New York School.Thomas Eakins 1844–1916Arts & LettersRealist painter celebrated for his anatomically precise portraits and scenes of athletes and surgeons.Charles Eames 1907–1978Arts & LettersDesigner who with Ray Eames produced molded plywood and fiberglass furniture for American manufacturers.Keith Haring 1958–1990Arts & LettersStreet artist whose bold, cartoon-like figures addressed social issues and brought art to public spaces.Winslow Homer 1836–1910Arts & LettersPainter and illustrator whose seascapes and scenes of American life captured the nation's spirit.Edward Hopper 1882–1967Arts & LettersRealist painter whose depictions of urban isolation, like Nighthawks, became iconic American images.Jasper Johns b. 1930Arts & LettersPainter and printmaker whose Flag and Target paintings bridged Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.Dorothea Lange 1895–1965Arts & LettersDocumentary photographer whose Depression-era images defined the visual record of the 1930s.Jacob Lawrence 1917–2000Arts & LettersPainter whose Migration Series chronicled the Great Migration of African Americans to the North.Annie Leibovitz b. 1949Arts & LettersPortrait photographer whose Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair work defined American celebrity imagery.Roy Lichtenstein 1923–1997Arts & LettersPop artist whose comic-strip-inspired paintings became icons of 1960s American art.Isamu Noguchi 1904–1988Arts & LettersSculptor and designer whose works blend Japanese and American modernist traditions.Georgia O'Keeffe 1887–1986Arts & LettersModernist painter known for her enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes.Gordon Parks 1912–2006Arts & LettersPhotographer for Life magazine and first Black director of a major Hollywood studio film.Jackson Pollock 1912–1956Arts & LettersAbstract expressionist whose drip painting technique revolutionized modern art.Paul Rand 1914–1996Arts & LettersGraphic designer who created corporate identities for IBM — UPS and ABC.Robert Rauschenberg 1925–2008Arts & LettersMixed-media artist whose Combines broke down boundaries between painting and sculpture.Frederic Remington 1861–1909Arts & LettersPainter and sculptor whose depictions of the American West defined the cowboy mythos.Faith Ringgold 1930–2024Arts & LettersArtist and author whose story quilts combine painting, quilting, and narrative to explore Black identity.Norman Rockwell 1894–1978Arts & LettersIllustrator whose idealized depictions of American life graced magazine covers for nearly 50 years.Mark Rothko 1903–1970Arts & LettersAbstract expressionist known for his large color-field paintings that evoke deep emotional responses.Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848–1907Arts & LettersSculptor whose public monuments, including the Shaw Memorial, are among America's finest.Charles M. Schulz 1922–2000Arts & LettersCartoonist who drew Peanuts for fifty years and made Charlie Brown a national figure.Alfred Stieglitz 1864–1946Arts & LettersPhotographer and gallerist who established photography as fine art and promoted American modernists.Kara Walker b. 1969Arts & LettersContemporary artist whose silhouette installations confront the brutal history of American slavery and racism.Andy Warhol 1928–1987Arts & LettersPop art pioneer whose Campbell's soup cans and celebrity portraits defined contemporary American art.James Whistler 1834–1903Arts & LettersPainter and etcher best known for Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, commonly called Whistler's Mother.Grant Wood 1891–1942Arts & LettersRegionalist painter best known for American Gothic, one of the most parodied images in American art.