An alphabetical listing of visual artists who were/are gauche, sinister and otherwise work(ed) with their left hands. Hyperlinked names indicate a path to an individual's profile.

Left-Handed Visual Artists

 

Appel, Karel

     Dutch Painter, Sculptor and Printmaker

 

Beaton, Sir Cecil

     English Photographer and Stage Designer

 

Borovilovsky, Vladimir

     Russian Painter

 

Borromini, Francesco

     Italian Architect

 

Bouvrie, Jan des

     Dutch Furniture Designer

 

Cambiaso, Luca

     Genovese Painter

 

Caniff, Milton

     American Comic and Sequential Artist

 

Crumb, R.

      American Comic and Sequential Artist

 

Dufy, Raoul

     French Painter

 

Dürer, Albrecht

     German Painter, Draftsman and Printmaker

 

Escher, M.C.

     Dutch Printmaker

 

Fuseli, Henry

     Swiss-born English Painter

 

Goyen, Jan van

     Dutch Painter and Draftsman

 

Grandville, J. J.

     French Caricaturist and Illustrator

 

Groening, Matt

     American Cartoonist

 

Guisewite, Cathy

     American Cartoonist

 

Holbein, the Younger, Hans

     Bavarian-born English Painter

 

Hughes, Patrick

     English sculptor and Painter

 

Jouvenet, Jean

     French Painter

 

Kincade, Thomas

     American Painter

 

Klee, Paul

     Swiss Painter

 

Landseer, Sir Edwin

     English Painter

 

Leonardo da Vinci

     Florentine Polymath

 

Mauldin, Bill

     American Cartoonist

 

Menzel, Adolph von

     German Painter, Printmaker and Teacher

 

Michelangelo (ambidextrous)

     Florentine Sculptor, Painter and Architect

     (Note: On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Adam, too, is left-handed)

 

Montelupo, Rafaello de

     Florentine Sculptor and Architect

 

Munch, Edvard

     Norwegian Painter and Printmaker

 

Nasmyth, Patrick

     Scottish Painter

 

Neiman, LeRoy

     American Printmaker, Painter and Sculptor

 

Oliphant, Pat

     American Political Cartoonist

 

Papety, Dominique

     French Painter

 

Raphael

     Umbrian Painter and Architect

 

Regnault, Jean-Baptiste

     French Painter

 

Rembrandt van Rijn

     Dutch Painter and Engraver

 

Schäufelein, Hans

     German Painter and Designer

 

Sebastiano del Piombo

     Venetian Painter

 

Searle, Ronald

     English Cartoonist

 

Shansby, Eric

     American Cartoonist

 

Stanczak, Julian

     Polish-born American Painter

 

Umar Aqta

      Islamic Calligrapher under Sultan Timur

 

Williams, Robert

     LowBrow Artist Extraordinaire

 

Witz, Conrad

     German Painter

 

Yesari, Esad

     Ottoman Calligrapher