Art History Guide
The history of art mirrors the history of humankind, and the study of works of art and the lives of artists illuminates much about our shared past.
Biography of Gustave Caillebotte, French Impressionist Painter
Biography of Carl Andre, Minimalist American Sculptor
Biography of Clyfford Still, Abstract Expressionist Painter
Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, Modernist American Artist
Biography of John Constable, British Landscape Painter
Biography of Pierre Bonnard, French Post-Impressionist Painter
Biography of Giorgio de Chirico, Italian Pioneer of Surrealist Art
Biography of George Stubbs, English Painter
Biography of Thomas Hart Benton, Painter of American Life
Biography of Robert Delaunay, French Abstract Painter
Biography of Milton Avery, American Modernist Painter
Biography of Alma Thomas, American Painter of Joyful Abstraction
Biography of Kathe Kollwitz, German Printmaker
Robert Henri, American Realist Painter of the Ashcan School
Biography of Frederic Edwin Church, American Landscape Painter
Life and Work of Hilma af Klint, Western Art's First Abstractionist
Biography of Alice Neel, Painter of Expressionist Portraits
Biography of Kazimir Malevich, Russian Abstract Art Pioneer
Biography of Childe Hassam, American Impressionist Painter
Biography of Constantin Brancusi, Romanian Modernist Sculptor
Biography of Marsden Hartley, Modernist American Painter and Writer
Stained Glass Windows: Medieval Art Form and Religious Meditation
Biography of Paul Cezanne, French Post-Impressionist
Biography of Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus Painter
Louvre Museum: History and Most Important Masterpieces
Aaron Douglas, Harlem Renaissance Painter
Grant Wood, American Gothic Painter
Juan Gris, Spanish Cubist Painter
Biography of Henri Rousseau, Self-Taught Post-Impressionist
Thomas Cole, Painter of Majestic American Landscapes
Dan Flavin, Fluorescent Light Sculpture Artist
Ad Reinhardt, American Abstract Expressionist Painter
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 20th-Century Design Pioneer
William Turner, English Romantic Landscape Painter
Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist Landscape Painter
Biography of Georges Braque, Pioneer Cubist Painter
Biography of Hans Hofmann, Abstract Expressionism Pioneer
Biography of Willem de Kooning, Dutch Abstract Expressionist
Life and Work of Leonora Carrington, Activist and Artist
Biography of Charles Sheeler, Precisionist Painter and Photographer
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist of Bohemian Paris
Biography of Artemisia Gentileschi
Life and Work of Florine Stettheimer, Painter of the Jazz Age
Life and Work of Nancy Spero, Feminist Printmaker
The Life and Work of Maud Lewis, Canadian Folk Artist
Life and Work of Lee Krasner, Pioneering Abstract Expressionist
Biography of Cy Twombly, Romantic Symbolist Artist
Why Is the Mona Lisa So Famous?
Life and Work of Gerhard Richter, Abstract and Photorealistic Artist
Biography of Francesco Clemente, Italian Neo-Expressionist Painter
Biography of Sol LeWitt, Conceptual and Minimalist Artist
Biography of Egon Schiele, Austrian Expressionist Painter
The Life and Art of Jenny Holzer, Artist of Text-Based Truisms
Biography of Amedeo Modigliani, Italian Modernist Artist
Life and Work of Eva Hesse, Pioneer of Postmodern Sculpture
Biography of Alphonse Mucha, Czech Art Nouveau Poster Artist
Kerry James Marshall, Artist of the Black Experience
Joan Mitchell, New York School Painter and Colorist
Life and Work of Anni Albers, Master of Modernist Weaving
Biography of Frank Stella, Painter and Sculptor
Life and Art of Cindy Sherman, Feminist Photographer