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.

  • gustave caillebotte paris street rainy day
    Biography of Gustave Caillebotte, French Impressionist Painter
  • carl andre
    Biography of Carl Andre, Minimalist American Sculptor
  • clyfford still untitled 1960
    Biography of Clyfford Still, Abstract Expressionist Painter
  • American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986) stands at an easel outdoors, adjusting a canvas from her 'Pelvis Series- Red With Yellow,' Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1960
    Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, Modernist American Artist
  • john constable stratford mill
    Biography of John Constable, British Landscape Painter
  • pierre bonnard evening in paris
    Biography of Pierre Bonnard, French Post-Impressionist Painter
  • giorgio de chirico
    Biography of Giorgio de Chirico, Italian Pioneer of Surrealist Art
  • Sotheby's Old Master's Press View
    Biography of George Stubbs, English Painter
  • thomas hart benton
    Biography of Thomas Hart Benton, Painter of American Life
  • robert delaunay relief
    Biography of Robert Delaunay, French Abstract Painter
  • milton avery seaside
    Biography of Milton Avery, American Modernist Painter
  • Alma Thomas, Elysian Fields
    Biography of Alma Thomas, American Painter of Joyful Abstraction
  • Kathe Kollwitz
    Biography of Kathe Kollwitz, German Printmaker
  • Robert Henri
    Robert Henri, American Realist Painter of the Ashcan School
  • frederic edwin church el rio de luz
    Biography of Frederic Edwin Church, American Landscape Painter
  • Hilma Af Klint Exhibition At Serpentine Gallery
    Life and Work of Hilma af Klint, Western Art's First Abstractionist
  • Alice Neel
    Biography of Alice Neel, Painter of Expressionist Portraits
  • kazimir malevich house in a garden
    Biography of Kazimir Malevich, Russian Abstract Art Pioneer
  • Childe Hassam the water garden
    Biography of Childe Hassam, American Impressionist Painter
  • Constantin Brancusi
    Biography of Constantin Brancusi, Romanian Modernist Sculptor
  • Marsden Hartley
    Biography of Marsden Hartley, Modernist American Painter and Writer
  • The Virgin and Christ surrounded by Angels, 12th century
    Stained Glass Windows: Medieval Art Form and Religious Meditation
  • The Mont Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cezanne
    Biography of Paul Cezanne, French Post-Impressionist
  • botticelli self-portrait detail adoration of the magi
    Biography of Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus Painter
  • The Louvre Museum and glass pyramids at night
    Louvre Museum: History and Most Important Masterpieces
  • aaron douglas
    Aaron Douglas, Harlem Renaissance Painter
  • grant wood
    Grant Wood, American Gothic Painter
  • juan gris still life with a guitar
    Juan Gris, Spanish Cubist Painter
  • Photo of Henri Rousseau
    Biography of Henri Rousseau, Self-Taught Post-Impressionist
  • Thomas Cole's Scene from 'The Last of the Mohicans,' Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund
    Thomas Cole, Painter of Majestic American Landscapes
  • dan flavin untitled
    Dan Flavin, Fluorescent Light Sculpture Artist
  • ad reinhardt
    Ad Reinhardt, American Abstract Expressionist Painter
  • laszlo moholy-nagy
    Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 20th-Century Design Pioneer
  • turner snow storm hannibal crossing the alps
    William Turner, English Romantic Landscape Painter
  • albert sisley regatta at molesey
    Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist Landscape Painter
  • georges braque
    Biography of Georges Braque, Pioneer Cubist Painter
  • hans hofmann
    Biography of Hans Hofmann, Abstract Expressionism Pioneer
  • Willem de Kooning in studio
    Biography of Willem de Kooning, Dutch Abstract Expressionist
  • Leonora Carrington's Surrealist self-portrait
    Life and Work of Leonora Carrington, Activist and Artist
  • Portrait of artist Charles Sheeler
    Biography of Charles Sheeler, Precisionist Painter and Photographer
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at work
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist of Bohemian Paris
  • Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura), Artemisia Gentileschi.
    Biography of Artemisia Gentileschi
  • Photograph of Florine Stettheimer, artist unknown. 1910.
    Life and Work of Florine Stettheimer, Painter of the Jazz Age
  • Image from Spero's War Series
    Life and Work of Nancy Spero, Feminist Printmaker
  • Maud Lewis painting in her home in Nova Scotia
    The Life and Work of Maud Lewis, Canadian Folk Artist
  • Life and Work of Lee Krasner, Pioneering Abstract Expressionist
  • A woman stands in front of a painting by Cy Twombly
    Biography of Cy Twombly, Romantic Symbolist Artist
  • Da Vinci Mona Lisa
    Why Is the Mona Lisa So Famous?
  • 'Gerhard Richter. Abstraktion' Press Conference & Exhibition Preview In Potsdam
    Life and Work of Gerhard Richter, Abstract and Photorealistic Artist
  • Francesco Clemente
    Biography of Francesco Clemente, Italian Neo-Expressionist Painter
  • Sol Lewitt creating wall drawing at MOMA (1978)
    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
  • Amedeo Modigliani
    Biography of Amedeo Modigliani, Italian Modernist Artist
  • Photograph of Eva Hesse, ca. 1959.
    Life and Work of Eva Hesse, Pioneer of Postmodern Sculpture
  • alphonse mucha
    Biography of Alphonse Mucha, Czech Art Nouveau Poster Artist
  • kerry james marshall
    Kerry James Marshall, Artist of the Black Experience
  • Painter Joan Mitchell in a Field
    Joan Mitchell, New York School Painter and Colorist
  • Photograph of Anni Albers card weaving at Black Mountain College.
    Life and Work of Anni Albers, Master of Modernist Weaving
  • Frank Stella painting at Art Basel Hong Kong
    Biography of Frank Stella, Painter and Sculptor
  • Cindy Sherman in 2014
    Life and Art of Cindy Sherman, Feminist Photographer
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