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Famous Names in Art - B

Famous people in art history whose names begin with "A". Click on any name to view biographical information, works and related resources.

Bacon, Francis

Bannister, Edward Mitchell
Edward Mitchell Bannister was one of the most successful African American landscape painters during the nineteenth century. He co-founded the Providence Art Club and is remembered as the namesake of Rhode Island College's campus museum: Edward M. Bannister Gallery.

Beckmann, Max

Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo (Gianlorenzo)

Bingham, George Caleb

Blake, William

Boccioni, Umberto

Bonheur, Rosa (Marie Rosalie)

Bonnard, Pierre

Bosch, Hieronymus

Botticelli, Sandro (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

Boudin, Eugène
A biographical profile of the French Impressionist painter.

Bourgeois, Louise
Louise Bourgeois was one of the most important American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, known for her second-generation Surrealism that anticipated Feminist art and issues. Her husband Robert Goldwater brought her from France to New York, where she joined the American Abstract Artists Group of her generation.

Bracque, Georges

Brancusi, Constantin

Bruegel, Pieter the Elder

Buonarroti, Michelangelo

Artists in 60 Seconds: Cecilia Beaux
A biographical profile of Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942), American portrait painter.

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