Famous Names in Art - B

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.

A biographical profile of the French Impressionist painter.

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.