04/26/1798 - 08/13/1863
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his...
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12/03/1755 - 07/09/1828
Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island.
12/03/1830 - 01/25/1896
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. Leighton was...
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04/13/1769 - 01/07/1830
Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.
05/04/1826 - 04/07/1900
Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape...
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10/27/1923 - 09/29/1997
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City.
His work defined the basic premise of pop art bette...
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02/24/1836 - 09/29/1910
Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) is recognized as a dominant figure in nineteenth-century American art and his era’s foremost exponent of realism. Based on direct observation, his works of the 1860s and 1870s reve...
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07/07/1887 - 03/28/1985
Marc Chagall (born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia—died March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France) Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer. He composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rath...
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06/11/1776 - 03/31/1837
John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home...
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05/10/1738 - 03/11/1820
Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence. He was the second president of the Royal Academ...
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09/01/1926 - 06/23/2011
Gene Colan, a Bronx-born artist and legend in the comic book industry, Thursday, June 23, 2011. He was 84.
Bill Blass (William Ralph Blass )
06/22/1922 - 06/12/2002
William Ralph "Bill" Blass (June 22, 1922 – June 12, 2002) was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana.He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns.He is the recipient of...
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07/19/1789 - 02/17/1854
John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator.
Coco Chanel (Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel )
08/19/1883 - 01/10/1971
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figu...
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03/17/1969 - 02/11/2010
Lee Alexander McQueen, (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring, his tendency to juxtapose female strength and sensuality wi...
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