20 FAMOUS AMERICAN PAINTERS
- Birth year: 1882
- Death year: 1967
- City of birth: Nyack, New York
- Notable characteristics: Realism, urban and rural scenes, isolation, and loneliness in modern life.
- Notable artwork: Nighthawks (1942), Automat (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930)
- Birth year: 1912
- Death year: 1956
- City of birth: Cody, Wyoming
- Notable characteristics: Action Painting, Drip Technique
- Notable artwork: No.5 (1948), Autumn Rhythm (Number30) (1950), Blue Poles (Number11) (1952)
- Birth year: 1887
- Death year: 1986
- City of birth: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
- Main subject matter: Flowers, landscapes, bones
- Famous artwork examples: Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1 (1932), Radiator Building–Night New York (1927), Cow’s Skull: Red White and Blue (1931)
- Birth year: 1928
- Death year: 1987
- City of birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Notable characteristics: Pop Art, celebrity portraits, commercial products as subjects.
- Notable artwork: Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962), Marilyn Diptych (1962)
- Birth year: 1960
- Death year: 1988
- City of birth: Brooklyn, New York City
- Notable characteristics: Neo-expressionism, social commentary, graffiti-style artwork
- Notable artwork: “Untitled” (1981); “Dustheads” (1982); “Hollywood Africans” (1983)
- Birth year: 1894
- Death year: 1978
- City of birth: New York City
- Notable characteristics: Everyday life scenes, Americana themes
- Notable artwork: “Freedom from Want,” “The Problem We All Live With,” “Rosie the Riveter”
- Birth year: 1834
- Death year: 1903
- City of birth: Lowell, Massachusetts
- Notable artwork: Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket and Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Whistler’s Mother)
- Birth year: 1856
- Death year: 1925
- City of birth: Florence, Italy (to American parents)
- Notable characteristics: Portrait painting, landscapes
- Notable artwork: “Madame X,” “Carnation Lily Lily Rose,” “Lady Agnew of Lochnaw”
- Birth year: 1923
- Death year: 1997
- City of birth: New York City, New York
- Notable characteristics/subject matter: Pop Art, Comic Book Imagery, Bold Colors.
- Notable artwork: Whaam (1963), Drowning Girl (1963)
- Birth year: 1844
- Death year: 1926
- City of birth: Allegheny City, Pennsylvania
- Notable subject matter: Depictions of women and children’s intimate moments
- Notable artwork: “The Child’s Bath” and “Little Girl in a Blue Armchair”
- Birth Year: 1891
- Death Year: 1942
- City of Birth: Anamosa, Iowa
- Notable Characteristics: Rural American life and landscapes with a focus on the Midwest region
- Notable Artwork: American Gothic
- Birth Year: 1826
- Death Year: 1900
- City of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut
- Notable Characteristics: Landscapes, dramatic compositions
- Notable Artwork: The Heart Of The Andes, Niagara Falls, The Icebergs
- Birth Year: 1755
- Death Year: 1828
- City of Birth: Saunderstown, Rhode Island
- Notable Characteristics: Realistic portraits, famous American Revolution subjects
- Notable Artwork: The Athenaeum Portrait
- Birth Year: 1958
- Death Year: 1990
- City of Birth: Reading, Pennsylvania
- Notable Characteristics: Used art as activism to raise social issue awareness
- Notable Artwork: “The Radiant Baby,” “Crack Is Wack,” and “Untitled (Three Dancing Figures)”
- Birth Year: 1930
- City of Birth: Augusta, Georgia
- Notable Characteristics: Use of everyday objects as subjects and incorporation of text and mixed media
- Notable Artwork: Flag, TARGETS
- Birth Year: 1903
- Death Year: 1970
- City of Birth: Dvinsk, Russia
- Notable Characteristics: Abstract art and expressionist painting with color and hue variations
- Notable Artwork: No. 61 (Rust and Blue)
- Birth Year: 1801
- Death Year: 1848
- City of Birth: Bolton le Moors, England
- Notable Characteristics: Engraver and landscape painter
- Notable Artwork: The Oxbow, The Course of Empire
- Birth Year: 1830
- Death Year: 1902
- City of Birth: Solingen, Germany
- Notable Characteristics: Landscape painter of the American midwest
- Notable Artwork: The Last of the Buffalo, Among the Sierra Nevada, California
- Birth Year: 1917
- Death Year: 2009
- City of Birth: Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
- Notable Characteristics: Realist painter and book illustrator, watercolor paintings
- Notable Artwork: Coot Hunter, Wind from the Sea, Winter 1946
- Birth Year: 1836
- Death Year: 1910
- City of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts
- Notable Characteristics: Realism and naturalism, seascapes, landscapes, and portraits
- Notable Artwork: The Gulf Stream
