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Al Held Documented profileUnited States
Al Held (1928–2005), whose full name is Alvin Jacob Held, is presented as an American artist. The Art Institute of Chicago’s directory associates Flemish II (1972), Untitled (1958/59…
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Alex Katz Documented profileUnited States
In Alex Katz’s work, painting from nature, which he practised from his formative years, coexists with an activity that extends from printmaking to interventions in public space. He s…
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Alexander Archipenko Documented profileUnited States
The work of Alexandre Archipenko explores the possibilities of sculpture by combining materials, reliefs and hollow volumes. In 1912, he creates Medrano I, a painted assemblage incor…
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Alexander Calder Documented profileUnited States
The documented singularity of Alexander “Sandy” Calder lies in particular in a practice in which wire, used as a means of “drawing”, extends into articulated abstract sculptures. An…
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Alfred Julio Jensen Documented profileUnited States
Alfred Jensen (1903–1981) is documented by entries devoted to his work. The Art Institute of Chicago lists *Hekatompedon, Per 13* (1965) and *The Acroatic Rectangle, Per XIII* (1967).
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Allan McCollum Documented profileUnited States
Born in Los Angeles in 1944, Allan McCollum developed a body of work that was presented in solo exhibitions from the early years of his career: the first took place in 1970, and the…
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Andy Warhol Documented profileUnited States
Andy Warhol (1928–1987), also known as Andrew Warhola, made the circulation and repetition of images a central element of his practice: the appropriation of images and photographic-e…
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Arman Documented profileFrance · United States
Under the name Arman, Armand Pierre Fernandez (1928–2005) developed a body of work in which the object first intervenes through its traces, and later through its direct presence. Aft…
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Burgoyne Diller Documented profileUnited States
The American painter, sculptor and draughtsman Burgoyne A. Diller (1906–1965) moved from figurative works to an abstraction structured by orthogonal geometric forms. Early in his car…
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Charles Caryl Coleman Documented profileUnited States
Presented as an American and Italian painter, Charles Caryl Coleman (1840–1928) was born in Buffalo, New York State. His training included brief studies with William Holbrook Beard.…
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Charmion Von Wiegand Documented profileUnited States
Works documented under the name Charmion von Wiegand include oils on canvas — «Komposition» (1953/54), attributed to the artist, and «New Lights» (1960/61) — as well as the gouaches…
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David Hare Documented profileUnited States
The American painter and sculptor David Hare, born in New York in 1917, was active in New York’s Surrealist circles before becoming associated with action painting from 1943. In 1947…
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Donald Baechler Documented profileUnited States
American artist Donald Edward Baechler, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1956 and who died in Manhattan in 2022, lived in New York. The institutions associated with his education ar…
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Donald Judd Documented profileUnited States
Born in 1928 and died in 1994, Donald Clarence Judd, also known as Don Judd, is identified as an American minimalist artist. The Art Institute of Chicago’s catalogue lists, among oth…
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Douglas Swan Documented profileUnited States
Born in New Britain, Connecticut, Douglas Litterick Swan (1930–2000) was an American artist whose education took place mainly in Scotland, before continuing in London and Italy. His…
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Edward Cucuel Documented profileUnited States
American Impressionist painter and illustrator Edward Cucuel was born in San Francisco in 1875. His career brought press illustration and painting together at an early stage, spannin…
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Eva Hesse Documented profileGermany · United States
Josef Albers was among Eva Hesse’s teachers; the Kornfeld catalogue also cites Rico Lebrun. In 1964, she lived and worked with Tom Doyle in a former textile factory in the Kettwig-am…
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Franz de Paula Ferg Documented profileUnited States
The Austrian painter, draughtsman and etcher Franz de Paula Ferg, also known as Francis Paul Ferg, was born on 2 May 1689. His work focuses mainly on scenes of everyday life: markets…
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Franz Kline Documented profileUnited States
The American painter Franz Kline (1910–1962), also known as Franz Josef Kline, is listed in the Art Institute of Chicago directory with several dated works. These include Untitled (1…
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Fred Sandback Documented profileUnited States
Fred Sandback’s sculptures take shape through the arrangement of taut threads: between walls, corners, floor and ceiling, they delineate geometric figures and create virtual planes o…
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George Grosz Documented profileGermany · United States
The German artist George Grosz, born in 1893 and deceased in 1959, is also listed under the name variant Georg Grosz. Works recorded by the Art Institute of Chicago include The Guilt…
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George Rickey Documented profileUnited States
The kinetic sculpture of George Warren Rickey is based on simple geometric forms and the action of the wind: the random movement of its elements is modulated by their spacing and fix…
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Gordon Mallet McCouch Documented profileUnited States
Gordon Mallet McCouch (1885–1956), an American artist, was a painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Born in Philadelphia, he died in Locarno. From 1902 to 1905, he attended Howard Pyle…
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Irving Petlin Documented profileUnited States
Irving Burnell Petlin, an American artist born in Chicago on December 17, 1934, and who died in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on September 1, 2018, took part in the exhibition No…
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James Bishop Documented profileUnited States
The American painter James Daniel Bishop (1927–2021) lived and worked in Blévy, a village in the countryside, until his death. In his works on paper, intimacy and subjectivity seem m…
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James Rosenquist Documented profileUnited States
James Rosenquist (1933–2017), an American painter associated with Pop Art, transforms images from advertising and popular culture into material for visual art. Born in Grand Forks, N…
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Jerry Zeniuk Documented profileUnited States
Jerry Zeniuk’s painting explores the relationships between colours and space: his compositions move from layered monochromatic surfaces to arrangements of contrasting planes, and the…
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John Cage Documented profileUnited States
American composer and artist John Cage (1912–1992), also represented by works on paper, studied composition with Richard Bühlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss and Arnold Schönberg. From…
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John Seery Documented profileUnited States
John Seery is presented as an American artist born in 1941. A sale record documents Capital Yellow, a work signed and titled on the reverse. The provenance stated there is the Peter…
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Jonathan Lasker Documented profileUnited States
Born in 1948 in Jersey City, New Jersey, Jonathan Lasker is an American artist whose painting practice is grounded in preparatory drawings and studies. He studied at the School of Vi…
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Josef Albers Documented profileGermany · United States
Josef Albers (1888–1976), also referred to by the first name Joseph, is presented as a German-American designer, painter, teacher and typographer. The Art Institute of Chicago lists…
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Josef Scharl Documented profileGermany · United States
German painter Josef Scharl was born in 1896 and died in 1954. A work entitled Still Life with Melon is described by Genève Enchères as a signed oil on canvas, measuring 32 × 40 cm.
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Joseph Marioni Documented profileUnited States
Joseph Marioni (1943–2024), an American artist born in Ohio who died in New York, devoted his painting to colour as luminous presence and pictorial material. He studied at the Cincin…
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Jules Pascin Documented profileBulgaria · France · United States
Jules Pascin, a painter born in 1885 and who died in 1930, is also listed under the name Julius Pincas. The Art Institute of Chicago catalogue lists works under his name spanning sev…
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Keith Haring Documented profileUnited States
Keith Haring (1958–1990), whose full name was Keith Allen Haring, was an American artist and social activist. The works documented here offer a range of formats and supports: an unti…
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Kenneth Noland Documented profileUnited States
American artist Kenneth Noland (1924–2010) is represented in the collections listed by the Art Institute of Chicago by works spanning several decades. These include Plum (1959), Midm…
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Kenneth Price Documented profileUnited States
American artist and printmaker Kenneth Price devoted most of his work to ceramic sculpture. He is particularly associated with abstract forms shaped from fired clay. His sculptures a…
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Louis David Vaillant Documented profileUnited States
Louis David Vaillant is identified as an American painter. A work catalogued under the German title “Prunkstillleben mit Früchten” — a sumptuous still life with fruit — is documented…
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Ludwig Sander Documented profileUnited States
American painter Ludwig Sander, also known as Ludwig R. Sander, was born in 1906 and died in 1975. The Art Institute of Chicago lists an untitled work dated 1960. Another untitled pa…
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Lyonel Feininger Documented profileUnited States
The German-American painter Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) also worked as a caricaturist, with drawings published in several periodicals, including the Chicago Sunday Tribune. In 1913,…
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Man Ray Documented profileFrance · United States
Known as Man Ray, Emmanuel Radnitzky—also referred to as Emmanuel Radensky—is identified by the Art Institute of Chicago as an artist born in 1890 and who died in 1976. The documente…
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Manoucher Yektai Documented profileIran · United States
The Iranian painter Manoucher Yektai (1922–2019) is represented here by a still life dated 1973. Still Life with Cyclamens, signed and dated oil on canvas, measures 40.5 × 51 cm. The…
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Marcia Hafif Documented profileUnited States
Two reference points shed light on Marcia Hafif’s approach: in retrospect, she identifies certain works as belonging to «minimal pop», while her painting becomes monochrome at anothe…
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Mary Heilmann Documented profileUnited States
United States artist Mary Heilmann, born in 1940 and died in 2026, has developed a practice in which painting is conceived both as a language to be questioned and as a pictorial expe…
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Max Cole Documented profileUnited States
American painter born in 1937, Max Cole is documented here by a work on paper titled « Strichkomposition ». This pen-and-ink drawing, signed at the lower left and dated (19)90, measu…
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Max Ernst Documented profileCuba · Germany · France · United States
Max Ernst, also referred to as Maximilian Ernst, was born in 1891 and died in 1976. The works listed under his name by the Art Institute of Chicago offer several dated reference poin…
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Nam June Paik Documented profileGermany · South Korea · United States
Associated with video art, American artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006) approaches electronic media from a background in music and through experiments in which sound, image and technica…
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Nancy Graves Documented profileUnited States
The American artist Nancy Graves (1939–1995), active in several media and also known as Nancy Stevenson Graves, developed a body of work encompassing sculptural forms as well as work…
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Nancy Spero Documented profileUnited States
Nancy Spero’s work makes the image a site for taking a stand: it responds to the violence of war and, from 1974 onwards, devotes itself to representing women and advocating for their…
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Oleg Vassiliev Documented profileUnited States
Born in Moscow in 1931, Oleg Vassiliev (1931–2013) pursued a long career as a children’s book illustrator alongside his artistic practice. From the 1950s to the 1980s, he worked in t…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026