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Saul Steinberg Documented profileRomania · United States
Saul Erik Steinberg (1914–1999), a Romanian-American artist, developed a body of work spanning editorial drawing, books, mural painting and applied design. The covers, drawings and c…
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Frank Stella Documented profileUnited States
Frank Philip Stella (1936–2024), an American artist, conceives of the image as an object rather than as the representation of something. He sums up this position in a concise formula…
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William Aiken Walker Documented profileUnited States
The American painter William Aiken Walker, who died in 1921, is particularly associated with scenes of the lives of the rural Black population on plantations. The entry describing th…
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Walt Disney Documented profileUnited States
American producer, director, screenwriter, actor and animator Walter Elias Disney — known as Walt Disney — initially develops his work around drawing and animated films before expand…
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Tom Christopher Documented profileUnited States
The American artist Tom Christopher, born in 1952, is represented here by Messenger at Park, an acrylic on canvas dated 2000 and measuring 61.5 × 101.5 cm. The painting bears the sig…
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Richard Hambleton Documented profileCanada · United States
The Canadian painter and graffiti artist Richard Hambleton, associated with street art, conceived of his work as a conceptual practice carried out both in public space and for galler…
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Herbert Bayer Documented profileAustria · United States
Herbert Bayer was born in Austria in 1900 and died in the United States in 1985; his practice encompassed typography, photography, design, painting, architecture and sculpture. This…
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Regina Bogat Documented profileUnited States
Regina Bogat, an American abstract artist born in 1928, is represented by an untitled work from 1964, executed in oil and collage on cardboard. The work measures 53.5 × 38.5 cm. A de…
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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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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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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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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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T. Lux Feininger Documented profileGermany · United States
A painter and photographer, T. Lux Feininger pursued an artistic practice shaped by his training at the Bauhaus and by interests that also extended to music and theatre. Born in Berl…
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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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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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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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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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Robert Longo Documented profileUnited States
American artist Robert Longo, born in 1953, develops a body of work that moves from drawing to cinema and explores images in both their intensity and their duration. After studying a…
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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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Sol LeWitt Documented profileUnited States
Born in Hartford in 1928 and died in New York in 2007, Sol LeWitt was an American artist whose practice brings together systems of composition and their material realisation. His wor…
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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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Sean Scully Documented profileIreland · United States
Sean Scully’s paintings are often arranged in overlapping bands or blocks of colour, distributed along horizontal and vertical axes. Their layers strike a balance between calm and vi…
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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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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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Paul Thek Documented profileUnited States
Paul Thek’s career is marked by the Technological Reliquaries, which were the subject of three solo exhibitions at the Stable Gallery and Pace Gallery in New York between 1964 and 19…
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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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Robert Franz Curry Documented profileUnited States
Robert Franz Curry was born in Boston in 1872 and died in Riederau in 1955. He studied at Harvard University and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. A painter of portraits, l…
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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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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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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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Richard Jackson Documented profileUnited States
In Richard Jackson’s work, painting becomes a means of producing sculptures and installations as well as works related to performance. Born in 1939 in Sacramento, California, he live…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Robert Rauschenberg Documented profileGermany · United States
American painter and graphic artist Robert Rauschenberg, also known as Bob Rauschenberg, lived from 1925 to 2008. The Art Institute of Chicago lists the following works: Untitled and…
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Shirley Jaffe Documented profileFrance · United States
The published provenance of Yellow Moon mentions the Jean Fournier gallery in Paris, followed by a Swiss private owner who is said to have acquired the work from that gallery at the…
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Thomas Erma Documented profileUnited States
The documented works of Thomas Erma represent several techniques: gouache, paper collage and mixed media. The gouache Ligues de forces dans l’espace, dated 1959, bears the signature…
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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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Pál Fried Documented profileHungary · United States
Born in Budapest in 1893, Pál (Pal) Fried (1893–1976) is identified as a Hungarian and later American artist. His training began at the Hungarian Academy of Arts, where he studied un…
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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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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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Stanley Boxer Documented profileUnited States
Born in Brooklyn in 1926, Stanley Boxer developed a practice spanning painting, printmaking, drawing and sculpture. After serving during the Second World War, he studied at the Art S…
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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