Welcome to Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- A comprehensive and definitive resource for artists’ biographies, published since 1911
- Includes 149,000 biographies as well as auction records, exhibition histories, and over 11,000 images of artists’ signatures and stamps of sale
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Mary Lovelace O’Neal
Influenced by her involvement in the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement, Mary Lovelace O’Neal layers materials like glitter, dye, charcoal, pastels, and chalk in her monumental mixed-media paintings.
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Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford creates abstract paintings through a process of addition and subtraction, building up and then stripping back layers, invoking themes of place and cultural critique.
In this update, Grove Art publishes 215 articles with updated structure, as well as related emendations.
Explore the full list of what has been recently published and revised on Oxford Art Online.
Letter from the Editor
Read a letter from Benezit’s Editor in Chief, Dr. Valerie Cassel Oliver, discussing her editorial approach and the work underway to expand Benezit’s coverage of emerging artists, varied media, and artists of diverse social and cultural backgrounds.
Collection Guides
Join Benezit on a tour of unique art collections around the world! Written by experts and curators, our Collection Guides present the history and highlights of museums and galleries. Follow links to related texts in Oxford Art Online and around the web to learn more about the artists in these outstanding collections.
