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Alberti, Leon Battista degli  

Italian, 15th century, male.

Born 14 February 1404, in Genoa, illegitimate son of a noble Florentine banking family (in exile at the time of his birth); died 1472.

Architect, theorist, painter, sculptor.

Leon Battista Alberti was a leading scholar and architect of the fifteenth century. After receiving his doctorate in canon and civil law from Bologna University in ...

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Alberti, Romano  

Italian, 17th century, male.

Active in Rome.

Born 1593, in Borgo San Sepolcro.

Painter, sculptor, engraver, art theorist. Religious subjects. Frescoes.

Served as Secretary to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome (founded by Zuccharo). In 1585, he published in Rome a benchmark Treatise on the Noble Art of Painting...

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Altamira, Adriano  

Italian, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 17 July 1947, in Milan.

Painter, sculptor, theorist.

Arte Povera, Conceptual Art.

Adriano Altamira put forward his first critical observations on the phenomena of vision in 1967. Next he began to use minimalist structures, plaits and interlacings, like some of the methods used in France by the ...

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Driskell, David Clyde  

American, 20th century, male.

Born 7 June 1931, in Eatonton (Georgia).

Painter, draughtsman (including ink), collage artist, print artist, sculptor, collector, art historian. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, figure compositions, scenes with figures, landscapes. Designs for stained glass.

David C. Driskell earned a BFA at Howard University in ...

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Feddersen, Joe  

Native American (Okanagan), 20th–21st century, male.

Born 1953, in Omak, Washington.

Printmaker, muralist, sculptor, mixed-media artist. Collage, glass.

Born in 1953, Joe Feddersen is an Okanagan member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, and a Native American artist. He earned his BFA at the University of Washington (...

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Filarete, Antonio di Pietro Averlino  

Italian, 15th century, male.

Born c. 1400, in Florence; died after 1465, in Rome.

Sculptor, architect, theorist.

Filarete trained with Lorenzo Ghiberti. On the basis of his experience working on the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery in Ghiberti’s workshop, he was summoned to Rome by Pope Eugenius IV to sculpt and cast the bronze doors of the Old St Peter’s Basilica in ...

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Heap of Birds, Edgar  

Native American (Cheyenne and Arapaho), 20th–21st century, male.

Born 22 November, 1954, in Wichita (Kansas).

Painter, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, installation artist, conceptual artist, educator.

Edgar Heap of Birds is one of the most distinguished North American indigenous artists of his generation. His works reveal a distinctly critical and historical awareness of the ways that American Indian peoples, their histories and their viewpoints have been ignored and written over under colonialism. He has received numerous honours, presenting his work in competition for the United States Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (...

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Holt, Nancy  

American, 20th century, female.

Born 5 April 1938, in Worcester, Massachusetts; died 8 February 2014, in New York.

Sculptor, installation artist, filmmaker, photographer. Land Art, Environmental Art, Public Art, Post-Minimalism.

Nancy Holt received a BA in Biology from Tufts University in 1960 and then briefly travelled through Europe, before moving to New York City. There, she met influential Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists, many of whom would become collaborators, including: Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse, Joan Jonas, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Richard Serra. Holt’s early artistic output was primarily photography, video, and Concrete poetry, mediums in which she continued to work throughout her career....

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Lewis, Samella  

American, 20th century, female.

Born 27 February 1924, in New Orleans.

Painter, draughtswoman, watercolourist, print artist (including linocuts), sculptor, art historian. Figures, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes.

Samella Lewis studied with Elizabeth Catlett at Dillard University, New Orleans, and Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia. In 1951 she obtained her doctorate from Ohio State University, Columbus, the first African-American woman to receive her doctorate in art history and fine art. In ...

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Makarevich, Igor  

Russian, 20th–21st century, male.

Born 8 August 1943, in Tripoli, USSR (now Republic of Georgia)

Photographer, painter, sculptor, printmaker, installation artist.

Soviet Nonconformist Art; Moscow Conceptualism.

Collective Actions (group).

Igor Makarevich grew up Tbilisi, Georgia before moving to Moscow in 1951. From 1955 to 1962...

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Matisse, Henri (Emile Benoît)  

French, 19th–20th century, male.

Born 31 December 1869, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis (Nord); died 3 November 1954, in Nice.

Painter, draughtsman, engraver, lithographer, sculptor, illustrator, theorist. Artists’ books.

Fauvism.

Henri Matisse was born to parents who owned a grocery shop in Bohain, a small town in northern France. After his schooling in St Quentin, he began his law studies in Paris in 1887–1888. In 1889, he returned to St Quentin, where he worked as a clerk in a law firm but was soon taken ill. It was during his lengthy convalescence that he decided to turn to painting. In 1891, he returned to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he studied under the painter William Bouguereau. In 1893, Matisse left the Académie and joined Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, Charles Camoin, and Henri Manguin at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied with Gustave Moreau. From 1895, he lived at 19 Quai St Michel in Paris, an address that he kept for the rest of his life....

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Mertens, Adrien  

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1910, in Antwerp; died 1968, in Les Baux-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône).

Sculptor.

Adrien Mertens was a self-taught sculptor and art historian.

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Miss, Mary  

American, 20th–21st century, female.

Born 27 May 1944, in New York City.

Installation artist, sculptor, designer. Land Art, environmental art, site-specific art.

Mary Miss studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara, graduating with a BA in 1966. She received her MFA from the Rhinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Art Institute in ...

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Nicolson, Marianne  

Canadian First Nations (Kwakwaka’wakw), 20th–21st century, female.

Born 1969, in Comox (British Columbia).

Conceptual artist, installation artist, sculptor.

Marianne Nicolson is a Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations artist and intellectual. In 1996 she graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and went on to earn an MFA from the University of Victoria in ...

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Oppermann, Theodor Carl Rudolf  

Danish, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 8 October 1862, in Copenhagen.

Sculptor.

Theodor Oppermann studied under Franz Schwarz, Herman Bissen and Kristian Zahrtmann at the Kunstakademi in Copenhagen. Also an art historian, he was curator of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek in Copenhagen and, from 1921...

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Schoppert, James  

Native American (Tlingit), 20th century, male.

Born 1947, in Juneau (Alaska); died 1992.

Sculptor (carver), painter, printmaker.

James Schoppert, a Tlingit artist from Alaska, received his BFA in printmaking from the University of Anchorage (1978) and his MFA in sculpture from the University of Washington (...

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Stevens, C. Maxx  

Native American (Muscogee Creek and Seminole), 20th–21st century, female.

Born 1951, in Wewoka (Oklahoma).

Sculptor, installation artist.

C. Maxx Stevens was born in Oklahoma but raised in Wichita, Kansas. Her training began in the 1970s when she gained an Associate of Arts degree from Haskell Indian Junior College in ...

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Wanscher, Hilda  

Danish, 20th century, female.

Born 1887, in Greece, to Dutch parents; died 1973.

Painter (including gouache), sculptor. Figures.

Hilda Wanscher began studying at the art academy in Amsterdam in 1916, where she met the art historian and painter Vilhelm Wanscher, whom she married. Her paintings of figures, composed of masses and rings of colour, evoke the relationships between men and women. She exhibited on a number of occasions in Copenhagen, then withdrew from the market. The Kunstmuseum in Silkeborg Denmark mounted the first big solo exhibition of her work in ...

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Wanscher, Vilhelm  

Danish, 20th century, male.

Born 26 July 1875, in Horsens; died 27 May 1961, in Gentofte.

Painter, draughtsman, architect, sculptor.

Wanscher was an art historian as well as a practising artist.