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Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov was a Russian artist whose works reflect a turning point in the style and weltanschauung of Russian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as the shift from...

Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova was one of the most distinctly individual artists of the Russian avant-garde, who excelled as a painter, graphic artist, theatrical set designer, textile designer, teacher, and...

Ivan Albertovich Puni was a Russian painter and graphic artist who actively furthered the early (prewar) development of the Russian avant-garde. The son of a cellist and grandson of the renowned composer...

Aaron Douglas was an American painter and graphic artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska in 1922, Douglas...

Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky was a Russian painter and graphic artist who was representative of the Moscow School. Although he was much influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne in the early 20th century,...

Neysa McMein was an American artist whose commercial style was highly popular in magazines and advertising of the 1920s and ’30s. McMein attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and in 1913...

Keith Haring was an American graphic artist and designer who popularized some of the strategies and impulses of graffiti art. After a brief period studying at the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh, Haring...

David Carson is an American graphic designer, whose unconventional style revolutionized visual communication in the 1990s. Carson came to graphic design relatively late in life. He was a competitive surfer—ranked...

Paul Rand was an American graphic designer who pioneered a distinctive American Modernist style. After studying in New York City, Rand worked as an art director for Esquire and Apparel Arts magazines from...

William Kentridge is a South African graphic artist, filmmaker, and theatre arts activist especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The pungent humanism...

Alfred Kubin was an Austrian graphic artist known for his drawings and paintings of dreamlike, often morbid, subjects. In 1898 Kubin went to Munich, Bavaria, in the German Empire (now Germany), to study...

Béla Czóbel was a painter and graphic artist, one of the most highly regarded figures in 20th-century Hungarian arts. Czóbel was a student of Béla Iványi Grünwald at the Free School of Painting in Nagybánya...

M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist known for his detailed realistic prints that achieve bizarre optical and conceptual effects. Maurits Cornelis Escher was the youngest of five boys and was raised...

József Egry was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Egry primarily painted landscapes, and his style emphasized a close study and rendering of the effects of light. Egry studied painting in Munich...

Karl Klič was a Czech graphic artist and printer who in 1878 invented the most precise and (despite its slowness) commercially successful method of photogravure printing. Later he was associated with the...