Sarah Cain
 

Sarah Cain is an American contemporary artist.
She has had solo exhibitions at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Aspen Art Museum, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, amongst others. And has been included in collective exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum in Vienna, and the Busan Biennale. In 2019, she completed her first major permanent public work at San Francisco International Airport: a 150-foot stained glass window with 270 colors, framed in soldered zinc, which was "painstakingly arranged so that no two adjoining fragments are the same shade."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Cain
http://www.sarahcainstudio.com/about-ba

Self-Portrait
2020
acrylic, gouache, latex, prism beads, plastic thread on canvas
228.6 x 228.6 x 7.62 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/press/acquisitions/2021/sarah-cain.html
https://www.facebook.com/nationalgalleryofart/posts/this-is-a-self-portrait-artist-sarah-cain-brings-the-traditional-genre-into-the-/290050016487385/

Emmi Whitehorse

(b. 1957)

Emmi Whitehorse is a Native American painter and printmaker. She was born in Crownpoint, New Mexico and is a member of the Navajo Nation. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and grew up on the open land northeast of Gallup, New Mexico in a family where only the Navajo Language was spoken.
In 1980, Whitehorse earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in painting from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (UNM). She earned her master's degree in art in 1982, also from UNM, majoring in printmaking and minoring in art history.
Her work is represented in numerous public collections throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Uzbekistan and Morocco including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Heard Museum, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmi_Whitehorse

Fog Bank
2020
mixed media on paper on canvas
129.54 × 198.12 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.223848.html

Stephen Hannock
(b. 1951)
 

Stephen W. Hannock  is an American painter known for his atmospheric landscapes––compositions of flooded rivers, nocturnes and large vistas––which often incorporate text inscriptions that relate to family, friends or events of daily life. The artist is known for creating a unique luminosity using a signature technique that involves building up layers of paint on the canvas, sandpaper-polishing it, applying new layers of paint and polishing again. Some of his work is thought to be inspired by the Hudson River School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hannock

Flooded Oxbow with Green Light, for Betty and Agnes Mongan (Mass MoCA #265)
2017
Oil on Canvas
111.76 × 182.88 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.216253.html

 Oren Eliav
(b.1975)
 

Oren Eliav was born in Israel in 1975 and lives and works in Tel Aviv. 
Exploring the link between image and imagination through painting, Eliav asks what is seeing, and what is knowing. Either by engaging with a 14th century Italian painting or a synthetically created image, Eliav looks into what happens to an image when one tries to paint it.

https://www.oreneliav.com/bio

Rest on the Flight into Egypt
2015
oil on canvas
199.71 × 149.86 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.222847.html

Nancy Shaver

(born 1946)

 

Nancy Shaver is an American visual artist based in Jefferson, New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Shaver

 

Georgiana, Shirley, and Sharon

2011

wooden blocks, fabric, paper, Flashe acrylic paint, and house paint
27.94 × 27.94 × 8.26 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.222038.html

 

Amy Cutler
(b. 1974)
 

Amy Cutler is an American contemporary artist. Cutler received her BFA degree from The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, New York, in 1997. Her work has been featured in major surveys of contemporary art, most importantly the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Cutler

Gorge
2009
gouache on paper
150 x 102 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.222893.html
https://www.nga.gov/press/acquisitions/2021/podesta.html

G. Peter Jemison
(b. 1945)
 

G. Peter Jemison—an artist, curator, historian, and educator—is a foundational figure in the art history of New York City, and especially its communities of Native artists. A member of the Heron Clan of the Seneca Nation, Jemison first moved to New York in the late 1960s and served as the inaugural curator of the American Indian Community House Gallery from 1978 to 1985, where he was instrumental in fostering a vibrant scene of contemporary Native art. At the same time, he was a practicing artist himself, creating works ranging from drawings on paper bags to collages and sculptures. A selection of these, dating from the 1970s to present day, are featured in Greater New York 2021, on view through April 18, 2022, at MoMA PS1.

https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/715
https://burchfieldpenney.org/art-and-artists/people/profile:g-peter-jemison/

Sentinels (Large Yellow)
2006
acrylic, oil and collage on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.224238.html

Oliver Lee Jackson
(b. 1935)
 

Oliver Lee Jackson is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker whose studio is in Oakland, California.
Jackson was affiliated with the multidisciplinary arts collective Black Artists Group (BAG) in St. Louis through his close friendship with BAG co-founder Julius Hemphill, though he was not an official BAG member. BAG was founded by musicians, theater artists, dancers and visual artists as a support structure for creative expression among African American artists, and in order to have a greater place in the cultural landscape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lee_Jackson

Untitled (5.21.95)
1995
oil-based pigments and oil-pastel on linen
243.84 × 243.84 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.165238.html

Byron Kim
(b. 1961)

Byron Kim is an American contemporary artist. He is Korean American, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In the early 1990s he produced minimalist paintings exploring racial identity. He graduated from Yale University in 1983 where he was a member of Manuscript Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Kim

Synecdoche
1991-present
Oil and wax on lauan plywood, birch plywood, and plywood
each panel (overall installed dimensions variable): 25.4 × 20.32 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.142289.html

Synecdoche (1991–present), by Korean-American artist Byron Kim (b. 1961), is an ongoing project of portraiture that now comprises more than 400 panels, each a single hue ranging from light tan or pink to dark brown. Finding sitters among strangers, friends, family, neighbors, and fellow artists, Kim records each person's skin color in oil paint mixed with wax that he applies with a palette knife on a single 10 x 8-inch panel, a common size for portrait photography. When the work is installed, the accompanying subtitle consists of the full names of the sitters, arranged alphabetically by first name.

Alighiero Boetti

(1940 - 1994)

 

Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti known as Alighiero e Boetti was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera.

Boetti is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between 1971 and his death in 1994. Boetti's work was typified by his notion of 'twinning', leading him to add 'e' (and) between his names, 'stimulating a dialectic exchange between these two selves'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alighiero_Boetti

Oggi diciannovesimo giorno ottavo mese dell'anno millenove100ottantotto

(Today the Nineteenth Day of the Eighth Month of the Year OneThousandNine100Eighty-Eight)

1988

cotton embroidery (Bokhara couching) on cotton/linen fabric

112.5 × 104 cm

National Gallery of Art, Washington

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.222050.html

Richard Diebenkorn
(1922- 1993)
 

Richard Diebenkorn was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he began his extensive series of geometric, lyrical abstract paintings. Known as the Ocean Park paintings, these paintings were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Diebenkorn

Green
1986
color spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, and drypoint on Somerset paper
114.3 x 89.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.96577.html

Jasper Johns
(b. 1930)
 

Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other common objects and signs, such as targets, maps, letters, and numbers. At multiple points in his career, his work has held the title of highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Johns

Perilous Night
1982
encaustic and silkscreen on canvas with objects
170.5 x 244.2 x 15.9 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.86864.html

Susan Rothenberg
(1945 - 2020)
 

Susan Charna Rothenberg was an American contemporary painter, printmaker, sculptor, and draughtswoman. She became known as an artist through her iconic images of the horse, which synthesized the opposing forces of abstraction and representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rothenberg

Butterfly
1976
Acrylic on canvas
176.5 x 210.8 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.91009.html

Alma Thomas
(1891 - 1978)
 

Alma Woodsey Thomas was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. Thomas is best known for the "exuberant", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after her retirement from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington's Shaw Junior High School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas

Red Rose Cantata
1973
acrylic on canvas
175.3 x 127 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.55740.html

Romare Bearden
(1911 - 1988)
 

Romare Bearden was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romare_Bearden

Tomorrow I May Be Far Away
1967
collage of various papers with charcoal, graphite and paint on paper mounted to canvas
116.8 x 142.2 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.119052.html

Alice Neel
(1900 - 1984)
 

Alice Neel was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers. Her career spanned from the 1920s to 1980s. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. She pursued a career as a figurative painter during a period when abstraction was favored, and she did not begin to gain critical praise for her work until the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Neel
https://www.aliceneel.com/biography/

Hartley
1966
Oil on Canvas
127 x 91.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.73438.html

George Morrison
(1919–2000)

George Morrison was an Ojibwe abstract painter and sculptor from Minnesota. His Ojibwe name was Wah Wah Teh Go Nay Ga Bo (Standing In the Northern Lights). Morrison's work is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement in the United States.
Much of Morrison's non-figurative painting reflects the artist's sustained interest in landscape influenced by Indigenous visual cultures. In 2020, he became the first Native American artist to be included in the New York School collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morrison_(artist)

Untitled
1961
Oil on Canvas
96.2 × 111.44 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.224926.html

Yvonne Thomas
(1913 - 2009)

Yvonne Thomas was an American abstract artist.

Her work is in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fonds national d’Art Contemporain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Riverside Museum, New York City. Her papers are held at the Archives of American Art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Thomas


Portrait
1956


oil on linen


96.5 x 114.3 cm

National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.220938.html

 

 Judith Godwin
(1930 - 2021)
 

Judith Godwin was an American abstract painter, associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Godwin

Seated Figure
1955
Oil on Canvas
101.6 x 76.2 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.219552.html

Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887- 1986)
 

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV
1930
Oil on Canvas
101.6 x 76.2 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.70179.html

Jackson Pollock
(1912 - 1956)
 

Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was called all-over painting and action painting, since he covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style. This extreme form of abstraction divided the critics: some praised the immediacy of the creation, while others derided the random effects. In 2016, Pollock's painting titled Number 17A was reported to have fetched US$200 million in a private purchase. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock

Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)
1950
oil, enamel, and aluminum on canvas
221 x 299.7 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.55819.html

Morris Louis
(1912 - 1962)
 

Morris Louis Bernstein known professionally as Morris Louis, was an American painter. During the 1950s he became one of the earliest exponents of Color Field painting. While living in Washington, D.C., Louis, along with Kenneth Noland and other Washington painters, formed an art movement that is known today as the Washington Color School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Louis

Sub-Marine
1948
Oil on Canvas
56.52 × 90.17 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.212571.html

Joan Miró
(1893 - 1983)

Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. Professionally, he was simply known as Joan Miró. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in 1981.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Miró

The Farm
1921-1922
Oil on Canvas
123.8 x 141.3 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.69660.html

 Juan Gris
(1887 - 1927)

José Victoriano González-Pérez better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gris

Glass and Checkerboard
c. 1917
Oil on Wood
29.85 × 41.28 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166491.html

Aaron Douglas
(1899 - 1979)

Aaron Douglas was an American painter, illustrator and visual arts educator. He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He developed his art career painting murals and creating illustrations that addressed social issues around race and segregation in the United States by utilizing African-centric imagery. Douglas set the stage for young, African-American artists to enter the public-arts realm through his involvement with the Harlem Artists Guild. In  1944, he concluded his art career by founding the Art Department at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. He taught visual art classes at Fisk until his retirement in 1966. Douglas is known as a prominent leader in modern African-American art whose work influenced artists for years to come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Douglas_(artist)

The Judgment Day
1939
oil on tempered hardboard
121.92 × 91.44 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166490.html

Yvonne Thomas
(1913 - 2009)

Yvonne Thomas was an American abstract artist.
In 2016, she was one of the artists included in Women of Abstract Expressionism exhibition catalogue, a traveling exhibition organized by the Denver Art Museum. The accompanying catalogue, consisting of essays by several scholars, celebrated “the special contributions of women to Abstract Expressionism,” providing an “essential corrective” to what has been the “unequal accounting of women’s contributions” to the movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Thomas

Portrait
1956
Oil on Linen
96.5 x 114.3 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/press/acquisitions/2021/ythomas.html
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.220938.html

Charles Sheeler
(1883 - 1965)

Charles Sheeler was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand. Sheeler is recognized as one of the early adopters of modernism in American art.

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sheeler

Classic Landscape
1931
Oil on Canvas
72 x 91 cm
The National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.105596.html

Edward Hopper
(1882 - 1967)
 

Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching.
Hopper created subdued drama out of commonplace subjects layered with a poetic meaning, inviting narrative interpretations. He was praised for "complete verity" in the America he portrayed. His career benefited significantly from his marriage to fellow artist Josephine Nivison, who contributed much to his work, both as a life-model and as a creative partner.
Hopper is one of America's most renowned artists. His influence on art and popular culture has been substantial. Among his best-known paintings are New York Movie (1939) and Nighthawks (1942).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hopper

Haskell's House
1924
watercolor over graphite on paperboard
34.3 x 49.5 cm
The National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.95419.html

 

René Magritte
(1898 - 1967)

René François Ghislain Magritte  was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Magritte

The Blank Signature
1965
Oil on Canvas
81 x 65 cm
The National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66422.html

Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)
 

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Family of Saltimbanques
1905
oil on canvas
212.8 x 229.6 cm
Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.190
The National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/picasso-family-of-saltimbanques.html
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46665.html#history