Helen Frankenthaler
The joy of pure color
1928 – 2011
Henry Ossawa Tanner
A quiet man transcends racism to bring art back to religion
1859 – 1937
Horace Pippin
1888 – 1946
Jack Whitten
1939 – 2018
Jackson Pollock
Harder than it looks
1912 – 1956
Jacob Lawrence
1917 – 2000
James McNeill Whistler
A lesson in making enemies
1834 – 1903
James Rosenquist
1933 – 2017
James Van Der Zee
Don't just document, celebrate
1886 – 1983
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
Sentimentality and Colonialism
1850 – 1936
Jim Dine
Embracing the iconography of childhood
Joan Mitchell
Art as competitive sport
1925 – 1992
Joshua Johnson
Who was Joshua Johnson?
1763 – 1824
Judith Scott
Cocoons, totems and twins
1943 – 2005
Kay Sage
"I have built an ivory tower of despair"
1898 – 1963
Laura Gilpin
1891 – 1979
Laura Wheeler Waring
1887 – 1948
Lee Krasner
Insomnia and aggressive painting
1908 – 1984
Loïs Mailou Jones
The joy of African color and design
1905 – 1998
Man Ray
Humor, sex, and a new camera
1890 – 1976
Margaret Bourke-White
1904 – 1971
Maria Martinez
1887 – 1980
Marsden Hartley
Spirituality comes first, cult status second
1877 – 1943
Mary Cassatt
The unflinching embrace of motherhood
1844 – 1926
Mary Edmonia Lewis
African-American Chippewa woman takes over sculpture
1844 – 1907
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Delicate Sculptor of Horrors
1877 – 1968
Norman Lewis
Making your own way to contribute to culture
1909 – 1979
Orra White Hitchcock
Of Love and Mushrooms
1796 – 1863
Oscar Howe
1915 – 1983
Pablita Velarde
1918 – 2006
Palmer Hayden
1890 – 1973
Robert Cornelius
The inventor of the selfie
1809 – 1893
Robert Indiana
Icon of Love
1928 – 2018
Robert Motherwell
Painting as experience
1915 – 1991
Robert Rauschenberg
Blowing up modernism
1925 – 2008
Robert S. Duncanson
1821 – 1872
Robert Smithson
Relationships with physical landscape
1938 – 1973
Romaine Brooks
Powerful women in shades of gray
1874 – 1970
Romare Bearden
1911 – 1988
T. C. Cannon
1946 – 1978
Thomas Cole
Five kids, a farm, and dizzying allegory
1801 – 1848
Thomas Eakins
America's uncompromising realist
1844 – 1916
Thornton Dial
1928 – 2016
William H. Johnson
Painting my people
1901 – 1970
Winslow Homer
Transcend criticism by embracing solitude
1836 – 1910