Aaron Douglas
Projections of determination
1899 – 1979
Ad Reinhardt
"Art-as-art and nothing else"
1913 – 1967
Adolph Gottlieb
Different times require different images
1903 – 1974
Alex Katz
How to paint faster than you can think
Alice Austen
1866 – 1952
Alice Neel
The unblinking anxiety of modern life
1900 – 1984
Alma Thomas
Tackling abstraction at 75
1891 – 1978
Andy Warhol
The prince of pop
1928 – 1987
Anne Estelle Rice
The life behind the line
1877 – 1959
Anne Goldthwaite
Artist turns modernism into equal rights activism
1869 – 1944
Archibald Motley
1891 – 1981
Augusta Savage
Sculptor, teacher and warrior for civil rights
1892 – 1962
Barkley L. Hendricks
1945 – 2017
Barnett Newman
Staring down the present moment
1905 – 1970
Beauford Delaney
Capturing the sacred light
1901 – 1979
Benjamin West
1738 – 1820
Benny Andrews
1930 – 2006
Bernice Bing
The patient negotiation of mystery
1936 – 1998
Bill Traylor
It's never too late to tell your story
1854 – 1949
Bob Thompson
1937 – 1966
Brice Marden
Grow the ability to see
Cecilia Beaux
The 'new woman' in painting
1855 – 1942
Charles Alston
"The idea of a march was growing"
1907 – 1977
Charles Demuth
1883 – 1935
Charles Sheeler
High Priest of Industry
1883 – 1965
Charles White
Images of dignity
1918 – 1979
Charmion von Wiegand
Beyond the grid
1896 – 1983
Claude Clark
1915 – 2001
Clyfford Still
Painting with knives
1904 – 1980
Cy Twombly
The power of the scribble
1928 – 2011
Dorothea Lange
Iconic photographer bar None
1895 – 1965
Dorothea Tanning
Exploring the strange world of dreams
1910 – 2012
Edward Hicks
A pacifist paints lions and leopards
1780 – 1849
Edward Hopper
1882 – 1967
Edward Ruscha
The art of words
Elaine de Kooning
Writer, teacher, and a natural painter
1918 – 1989
Elizabeth Catlett
1915 – 2012
Elizabeth Jane Gardner
1837 – 1922
Ellsworth Kelly
Deconstructing the visible
1923 – 2015
Florine Stettheimer
Non-competitive art for the literati, gay and polyglot
1871 – 1944
Franz Kline
1910 – 1962
Frederic Edwin Church
The theater of sun, sky and mountains
1826 – 1900
Fritz Scholder
1937 – 2005
Genevieve Jones
Even death will not stop us
1847 – 1879
George Bellows
1882 – 1925
George Inness
1825 – 1894
Georgia O'Keeffe
Sometimes a flower is just a flower
1887 – 1986
Gertrude Käsebier
Elevating photography to emotional portraiture
1852 – 1934
Gordon Parks
Modern Day Polymath
1912 – 2006
Harriet Powers
A freed slave tells stories in quilts
1837 – 1910
Flatiron Building Daniel Burnham, 1902
Jefferson Memorial John Russell Pope, Eggers & Higgins, 1939 – 1943
Lincoln Memorial Henry Bacon, Daniel Chester French, 1914 – 1922
National Capitol Columns 1828
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC John Russell Pope, 1937
Painted Ladies 1849 – 1900
Treasury Building, Washington D.C. Robert Mills (East Wing and Central), 1836 – 1842
United States Capitol William Thornton, 1993 – 1800
