Notable Alumni of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts [Sorted List]

1. Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer

1873-1943 (aged 70)

painter artist

Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was an American illustrator, painter, and printmaker who painted and illustrated Tennessee society and other objects and people, including the state's women and children. As a printmaker, she pioneered the white-line woodcut.

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2. Charles Lewis Fussell

1840-1909 (aged 69)

painter

Charles Lewis Fussell was an American landscape painter in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fussell lived near Philadelphia for most of his life and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with his close friend, mentor, and colleague, Thomas Eakins.

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3. George M. Ottinger

1833-1917 (aged 84)

photographer painter

George Martin Ottinger was an American public official, artist, educator, actor and photographer, who spent most of his career in Utah.

4. Hugh Henry Breckenridge

1870-1937 (aged 67)

painter

Hugh Henry Breckenridge, was an American painter and art instructor, who championed the artistic movements from impressionism to modernism. Breckenridge taught for more than forty years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, becoming the school's Dean of Instruction in 1934. He also taught from 1899 to 1918 at the Darby School of Art, which he co-founded with Thomas Anshutz...

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5. Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown

1857-1944 (aged 87)

etcher painter artist

Margaret White Lesley Bush-Brown was an American painter and etcher.

6. John McLure Hamilton

1853-1936 (aged 83)

painter

John McLure Hamilton was an Anglo-American artist.

7. Frank Stephens

1859-1935 (aged 76)

sculptor

George Francis Stephens was an American sculptor, political activist, and co-founder of the utopian single-tax community in Arden, Delaware.

8. Phebe Hemphill

1960-. (aged 66)

medalist sculptor

Phebe Hemphill is an American sculptor who works for the United States Mint. She has been called "one of the preeminent coin artists, sculptors, and engravers of our time."

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9. Henry Rankin Poore

1859-1940 (aged 81)

painter

Henry Rankin Poore was an American painter and illustrator, known for incorporating human and animal figures into his landscape and genre paintings. He was also a lecturer and critic, and a prolific author on art and composition.

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10. Lemuel Wilmarth

1835-1918 (aged 83)

painter artist

Lemuel Everett Wilmarth was an American painter. He was a founder of the Art Students League of New York and a member of the National Academy of Design. He was professor in charge of the schools of the National Academy of Design in Manhattan from 1870 to 1890. He was among America's most respected teachers of art during the later...

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11. Owen Staples

1866-1949 (aged 83)

editorial cartoonist musician naturalist painter etcher

Owen 'Poe' Staples was an English-born Canadian painter, etcher, pastelist, political cartoonist, writer, musician, and naturalist.

12. Robert Beck

1950-. (aged 76)

artist

Robert Beck is an American painter and writer. He is best known for his plein air paintings of scenes in and around Bucks County, Pennsylvania (particularly the New Hope area); Jonesport, Maine; and New York City, typically in multiple-painting series.

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13. Deborah Griscom Passmore

1840-1911 (aged 71)

art educator painter botanical illustrator

Deborah Griscom Passmore was a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture who specialized in paintings of fruit. Her work is now preserved in the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection, and she has been called the best of the early USDA artists. She rose to lead the USDA staff artists, and she became the most prolific of the group, contributing...

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14. George Hand Wright

1872-1951 (aged 79)

designer painter illustrator

George Hand Wright was an American painter, illustrator and printmaker.

15. David Guttenberg

1951-. (aged 75)

labor leader construction worker legislative assistant politician

David Guttenberg is an American politician serving as a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019, after which his nephew, Grier Hopkins, succeeded him.

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16. C. Yarnall Abbott

1870-1938 (aged 68)

photographer painter

Charles Yarnall Abbott was an American photographer and painter.

17. Eugene L. Daub

1942-. (aged 84)

sculptor

Eugene Daub is an American contemporary figure sculptor, best known for his portraits and figurative monument sculpture created in the classic heroic style. His sculptures reside in three of the nation's state capitals and in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. His work appears in public monuments and permanent collections in the United States and Europe.

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18. J. Laurie Wallace

1864-1953 (aged 89)

painter

John Laurie Wallace was an Irish-born American painter.

19. Leopold Seyffert

1887-1956 (aged 69)

painter

Leopold Gould Seyffert was an American painter. Born in California, Missouri, and raised in Colorado and then Pittsburgh, his career brought him eventually to New York City, via Philadelphia and Chicago. In New York City, the dealer Macbeth established him as one of the leading portraitists of the 20th century and his over 500 portraits continue to decorate the galleries,...

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20. Helen Torr

1886-1967 (aged 81)

painter draftsperson artist

Helen S. "Reds" Torr was an American early Modernist painter nicknamed "Reds" for her hair color. Torr worked alongside her artist husband Arthur Dove and friend Georgia O'Keeffe to develop a characteristically American style of Modernism in the 1920s.

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21. Frances Tipton Hunter

1896-1957 (aged 61)

illustrator

Frances Tipton Hunter was an illustrator who created covers for The Saturday Evening Post and many other magazines between the 1920s and 1950s. Her work is very similar in style to that of Norman Rockwell.

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22. Henry Lyman Saÿen

1875-1918 (aged 43)

painter scientist

H. Lyman Saÿen was an American pioneer in the design of x-ray tubes who also distinguished himself as an abstract artist.

23. Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts

1871-1927 (aged 56)

painter

Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts was an American painter who lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Paris, and Concord, Massachusetts. She established the Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she had studied and won the Mary Smith Prize. She also studied in Paris at Académie Julian and Florence. In Massachusetts, Roberts founded and funded the...

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24. Edmond Thomas Quinn

1868-1929 (aged 61)

painter

Edmond Thomas Quinn was an American sculptor active from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, with work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the National Gallery of Ireland. Among his sitters were Playwright Eugene O'Neill, Painter Leon Kroll, and architect Cass Gilbert. Among his outdoor sculptures visible...

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25. Edith Emerson

1888-1981 (aged 93)

writer painter artist illustrator

Edith Emerson was an American painter, muralist, illustrator, writer, and curator. She was the life partner of acclaimed muralist Violet Oakley and served as the vice-president, president, and curator of the Woodmere Art Museum in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1940 to 1978.

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26. George Matthews Harding

1882-1959 (aged 77)

visual artist painter muralist illustrator

George Matthews Harding was an American painter, author-illustrator, and a muralist. He served as an official war artist during World War I and World War II.

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27. Xanthus Russell Smith

1839-1929 (aged 90)

painter

Xanthus Russell Smith was an American marine painter best known for his illustrations of the American Civil War.

28. William Thomas Smedley

1858-1920 (aged 62)

painter

William Thomas Smedley, was an American artist.

29. Mary Hiester Reid

1854-1921 (aged 67)

teacher painter

Mary Augusta Hiester Reid who signed her name M. H. Reid was an American-born Canadian painter and teacher. She was best known as a painter of floral still lifes, some of them called "devastatingly expressive" by a contemporary author, and by 1890 she was thought to be the most important flower painter in Canada. She also painted domesticated landscapes, night...

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30. Sarah J. Eddy

1851-1945 (aged 94)

photographer suffragist

Sarah James Eddy was an American artist and photographer who specialized in the platinotype process, also known as platinum prints. She was active in abolition, reform, and suffragist movements, and was a philanthropist as well as instrumental in the founding of the Rhode Island Humane Society. She was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2017.

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31. Donald Martiny

1953-. (aged 73)

painter

Donald Martiny is an American visual artist, known for sculptural paintings. His works are related to both action painting and abstract expressionism. He lives in Connecticut.

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32. Francis Criss

1901-1973 (aged 72)

painter

Francis Hyman Criss was an American painter. Criss's style is associated with the American Precisionists like Charles Demuth and his friend Charles Sheeler.

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33. Edward Biberman

1904-1986 (aged 82)

painter

Edward Biberman was an American artist active in the mid-twentieth century. His work ranged from stylised portraits to history-inspired murals, and drew on the emerging urban landscapes of southern California, and on current events such as the Great Depression, the Second World War, and labour unrest.

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34. James E. Brewton

1930-1967 (aged 37)

painter

James Edward Brewton was an American painter and printmaker who synthesized expressionism, graffiti and Pataphysics.

35. Arthur Beecher Carles

1882-1952 (aged 70)

painter

Arthur Beecher Carles was an American modernist painter. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1905 and 1906. He traveled to France and was influenced by Impressionism through the social network of Gertrude Stein and Leo Stein. He taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1917 to...

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36. Anna Claypoole Peale

1791-1878 (aged 87)

painter

Anna Claypoole Peale was an American painter who specialized in portrait miniatures on ivory and still lifes. She and her sister, Sarah Miriam Peale, were the first women elected academicians of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

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37. T. S. Sullivant

1854-1926 (aged 72)

caricaturist

Thomas Starling Sullivant was an American cartoonist who signed his work T. S. Sullivant. His work appeared most frequently in the pages of the humorous Life magazine. Best known for his animal and ethnic caricatures, he also drew political cartoons and comic strip toppers, and illustrated children's books. He drew in a heavily cross-hatched pen-and-ink style, with humans and animals...

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38. Charles Grafly

1862-1929 (aged 67)

artist

Charles Allan Grafly, Jr. was an American sculptor, and teacher. Instructor of Sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for 37 years, his students included Beatrice Fenton, Paul Manship, Albin Polasek, and Walker Hancock.

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39. William B. T. Trego

1858-1909 (aged 51)

painter

William Brooke Thomas Trego was an American painter best known for his historical military subjects, in particular scenes of the American Revolution and Civil War.

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40. Walter Elmer Schofield

1867-1944 (aged 77)

painter

Walter Elmer Schofield ROI RBA was an American Impressionist landscape and marine painter. Although he never lived in New Hope or Bucks County, Schofield is regarded as one of the Pennsylvania Impressionists.

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41. Elizabeth Coffin

1850-1930 (aged 80)

painter

Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin was an American artist, educator and philanthropist who is known for her paintings of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Well-educated and accomplished, she was one of the "New Women" of the 19th century who explored opportunities not traditionally available to women. She was the first person in the United States to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree and was...

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42. Ida Waugh

1846-1919 (aged 73)

illustrator painter

Ida Waugh was an American illustrator of children's literature who often collaborated with her lifelong companion, Amy Ella Blanchard.

43. David Em

1952-. (aged 74)

photographer artist

David Em is an American digital artist, known for his pioneering breakthroughs in computer art. He lives in Los Osos in San Luis Obispo County, California.

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44. Thomas Hill

1829-1908 (aged 79)

painter

Thomas Hill was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the Californian landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

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45. Walter Emerson Baum

1884-1956 (aged 72)

painter

Walter Emerson Baum was an American visual artist and educator, active in the Bucks and Lehigh County areas of Pennsylvania. In addition to being a prolific painter, Baum was also responsible for the founding of the Baum School of Art, and the Allentown Art Museum.

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46. William Sergeant Kendall

1869-1938 (aged 69)

painter designer

William Sergeant Kendall, was an American painter, most famous for his evocative scenes of domestic life; his wife Margaret Stickney Kendall and three young daughters were frequent subjects in his early work.

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47. Mike Manley

1961-. (aged 65)

university teacher inker illustrator background stylist comics artist

Michael Manley is an American artist, most notable as a comic strip cartoonist and comic book inker and penciller. Manley currently draws two syndicated comic strips, Judge Parker and The Phantom. He is also known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Darkhawk.

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48. Amelia Van Buren

1858-1942 (aged 84)

photographer artist

Amelia C. Van Buren was an American photographer. A noted portrait photographer, she was a student of Thomas Eakins, and the subject of his c. 1891 painting Miss Amelia Van Buren, regarded as one of his finest works.

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49. Morton Livingston Schamberg

1881-1918 (aged 37)

photographer painter

Morton Livingston Schamberg was an American modernist painter and photographer. He was one of the first American artists to explore the aesthetic qualities of industrial subjects. Schamberg is considered a pioneer of the Precisionism art movement, and one of the first American adopters of Cubist style.

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50. Alice Barber Stephens

1858-1932 (aged 74)

painter illustrator printmaker

Alice Barber Stephens was an American painter and engraver, best remembered for her illustrations. Her work regularly appeared in magazines such as Scribner's Monthly, Harper's Weekly, and The Ladies Home Journal.

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51. Edward Lamson Henry

1841-1919 (aged 78)

painter

Edward Lamson Henry, commonly known as E.L. Henry, was an American genre painter, born in Charleston, South Carolina.

52. George Biddle

1885-1973 (aged 88)

painter lithographer

George Biddle was an American painter, muralist and lithographer, best known for his social realism and combat art. A childhood friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he played a major role in establishing the Federal Art Project (1935–1943), which employed artists under the Works Progress Administration.

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53. Sarah Miriam Peale

1800-1885 (aged 85)

painter

Sarah Miriam Peale was an American portrait painter, considered the first American woman to succeed as a professional artist. One of a family of artists of whom her uncle Charles Willson Peale was the most illustrious, Sarah Peale painted portraits mainly of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. notables, politicians, and military figures. Lafayette sat for her four times.

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54. Edward Percy Moran

1862-1935 (aged 73)

painter

Edward Percy Moran, sometimes known as Percy Moran, was an American artist known for his scenes of American history.

55. Nina E. Allender

1873-1957 (aged 84)

cartoonist suffragist artist women's rights activist

Nina Evans Allender was an American artist, cartoonist, and women's rights activist. She studied art in the United States and Europe with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. Allender worked as an organizer, speaker, and campaigner for women's suffrage and was the "official cartoonist" for the National Woman's Party's publications, creating what became known as the "Allender Girl."

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56. Fidelia Bridges

1834-1923 (aged 89)

painter artist

Fidelia Bridges was an American artist of the late 19th century. She was known for delicately detailed paintings that captured flowers, plants, and birds in their natural settings. Although she began as an oil painter, she later gained a reputation as an expert in watercolor painting. She was the only woman among a group of seven artists in the early...

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57. L. Birge Harrison

1854-1929 (aged 75)

painter

Lovell Birge Harrison was an American genre and landscape painter, teacher, and writer. He was a prominent practitioner and advocate of Tonalism.

58. Joseph Hergesheimer

1880-1954 (aged 74)

writer novelist

Joseph Hergesheimer was an American writer of the early 20th century known for his novels of decadent life among the wealthy.

59. Thomas Alexander Harrison

1853-1930 (aged 77)

painter

Thomas Alexander Harrison, was an American marine painter who spent most of his career in France.

60. Edward Willis Redfield

1869-1965 (aged 96)

painter

Edward Willis Redfield was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, often depicting the snow-covered countryside. He also spent his summers on Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he interpreted the local coastline. He frequently painted Maine's Monhegan Island.

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61. Robert Vonnoh

1858-1933 (aged 75)

painter

Robert William Vonnoh was an American Impressionist painter known for his portraits and landscapes. He traveled extensively between the American East Coast and France, more specifically the artists colony at Grez-sur-Loing.

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62. Daniel Garber

1880-1958 (aged 78)

painter

Daniel Garber was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware River. He also painted figurative interior works and excelled at etching. In addition to his painting career, Garber taught art...

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63. Elizabeth Shippen Green

1871-1954 (aged 83)

illustrator artist

Elizabeth Shippen Green was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as The Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post and Harper's Magazine.

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64. Albin Polasek

1879-1965 (aged 86)

painter translator sculptor teacher carver

Albin Polasek was a Czech-born American sculptor and educator. A practicing artist, he also headed the sculpture department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He created more than four hundred works during his career, two hundred of which are displayed in the Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park, Florida.

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65. John F. Peto

1854-1907 (aged 53)

painter

John Frederick Peto was an American trompe-l'œil ("fool the eye") painter who was long forgotten until his paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe-l'œil artist William Harnett.

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66. A. B. Frost

1851-1928 (aged 77)

cartoonist draftsperson caricaturist humorist painter

Arthur Burdett Frost, usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Br'er Rabbit and other characters in the Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus books.

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67. Susan Macdowell Eakins

1851-1938 (aged 87)

painter photographer artist

Susan Hannah Eakins was an American painter and photographer. Her works were first shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was a student. She won the Mary Smith Prize there in 1879 and the Charles Toppan prize in 1882.

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68. Alexander Milne Calder

1846-1923 (aged 77)

sculptor

Alexander Milne Calder was a Scottish-American sculptor. His works include the Equestrian statue of George Meade in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. He produced over 250 architectural sculptures over 30 years for the construction of Philadelphia City Hall including the 37-foot statue of William Penn atop the structure. His son, Alexander Stirling Calder, and grandson Alexander Calder were also sculptors.

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69. Zenos Frudakis

1951-. (aged 75)

sculptor

Zenos Frudakis is an American sculptor whose diverse body of work includes monuments, memorials, portrait busts and statues of living and historic individuals, military subjects, sports figures and animal sculpture. Over the past four decades he has sculpted monumental works and over 150 figurative sculptures included within public and private collections throughout the United States and internationally. Frudakis currently lives...

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70. Paul Manship

1885-1966 (aged 81)

sculptor

Paul Howard Manship was an American sculptor. He consistently created mythological pieces in a classical style, and was a major force in the Art Deco movement. He is well known for his large public commissions, including the iconic Prometheus in Rockefeller Center and the Celestial Sphere Woodrow Wilson Memorial in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also credited for designing the modern...

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71. Violet Oakley

1874-1961 (aged 87)

writer painter lithographer illustrator

Violet Oakley was an American artist. She was the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the 20th century, she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural decoration, a field that had been exclusively practiced by men. Oakley excelled at murals and stained glass designs that addressed themes from history and literature in...

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72. William Trost Richards

1833-1905 (aged 72)

painter

William Trost Richards was an American landscape artist. He was associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement.

73. Frederick Judd Waugh

1861-1940 (aged 79)

painter

Frederick Judd Waugh was an American artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed ship camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of Everett L. Warner.

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74. Thomas Pollock Anshutz

1851-1912 (aged 61)

painter model teacher photographer

Thomas Pollock Anshutz was an American painter and teacher. Known for his portraiture and genre scenes, Anshutz was a co-founder of The Darby School. One of Thomas Eakins's most prominent students, he succeeded Eakins as director of drawing and painting classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

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75. Alexander Stirling Calder

1870-1945 (aged 75)

sculptor

Alexander Stirling Calder was an American sculptor and art teacher. He won a silver medal at the World's Fair of 1904 for his statue of Philip François Renault and led the sculpture program for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition after the death of Karl Bitter. His notable works include the Samuel Gross statue, George Washington on the Washington Square Arch in...

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76. Jack Delano

1914-1997 (aged 83)

photographer composer

Jack Delano was a Russian Empire-born Ukrainian photographer, filmmaker, and composer, who spent much of his life in Puerto Rico. In the United States, he worked for the Works Progress Administration, United Fund, and most notably, the Farm Security Administration (FSA). He wore many hats as he also was a composer known for his use of Puerto Rican folk material,...

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77. Colin Campbell Cooper

1856-1937 (aged 81)

painter

Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. was an American impressionist painter of architectural paintings, especially of skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. An avid traveler, he created many paintings of European and Asian landmarks, as well as natural landscapes, portraits, florals, and interiors.

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78. Barkley L. Hendricks

1945-2017 (aged 72)

painter professor photographer

Barkley L. Hendricks was a contemporary American painter who made pioneering contributions to Black portraiture and conceptualism. While he worked in a variety of media and genres throughout his career (from photography to landscape painting), Hendricks' best known work took the form of life-sized painted oil portraits of Black Americans.

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79. John Sloan

1871-1951 (aged 80)

draftsperson architectural draftsperson graphic artist painter illustrator

John French Sloan was an American painter and etcher. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. He was also a member of the group known as The Eight. He is best known for his urban genre scenes and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often...

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80. William James Glackens

1870-1938 (aged 68)

painter draftsperson illustrator

William James Glackens was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School, which rejected the formal boundaries of artistic beauty laid down by the conservative National Academy of Design. He is also known for his work in helping Albert C. Barnes to acquire the European paintings that form the nucleus of the famed Barnes Foundation...

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81. John Marin

1870-1953 (aged 83)

printmaker painter architect draftsperson photographer

John Marin was an early American modernist visual artist. He is known for his abstract landscape paintings and watercolors.

82. Cecilia Beaux

1855-1942 (aged 87)

painter artist

Eliza Cecilia Beaux was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.

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83. Mike Berenstain

1951-. (aged 75)

children's writer illustrator writer

Michael Berenstain is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. The son of the late Stan and Jan Berenstain, he is the current author of the Berenstain Bears series of picture books following the deaths of his parents.

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84. Njideka Akunyili Crosby

1983-. (aged 43)

visual artist painter

Njideka Akunyili Crosby // is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles, California. Through her art, Akunyili Crosby "negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds". In 2017, Akunyili Crosby was awarded the prestigious Genius Grant from the...

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85. Walker Hancock

1901-1998 (aged 97)

sculptor

Walker Kirtland Hancock was an American sculptor and teacher. He created notable monumental sculptures, including the World War I Soldiers' Memorial (1936–1938) in St. Louis, Missouri; and the Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial (1950–1952) at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He made major additions to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., including Christ in Majesty (1972), the bas...

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86. Cecelia Condit

1947-. (aged 79)

video artist filmmaker

Cecelia Ann Condit is an American video artist. Condit's films are noted for their attempts to subvert traditional mythologies of female representation and psychologies of sexuality and violence.

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87. William Utermohlen

1933-2007 (aged 74)

painter

William Charles Utermohlen was an American figurative artist known for his late-period self-portraits completed after his diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease. He was diagnosed in 1995, having had progressive memory loss since 1991. After diagnosis, he began a series of self-portraits influenced by both the figurative painter Francis Bacon and cinematographers from the German Expressionism movement. The last of his...

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88. Charles Sheeler

1883-1965 (aged 82)

painter draftsperson architectural draftsperson sculptor photographer

Charles Sheeler was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the 1921 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.

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89. Ivan Albright

1897-1983 (aged 86)

sculptor painter printmaker

Ivan Le Lorraine Albright was an American painter, sculptor and print-maker most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes. Due to his technique and dark subject matter, he is often categorized among the Magic Realists and is sometimes referred to as the "master of the macabre".

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90. Edwin Austin Abbey

1852-1911 (aged 59)

painter architect illustrator

Edwin Austin Abbey RA was an American muralist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's coronation. His most famous set of murals, The Quest...

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91. Jessie Willcox Smith

1863-1935 (aged 72)

painter illustrator artist

Jessie Willcox Smith was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. She had...

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92. Henry Ossawa Tanner

1859-1937 (aged 78)

graphic artist watercolorist university teacher painter printmaker

Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

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93. Robert Henri

1865-1929 (aged 64)

painter

Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher.

94. Brad Neely

1976-. (aged 50)

television producer voice actor comics artist

Brad Neely is an American comic book artist and television writer/producer known for his work on television series such as South Park, China, IL and Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio, the web series I Am Baby Cakes and The Professor Brothers, and Wizard People, Dear Reader.

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95. Mary Cassatt

1844-1926 (aged 82)

painter etcher printmaker photographer

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between...

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96. Maxfield Parrish

1870-1966 (aged 96)

designer painter illustrator

Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. His works featured distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. The National Museum of American Illustration deemed his painting Daybreak (1922) to be the most successful art print of the 20th century.

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97. Thomas Eakins

1844-1916 (aged 72)

painter sculptor art educator photographer

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.

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98. David Lynch

1946-2025 (aged 79)

cinematographer lyricist animator film screenwriter photographer

David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including a...

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99. Julian Abele

1881-1950 (aged 69)

architect

Julian Francis Abele was a prominent Black American architect, and chief designer in the offices of Horace Trumbauer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Abele contributed to the design of more than 400 buildings, including Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University (1912–15), Philadelphia's Central Library (1917–27), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1914–28).

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100. Adelia Armstrong Lutz

1859-1931 (aged 72)

painter artist

Adelia Armstrong Lutz was an American artist active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She organized art circles in Knoxville, Tennessee, as director of the Knoxville Art Club and as a co-organizer of the Nicholson Art League. Her still lifes and portraits were exhibited throughout the American South, and they are to be the subject of a permanent...

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