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Caballero, Emilio
Born at Newark, New Jersey, to Spanish immigrants Magdalena Berben Martin and Juan Caballero Gutierrez, Emilio Caballero (born 1917) came to the Texas Panhandle in 1937. He studied at Amarillo Junior College, West Texas State College, and Columbia...
Caballero, Jose
José Caballero (1915-1991) A painter, illustrator and theatrical designer, Caballero was born in Huelva, Spain in 1915. In 1924, he began studying drawing with José Fernández Alvarado. In 1931, he went to Madrid to study engineering but soon...
Caballero, Luis
In 1963-64, he studied at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, and moved to Paris in 1969. His work was widely exhibited, including in New York, Paris, Washington DC, Lisbon, Montevideo, Hanover, Berlin, Bogota, Elmira N. Y., and Caracas. "...
Caballero, Salvador
The artist Salvador Caballero was born in Barcelona, Spain on October 23, 1943 at a time when Barcelona suffered repression of civil liberties that followed the immediate post-war period. Due to the influence of his family, he had a calm childhood...
Cabanel, Alexandre
Alexandre Cabanel, born in Montpellier, France on September 28, 1823, was a tremendously popular painter who personified official academic art at the top of the Salon hierarchy and with his contemporary Bouguereau stood as the antithesis of...
Cabaniss, Lila
Lila Marguerite Cabaniss, American, 20th Century, featured such subjects as children portraits and landscapes. Savannah, Georgia painter. She was a member of the Southern States Art League, Savannah Art Club, and the Association of Georgia Artists....
Cabot, Hugh
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Hugh Cabot became a painter of southwestern and Mexican frontier subjects, an illustrator and sculptor. Cabot studied at Vesper George School of Fine Arts and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Mexico College and Oxford...
Cabot, Petra
An artist whose first love was painting, Petra Cabot, however, is best remembered for her 1950s design of the 'Skotch cooler', an insulated, airtight, four gallon cooler with three layers of insulation covered with plaid fabric. It was copyrighted...
Cabral, Flavio
Born in New York City on July 7, 1916, Flavio Cabral arrived in Los Angeles in 1936 and enrolled at the Von Schneidau School of Art. He was active in the local art scene and remained in Los Angeles until his demise on March 22, 1990. 
Cabrera, Armand
Born in San Francisco in 1955, Armand Cabrera has always been passionate about art. Encouraged by his family, Armand starting drawing dinosaurs, people and landscapes at an early age. His mother was an oil painter while his grandfather drew birds...
Cachoud, Francois
A student of the great Gustave Moreau and Robert Delauny, he competed in the Salon de Paris, 1892 through the 1940's. He also obtained a gold medal at l'Exposition Universelle in Paris. He was the recipient of the Legion d'Honneur in 1910. Works...
Cada, Joseph
He studied at the Institute of Design (The New Bauhaus) in Chicago from 1947-1951. During WWII, Cada was a Cyptographic Technician Code and Cipher Chief in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. for the European Theatre. He worked as an industrial designer...
Caddell, Foster
Born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and also had private study with Peter Helck, Robert Brackman and Guy Wiggins. He has had numerous portrait commssions of political and business leaders as well as...
Cadel is a fashion photographer who has made a series of picture around Egon Schiele using body painted models. http://www.photocadel.com/ 
Cadenasso, Giuseppe
Born near Genoa, Italy on Jan. 2, 1858, Giuseppe Cadenasso, at age nine, sailed from Genoa to northern California where his uncle owned a vineyard. As a young man he moved to San Francisco where he worked as a barber, waiter, and sang Italian opera...
Cadieux, Cathey
Portrait painter, Cathey Cadieux, earned an associate's degree from the American Academy of Art in Chicago and later attended the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. Cadieux teaches at the California Art Institute in Westlake Village. She is a...
Cadmus, Paul
Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999) was an American artist. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of nude male figures. His works combined elements of eroticism and social critique to produce a style often called magic...
Cadogan, Edwin
Born in San Francisco, CA on Jan. 4, 1908. Cadogan was a member of the Lucas family for whom Lucas Valley in Marin County is named. After graduating from Berkeley High School, he studied at Marin Jr. College (1934-35) and on a three year scholarship...
Cage, John
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was...
Caillebotte, Gustave
Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was...
Caiserman Roth, Ghitta
Ghitta Caiserman Roth RCA (1923-2005) Ghitta Caiserman-Roth is an outstanding example of the creativity of women artists that has characterized a century of artistic activity in Montréal. Caiserman-Roth's studies in New York led to work...
Calder, Alexander
Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewelry...
Calderon, Mark
Mark Calderon was born in Bakersfield, California in 1955. He received his B.A. from San Jose State University, California. He resides in Seattle. Well-known in Seattle and on the West Coast, Mark Calderon’s debut solo show in New York provides the...
Calhoun, Scott
Scott Calhoun 
Califano, John
Born December 5, 1862 in Rome, where he was a student of Domenico Morelli, John Edmund Califano became a landscape artist, especially noted for his scenes of California and Italy. In 1881, he came to the United States and lived in Chicago until 1908...
Calkins, Mary
Mary Calkins began studies in 1971, but left to pursue other directions. She returned to the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston seventeen years later. This renewed commitment resulted in her BFA in Painting in 1994. During this time, Ms. Calkins...
Callahan, Kenneth
Kenneth Callahan was one of the leading artists of the Pacific Northwest school. In the 1960s, Callahan created a series of India ink drawings on water-splattered paper, which included some remarkable renderings of insects, which stand among his...
Calle, Paul
Best known for his skill with pencil in detailed drawings of western art subjects, especially mountain men during the fur trade era, Paul Calle was born in New York City. In 1947, he attended Pratt Institute at age nineteen and was much taken with...
Calle, Sophie
Sophie Calle (born 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist.[1] Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo...
Calvet, Jean Marc
Jean Marc Calvet (born March 23, 1965) is a French artist living in Granada, Nicaragua.Calvet was one of six winners of the VII Biennale of Nicaraguan Arts in 2009 selected to represent Nicaragua at the Biennale of Central America in Panama in 2010...
Camacho, Jorge
Jorge R. Camacho Lazo (Havana, January 5, 1934) is a Cuban painter.In 1952, he left the study of law to dedicate himself to painting. In 1959, he met his colleague José Luis Cuevas and they both investigated the sources of Mayan culture.Camacho...
Cameron, Betsy
Betsy Cameron's first effort at creating a poster was in early 1987. It was a black and white photograph picturing two small children sitting on a beach looking out to sea. The simple, yet evocative poster, aptly named "Two Children," soared to the...
caminanteypintor, Marco Guzman
Né Santiago du Chili en 1954. 40 expositions en France. 
Campagnola, Giulio
His early years are better documented than his adult life. He was born in Padua, then subject to the republic of Venice, and home to one of the three major European universities of the fifteenth century, the University of Padua. His father Girolamo...
Campbell, James
James Campbell was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where the change in seasons in uniquely beautiful. Like his famous namesake, sociologist Joseph Campbell, artist James Campbell endorses the axiom follow your bliss. Whether it's hiking in the...
Campbell, Laurence
Campbell, born in Philadelphia January 21, 1940 grew up a few blocks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and visited there often throughout his youth. He studied architecture at Temple University and for several years had his own building business...
Campos-Pons, Maria Magdalena
María Magdalena Campos Pons (born 22 August 1959 in Matanzas, Cuba) is a Cuban artist.Master in Fine Arts (MFA). Studio Review at Concordia University, Montreal NSCAD, Halifax, Canada. Between 1986 and 1989 she was professor of Painting and...
Camps, Pere
Pere Camps was born in Sabadell, Barcelona in 1929. From a very early age, he decided to use his artistic skills to explore his great passion, landscapes. He attended the School of Applied Arts and Crafts in Barcelona, where he concentrated in...
Canever, Lillian
Lilian Canever is an artist who was born and lives in Sao Bernardo do Campo (São Paulo,Brazil). Lilian completed courses in art, decoration and sculpture. Her works captivate with its brightness and originality. Strict lines, unusual designs are...
Cano, Pablo
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1961, Pablo Cano was on the last flight out of the country before the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.  He has since been a resident of Miami’s Little Havana, and is regarded by art patrons and critics alike as one of Florida’s...
Caporael, Suzanne
Born in New York City, she studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. She lives in Chicago, Illinois. A modernist, her work is in numerous contemporary art museums. 
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da or Amerigi da Caravaggio, 1571–1610, Italian painter. His surname, Caravaggio, came from his birthplace. After an apprenticeship in Milan, he arrived (1592) in Rome where he eventually became a pensioner of...
Cardenas, Agustin
Agustín Cárdenas Alfonso (April 10, 1927, Matanzas, Cuba – February 9, 2001, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban sculptor who was active in the Surrealist movement in Paris. His sculpture was influenced by Brancusi, Henry Moore, and Jean Arp. Poet André...
Carlin, James
Born June 15, 1906 in Belfast, Ireland, James Carlin became a noted painter in mod-realist style of genre, figure, landscape and still life. Mediums included oil, pastel, watercolor as well as stained glass and graphics. Watercolor was a specialty....
Carlson, Ken
Ken Carlson, like many of his contemporaries, began his career in art as a commercial artist. He says, "I can't remember a time when I didn't dream of being an artist. That's all I ever wanted to be. Birds and animals were all I ever wanted to paint...
Carney, Dennis
In 1985 Dennis Carney received an Advertising Art Degree from the University of North Texas. In Conjunction with earning his degree, he participated in an intense study of ceramics under the tutelage of Elmer Taylor. In addition, he furthered his...
Carnwath, Squeak (Wendy)
Squeak Carnwath (born 1947 in Abington, PA) is a contemporary American painter. She received her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977. She is a Professor of Art at the University of California, where she has taught since 1982,...
CAROLYN, M.C.
www.mccarolyn.com mccarolynmccarolyn [dot] com HONORS Plaza Arts Gallery, “Chiselers Exhibit” Award for Excellence for Individual Work, CA 2009 Art Quest Grant Cultural Arts Council of Sonoma County, Local Arts Educ. Partnership (LAEP) Grant...
Carone, Nicholas
Nicolas Carone (1917 – July 15, 2010) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract...
Carracci, Agostino
Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (August 16, 1557 – March 22, 1602) was an Italian painter and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci.He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the...
Carreno, Pablo
Born and raised in Havana, Cuba, Pablo Carreno speaks little of his childhood save for his own obsession with drawing and painting. Though his talents were recognized by the age of four, no money was available for formal training, so his early years...
Carrington, Leonora
Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist. She lived most of her life in Mexico City. Carrington was born in Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire, England. Her father...
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street...
Case, David
David Case was born in 1952. He studied graphics and illustration at St Martin's School in London. Over the last 20 years, Case has headed the art departments of a number of national magazines and newspapers and has been a regular recipient of...
Cassatt, Mary
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) lived in Europe for five years as a young girl. She was tutored privately in art in Philadelphia and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1861-65, but she preferred learning on her own and in 1866 traveled...
Castellani, Enrico
As one of Italy's most celebrated living artists, Castellani is known for his poetic, constant and rigorous style, defining what art critics have called a "different repetition." Castellani, along with Yves Klein, was identified by Donald Judd as...
Castle, James
Opinions vary as to whether James Castle was born deaf or autistic. Clearly, he never learned to speak, read or write, and refused to be taught to communicate in any of the accepted forms of signing or finger spelling. What physical signaling he did...
Castrillo, Jose Luis
Jose Luis Castrillo was born on January 22, 1959 in the Barrio de la Macarena in Seville. By the young age of 6 he was driving his mother crazy drawing her picture on the patio wall of their house. By the age of 20 he was earning an income as a...
Castro, Humberto
Humberto Castro was born in Havana, Cuba, on July 9, 1957. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro and Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana, Cuba. He works in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics and installations. In his...
Cato, Eric
Cato is a visual artist and use a camera to make the images. While he has had some formal training, he considers himself to be self-taught. Both of his parents were artists and he had the opportunity to listen and participate in discussions about...
Cattelan, Maurizio
Maurizio Cattelan (September 21, 1960, Padova, Italy) is an Italian artist based in New York. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour), depicting the Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite. Cattelan...
Cauchois, Eugene
Eugene Henri Cauchois, (b. 1839), was born in Rouen and lived in Paris. He studied with Duboc and Cabanel and debuted at the Salon des Artists in 1874. He received various medals of honor between the years 1898 and 1904. Later in his life he became...
Cavallo, Giuliano
Born in Vina del Mar Chile in 1972, Giuliano Cavallo grew up traveling through much of Chile and Argentina. Much of his formative years were spent living and traveling with "The Children of God", also known as "The Family" and Cavallo sang, acted...
Celaya, Enrique Martínez
Enrique Martinez Celaya: Enrique Martínez Celaya, trained as artist and physicist, works in painting, sculpture, photography, and writing. His projects frequently take the form of multi-disciplinary environments that balance images with the...
Cerniglia, Barbara Ford
Barbara Cerniglia has been painting since she was a child in upper state New York. Her mother is an artist and was quick to recognize and encourage her talent. Working in mixed media she explores a variety of styles but her work is all connected by...
Cesark, Mark
Mark Cesark was born in New Jersey in 1965 and spent most of his childhood there. He grew up in a family that loved to travel. From age five, he and his family would take yearly month long camping tours of the United States and Canada. Mark felt...
Cézanne, Paul
Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. 
Chadwick, William
An American Impressionist, William Chadwick did not actively seek the limelight of the art world during his life. It is conjectured that, as the son of an industrialist and not requiring an income from his painting, he preferred to perfect his art...
Chagall, Marc
Marc Chagall (English pronunciation: (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985), was a Russian–French artist, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. He created a unique career in virtually...
Chagoya, Enrique
Enrique Chagoya is a Mexican-born painter and print-maker. His subject is the changing nature of culture.He was born in Mexico City in 1953. He was partly raised by an Indian nurse who helped him to respect the indigenous people of his country and...
Chaitram, Audra
Audra Chaitram is an innovative British designer whose creative skills and knowledge in textile design and surface pattern has earned her recognition on an international basis. She has designed in Paris, London, Italy, and Switzerland and is...
Chamberlain, Michael
Born March 25, 1983, Chamerblain's desire is to capture the essence of a subject while maintaining the look and feel of paint. I'm motivated by the beauty surrounding us in simple, everyday objects and scenes. He paints exclusively in oils and enjoy...
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