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Fabe, Robert
Robert Fabe was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1917, and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He began the study of painting with his father, a talented amateur. He took art courses at Withrow High School, in Cincinnati (1932-1936) in conjuction with the Art...
Fabelo, Roberto
Roberto Fabelo Pérez Guáimaro, Camagüey, January 28, 1950 Painter, draftsman, engraver, illustrator and sculptor Art Studies 1971-76 National School of Art (ena), La Habana, Cuba. 1976-81 Higher Institute of Art (isa), La Habana, Cuba. 
Faber, Arthur
A student at Cooper Union Art School, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League, Arthur Faber was a modernist painter born in Philadelphia. He exhibited at the Salons of the American Society of Independent Artists and the Whitney...
Faber, Hermann
Born in Germany, Hermann Faber came to the United States in 1854 and worked for the Surgeon General during the Civil War as a medical illustrator to keep a record of the war. He also did etchings and before the room was cleared, he was allowed to...
Faber, Josephine
Born in Fresno, CA on Nov. 3, 1891. Faber was active in both Fresno and in the Netherlands. She studied in the latter with D. Bakels and H. P. van der Haar. In 1946 she married J. Phaff. She died in Wassenaar, Netherlands in 1967. 
Faberge, Theo
Theo Faberge (London, 26 September 1922 - 20 August 2007) was the grandson of Peter Carl Faberge. His father Nicholas Faberge, Carl’s youngest son, arrived in London in 1906 to help run the only branch of ‘The House of Faberge’ outside Russia, in...
Fabert, Jacques
Jacques Fabert, born Paris, France, studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Jacques has been featured in many one-man and group shows in the USA and abroad. An impressive number of his works are part of many private and...
Fabian, Lydia
Lydia Dunham Smith Fabian (1857-1947) Absent from any exhibitions for a number of years, Lydia Dunham Fabian, an accomplished artist and somewhat of a world traveler, presented 34 of her latest oil paintings at an exhibition held at Newcomb,...
Fabien, Louis
Louis Fabien was born January 18, 1924 in L'Isle-Jourdain in the French department of Vienne. Fabien is a self-taught figurative painter who uses a modern form of pointillism in his colorful paintings. Fabien has exhibited artwork in Paris salon...
Fabiilli, Luciana
Luciana Fabiilli is an Italian Canadian Artist who was awarded permanent residency As An Artist Of ExtraOrdinary Ability in the United States. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Honors Degree from York University in Toronto. She went on to...
Fabilli, Mary
Born in Gardiner, NM on Feb. 16, 1914. Fabilli moved to California in 1922 and grew up on a farm near Delano. In 1937 she settled in Berkeley and entered UC where she was a pupil of Neuhaus, Boynton, Ryder, and O’Hagan. For 30 years she was a...
Fabius, Alan
The following is from the artist who describes himself : "I have happily spent 41 years trying to satisfy a constant urge to create Art." To me "Art" is more than just an image and "Great Art" in some unique way provokes an emotional response."...
Fabre, Jan
Jan Fabre (born 1958, Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist, playwright, stage director, choreographer and designer. 
Fabri, Ralph
Artist, author, editor, teacher and book reviewer for American Artist magazine, Ralph Fabri was born and educated in Budapest, Hungary. He earned his B.A. degree at the Royal State Gymnasium, studied architecture at the Royal Institute of...
Faiers, Edward Spencer (Ted)
Edward Faiers (1908-1985) A major contributor to the arts in Memphis from the 1950s until his death in 1985, Edward Spencer Faiers was significant as a teacher and an artist. He moved to Memphis in 1952 and joined the faculty of the Memphis...
Fairey, Shepard
Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" (…OBEY…) sticker campaign, in which he...
Falkenstein, Claire
Claire Falkenstein (July 22, 1908 – October 23, 1997) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer, and teacher, most renowned for her often large-scale abstract metal and glass public sculptures. She attended the University of...
Fantin-Latour, Henri
Born to a Russian mother and a French father, who was a portrait painter and drawing teacher, Henri Fantin-Latour became a well known French painter and lithographer in the classical tradition of the Old Masters. He moved with his family to Paris...
Farber, Neil
A Winnipeg based artist, Farber is a member of the Royal Art Lodge, and was part of the 2004 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, entitled "The Royal Lodge: Ask the Dusk". Taking a simple but expressive line drawing style that...
Fassianos, Alecos
Fassianos studied violin at the Athens Conservatory and painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1956 to 1960 where he was taught from Yannis Moralis. He then went to Paris on a French State scholarship (1962–1964) where he attended lessons...
Fautrier, Jean
Jean Fautrier (May 16, 1898 – July 21, 1964) was a French painter and sculptor. He was one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme*. He was born in Paris. Given his unwed mother's surname, he was raised by his grandmother until her death in...
Feininger, Andreas
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (27 December 1906 - 18 February 1999) was a German American photographer, and writer on photographic technique, noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and studies of the structure of natural...
Feininger, Lyonel
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter and caricaturist.Lyonel Feininger was born to parents of German descent and grew up in New York City, but moved to Berlin in 1887 to study at the Königliche...
Felix, Lafortune
Born 1933 in Pontsonde, Haiti. Lafortune Felix lives in St. Marc where he is a farmer and formally a voodoo priest. Through the wall paintings which he decorated his temple, he came to the attention of Pierre Monosiet, the late curator of the St....
Fellows, Fred
Living in Sonoita, Arizona, Fred Fellows is a painter and sculptor who works in realist style. He was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, where he was influenced by the cultures of the Otoe and Osage Indians, whose reservations were nearby. 
Ferama's artistic direction experienced a decisive turn while she was in West-Africa where she learned the lost wax method, a bronze founding technique. Working in her own studio later in Bamako, Mali gave an African and earthy influence to her work...
Ferber, Herbert
Herbert Ferber (born Herbert Ferber Silvers, April 30, 1906 – August 20, 1991) was an American sculptor and painter, born in New York City. He began his independent artistic studies in New York in 1926 at evening classes at the Beaux-Arts Institute...
Ferlingere, Scott & Sharon
Eagle People USA. Designers of a magnificently detailed, individually crafted, one-of-a-kind symbol of strength and freedom. Each piece is a superb example of American folk art, available for purchase directly from the artists. Scott and Sharon...
Ferlito, Gabriella
Gabriella Ferlito nasce a Ccatania dove vive e lavora. Partecipa a diverse collettive, e nel 2007 inaugura la sua prima personale, presso la Galleria Dietro le Quinte, Catania, con testo di Francesco Nicolosi Fazio. La sua ricerca parte dalla...
Fernandez, Teresita
Teresita Fernández (born Miami, 1968) is a contemporary sculptor and artist based in New York. A recipient of the 2005 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Fellowship", Fernández's work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of...
Ferren, John Millard
John Ferren (1905-1970)Born in Pendleton, Oregon, in 1905, and raised in California, John Ferren briefly attended art school in San Francisco. While serving as an apprentice to an Italian stonecutter, he began sculpting portrait heads in clay.In...
Ferreyros, Juliana
Juliana Ferreyros was born an artist by heart, mind and soul in Cali- Colombia (South America). Since she was in school Ferreyros felt herself attracted to; the magic of color, painting, designing,...
Filipepi, Allesandro
Sandro Botticelli was the youngest son of Mariano Filipepi; he was born in Florence, Italy in 1445. His name was really Allessandro de Mariano Filipepi. Botticelli was really just a nickname, meaning "little barrel" and was originally bestowed on...
Fine, Perle
Perle Fine (1908–1988) was among the most prominent female artists associated with American Abstract Expressionism.In the late 1930s she began to study with Hans Hofmann in New York City as well as in Provincetown, MA.In 1950 she was nominated by...
Finster, Howard
The Rev. Howard Finster produced more than 46,000 pieces of art prior to his death at age 84. He was a man possessed, not by demons, but by the need to create art. He was a self-proclaimed “man of visions” who put his visions into his colorful folk...
Fisher, Margaret
A painter of abstraction, Margaret Fisher began her career as an economist and architect. In New York City, Alfred Steiglitz, photographer and gallery owner who promoted modernist art, encouraged Fisher to follow her passion. She enrolled in the Art...
Fitzpatrick, Tony
"I think what drives me is being such a f*ck-up the first half of my life…for hurting people, and there are people I've hurt who there's no way I could ever say sorry to. There's one guy in particular who walks the other way whenever he sees me....
Flanagan, Barry
Barry Flanagan (January 11, 1941 - August 31, 2009) was a Welsh sculptor, best known for his bronze statues of hares.BiographyBarry Flanagan was born in Prestatyn, North Wales. He studied at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts (1957–1958) before...
Fleischer, Alain
Alain Fleischer was born in Paris in 1944. He works as a writer, filmmaker, artist and photographer, dividing his time between Paris, Rome and Tourcoing. He studied French language and literature, linguistics, semiology and anthropology at the...
Florido, Miguel
Miguel Florido was born on October 6, 1980, in San José de las Lajas, Havana, Cuba. Florido, a self-taught artist, has garnered several awards and honorable mentions including: First Place, Salón de Pintura Vedasto Acosta, San José de las Lajas,...
Flynt, Robert
Contemporary American photographer. Artist's statement, 
Fontana, Lavinia
Trained by her father, she achieved success in Bologna and Rome, including large-scale public commissions -- and still had time to have eleven children.The Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614) has been enjoying a renaissance during the past...
Fontana, Lucio
Lucio Fontana (19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine painter and sculptor. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism and his ties to Arte Povera.Born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina of Italian parents. Fontana...
Forsberg, Jim
Jim Forsberg (1991-1991) was a noted 20th century abstract artist.He was an art student during the heyday of abstract expressionism in the 1940s. Forsberg's early training was with Will Barnet and Vaclav Vytlacil at the Art Students League, and with...
Forster, Jeff
Jeff Forster is a sculptor who works in clay. Growing up in rural Minnesota, Forster observed the cyclical changes of seasons, conjuring ideas of life, death, and rebirth, concepts that are integral to his work. Making sculptures from reused...
Foster, Jonathan
Jon Foster is an American freelance illustrator, penciler, and sculptor. He is best known for his comic book covers (DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics) and other works featured in Dungeons & Dragons and Alternity. Jon Foster studied illustration at...
Foucault, Henri
Henri Foucult is a contemporary French photographer. Born in 1954, juni 3rd in Versailles. Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Higher National Diploma of Visual Arts, 1981. Teaching since 1995 at the ENSAD (...
Frank, Hannah
Hannah Frank (August 23, 1908 – December 18, 2008) was an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland. 
Suzy Frelinghuysen (born Estelle Condit Frelinghuysen, in 1911; died in 1988) was an American abstract painter and erstwhile soprano.Born in New Jersey, she was descended from various politicians, including her grandfather, Frederick T....
French, Jared
Jared French (1905-1988) was a painter who specialized in the ancient medium of egg tempera. He was one of the masters of Magic Realism, part of a circle of friends and colleagues who all painted surreal imagery in egg tempera. Others include George...
Freundlich, Otto
Otto Freundlich (July 10, 1878 – March 9, 1943) was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin and one of the first generation of abstract artists.Freundlich was born in Stolp, Province of Pomerania, Prussia, and studied dentistry before...
Frey, Viola
Viola Frey (1933-2004) was an internationally respected artist and leading figure in contemporary ceramics. She was known for her monumental, intensely colored ceramic sculptures, which explored issues of gender, cultural iconography and art history...
Lee Friedlander (born 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington) is an influential American photographer and artist.Friedlander's early work is known for his self-exploration evidenced in his self-portraits and for his cultural statements, such as can be seen in...
Fromanger, Gérard
Gérard Fromanger is a French artist born on 6 September 1939 in Jouars-Pontchartrain, Yvelines. A painter who has also used collage, sculpture, photography, cinema and lithography, he is associated with the French artistic movement of the 1960s and...
Frost, Phil
Phil Frost is a self-taught artist whose unique work brings together aspects of urban culture, abstraction, tribalism, and design. In the 1990s, Frost honed his skills by painting walls, found objects and street detritus with his intricate,...
Fu, Baoshi
Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) was a Chinese painter from Xinyu, Jiangxi Province. He went to Japan to study the History of Oriental Art in the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1933. He translated many books from Japanese and carried out his own research. In...
Fuster, Jose
José Rodríguez Fuster was born in Villa Clara in 1946. He paints, engraves and sketches and is also one of Cuba's most original ceramists. He began his artistic career in 1961 at the age of 14, when he went to the Sierra Maestra to teach in the...
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