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Gabanyi, Aexandra
She was born in Budapest, Hungary and received her art education there. Gabanyi came to the U.S. in 1976. She lived in Portland Oregon doing fashion illustrations later teaching fine art at the Seattle Art Institute. She moved to New York City...
Gabay, Esperanza
The following is from Nancy Thurston of Williford, Arkansas, a senior citizen doing a research project in order to write a biography on American artist, Esperanza Gabay. Gabay studied under Kenyon Cox and Walter Shirlaw, studied at the Art Students...
Gable, Amos
Amos was born on February 2, 1840 and died January 7, 1913. He started out working full-time as a barber and used portrait painting only as a supplemental income until he could afford to pursue it as his sole career. A great deal of Amos’ subjects...
Gabo, Naum
Naum Gabo KBE, born Naum Neemia Pevsner (5 August 1890 – 23 August 1977) was a prominent Russian sculptor in the Constructivism movement and a pioneer of Kinetic Art.Gabo contributed to the Agit-prop open air exhibitions and taught at 'VKhUTEMAS'...
Gabriel, Jacques
Jacques Gabriel (1934–1988) was a Haitian painter. A Port-au-Prince native, Gabriel studied at The New School for Social Research in New York City and received a scholarship to study in Paris, France. His works have been exhibited in the United...
Gabrielli, Guido
Born in Italy on Oct. 26, 1893. Gabrielli immigrated to San Francisco in 1920 and was active there until the onset of the Depression. He then settled on a farm in Dixon, CA where he remained until his suicide on Jan. 16, 1970. 
Gabrini, Pietro
Pietro Gabrini was an Italian artist working in variety of mediums on diverse subject matters. Perhaps he acquired his range of practices from his teacher, Guglielmo de Sanctis. De Sanctis was an Italian painter, writer, and teacher from whom...
Gach, George
Born in Hungary, George Gach, the son of sculptor Stephen Gach (1880-1962), was noted for sculpture, impressionist painting and teaching. His subjects included animals, people, florals, nudes, cowboys, sports and scenes of Long Island, Bermuda,...
Gaddis, John
Born on November 20, 1928, John Gaddis received a degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and worked as a civil engineer. In 1972, he gave up his career to devote himself full-time to his art. Having previously received training in watercolor...
Gag, Anton
From New Ulm, Minnesota and born and raised in Walk, Bohemia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire which is now in the Czech Republic, Anton Gag seemed to fit the stereotype of the Bohemian artist--always poor, pursuing a talent that did not...
Gagliano, Michelle
Painter Michelle Gagliano was raised in upstate New York and now lives in Texas. She captures the landscape of both places in her "neo-naturalist" paintings. Gagliano is a graduate of North Texas State University and studied with Vernon Fisher. 
Gagliardi, Tommaso
Born in Rome, Italy in 1820. Gagliardi sailed to the U.S. in 1855 and worked for three years at the Capitol in Washington, DC. While in San Francisco in the 1870s, his statuary and portrait busts were in demand. He later founded a school of...
Gagnon, Ralph
An abstract painter, he was born May 20, 1919 and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire. Gagnon lived and worked in Boston in the 1950s and 1960s where he exhibited between 1952 and 1958 at Nova Gallery, Stanhope Street, and at the Carl Siembab...
My work is about preservation, whether it be natural resources or ancient artifacts. The art has a certain ambiguity to it, the viewer relates to the image and places it in his mind to a specific location. The actual original setting most likely has...
Gagon, Sandy
It is obvious that Sandy Freckleton Gagon is passionate about motherhood, family and harmony. Using an impeccable technique, this artist creates highly detailed still lifes which often include a small reproduction of a famous museum painting in the...
Gaildrau, Jules
Born in Paris, France on Sept. 18, 1816. Gaildrau came to California in the Gold Rush about 1852. His illustrations of mining activities appeared in Voyages en Californie published in Paris in 1854. He died there in January 1898. 
Gaillard, Jason
A graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Jason Gaillard later studied with Sigmund Abeles and Jack Beal. He has been widely exhibited in New York and California and has completed mural commissions on his own and with the...
Gall, Ted
Theodore T. Gall began his career in the arts in the mid-sixties as an animator for teaching films and continued to broaden his skills as a graphic designer. Gall has worked in metal since his early days as an artist. Although his work has not been...
Gallatin, Albert Eugene
A. E. Gallatin (1881-1952) was an American artist and collector bprn in Villanova, Pennsylvania, to a patrician family of Swiss descent, Albert Eugene Gallatin was heir to a large banking fortune. His ties to NYU, to art, and to France extended back...
Gallina, Claudio
Claudio Gallina, born in Argentina in 1964, studied art at Escuela de Bellas Artes Prilidianos Pueyrredón. Early in his career he worked as a scenic artist and designer for theater and television. He has exhibited widely and his art has been...
GALVAN, JOSE
GALVAN José - ASPE (Province of ALICANTE - Spain) July 30, 1910 - BENIDORM (Spain) August 25, 2001. To the 19 years age, it went to live with ALCOY (Spain) and works in an industrial school where it draws copies. There, its Professors notice his...
Garcia, Fernando
Fernando García (Born in Puerto Padre, Cuba, 1955 - died in Miami 1989) Studies 1982 Master Degree in Plastic Arts, Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba. Selected Solo Exhibitions 1999 la boheme gallery, the gallery 1998 performances, miami...
Garcia Alix, Alberto
Master Spanish photographer Alberto Garcia Alix is known as one of the best oeuvres in contemporary Spanish photography. He is the foremost photographer to emerge from Spain's La Movida, the post-Franco era of free expression. Through his...
Garner, Sara
Sara Garner is a Marietta, Georgia artist. Painting in the realist tradition she is a respected member of the local art community. Self taught, inspired by her artist father, her works are in great demand in this part of the country. She...
Garratt, Arthur
Born in Lambeth, Arthur Garratt was a portrait painter and engraver who enjoyed considerable success and was commissioned to paint many of the leading people of his time including Rodin. He studied at the City of London School and exhibited from...
Garrett, Dan
For as long as he could remember, Dan Garret aspired to a career in art. A singular event put him completely on-course with this objective - when his parents took over a greeting card company during Garret’s mid-teens. Traveling with his father...
Gatewood, Charles
Born in Mississippi in 1941, Charles Gatewood graduated from Art Center School in Los Angeles (now Art Center College of Design in Pasadena) with a degree in Industrial Design and worked with the General Motors Design Staff at their Technical Center...
Gatz, William
William Gatz has been a professional photographer for over 40 years. Only in the last five years has he turned serious attention toward producing images purely for the enjoyment of art. A graduate of the world esteemed Brooks Institute of...
Gaugin, Paul
(Eugène Henri) Paul Gauguin was born in Paris on June 7, 1848, into a liberal middle-class family. After an adventurous early life, including a four-year stay in Peru with his family (they moved back to France after his father's death) and a stint...
Gauguin, Paul
Paul Gauguin was born in 1848 in Paris of a Breton father and a Peruvian Creole mother. His grandmother, Flora Tristan, was a revolutionary socialist and an early French feminist who sometimes claimed to be descended from “a Bourbon of Aragon”...
Gechtoff, Sonia
Sonia Gechtoff (born 1926) is an American artist. Although she lived and worked in San Francisco for less than a decade, Sonia Gechtoff (born 1926) took a highly active role in Bay Area art while she was there. Born and raised in...
Gelblum, Gary
Gary Schyler Gelblum (born May 24, 1991) is an American graffiti and contemporary artist. Born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, Gary was very exposed to the art world. As a child, Gary displayed natural ability in art among his parents, teachers...
Genzken, Isa
Known for column shaped or linear mixed-media* work, which includes photography, collage*, metals, and video, Isa Genzken is based in Berlin. Some of her pieces are precise still lifes of random objects. Her education includs the Hamburg College...
Gergely, Tibor
Tibor Gergely (1900-1978) was an artist and Illustrator. Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1900, he studied art briefly in Vienna, Austria, before emigrating to the United States in 1939, where he settled in New York City. Largely a self-taught artist,...
Giacometti, Alberto
Alberto Giacometti (10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Alberto Giacometti was born in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland and came from an artistic background; his father, Giovanni,...
Gibbons, Sam
Sam Gibbons is an American illustrator whose work is an absolute trip! His series of kaleidoscopic creations is a testament to his wild imagination, great work with color and awesome artistic skill.He lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.These...
Gibson, Charles
In 1886, a nineteen-year-old artist, portfolio in hand, was seen sneaking his way up the back stairs to the New York City offices of the young humor magazine, LIFE. A tall, handsome youth, he hardly looked like the type that needed to sneak his way...
Gideon, Elmo
Elmo Gideon (11 January 1924 — 21 December 2010) was an American Master Artist and Sculptor of the 20th and 21st centuries. His paintings and sculptures include some of the world’s most known subjects, including the famous Gideon Holocaust...
Gielen, Christopher
Christoph Gielen was born in Bonn, Germany, but has lived in New York most of his life. He specializes in conducting photographic aerial studies of infrastructure in its relation to land use, exploring the intersection of art and environmental...
Gilbert and George are two contemporary artists who work together as a duo.Gilbert Proesch (San Martin de Tor, Italy, 17 September 1943) and George Passmore (Plymouth, United Kingdom, 8 January 1942) have become famous for their distinctive , highly...
Gilkey, Richard
The painter Richard Gilkey grew up in the Skagit Valley, attended Ballard High School, and served in World War II as a marine. He returned to civilian life traumatized, becoming a brawler and rabble rouser. Exposure to the mystical and anti-war...
Gilliam, Sam
Sam Gilliam (b. November 30, 1933) is internationally recognized as one of America's foremost Color Field Painter and Lyrical Abstractionist artists. Gilliam, an African American, is associated with the Washington Color School and is broadly...
Giotto designed a great number of works, many of which have disappeared. It is thought that he first participated in the decoration of the Upper Church at Assisi. Scenes from the Life of Christ, Legend of St. Francis, and Isaac and Esau have all...
Giust, Amy
Amy Giust was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied art at Hope College in Holland, Michigan and then again later at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Daughter of an engineer and a musician, her favorite subjects early in life...
Glarner, Fritz
Fritz Glarner  (b Zurich, 20 July 1899; d Locarno, 18 Sept 1972) was an American painter of Swiss birth. Brought up in France and Italy, he studied at the Regio Istituto di Belle Arti in Naples from 1914 to 1920. Three years later he moved to...
Glaysher, Rowland (Rollz)
Rowland Glaysher known as Rollz was born in Surrey and settled on the Isle of Wight many years ago. He has slowly worked his way to become the island's top artist. Because of the growing demand for his work, he set up his art studio in Cowes High...
Glintenkamp, Hendrik
Hendrik Glintenkamp (1887-1946) was known to his friends as “Glint,” he was a painter, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor––part of an artistic milieu that included such influential figures as Henri, Sloan and Stuart Davis.  There’s been...
Gniewek, Robert
Robert Gniewek is a second generation Photorealist painter. He paints American roadside culture from the late 1940s and early 1950s, and focusing on 'disappearing' parts of the landscape, documents small town cafes and diners, gas stations, and...
Goldin, Nan
Nan Goldin was born in Washington , D.C. 1953. She graduated from the School of the Modern Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University in 1977/1978, where she had worked mostly with Cibachrome prints. She lives in New York and Paris. She was presented with...
Goncharova, Natalia
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (1881 - 1962) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubo-Futurism), painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Her great-aunt was Natalia Pushkina, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin. 
Gonzales, Julio
Juli González i Pellicer (21 September 1876 - 27 March 1942) was a Catalan abstract and cubist painter and sculptor.Born in Barcelona, as a young man he worked with his older brother, Joan, in his father's metal smith workshop. Both brothers took...
Gonzalez, Ana
Nací en Cádiz, España. Después me trasladé con mis padres a Barcelona y actualmente vivo en Tenerife. Desde pequeña siempre me gustó dibujar. Ya de niña, le hacía a mi hermana las muñecas de recortables de papel. Luego empecé a imitar los dibujos...
Gonzalez, Giraldo
Goodman, Sidney
Sidney Goodman is an American artist (born 1936) who lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Education: Philadelphia College of Art, 1958 (now University of the Arts), Boston Art Institute Honorary Degree 1996Professor of Art,...
Goodnough, Robert
Robert Goodnough (born in 1917) is an American abstract painter. In the 1950s and 60s, when he exhibited regularly at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, where he made his debut in the landmark exhibition "The New Generation" in 1950, Goodnough didn't attend...
Gordin, Sidney
Sidney Gordin (1918-1996), an abstract artist, sculptor and former professor at the University of California at Berkeley.Mr. Gordin's art is in numerous museum collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, the...
Gorenstein, Alexander
Alexander Gorenstein was born in Russia and graduated from Odessa State Art School and then the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema. From 1986 he worked in theaters of Russia and Europe as artist a scene-designer. Alexander...
Gorenstein, Alexander
Gorenstein was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1952, and at only age seven enrolled in art school. He continued his studies at St Petersburg Academy of Theater, Cinematography and music, and graduated in stage design. He has moved beyond the more...
Gormley, Anthony
Antony Mark David Gormley OBE RA (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby...
GORSPE, PACO
Francisco "Paco" Gorospe (10 July 1939 – 22 September 2002) was a Filipino painter, called the "Picasso of the Philippines". Paco Gorospe is one of the famous painters of the Philippines.[1] He was born in Binondo, Manila. He was inspired by the...
gorspe, paco
Francisco "Paco" Gorospe (10 July 1939 – 22 September 2002) was a Filipino painter, called the "Picasso of the Philippines". Paco Gorospe is one of the famous painters of the Philippines.[1] He was born in Binondo, Manila. He was inspired by the...
Toby Gotesman Schneier is a reality-based, mannerist painter whose use of color, light, and composition have earned her nationwide acclaim. Her unique ability to bring extraordinary flavor to every day objects and familiar scenes evokes a nostalgic...
Gotlib, Helen
Helen Gotlib was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A life time interest in art lead Helen to study at the University of Michigan’s School Of Art And Design where she divided her time between printmaking and scientific illustration. This lead...
Gottlieb, Adolph
 Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 - March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and graphic artist.Gottlieb was born in New York to Jewish parents. From 1920-1921 he studied at the Art Students League of New York,...
Graham, John
John D. Graham was a figure of immense influence in the early years of American modernism, both as an artist and as a connoisseur. He is credited as a major influence in the formation of Abstract Expressionism and in his work alternated between...
Graham, Robert
Robert Graham (August 19, 1938 – December 27, 2008) was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America. Graham's first major...
Grancher, Valéry
Valéry Grancher: Date de naissance: 22.04.1967 Lieux de naissance: Toulon, Var, France Since the begining of the 90's, the artist's main exhibition and performance include: Institutions: - Verbeke Fondation, Belgium (2010) - Glassbox, Paris...
Grant, Dwinell
Dwinell Grant (1912-1991)Dwinell Grant began formal art training at Dayton Art Institute in 1931, but left for New York in 1933 to study at the National Academy of Design. Through these years, Grant developed a non-objective style, guided by...
Grau-Garriga, Josep
The end of World War II marked the beginning of a new era for the arts in Europe and the United States. The Spanish artist Josep Grau-Garriga was inspired by traditional tapestries, especially medieval tapestries seen in his native Catalonian...
Graves, Morris
Morris Cole Graves (August 28, 1910 – May 5, 2001) was an American expressionist painter. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, he founded the Northwest School. Graves was also a mystic.He spent much of his...
Gray, Anthony John
ANTHONY JOHN GRAY. Anthony John Gray born 1946 Cambridge, UK. This is the most exciting news for Art Lovers and Art Collectors that Anthony John Gray is coming back on the art market, after staggering of 20 years hard working for impressive...
Green, Les
Les Green 1916 - 2008 Meridian artist Les Green was a nationally award-winning miniature painter whose work was exhibited in juried miniature shows in 24 states. Green's art studies began during the New Deal-era with a 1935 WPA art class taught by...
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