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Born February 22, 1904 • Roswell • New Mexico
Died July 9, 1984 (aged 80) • Roswell • New Mexico
Movement / Style Social Realism

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Portrait of José Herrera
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Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh
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Lucas Cranach, the Elder
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Jacques Villon
French painter
Martiros Saryan
Martiros Saryan
Armenian painter
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Ike Taiga
Japanese painter
Audubon, James John: Blue Jay
Robert Havell, Jr.
American painter
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George Catlin
American artist and author
Kent, Rockwell: illustration of Ahab
Rockwell Kent
American painter
self-portrait by Grant Wood
Grant Wood
American artist
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
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Hokusai
Japanese artist
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
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Georges Rouault
French artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
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Simon Ushakov
Russian artist
Rowlandson, Thomas: Comet
Thomas Rowlandson
English painter and caricaturist
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
“Pamela Asks Sir Jacob Swinford's Blessing,” illustration no. 11 for Pamela by Samuel Richardson, oil painting by Joseph Highmore, 1744; in the Tate Gallery, London
Joseph Highmore
British painter
Everdingen, Allaert van: Swedish Landscape with a Waterfall
Allaert van Everdingen
Dutch painter

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