Sentences with phrase «name but a few painters»

But artists like Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, James Brooks, Balcombe Greene, and Norman Lewis — to name but a few painters of the era — fed themselves on wages from the New Deal's Works Progress Administration before they hit it big.

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Although not always acknowledged, his influence is visible in the works of a current generation of painters that includes, Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Sergej Jensen and Oscar Murillo to name but a few.

For such painters as Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton and Chris Ofili and even such sculptors as Robert Gober, to name but a few, Alice Neel provides a precedent, an outlook on the world and on art that acts as some kind of model.

galleryIntell: The average museum goer probably knows quite a few modern abstract painters: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, all come to mind quite easily, but I doubt we could name even one African American painter from that period.

Many of the best painters in Britain had confronted the problem throughout the fifties of how one could make paintings which were both abstract and figurative at the same time; to name but a few: Ben Nicholson, William Scott, Prunella Clough, Keith Vaughan, Ivon Hitchens, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron and Terry Frost.

One of Ireland's best still life painters, his work is admired by many other contemporary Irish artists as well as private and corporate collectors, and is represented in several important art collections such as: the Office of Public Works (including Leinster House), The National Library, AIB, Jefferson Smurfit Group, National Irish Bank, the Irish Management Institute, Smithwicks, Tara Mines, the collection of former President Mary Robinson, the Concept Gallery Pittsburg USA, and the Royal Hibernian Academy, to name but a few.

She works principally in oils, and draws inspiration from a relatively wide selection of artists, including Old Masters like Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), Rubens (1577 - 1640) and Rembrandt (1606 - 69), and as well as modern expressionist figurative painters like the Viennese - born Lucien Freud (b. 1922), the mercurial Francis Bacon (1909 - 92), and the Portugese - born fantasy - artist Paula Rego (b. 1935), to name but a few.

The collection of American art includes works by the great 18th century history painter John Singleton Copley; the Francophile Mary Cassatt, a leading figure in the American Impressionism movement; the portraitist Gilbert Stuart; the painter of the cowboy west Frederic Remington; the wonderful 19th century realists Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins; the post-Impressionist Whistler; the virtuoso society portrait painter John Singer Sargent; the Pop - Artists Jasper Johns, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein; co-inventors of «Action - Painting» Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner; and the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, to name but a few.

The collection features a wide selection of Irish portrait artists, Irish genre painters and Irish landscape artists, with works of portraiture by James Barry (1741 — 1806), Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740 — 1808), Sir John Lavery (1856 — 1941), Sir William Orpen (1878 - 1931); landscape painting by Roderic O'Conor (1860 — 1940), Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718 — 84); and genre scenes by Francis Danby (1793 — 1861), Walter Osborne (1859 — 1903), and William John Leech (1881 — 1968), to name but a few.