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Hans Arp
Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966)
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John James Audubon
United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851)
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Marcel Duchamp
French artist who immigrated to the United States; a leader in the dada movement in New York City; was first to exhibit commonplace objects as art (1887-1968)
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Al Hirschfeld
United States artist noted for his line-drawn caricatures (1904-2003)
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Jasper Johns
United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)
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Edward Lear
British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888)
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Louis Comfort Tiffany
United States artist who developed Tiffany glass (1848-1933)
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Praxiteles
ancient Greek sculptor (circa 370-330 BC)
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Josef Albers
United States painter born in Germany; works characterized by simple geometrical patterns in various colors (1888-1976)
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Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472)
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Saint Ambrose
(Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397)
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Johann Sebastian Bach
German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750)
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Samuel Barber
United States composer (1910-1981)
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Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty now in New York harbor
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Bela Bartok
Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945)
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Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music); continued to compose after he lost his hearing (1770-1827)
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Vanessa Stephen
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
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Vincenzo Bellini
Italian composer of operas (1801-1835)
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Thomas Hart Benton
United States artist whose paintings portrayed life in the Midwest and South (1889-1975)
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Alban Berg
Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935)
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Irving Berlin
United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989)
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Louis-Hector Berlioz
French composer of romantic works (1803-1869)
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Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680)
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Leonard Bernstein
United States conductor and composer (1918-1990)
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Georges Bizet
French composer best known for his operas (1838-1875)
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William Blake
visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
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Marc Blitzstein
United States pianist and composer of operas and musical plays (1905-1964)
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Ernest Bloch
United States composer (born in Switzerland) who composed symphonies and chamber music and choral music and a piano sonata and an opera (1880-1959)
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Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin
Russian composer (1833-1887)
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Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch painter (1450-1516)
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Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi
Italian painter of mythological and religious paintings (1444-1510)
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Pierre Boulez
French composer of serial music (born in 1925)
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Mathew B. Brady
United States pioneer photographer famous for his portraits; was the official Union photographer for the American Civil War (1823-1896)
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Johannes Brahms
German composer who developed the romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897)
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Constantin Brancusi
Romanian sculptor noted for abstractions of animal forms (1876-1957)
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Georges Braque
French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963)
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Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976)
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Hablot Knight Browne
English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)
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Max Bruch
German composer (1838-1920)
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Anton Bruckner
Austrian organist and composer of romantic music (1824-1896)
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569)
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William Byrd
English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623)
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John Milton Cage Jr.
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
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Alexander Calder
United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610)
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Hoagland Howard Carmichael
United States songwriter (1899-1981)
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Benvenuto Cellini
Italian sculptor (1500-1571)
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Paul Cezanne
French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906)
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Marc Chagall
French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985)
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Carlos Chavez
Mexican composer of nationalistic works using themes from Indian folk music (1899-1978)
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Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Cherubini
Italian composer of church music and operas (1760-1842)
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Giorgio de Chirico
Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978)
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Frederic Francois Chopin
French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849)
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Giovanni Cimabue
painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)
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George Michael Cohan
United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942)
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John Constable
English landscape painter (1776-1837)
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Aaron Copland
United States composer who developed a distinctly American music (1900-1990)
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John Singleton Copley
American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815)
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Arcangelo Corelli
Italian violinist and composer of violin concertos (1653-1713)
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875)
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Antonio Allegri da Correggio
Italian painter noted for his use of chiaroscuro and perspective (1494-1534)
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Francois Couperin
French composer of music for organ and a member of a family of distinguished organists (1668-1733)
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Gustave Courbet
French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877)
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Sir Noel Pierce Coward
English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)
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Thomas Crawford
United States neoclassical sculptor (1814-1857)
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Nathaniel Currier
United States lithographer who (with his partner James Ives) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1813-1888)
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Karl Czerny
Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano; studied with Beethoven and was a teacher of Liszt (1791-1857)
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Salvador Dali
surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989)
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Honore Daumier
French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879)
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Jacques Louis David
French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)
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Stuart Davis
United States painter who developed an American version of cubism (1894-1964)
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Claude Achille Debussy
French composer who is said to have created Impressionism in music (1862-1918)
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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French impressionist painter (1834-1917)
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Willem de Kooning
United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997)
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Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix
French romantic painter (1798-1863)
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Clement Philibert Leo Delibes
French composer of operas (1836-1891)
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Frederick Delius
English composer of orchestral works (1862-1934)
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Andre Derain
French painter and exponent of fauvism (1880-1954)
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Antoine Domino
United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)
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Donato di Betto Bardi
Florentine sculptor famous for his lifelike sculptures (1386-1466)
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Gaetano Donizetti
Italian composer of operas (1797-1848)
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John Dowland
English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626)
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Raoul Dufy
French painter noted for brightly colored scenes (1877-1953)
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Paul Dukas
French composer (1865-1935)
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George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier
English writer and illustrator; grandfather of Daphne du Maurier (1834-1896)
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Albrecht Durer
a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528)
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Antonin Dvorak
Czech composer who combined folk elements with traditional forms (1841-1904)
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Bob Dylan
United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941)
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898)
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Sir Edward William Elgar
British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)
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Domenikos Theotocopoulos
Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)
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Georges Enesco
Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955)
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Sir Jacob Epstein
British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959)
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Max Ernst
painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976)
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Jan van Eyck
Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)
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Manuel de Falla
Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946)
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Jules Feifer
United States cartoonist who created a sarcastic comic strip (born in 1929)
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Arthur Fiedler
popular United States conductor (1894-1979)
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Stephen Collins Foster
United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)
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Jean Honore Fragonard
French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806)
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Cesar Franck
French composer and teacher who influenced a generation of composers (1822-1890)
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Daniel Chester French
United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931)
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Roger Eliot Fry
English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
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Thomas Gainsborough
English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)
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Paul Gauguin
French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903)
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George Gershwin
United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937)
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Alberto Giacometti
Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966)
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Charles Dana Gibson
United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the `Gibson girl' (1867-1944)
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Giotto di Bondone
Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Russian composer (1804-1857)
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Christoph Willibald von Gluck
German composer of more than 100 operas (1714-1787)
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Reuben Lucius Goldberg
United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970)
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Benjamin David Goodman
United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986)
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Charles Francois Gounod
French composer best remembered for his operas (1818-1893)
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Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
Spanish painter well known for his portraits and for his satires (1746-1828)
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George Percy Aldridge Grainger
United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961)
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Duncan James Corrow Grant
Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)
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Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907)
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Jaun Gris
Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927)
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Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967)
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Jacques Francois Fromental Elie Halevy
French operatic composer (1799-1862)
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Frans Hals
Dutch portrait and genre painter who endowed his portraits with vitality and humor (1580?-1666)
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George Frederick Handel
a prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
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William Christopher Handy
United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958)
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Frederick Childe Hassam
United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935)
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Franz Joseph Haydn
prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809)
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Dame Barbara Hepworth
British sculptor (1902-1975)
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Victor Herbert
United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924)
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Woodrow Charles Herman
United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987)
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Paul Hindemith
German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963)
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Malvina Hoffman
United States sculptor (1887-1966)
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William Hogarth
English artist noted for a series of engravings that satirized the affectations of his time (1697-1764)
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Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849)
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Holbein the Elder
German painter of religious works (1465-1524)
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Holbein the Younger
German painter and engraver noted for his portraits; he was commissioned by Henry VIII to provide portraits of the English king's prospective brides (1497-1543)
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Charles Hardin Holley
United States rock star (1936-1959)
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Winslow Homer
United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910)
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Arthur Honegger
Swiss composer (born in France) who was the founding member of a group in Paris that included Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau (1892-1955)
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Engelbert Humperdinck
German composer of six operas and other incidental music (1854-1921)
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William Holman Hunt
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
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Jacques Francois Antoine Ibert
French composer (1890-1962)
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
French classical painter (1780-1867)
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James Merritt Ives
United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895)
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Charles Edward Ives
United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954)
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Joseph Joachim
Hungarian violinist and composer (1831-1907)
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Scott Joplin
United States composer who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions (1868-1917)
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Aram Kachaturian
Armenian composer who incorporated oriental folk music (1903-1978)
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Wassily Kandinski
Russian painter who was a pioneer of abstract art (1866-1944)
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Rockwell Kent
United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971)
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Jerome David Kern
United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945)
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Aram Ilich Khachaturian
Russian composer (born in Armenia) whose works are romantic and reflect his interest in folk music (1903-1978)
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German expressionist painter (1880-1938)
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Paul Klee
Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940)
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Gustav Klimt
Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918)
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Franz Joseph Kline
United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962)
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Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky
United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951)
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Lee Krasner
United States artist remembered for her spontaneous approach to painting; she was a founder of the New York school of abstract expressionism (1908-1984)
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Gaston Lachaise
United States sculptor (born in France) noted for his large nude figures (1882-1935)
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Leonard Constant Lambert
English composer and conductor (1905-1951)
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Dorothea Lange
United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965)
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Orlando di Lasso
Belgian composer (1532-1594)
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Georges de La Tour
French painter of religious works (1593-1652)
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Sir Thomas Lawrence
English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
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Huddie Leadbetter
United States folk singer and composer (1885-1949)
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Fernand Leger
French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955)
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Franz Lehar
Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948)
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John Lennon
English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)
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Roy Lichtenstein
United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art (1923-1997)
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Maya Lin
United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)
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Jacques Lipchitz
United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973)
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Fra Filippo Lippi
Italian painter whose works show a three-dimensional style (1406-1469)
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Filippino Lippi
Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504)
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Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886)
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Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton
English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948)
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Frederick Loewe
United States composer (born in Austria) who collaborated with Lerner on several musicals (1901-1987)
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Sir David Alexander Cecil Low
British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
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Laurence Stephen Lowry
English painter (1887-1976)
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Jean Baptiste Lully
French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687)
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Lysippus
Greek sculptor (4th century BC)
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Edward MacDowell
United States composer best remembered as a composer of works for the piano (1860-1908)
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Rene Magritte
Belgian surrealist painter (1898-1967)
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Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911)
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Aristide Maillol
French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944)
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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
Russian abstract painter (1878-1935)
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Edouard Manet
French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883)
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Andrea Mantegna
Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506)
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Reginald Marsh
United States painter (1898-1954)
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Jules Emile Frederic Massenet
French composer best remembered for his pop operas (1842-1912)
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Henri Emile Benoit Matisse
French painter and sculptor; leading figure of fauvism (1869-1954)
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William Henry Mauldin
United States cartoonist noted for his drawings of soldiers in battle (1921-2003)
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Sir James Paul McCartney
English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)
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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847)
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Gian Carlo Menotti
United States composer (born in Italy) of operas (born in 1911)
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Jakob Liebmann Beer
German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864)
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564)
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Darius Milhaud
French composer of works that combine jazz and polytonality and Brazilian music (1892-1974)
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Sir John Everett Millais
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1896)
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Alton Glenn Miller
United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
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Jean Francois Millet
French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
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Joan Miro
Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983)
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Amedeo Modigliano
Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920)
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Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art (1872-1944)
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Claude Monet
French impressionist painter (1840-1926)
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Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer (1567-1643)
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Henry Spencer Moore
British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)
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Douglas Moore
United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969)
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)
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Anna Mary Robertson Moses
United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)
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Robert Motherwell
United States abstract expressionist painter (1915-1991)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; master of the classical style in all its forms of his time (1756-1791)
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Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter (1863-1944)
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Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Spanish painter (1617-1682)
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Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky
Russian composer of operas and orchestral works (1839-1881)
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Thomas Nast
United States political cartoonist (1840-1902)
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Louise Nevelson
United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988)
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Carl August Nielsen
Danish composer (1865-1931)
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Isamu Noguchi
United States sculptor (1904-1988)
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Jacques Offenbach
French composer of many operettas and an opera (1819-1880)
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Georgia Okeeffe
United States painter (1887-1986)
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Claes Thure Oldenburg
United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929)
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Yoko Ono
United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933)
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Roy Orbison
United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988)
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Carl Orff
German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982)
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Eugene Ormandy
United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985)
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Jose Clemente Orozco
Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949)
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Seiji Ozawa
United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935)
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer (1526-1594)
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Maxfield Frederick Parrish
United States painter (1870-1966)
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Pheidias
ancient Greek sculptor (circa 500-432 BC)
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Pablo Picasso
prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973)
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Walter Piston
United States neoclassical composer (1894-1976)
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Jackson Pollock
United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)
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Cole Albert Porter
United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946)
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Francis Poulenc
French pianist and composer (1899-1963)
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Nicolas Poussin
French painter in the classical style (1594-1665)
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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
Russian composer of ballets and symphonies and operas (1891-1953)
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Giacomo Puccini
Italian operatic composer noted for the dramatic realism of his operas (1858-1924)
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Henry Purcell
English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)
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Howard Pyle
United States writer and illustrator of children's books (1853-1911)
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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff
composer and piano virtuoso born in Russia (1873-1943)
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer of operas whose writings laid the foundation for the modern theory of harmony (1683-1764)
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Raffaello Sanzio
Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520)
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Maurice Ravel
French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937)
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Stephen Michael Reich
United States composer (born in 1936)
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Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
influential Dutch artist (1606-1669)
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Pierre Auguste Renoir
French impressionist painter (1841-1919)
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Ottorino Respighi
Italian composer remembered for his symphonic poems (1879-1936)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792)
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Nikolai Andreyevich Rimski-Korsakov
Russian composer of operas and orchestral works; often used themes from folk music (1844-1908)
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Diego Rivera
socialist Mexican painter of murals (1886-1957)
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Norman Rockwell
United States illustrator whose works present a sentimental idealized view of everyday life (1894-1978)
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Richard Rodgers
United States composer of musical comedies (especially in collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II and with Lorenz Hart) (1902-1979)
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Francois Auguste Rene Rodin
French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917)
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Sigmund Romberg
United States composer (born in Hungary) who composed operettas (1887-1951)
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882)
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Giloacchino Antonio Rossini
Italian composer remembered for his operas (1792-1868)
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Mark Rothko
United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970)
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Le Douanier Rousseau
French primitive painter (1844-1910)
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens
prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by the English king Charles I (1577-1640)
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Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein
Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894)
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Charles Camille Saint-Saens
French pianist and composer (1835-1921)
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John Singer Sargent
United States painter (born in Italy) known for his society portraits (1856-1925)
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Erik Alfred Leslie Satie
French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of Romanticism (1866-1925)
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Artur Schnabel
United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951)
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Arnold Schoenberg
United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951)
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Franz Seraph Peter Schubert
Austrian composer known for his compositions for voice and piano (1797-1828)
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Charles Munroe Schulz
United States cartoonist whose comic strip included the beagle Snoopy (1922-2000)
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Robert Alexander Schumann
German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856)
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Clara Josephine Schumann
German pianist and composer of piano music; renowned for her interpretation of music, especially the music of her husband Robert Schumann (1819-1896)
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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin
Russian composer of orchestral and piano music (1872-1915)
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George Segal
United States sculptor (born in 1924)
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Andres Segovia
Spanish guitarist who made classical guitar a concert instrument (1893-1987)
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Alois Senefelder
German printer who invented lithography (1771-1834)
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Roger Huntington Sessions
United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985)
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Georges Pierre Seurat
French painter who developed pointillism (1859-1891)
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Benjamin Shahn
United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969)
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Arthur Jacob Arshawsky
United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)
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Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Russian composer best known for his fifteen symphonies (1906-1975)
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Johan Julius Christian Sibelius
Finnish composer (1865-1957)
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Shelby Silverstein
United States poet and cartoonist remembered for his stories and poems for children (1932-1999)
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Paul Simon
United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942)
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David Alfaro Siqueiros
Mexican painter of murals depicting protest and revolution (1896-1974)
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Bedrich Smetana
Czech composer (1824-1884)
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David Roland Smith
United States sculptor (1906-1965)
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Stephen Sondheim
United States composer of musicals (born in 1930)
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John Philip Sousa
a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)
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Chaim Soutine
French expressionist painter (born in Lithuania) (1893-1943)
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Jan Steen
Dutch genre painter (1626-1679)
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Edward Jean Steichen
United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973)
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Saul Steinberg
United States cartoonist (born in Romania) noted for his caricatures of famous people (1914-1999)
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Frank Philip Stella
United States minimalist painter (born in 1936)
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Alfred Stieglitz
United States photographer (1864-1946)
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Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski
United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977)
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Strauss the Elder
Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849)
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Strauss the Younger
Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899)
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Richard Strauss
German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949)
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971)
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Gilbert Charles Stuart
United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828)
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Arthur Seymour Sullivan
English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900)
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Thomas Sully
United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
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George Szell
United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970)
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Lorado Taft
United States sculptor (1860-1936)
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William Henry Fox Talbot
English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
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Thomas Tallis
English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585)
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Yves Tanguy
United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955)
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Joseph Deems Taylor
United States composer and music critic (1885-1966)
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Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893)
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Georg Philipp Telemann
German baroque composer (1681-1767)
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Sir John Tenniel
English cartoonist (1820-1914)
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Virgil Garnett Thomson
United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989)
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James Grover Thurber
United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian painter (1696-1770)
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Jacopo Robusti
Italian painter of the Venetian school (1518-1594)
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Tiziano Vecellio
old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576)
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Mark Tobey
United States abstract painter influenced by oriental calligraphy (1890-1976)
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Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957)
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Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
French painter who portrayed life in the cafes and music halls of Montmartre (1864-1901)
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John Trumbull
American painter of historical scenes (1756-1843)
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)
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Maurice Utrillo
French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955)
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Sir Anthony Vandyke
Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)
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Vincent van Gogh
Dutch Post-impressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890)
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Edgar Varese
United States composer (born in France) whose music combines dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of electronic techniques (1883-1965)
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Viktor Vasarely
French painter (born in Hungary) who was a pioneer of op art (1908-1997)
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Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574)
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer influenced by folk tunes and music of the Tudor period (1872-1958)
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez
Spanish painter (1599-1660)
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Guiseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
Italian operatic composer (1813-1901)
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Jan van der Meer
Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675)
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Paolo Veronese
Italian painter of the Venetian school (1528-1588)
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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
French painter noted for her portraits (1755-1842)
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
Brazilian composer (1887-1959)
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Italian baroque composer and violinist (1675-1741)
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Maurice de Vlaminck
French painter and exponent of fauvism (1876-1958)
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Jean Edouard Vuillard
French painter (1868-1940)
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner
German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)
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Bruno Walter
German conductor (1876-1962)
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Sir William Turner Walton
English composer (1902-1983)
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Andy Warhol
United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987)
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Jean Antoine Watteau
French painter (1684-1721)
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Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber
German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)
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Max Weber
United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)
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Kurt Weill
German composer; collaborated with Bertolt Brecht (1900-1950)
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Benjamin West
English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820)
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Edward Weston
United States photographer(1886-1958)
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
United States painter (1834-1903)
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Hiram King Williams
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)
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Hugo Wolf
Austrian composer (1860-1903)
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Grant Wood
United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)
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Sir Henry Joseph Wood
English conductor (1869-1944)
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Andrew Wyeth
United States painter (born in 1917)