Master Painters.

Here are a few ideas of historically significant painters who you may want to use for your research. These are not your only options, but are a great place to start if you are having trouble thinking of a master painter to research.

Websites:
> streetartutopia.com

Painters:
  1. Albers, Josef: 1888-1976. America, b. Germany.
  2. Audubon, John James: 1785-1851. America, b. Haiti.
  3. Bearden, Romare: 1914-1988. America.
  4. Benton, Thomas Hart: 1899-1975. America.
  5. Bierstadt, Albert: 1830-1902. America.
  6. Bingham, George Caleb: 1811-1879. America.
  7. Boticelli, Sandro: 1444-1510. Italy.
  8. Brueghel, Pieter: 1568-1625. Flemish (Flanders).
  9. Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi Da: 1571-1610. Italy.
  10. Cassatt, Mary: 1845-1926. America.
  11. Catlin, George: 1796-1872. America.
  12. Cezanne, Paul: 1839-1906. France.
  13. Close, Chuck: 1940-. America.
  14. Cole, Thomas: 1801-1848. America.
  15. Copley, John Singleton: 1738-1815. America.
  16. David, Jacques Louis: 1748-1825. France.
  17. Dali, Salvador: 1904-1989. Spain.
  18. Davis, Stuart: 1894-1964. America.
  19. Degas, Edgar: 1834-1917. France.
  20. De Kooning, Willem: 1904-1997. America, b. Netherlands.
  21. Delacroix, Eugene: 1798-1863. France.
  22. Demuth, Charles: 1883-1935. America.
  23. Dove, Arthur: 1880-1946. America.
  24. Duchamp, Marcel: 1887-1968. America, b. France.
  25. Durer, Albrecht: 1471-1528. Germany.
  26. Dyck, Anthony Van: 1599-1641. Belgium.
  27. Eakins, Thomas: 1844-1916. America.
  28. Escher, Maurits Cornelis (M.C.): 1898-1972. Netherlands.
  29. Eyck, Jan Van: 1390-1441. Belgium.
  30. Fish, Janet: 1938-. America.
  31. Flack, Audrey: 1931-. America.
  32. Gauguin, Paul: 1848-1903. France.
  33. Gogh, Vincent Van: 1853-1890. Netherlands.
  34. Greco, El (Domenikos Theotokopoulos): 1541-1614. Spain, b. Greece.
  35. Goya, Francisco: 1746-1828. Spain.
  36. Hals, Frans: 1582-1666. Netherlands.
  37. Haring, Keith: 1958-1990. America.
  38. Harnett, William Michael: 1848-1892. America.
  39. Hartley, Marsden: 1877-1943. America.
  40. Henri, Robert: 1865-1929. America.
  41. Hicks, Edward: 1780-1849. America.
  42. Holbein, Hans, The Younger: 1497/98-1543. Germany.
  43. Homer, Winslow: 1836-1910. America.
  44. Hopper, Edward: 1882-1967. America.
  45. Indiana, Robert: 1928-. America.
  46. Johns, Jasper: 1930-. America.
  47. Kahlo, Frida: 1907-1954. Mexico.
  48. Klimt, Gustave: 1862-1918. Austria.
  49. Lawrence, Jacob: 1917-. America.
  50. Leonardo Da Vinci: 1452-1519. Italy.
  51. Leutz, Emanuel Gottlieb: 1816-1868. America, b. Germany.
  52. Lichtenstein, Roy: 1923-. America.
  53. Magritte, Rene: 1898-1967. France.
  54. Manet, Edouard: 1832-1883. France.
  55. Marin, John: 1870-1953. America.
  56. Matisse, Henri: 1869-1954. France.
  57. Michelangelo Buonarroti: 1475-1564. Italy.
  58. Miro, Joan: 1893-1983. Spain.
  59. Mondrian, Piet: 1872-1944. Holland.
  60. Monet, Claude: 1840-1926. France.
  61. Moses, Anna Mary (Grandma): 1860-1961. America.
  62. Munch, Edvard: 1863-1944. Norway.
  63. O'Keeffe, Georgia: 1887-1986. America.
  64. Peale, Charles Willson: 1741-1827. America.
  65. Peale, Rembrandt: 1778-1860. America.
  66. Peto, John F.: 1854-1907. America.
  67. Picasso, Pablo: 1881-1973. Spain.
  68. Pollock, Jackson: 1912-1956. America.
  69. Prendergast, Maurice: 1859-1924. America.
  70. Raphael (Rafaello Sanzio): 1483-1520. Italy.
  71. Rauschenberg, Robert: 1925-. America.
  72. Redon, Odilon: 1840-1916. France.
  73. Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn: 1606-1669. Holland.
  74. Remington, Frederic: 1861-1909. America.
  75. Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: 1841-1919. France.
  76. Ringgold, Faith: 1930-. America.
  77. Rivera, Diego: 1886-1957. Mexico.
  78. Rivers, Larry: 1923-. America.
  79. Rubens, Peter Paul: 1577-1640. Belgium.
  80. Sargent, John Singer: 1856-1925. America.
  81. Seurat, Georges: 1859-1891. France.
  82. Shapiro, Miriam: 1923-. America.
  83. Sheeler, Charles: 1883-1965. America.
  84. Stuart, Gilbert: 1755-1828. America.
  85. Turner, Joseph Mallord William: 1775-1851. England.
  86. Velazquez, Diego: 1599-1660. Spain.
  87. Vermeer, Jan: xxxx-yyyy. Netherlands.
  88. Warhol, Andy: 1930-1988. America.
  89. Watteau, Jean-Antoine: 1684-1721. France.
  90. West, Benjamin: 1738-1820. America.
  91. Whistler, James Abbottt McNeill: 1834-1903. America.
  92. Wood, Grant: 1892-1942. America.
  93. Wyeth, Andrew: 1917-2009. America..
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Picture
Grant Wood: Fall Plowing (1931).
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"Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth.
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This is a painting called "Nighhawks" by one of my favorite American painters: Edward Hopper.
Picture
Salvador Dali: The Persistence of Memory (1931).
From The Art Teacher's BOOK OF LISTS by Helen D. Hume. 1998, John Wiley & Sons.