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Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper was an American realist painter known for scenes of urban isolation, especially the 1942 diner painting Ni...

Realism American 20TH Century Urban

9.2 Excellent

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí was a Spanish Surrealist painter, notable for dream imagery and the 1931 painting The Persistence of Memor...

Spanish 20TH Century Surrealism Dreamlike

9.1 Excellent

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud was a British painter, noted for unsparing portraits and nudes built from thick paint, including Benefits S...

Contemporary 20TH Century British Portrait

9.0 Excellent

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Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-born American Abstract Expressionist painter, notable for gestural works and the controver...

20TH Century United States Figurative Abstract Expressionism

8.9 Great

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Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins was an American realist painter known for anatomical precision and Philadelphia subjects, including the 18...

Realism American Academic 19TH Century

8.8 Great

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Ilya Repin

Ilya Repin was a Russian realist painter known for psychological depth and social subjects, including the 1880s canvas B...

Russian Realism Narrative 19TH Century

8.8 Great

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Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann was a German painter, notable for crowded triptychs and figurative works responding to Weimar Germany, exil...

German Social 20TH Century Figurative

8.6 Great

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Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter, born in Bologna in 1890, celebrated for quiet still lifes of bottles, boxes, and...

Italian Realism 20TH Century Muted

8.6 Great

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Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth was an American realist painter known for spare rural scenes in Pennsylvania and Maine, including the 1948...

Realism American 20TH Century Rural

8.4 Great

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Chaïm Soutine

Chaim Soutine was a Belarusian-born painter of the School of Paris, born in 1893, known for turbulent Expressionist port...

20TH Century Figurative Expressionism Gestural

8.4 Great

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Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn was an American painter whose Ocean Park series, begun in 1967 in California, joined abstraction with...

American California 20TH Century Figurative

8.4 Great

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Fernand Léger

Fernand Léger was a French painter, notable for Cubist and machine age forms, bold tubular figures, and works such as Th...

French 20TH Century Cubism Figurative

8.3 Great

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Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz is a German painter known for upside-down figures, a device he adopted in 1969 to disrupt conventional re...

German 20TH Century Figurative Neo Expressionism

8.3 Great

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Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian Expressionist painter, notable for psychologically charged portraits and the 1914 painti...

Austrian 20TH Century Portrait Figurative

8.2 Great

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Natalia Goncharova

Natalia Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist who co-founded Rayonism with Mikhail Larionov and designed sets for...

Russian Avant Garde 20TH Century Modernism

8.2 Great

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George Luks

George Luks was an American Ashcan School painter and member of The Eight, noted for vigorous urban subjects and portrai...

Realism American 20TH Century Figurative

7.3 Good

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Ilya Mashkov

Ilya Mashkov was a Russian painter and 1910 co-founder of the Jack of Diamonds group, noted for vivid still lifes and bo...

Russian Realism 20TH Century Still Life

7.2 Good

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Philip Pearlstein

Philip Pearlstein was an American realist painter noted for unsentimental nude figures, often cropped and posed in studi...

Realism American 20TH Century Figurative

7.0 Good

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Louisa Matthíasdóttir

Louisa Matthíasdóttir was an Icelandic-born painter active in New York, known for clear, simplified figures and landscap...

Realism 20TH Century Icelandic Figurative

6.9 Fair

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Alfred Leslie

Alfred Leslie was an American painter and filmmaker who moved from Abstract Expressionism to stark figurative portraits...

Realism American 20TH Century Portrait

6.7 Fair