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Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, notable for expressive color and brushwork in works such as The Starry Night (1889).
Henri Matisse was a French painter, notable as a leader of Fauvism after the 1905 Salon d'Automne and for bold color in works like The Dance.
Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic painter, notable for Liberty Leading the People (1830) and his influence on 19th-century color.
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, born in 1867, and a founder of Les Nabis, known for color-rich interiors, domestic scenes, and bathers.
Nicolas de Staël was a French-Russian painter whose thickly painted abstractions and landscapes made him a major postwar artist in France.
Sonia Delaunay was a Ukrainian-born French painter, born in 1885, who co-founded Orphism with Robert Delaunay and applied abstraction to textiles.
Milton Avery was an American modernist painter known for simplified color planes and quiet figures, influencing Color Field artists after 1940.
Emil Nolde was a German Expressionist painter from Schleswig, notable for intense color, religious subjects, and membership in Die Brücke in 1906.
Robert Delaunay was a French painter, notable for Orphism, abstract color discs, and Eiffel Tower paintings made in Paris before World War I.
André Derain was a French painter, notable for cofounding Fauvism with Henri Matisse and exhibiting vivid Collioure landscapes in 1905.
Sam Francis was an American abstract painter associated with Abstract Expressionism, known for luminous color fields made in Paris and California.
August Macke was a German Expressionist painter, notable for bright, simplified street and shop scenes and his role in Der Blaue Reiter before 1914.
Maurice Prendergast was an American Post-Impressionist painter known for colorful park, beach, and crowd scenes after studying in Paris in the 1890s.
Serge Poliakoff was a Russian-born painter active in Paris, known for nonfigurative compositions of interlocking color planes from the 1950s.
Howard Hodgkin was a British painter, born in 1932, known for small, intensely colored abstract works that evoke memories, places, and relationships.
Alfred Manessier was a French abstract painter whose stained-glass designs and sacred art made him a leading figure of postwar lyrical abstraction.
Roger Bissière was a French painter associated with lyrical abstraction, notable for color-rich postwar works and participation in the 1952 Venice Biennale.
Louisa Matthíasdóttir was an Icelandic-born painter active in New York, known for clear, simplified figures and landscapes in strong color.
