Artists of stamps of the United States
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This article lists people whose artwork has been featured on stamps of the United States. For this purpose "featured" is not limited to complete works but includes any identifiable representation of their works. Thus the "Geophysical Year" stamp of 1958 is considered to feature the work of Michelangelo
because it shows two hands from his Creation of Adam. The date after the name refers to the year when that person's work first appeared on a stamp of the United States. For a list of persons portrayed on U.S. stamps, see People on stamps of the United States.
The United States Post Office issued its first stamp in 1847, but several cities had previously issued their own provisional stamps.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
because it shows two hands from his Creation of Adam. The date after the name refers to the year when that person's work first appeared on a stamp of the United States. For a list of persons portrayed on U.S. stamps, see People on stamps of the United States.
The United States Post Office issued its first stamp in 1847, but several cities had previously issued their own provisional stamps.
- Josef AlbersJosef AlbersJosef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century....
(1980), "Homage to the Square: Glow" - Sarah Fisher Clampitt Ames (1938), Abraham Lincoln bust
- Antonello da MessinaAntonello da MessinaAntonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was an Italian painter from Messina, Sicily, active during the Italian Renaissance...
(1990), "Madonna and Child" - John James AudubonJohn James AudubonJohn James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats...
(1963), "Columbia Jays"
- Thomas Ball (artist)Thomas Ball (artist)Thomas Ball was an American artist and musician. His work has had a marked influence on monumental art in the United States, especially in New England.-Life:...
(1940) Emancipation Memorial - Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1922), Statue of Liberty
- Chester BeachChester BeachChester A. Beach was an American sculptor who was known for his busts and medallic art.-Early life:Beach was born in San Francisco, California. He studied initially at the California School of Mechanical Arts and worked as a jewelry designer immediately afterward, while continuing his art studies...
(1938), William Henry Harrison bust - Giovanni BelliniGiovanni BelliniGiovanni Bellini was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it...
(1992), - George BellowsGeorge BellowsGeorge Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City, becoming, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation".-Youth:Bellows was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio...
(1998), "Stag at Sharkey's" - Thomas Hart Benton (painter)Thomas Hart Benton (painter)Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. His fluid, almost sculpted paintings showed everyday scenes of life in the United States...
(1971), "Independence and the Opening of the West" - George Caleb BinghamGeorge Caleb BinghamGeorge Caleb Bingham was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity, Bingham's work was rediscovered in the 1930s...
(1998), "Boatmen on the Missouri" - Karl BitterKarl BitterKarl Theodore Francis Bitter was an Austrian-born United States sculptor best known for his architectural sculpture, memorials and residential work.- Life and career :...
(1953), Louisiana Purchase statue - Gutzon BorglumGutzon BorglumGutzon de la Mothe Borglum was an American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, the famous carving on Stone Mountain near Atlanta, as well as other public works of art.- Background :The son of Mormon Danish immigrants, Gutzon...
(1952), Mount Rushmore National Memorial - Solon BorglumSolon BorglumSolon Hannibal de la Mothe Borglum was an American sculptor. He is most noted for his depiction of frontier life, and especially his experience with cowboys and native Americans....
(1948), Rough Rider Monument - Sandro BotticelliSandro BotticelliAlessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance...
(1940), "Primavera" - Václav BrožíkVáclav BrožíkVáclav Brožík was a Czech academic painter.Since 1868 he studied at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Dresden, and Munich. In 1879 he went on study journey to the Netherlands....
(1893), "Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella" - Andrew BucciAndrew BucciAndrew Bucci is a Mississippi-born artist residing in Maryland.A native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Bucci was influenced early in his career by Mississippi artist and teacher Marie Atkinson Hull, with whom he began studying in the late 1930s.Bucci graduated from St...
(1967) - Michelangelo Buonarotti (1958), "The Creation of Adam"
- Jacques CaffieriJacques CaffieriJacques Caffieri was a French sculptor, the most famous member of a family distinguished in works of sculpture, working for the most part in bronze.-Life:...
(1908), Benjamin Franklin bust - Alexander CalderAlexander CalderAlexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing mobile sculptures. In addition to mobile and stable sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewelry and household objects.-Childhood:Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in Lawnton,...
(1998), "Portrait of a Young Man" - Annibale CarracciAnnibale CarracciAnnibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early career:Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family...
(1989), - Mary CassattMary CassattMary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists...
(1966), "The Boating Party" - Gerald R. CassidyGerald R. CassidyGerald R. Cassidy was an early 20th century artist, muralist and designer who lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A noted public artist, Cassidy created projects including the mural Dawn of the West and Parfet Park in Golden, Colorado, where he was an honorary member of the Golden Kiwanis Club...
(1940), "Coronado and His Captains" - George CatlinGeorge CatlinGeorge Catlin was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.-Early years:...
(1998), "White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas" - Giuseppe CeracchiGiuseppe CeracchiGiuseppe Ceracchi was an Italian sculptor, active in a Neoclassic style in Italy, England and the nascent United States, who was a passionate republican during the American and French revolutions...
(1870), Thomas Jefferson bust - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinJean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinJean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities...
(1975), "Child with Top" - Cima da ConeglianoCima da ConeglianoGiovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano was an Italian Renaissance painter.-Biography:Giovanni Battista Cima was born at Conegliano, now part of the province of Treviso, in 1459 or 1460...
(1993), "Madonna and Child in a Landscape" - Gilmore David ClarkeGilmore David ClarkeGilmore David Clarke was an American civil engineer and landscape architect who designed many parks and public spaces in New York City....
(1964), "Unisphere" - John Singleton CopleyJohn Singleton CopleyJohn Singleton Copley was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects...
, (1965), "The Copley Family" - William A. CoulterWilliam A. CoulterWilliam A. Coulter, born William Alexander Coulter, was an American painter of marine subjects. Coulter was a native of Glenariff, County Antrim, in what is today Northern Ireland. He became an apprentice seaman at the age of 13, and after seven years at sea, came to settle in San Francisco in 1869...
(1923), "Golden Gate" - Thomas Crawford (sculptor) (1923), Statue of Freedom
- Currier and IvesCurrier and IvesCurrier and Ives was a successful American printmaking firm headed by Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives . Based in New York City from 1834–1907, the prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand colored...
(1974), "The Road, Winter"
- Nathaniel Dance-HollandNathaniel Dance-HollandSir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet was a notable English portrait painter and later a politician.The third son of architect George Dance the Elder, Dance studied art under Francis Hayman, and like many contemporaries also studied in Italy...
(1977), James Cook portrait - Gerard DavidGerard DavidGerard David was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color.-Life:...
(1978), "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt" - Stuart Davis (painter)Stuart Davis (painter)Stuart Davis , was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful as well as his ashcan pictures in the early years of the 20th century.-Biography:He was born in Philadelphia to Edward Wyatt...
(1964), "To the Fine Arts" - Andrea della RobbiaAndrea della RobbiaAndrea della Robbia was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, especially in ceramics. He was the son of Marco della Robbia. Andrea della Robbia's uncle, Luca della Robbia, popularized the use of glazed terra-cotta for sculpture...
(1978), "Madonna and Child with Cherubim" - Luca della RobbiaLuca della RobbiaLuca della Robbia was an Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terra-cotta roundels.Luca Della Robbia developed a pottery glaze that made his creations more durable in the outdoors and thus suitable for use on the exterior of buildings. His work is noted for its charm rather than the drama...
(1985), "Madonna and Child" - Paolo de MatteisPaolo de MatteisPaolo de Matteis was an Italian painter.He was born in Cilento near Salerno, and died in Naples. He trained with Francesco di Maria in Naples, then with Luca Giordano. He came to the employ of the Spanish Viceroy of Naples. From 1702 to 1705, de' Matteis worked in Paris, Calabria, and Genoa...
(1996), - Dr. SeussDr. SeussTheodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone....
(1999), "The Cat in the Hat" - Marcel DuchampMarcel DuchampMarcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
(1998), "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" - Asher Brown DurandAsher Brown DurandAsher Brown Durand was an American painter of the Hudson River School.-Early life:Durand was born in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey , the eighth of eleven children; his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith.Durand was apprenticed to an engraver from 1812 to 1817, later entering...
(1998), "Kindred Spirits"
- Thomas EakinsThomas EakinsThomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator...
(1966), "The Biglin Brothers Racing"
- Luke FildesLuke FildesSir Samuel Luke Fildes RA was an English painter and illustrator born at Liverpool and trained in the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools....
(1947), "The Doctor" - James Montgomery FlaggJames Montgomery FlaggJames Montgomery Flagg was an American artist and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters....
(1998), "I Want You" - James Earle Fraser (sculptor) (1926), John Ericsson Memorial
- Daniel Chester FrenchDaniel Chester FrenchDaniel Chester French was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.-Life and career:...
(1926), Minute Man statue
- Thomas GainsboroughThomas GainsboroughThomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter.-Suffolk:Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let...
(1975), "Mrs. Douglas" - Domenico GhirlandaioDomenico GhirlandaioDomenico Ghirlandaio was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Among his many apprentices was Michelangelo.-Early years:Ghirlandaio's full name is given as Domenico di Tommaso di Currado di Doffo Bigordi...
(1975), "Madonna and Child" - Charles Dana GibsonCharles Dana GibsonCharles Dana Gibson was an American graphic artist, best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century....
(1998), "Gibson Girl" - GiorgioneGiorgioneGiorgione was a Venetian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over thirty. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work...
(1971), "The Adoration of the Shepherds" - Giotto di BondoneGiotto di BondoneGiotto di Bondone , better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages...
(1995), "Madonna and Child" - Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1937), Kamehameha statue
- Francisco GoyaFrancisco GoyaFrancisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era...
(1975), "Don Antonio Noriega"
- Henry Bryan HallHenry Bryan HallHenry Bryan Hall , was an English stipple engraver and portrait painter.He was apprenticed to the engravers Benjamin Smith and Henry Meyer. Later he worked for Henry Thomas Ryall who was designated 'Portrait and Historical Engraver to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria'...
(1931), Casimir Pulaski portrait - William HarnettWilliam HarnettWilliam Michael Harnett was an Irish-American painter known for his trompe l'oeil still lifes of ordinary objects.-Early life:...
(1969), "Old Models" - George Peter Alexander HealyGeorge Peter Alexander HealyGeorge Peter Alexander Healy was an American painter born in Boston, Massachusetts.Going to Europe in 1835 Healy studied under Baron Gros in Paris and in Rome...
(1959), Abraham Lincoln portrait - A. G. HeatonA. G. HeatonAugustus Goodyear Heaton was an American artist, author and leading numismatist. He is best known for his painting The Recall of Columbus and among coin collectors for writing A Treatise on Coinage of the United States Branch Mints, which introduced numismatists to mint marks.-Personal...
(1893), "The Recall of Columbus" - John Held, Jr.John Held, Jr.John Held Jr. was an American cartoonist and illustrator. One of the best known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, Held created cheerful art showing his characters dancing, motoring and engaging in fun-filled activities...
(1998), "The Blues" - HokusaiHokusaiwas a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting...
1974, :"Five Feminine Virtues" - Winslow HomerWinslow HomerWinslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art....
(1962), "Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)" - Edward HopperEdward HopperEdward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching...
(1970), "The Lighthouse at Two Lights" - Jean-Antoine HoudonJean-Antoine HoudonJean-Antoine Houdon was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment...
(1908), George Washington bust
- Robert IndianaRobert IndianaRobert Indiana is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement.-Life and work:Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana. His family relocated to Indianapolis, where he graduated from Arsenal Technical High School...
(1973), "Love"
- Charles JalabertCharles JalabertCharles François Jalabert was a French painter in the academic style. He rapidly gained renown as an artist among Parisian high society in the second half of the 19th century and attended the salon of Madame Sabatier. Some of his works are now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes....
(1923), Martha Washington portrait - Eastman JohnsonEastman JohnsonEastman Johnson was an American painter, and Co-Founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance...
(1976), "Washington Crossing the Delaware" - Joshua JohnsonJoshua JohnsonJoshua Johnson was an American biracial painter from the Baltimore area. Johnson, often viewed as the first person of color to make a living as a painter in the United States, is known for his naïve paintings of prominent Maryland residents....
(1998), "The Westwood Children" - Alfred Jones (engraver)Alfred Jones (engraver)Alfred Jones was an engraver born 1819 in Liverpool, England and died 1900 in New York. He also made portrait and landscape paintings. In the 1890's he was employed at the American Bank Note Company in New York. He was the artist and engraver of the 1890 Postage stamp that honored Thomas Jefferson....
(1890), Thomas Jefferson portrait
- Charles KeckCharles KeckCharles Keck was an American sculptor, born in New York City. He studied in the National Academy of Design and Art Students League with Philip Martiny and was an assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens from 1893 to 1898. He also attended the American Academy in Rome. He is best known for his...
(1938), John Tyler bust - Charles R. KnightCharles R. KnightCharles Robert Knight was an American artist best known for his influential paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals...
(1923), "American Buffalo"
- Emmanuel Leutze (1893), "Columbus in Chains"
- J. C. LeyendeckerJ. C. LeyendeckerJoseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the pre-eminent American illustrators of the early 20th century. He is best known for his poster, book and advertising illustrations, the trade character known as The Arrow Collar Man, and his numerous covers for The Saturday Evening Post. Between 1896 and...
(1977), "George Washington at Valley Forge." - Kenneth G. LibbrechtKenneth G. LibbrechtKenneth Libbrecht is a professor of physics at Caltech.Libbrecht was originally trained as a solar astronomer, studying under Robert Dicke at Princeton and receiving his PhD in 1984. However, much of his recent research has focused on the properties of ice crystals, particularly the structure of...
(2006) - Jean-Étienne LiotardJean-Étienne LiotardJean-Étienne Liotard was a Swiss-French painter. His father was a jeweller who fled to Switzerland after 1685....
(1975), "Mademoiselle Lavergne" - Filippo LippiFilippo LippiFra' Filippo Lippi , also called Lippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento .-Biography and works:...
(1984), Madonna and Child" - Lorenzo LottoLorenzo LottoLorenzo Lotto was a Northern Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits...
(1970), "The Nativity"
- John MacWhirterJohn MacWhirterJohn MacWhirter, was a Scottish landscape painter.-Biography:John was the third of four children. He attended a school in Colinton, and after his father's death was apprenticed to Oliver & Boyd, booksellers in Edinburgh...
(1898), "Western Cattle in Storm" - David Martin (artist)David Martin (artist)David Martin was a British painter and engraver. Born in Fife, he studied in London and Italy, before gaining a reputation as a portrait painter.-Family:...
(1972), Benjamin Franklin portrait - Master of the Legend of Saint LucyMaster of the Legend of Saint Lucyright|thumb|240px|Lamentation with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Alexandria , a [[triptych]] in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection. The wing panels show Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Alexandria, while the centre panel illustrates mourning on the death of...
(1972), "Mary, Queen of Heaven" - Hans MemlingHans MemlingHans Memling was a German-born Early Netherlandish painter.-Life and works:Born in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt in the Middle Rhein region, it is believed that Memling served his apprenticeship at Mainz or Cologne, and later worked in the Netherlands under Rogier van der Weyden...
(1966), "Madonna and Child with Angels" - Maria Sibylla MerianMaria Sibylla MerianMaria Sibylla Merian was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings about them...
(1997), "Insect Generations and Metamorphosis in Surinam" - Ervine MetzlErvine MetzlErvine Metzl was an American graphic artist and illustrator best known for his posters and postage stamp designs.-Biography:Ervine Metzl was born in Chicago in 1899 to Ignatz and Bertha Metzl, Jewish immigrants from Bohemia....
(1957-1960) - Clark Mills (sculptor)Clark Mills (sculptor)Clark Mills was an American sculptor, best known for three versions of an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, located in Washington, D.C., Nashville, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana.-Life:...
(1923), George Washington bust - Thomas MoranThomas MoranThomas Moran from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist...
(1998), "Cliffs of Green River" - Giovanni Battista MoroniGiovanni Battista MoroniGiovanni Battista Moroni was a North Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also called Giambattista Moroni...
(1987, "A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna" - Grandma MosesGrandma MosesAnna Mary Robertson Moses , better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. Although her family and friends called her either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses,"...
(1969), "July Fourth" - Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1893), "Isabella Pledging Her Jewels"
- MyronMyronMyron of Eleutherae working circa 480-440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher....
(1932, "Discobolus"
- Kadir NelsonKadir NelsonKadir Nelson is an award-winning African American artist, illustrator and author. His work is focused on African American culture and history.-Early life:...
(2000's)
- Georgia O'KeeffeGeorgia O'KeeffeGeorgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist.Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists...
(1996), "Red Poppy"
- Charles Willson PealeCharles Willson PealeCharles Willson Peale was an American painter, soldier and naturalist. He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution, as well as establishing one of the first museums....
(1932), George Washington portrait - Rembrandt PealeRembrandt PealeRembrandt Peale was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson...
(1958), James Monroe portrait - Pietro PeruginoPietro PeruginoPietro Perugino , born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance...
(1986), "Madonna and Child" - John F. PetoJohn F. PetoJohn Frederick Peto was an American trompe l'oeil painter who was long forgotten until his paintings were rediscovered along with those of fellow trompe l'oeil artist William Harnett....
(1974), "Old Scraps" - Ammi PhillipsAmmi PhillipsAmmi Phillips , a self-taught New England portrait painter, is regarded as one of the most important folk artists of his era.Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, and began painting portraits as early as 1810...
(1998), "Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog" - Antoni PopielAntoni PopielAntoni Popiel was a Polish sculptor.-External links:...
(1933), Tadeusz Kościuszko statue - William Henry PowellWilliam Henry PowellWilliam Henry Powell , was an American artist from Ohio.Powell is known for a painting of the Battle of Lake Erie, of which one copy hangs in the Ohio state capitol building and the other, in the United States Capitol. Powell has a second piece of artwork displayed in the United States Capitol...
(1893), "Columbus in Sight of Land" - Hiram PowersHiram PowersHiram Powers was an American neoclassical sculptor.-Biography:The son of a farmer, Powers was born in Woodstock, Vermont, on the July 29, 1805. In 1818 his father moved to Ohio, about six miles from Cincinnati, where the son attended school for about a year, staying meanwhile with his brother, a...
(1870), Thomas Jefferson bust - Bela PrattBela PrattBela Lyon Pratt was an American sculptor.-Life:Pratt was born in Norwich, Connecticut to Sarah and George Pratt, a Yale-educated lawyer. His maternal grandfather, Oramel Whittlesey, was a pianoforte maker and founder in 1835 of the first music school in the country authorized to confer degrees to...
(1925, Nathan Hale statue - Alexander Phimister ProctorAlexander Phimister ProctorAlexander Phimister Proctor was an American sculptor with the contemporary reputation as one of the nation's foremost animaliers.-Birth and early years:...
(1951), "Bucking Bronco"
- RaphaelRaphaelRaffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
(1973), "The Small Cowper Madonna" - Frederic RemingtonFrederic RemingtonFrederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S...
(1898), "Troops Guarding Train" - Norman RockwellNorman RockwellNorman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
(1972), "Tom Sawyer" - Randolph RogersRandolph RogersRandolph Rogers was an American sculptor. He was a prolific sculptor of subjects related to the American Civil War and other historical themes.-Biography:...
(1893), Columbus door panel - Antoniazzo RomanoAntoniazzo RomanoAntoniazzo Romano, born Antonio di Benedetto Aquilo degli Aquili was an Italian Early Renaissance painter, the leading figure of the Roman school during the 15th century.-Biography:...
(1991), "Virgin and Child with Donor" - Charles Marion RussellCharles Marion RussellCharles Marion Russell , also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an artist of the Old American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes set in the Western United States, in addition to bronze sculptures...
(1961), "The Trail Boss"
- Augustus Saint-GaudensAugustus Saint-GaudensAugustus Saint-Gaudens was the Irish-born American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance"...
(1909), Abraham Lincoln statue - Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-MéminCharles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-MéminCharles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin was a portraitist and museum director. He fled France during the revolution, and worked as a portrait engraver in the United States in the early 19th century. He created portraits from life of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others...
(1932), George Washington portrait - Henry SandhamHenry SandhamHenry "Hy" Sandham was a Canadian painter and illustrator. He was the brother of author and numismatist Alfred Sandham.- Biography :...
(1925), "Battle of Lexington" - Sano di PietroSano di PietroSano di Pietro was an early Italian Renaissance painter and miniaturist from Siena.No works by Sano are known before 1443; he apprenticed under Sassetta and Giovanni di Paolo...
(1997), "Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome" - Bruce SavilleBruce SavilleBruce WIlder Saville American sculptor born in Quincy, Massachusetts and known for his monuments.-Early years:He began his art studies at the Boston Art Normal School where he studied with Cyrus Dallin . He later worked in the studio of Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson and Henry Hudson Kitson...
(1929), Battle of Fallen Timbers Monument - Belle Kinney ScholzBelle Kinney ScholzBelle Marshall Kinney was a Euro-American sculptor, born in Tennessee, worked and died in New York state.In 1897, at age 7, she won first prize at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition for a bust of her father. In 1905, at age 15, she was awarded a scholarship to study at the Art Institute of Chicago...
(1938), Andrew Jackson statue - Ben ShahnBen ShahnBen Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.-Biography:...
(1998), "Prohibition Enforced" - Elizabeth ShoumatoffElizabeth ShoumatoffElizabeth Shoumatoff was an American painter who was best known for painting the Unfinished Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt....
(1973), Lyndon B. Johnson portrait - Frederick William SieversFrederick William SieversFrederick William Sievers was an American sculptor, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sievers moved to Richmond, Virginia, as a young man, furthering his art studies by attending the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and the Académie Julian in Paris...
(1938), James Madison bust - Franklin SimmonsFranklin SimmonsFranklin Bachelder Simmons was a prominent American sculptor of the nineteenth century....
(1938), Ulysses S. Grant statue - Elisabetta SiraniElisabetta SiraniElisabetta Sirani was an Italian Baroque painter whose father was the painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani of the School of Bologna-Biography:...
(1994), "Virgin and Child" - John French SloanJohn French SloanJohn French Sloan was an American artist. As a member of The Eight, he became a leading figure in the Ashcan School of realist artists. He was known for his urban genre painting and ability to capture the essence of neighborhood life in New York City, often through his window...
(1971), "The Wake of the Ferry" - Junius Brutus StearnsJunius Brutus StearnsJunius Brutus Stearns was an American painter best known for his five part Washington Series ....
(1937), "Signing of the Constitution" - Gilbert StuartGilbert StuartGilbert Charles Stuart was an American painter from Rhode Island.Gilbert Stuart is widely considered to be one of America's foremost portraitists...
(1861), George Washington portrait - Thomas SullyThomas SullyThomas Sully was an American painter, mostly of portraits.-Early life:Sully was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, to the actors Matthew and Sarah Sully. In March 1792 the Sullys and their nine children immigrated to Richmond, Virginia, where Thomas’s uncle managed a theater...
(1903), Andrew Jackson portrait
- Gerard ter BorchGerard ter BorchGerard ter Borch was a Dutch genre painter, who lived in the Dutch Golden Age.-Biography:Gerard ter Borch was born in December 1617 in Zwolle in the province of Overijssel in the Dutch Republic....
(1975), "Lady Writing Letter" - Giovanni Battista TiepoloGiovanni Battista TiepoloGiovanni Battista Tiepolo , also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice...
(1982), "Madonna of the Goldfinch" - William B. T. TregoWilliam B. T. TregoWilliam Brooke Thomas Trego was an American painter best known for his historical military subjects, in particular scenes of the American Revolution and Civil War.- Biography :...
(1976), "Washington Reviewing His Army at Valley Forge" - John TrumbullJohn TrumbullJohn Trumbull was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary War and was notable for his historical paintings...
(1969), "Signing of the Declaration of Independence"Jan van Eyck
- Jan van EyckJan van EyckJan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century....
, (1968), "The Annunciation" - Crispijn van de Passe Van de Passe familyVan de Passe familyCrispijn van de Passe the Elder, or de Passe was a Dutch publisher and engraver and founder of a dynasty of engravers comparable to the Wierix family and the Sadelers, though mostly at a more mundane commercial level...
(1907), John Smith portrait - Simon van de Passe Van de Passe familyVan de Passe familyCrispijn van de Passe the Elder, or de Passe was a Dutch publisher and engraver and founder of a dynasty of engravers comparable to the Wierix family and the Sadelers, though mostly at a more mundane commercial level...
(1907), Pocahontas portrait - John VanderlynJohn VanderlynJohn Vanderlyn was an American neoclassicist painter.-Biography:Vanderlyn was born at Kingston, New York. He was employed by a print-seller in New York, and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson , a Scotsman who was afterwards one of the directors of the American Academy of the Fine Arts...
(1869), "The Landing of Columbus" - Frank VittorFrank VittorFrank Vittor was an American sculptor, known for his "preference for the heroic and colossal" - Early life :...
(1930), George Washington statue - Leonard VolkLeonard VolkLeonard Wells Volk was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1857 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1865. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the...
(1870), Abraham Lincoln statue
- Edmund Franklin WardEdmund Franklin WardEdmund F. Ward illustrated for the Saturday Evening Post and did his first illustrations for the magazine before turning age 20. He had a successful career as an illustrator of works that ranged in style and subject matter from dark tonalist in oils to humorous in wash and watercolor...
(1926), "Battle of White Plains" - Adolph Alexander WeinmanAdolph Alexander WeinmanAdolph Alexander Weinman was an American sculptor, born in Karlsruhe, Germany.- Biography :Weinman arrived in the United States at the age of 10. At the age of 15, he attended evening classes at Cooper Union and later studied at the Art Students League of New York with sculptors Augustus St....
(1938), Benjamin Harrison bust - James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1932), "Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother"
- Gilbert White (painter) (1940), Daniel Boone mural
- Archibald Willard (1976), "The Spirit of '76"
- William Joseph WilliamsWilliam Joseph WilliamsWilliam Joseph Williams was an American painter. He was born in New York City, the son of William Williams, a painter born in Wales...
(1932), George Washington portrait - James Anthony WillsJames Anthony WillsJames Anthony Wills, born in 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an American painter. He worked only in oils and never had any formal art training.- Early years :...
(1990), Dwight D. Eisenhower portrait - Grant WoodGrant WoodGrant DeVolson Wood was an American painter, born four miles east of Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting American Gothic, an iconic image of the 20th century.- Life and career :His family moved to Cedar Rapids after his...
(1996), "Young Corn"
- Frederick Coffay YohnFrederick Coffay YohnFrederick Coffay Yohn , often recognized only by his initials, F. C. Yohn, was an artist and illustrator. His work appeared in publications including Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly...
(1929), "Capture of Fort Sackville"
- Rudolph F. ZallingerRudolph F. ZallingerRudolph Franz Zallinger was an American-based artist notable for his mural The Age of Reptiles at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History and for the popular illustration known as March of Progress , one of the world's most recognizable scientific images.-Biography:Zallinger was born in Irkutsk,...
(1970), "The Age of Reptiles"