| 20th-century American photographer known for black and-white photographs of the U.S. Southwest | Adams, Ansel |
| 20th-century American sculptor known for his stabiles (large stationary abstract pieces) and mobiles (abstract pieces that move in the wind) | Calder, Alexander |
| 19th-20th century American known for paintings of women and children such as The Bath | Cassatt, Mary |
| 20th-century Spanish-born surrealist artist noted for his painting The Persistence of Memory, popularly called Soft Watches | Dali, Salvador |
| 19th-20th century French impressionist known for his paintings of ballet dancers | Degas, Edgar |
| 19th-20th century French postimpressionist painter who is known for woodcuts, carved sculpture, and paintings such as Tahitian Women on the Beach | Gauguin, Paul |
| 18th-19th century Spanish artist, an early romantic, known for the Caprices (Los Caprichos) and his Maja Nude and Maja Clothed | Goya, Francisco |
| 19th-20th century American artist best known for his seascapes, such as The Gulf Stream | Homer, Winslow |
| Italian Renaissance artist known for his portrait of a woman with an enigmatic smile, the Mona Lisa | Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 19th-century French realist painter, generally included with the impressionists, whose 1863 painting Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe or Luncheon on the Grass, greatly influenced the younger impressionists | Manet, Edouard |
| Renaissance Italian artist known for spending over 4 years painting the Sistine Chapel and for his The Last Judgment | Michelangelo |
| 20th-century American artist born Anna Mary Robertson who started painting when she was 76 years old | Moses, Grandma |
| 20th-century American painter whose best-known works depict bones, flowers, desert scenes, and landscapes of the Southwest—her museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is America’s first art museum dedicated to the work of a woman artist of international stature | O’Keeffe, Georgia |
| 20th-century Spanish-born artist who helped originate Cubism and is known for his Guernica—2 of his painting periods are called the “Blue Period” and the “Rose Period” | Picasso, Pablo |
| 20th-century American artist known for his technique of dripping paint across a canvas to create random and complex patterns | Pollock, Jackson |
| 17th-century Dutch artist known for such group portraits as The Night Watch | Rembrandt |
| 19th-20th century American painter known for his portrayals of the American West and his sculpture Bronco Buster | Remington, Frederick |
| 20th-century American artist known as a cover illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines | Rockwell, Norman |
| 19th-20th century French sculptor known for The Thinker | Rodin, Auguste |
| 19th-century Dutch artist known for cutting off part of his ear and for his Sunflowers and The Potato Eaters | Van Gogh, Vincent |
| 20th-century American artist known for pop art, such as Campbell Soup Cans | Warhol, Andy |
| 19th-century American artist known for his Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, better known as Whistler’s Mother | Whistler, James |
| 20th-century American artist known for his American Gothic, a work featuring a farmer with a pitchfork in his hand standing next to a woman | Wood, Grant |