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Visual Arts.
Architecture.
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Drawing. Design. Illustration.
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Charles Marion RussellCharles Marion Russell produced about 4,000 works in his lifetime (split fairly even between paintings and bronze sculptures), all of them depicting Western life in some form or another.
James HobanJames Hoban entered a competition to design a presidential residence. His design, inspired by Kildare House (now Leinster House), then the headquarters of the Royal Dublin Society and now of the Irish Parliament, was chosen, and he was awarded a prize of $500. The residence he designed is now known as the White House.
Winslow HomerWinslow Homer began his career producing illustrations of the Civil War for Harper's Weekly and other papers, but was at heart a painter. His subject matter shifted from scenes of rural and idyllic life to African-Americans, the sea, and nature.
Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 1071 Fifth Avenue. It houses a comprehensive collection of European and American conceptual and abstract art from throughout the 20th century.
Peter BehrensPeter Behrens worked as a painter and graphic artist before turning to architecture. As artistic consultant for a major German manufacturing company, he not only designed the company's logo and sales literature, but its factories and workers' apartments as well. He also designed a number of household electrical appliances, china, glass objects, and patterned linoleum flooring.
John WhiteJohn White was an artist and illustrator responsible for the earliest visual record by an Englishman of the flora, fauna and people of the New World. He was one of the colonizers of Roanoke Island, and his granddaughter, Virginia Dare, was the first English child to be born in the New World.
John Singer SargentJohn Singer Sargent produced over 900 oils and more than 2,000 watercolors over the course of his career. He two U.S. Presidents, the aristocracy of Europe, and business tycoons from around the world, as well as gypsies, tramps, and street children.
Madame Marie TussaudMadame Marie Tussaud began her remarkable wax sculpting career at the age of six. Forced to create death masks of persons executed during the Reign of Terror, she turned that collection of horrors into the nucleus of the most famous wax museum in the world.