Visual Art
- Charles Demuth, of Moravian ancestry, an artist; a notable painter who had major influence on American art by introduction of modern European movements, such as cubism.
- Harrison Fisher, of Bohemian ancestry, a popular commercial artist and illustrator of the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine from the early 1900s through 1934; known as 'The Father of a Thousand Girls'.
- Wanda Gág, a notable American illustrator and author of Bohemian descent.
- Jan Matulka, painter.
- Albin Polasek, sculptor.
- Antonin Raymond, a famed architect who explored traditional Japanese building techniques with the latest American building innovations.
- Rudolph Ruzicka, a prominent Czech-born American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer.
- Peter Sis, writer and illustrator of children's books.
- Paul Strand, of Bohemian immigrant parents, one of the most important figures in American twentieth-century photography.
- Ladislav Sutnar, a graphic artist, considered one of the great pioneers of the modern period.
- William Pachner, painter and illustrator
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