Artists
- Frank Weston Benson, painter
- Lilla Cabot Perry (1848—1933), American impressionist
- John Singleton Copley, painter
- Thomas Dewing, painter
- Charles Dana Gibson, graphic artist
- Duff Goldman, cake artist
- Nancy Graves (1939–1995), sculptor, painter, engraver and film director.
- Childe Hassam, painter
- Winslow Homer, painter
- Peter Laird, co-creator of the comic book success, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Fitzhugh Lane, painter
- Shawn McManus, comic book artist
- Willard Metcalf, painter
- Tony Millionaire, cartoonist, illustrator
- Ted Rall, political cartoonist
- Robert Reid, painter
- Norman Rockwell, artist
- Paul Ryan, cartoonist
- Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter
- Mark Shasha, painter, author
- Stass Shpanin, visual artist listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest professional artist in the world
- Edward Simmons, painter
- Frank Stella, artist
- Edmund Charles Tarbell, painter
- Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist
Sculptors:
- Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861–1944), sculptor (and Olympic archer). See Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum.
- Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), neoclassical sculptor. See Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
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Famous quotes containing the word artists:
“You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don’t look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don’t let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.”
—Francis Picabia (1878–1953)
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)