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:
“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
“... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)