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This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman who was the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation experiment (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has been lauded among "the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of the 20th Century". [1][2][3][4]
Liviu Cornel Babeș. Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Pratyusha Banerjee. Duilio Barnabè. George Randolph Barse. Ralph Barton. Andor Basch. Asif Basra. Willem Cornelis Bauer.
Isabella Beetham, Miss Chambers, ivory miniature portrait, after 1782, Metropolitan Museum of Art. She then studied portrait painting in London with John Smart, who was a successful miniature portrait artist. Beetham painted silhouette portraits on a white background, such as plaster, [1] and often on glass. [1] [7] She made miniature portraits ...
Dixie Browning, née Burrus (born September 9, 1930, in North Carolina) is an American artist and writer of over 100 romance novels. She also has published under the pen name Zoe Dozier, and with her sister Mary Burrus Williams, she writes historical romance under the name Bronwyn Williams. She is a recipient of the RITA Award.
It has been proposed that Browning also took inspiration from the 11th-century epic poem The Song of Roland, [6] which features Roland, Charlemagne's loyal paladin, blowing his hunting horn (as Childe Roland also does at the end of the poem) to call for help before he dies. Browning claimed that the poem came to him in a dream, saying "I was ...
Beatrice Sherman, later known as Beatrix, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States on January 10, 1894. [1] She studied art from an early age, attending Saturday classes at the Art Institute of Chicago from October 1905 until January 1906. [2] She later went on to attend the Institute's Juvenile School in the fall of 1909.
Jill Clayburgh (April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010) was an American actress known for her work in theater, television, and cinema. She received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her breakthrough role in Paul Mazursky's comedy drama An Unmarried Woman (1978).