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20th Century Artists:

Alechinsky, Pierre (1927 - )
Alvarez Bravo, Manuel (1902 - 2002)
Amighetti, Francisco (1907 - )
Andre, Carl (1935 - )
Andrews, Michael (1928 - 1995)
Angus, Rita (1908 - 1970)
Annigoni, Pietro (1910 - 1988)
Appel, Karel (1921 - )
Arakawa, Shusaku (1936 - )
Arikha, Avigdor (1929 - )
Arman, Armand Fernandez (1928 - )
Armitage, Kenneth (1916 - 2002)
Auerbach, Frank (1931 - )
Ayrton, Michael (1921 - 1975)
Bacon, Francis (1909 - 1992)
Baselitz, Georg (1938 - )
Baziotes, William (1912 - 1963)
Bearden, Romare (1914 - )
Bell, Graham (1910 - 1943)
Berni, Antonio (1907 - 1981)
Beuys, Joseph (1921 - 1986)
Bill, Max (1908 - 1994)
Birolli, Renato (1905 - 1959)
Blake, Peter (1932 - )
Bolotowsky, Ilya (1907 - 1981)
Borduas, Paul-Emile (1905 - 1960)
Boshier, Derek (1937 - )
Botero, Fernando (1932 - )
Bourgeois, Louise (1911 - )
Boyd Jr., Arthur (1920 - 1999)
Bratby, John (1928 - 1992)
Buffet, Bernard (1928 - 1999)
Burra, Edward (1905 - 1976)
Burri, Alberto (1915 - 1995)
Bury, Pol (1922 - )
Butler, Reg (1913 - 1981)
Cadmus, Paul (1904 - 1999)
Caro, Sir Anthony (1924 - )
Carrington, Leonora (1917 - )
Chadwick, Lynn (1912 - 2003)
Chamberlain, John (1927 - )
Close, Chuck (1940 - )
Coldstream, Sir William (1908 - 1987)
Colquhoun, Robert (1914 - 1962)
Colville, Alex (1920 - )
Cornell, Joseph (1903 - 1972)
Crawford, Ralston (1906 - 1978)
Dali, Salvador (1904 - 1989)
Davie, Alan (1920 - )
De Andrea, John (1941 - )
De Kooning, Willem (1904 - 1997)
De Maria, Walter (1935 - )
Diebenkorn, Richard (1922 - 1993)
Dine, Jim (1935 - )
Drysdale, Sir Russell (1912 - 1981)
Dubuffet, Jean (1901 - 1985)
Eggleston, William (1939 - )
Evans, Walker (1903 - 1975)
Fischl, Eric (1948 - )
Frankenthaler, Helen (1928 - )
Freud, Lucian (1922 - )
Giacometti, Alberto (1901 - 1966)
Gilbert and George, (1942 - )
Gorky, Arshile (1904 - 1948)
Haring, Keith (1958 - 1990)
Hassan, Faik (1914 - 1992)
Hockney, David (1937 - )
Hodgkin, Howard (1932 - )
Johns, Jasper (1930 - )
Johnson, William H. (1901 - 1970)
Kahlo, Frida (1907 - 1954)
Khadda, Muhammad (1930 - 1991)
Kiefer, Anselm (1945 - )
Kitaj, R.B. (1932 - )
Lam, Wifredo (1902 - 1992)
Lawrence, Jacob (1917 - 2000)
Lewis, Norman (1909 - 1979)
Lichtenstein, Roy (1923 - 1997)
Lyon, Danny (1942 - )
Maeda, Seison (1901 - 1977)
Malevich, Kasimir (1978 - 1935)
Maqhubela, Louis Khela (1939 - )
Matta, Roberto (1911 - )
Miller, Lee (1907 - 1977)
Morrisseau, Norval (1931 - )
Motherwell, Robert (1915 - 1991)
Moudarres, Fateh (1922 - )
Newman, Barnett (1905 - 1970)
Nolan, Sir Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Olitski, Jules (1922 - )
Onus, Lin (1948 - 1996)
Oonark, Jessie (1906 - 1985)
Oppenheim, Meret (1913 - 1985)
Piper, John (1903 - 1992)
Polke, Sigmar (1941 - )
Pollock, Jackson (1912 - 1956)
Puryear, Martin (1941 - )
Rauschenberg, Robert (1925 - )
Rego, Paula (1935 - )
Reinhardt, Ad (1913 - 1967)
Richter, Gerhard (1932 - )
Riley, Bridget (1931 - )
Riopelle, Jean-Paul (1923 - )
Rosenblum, Walter (1919 - )
Rothko, Mark (1903 - 1970)
Salim, Jawad (1920 - 1961)
Schnabel, Julian (1951 - )
Scully, Sean (1945 - )
Sekoto, Gerard (1913 - 1993)
Shore, Stephen (1947 - )
Siskind, Aaron (1903 - 1991)
Smith, Jaune Quick-to-see (1940 - )
Sommer, Frederick (1905 - 1999)
Stella, Frank (1936 - )
Still, Clyfford (1904 - 1980)
Sugai, Kumi (1919 - 1996)
Sutherland, Graham (1903 - 1980)
Tanguy, Yves (1900 - 1955)
Tanning, Dorothea (1910 - )
Tapies, Antoni (1923 - )
Thiebaud, Wayne (1920 - )
Warhol, Andy (1928 - 1987)
Winogrand, Garry (1928 - 1984)
Woodruff, Hale (1900 - 1980)
Wyeth, Andrew (1917 - )

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