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Born February 28, 1977 (age 48) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors National Medal of Arts (2015)
Notable Works “President Barack Obama” • “Rumors of War”

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Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Andrea del Verrocchio: David
Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian painter and sculptor
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Amedeo Modigliani.
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian artist
Head of God the Father
Daniele da Volterra
Italian artist
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
George Frederick Watts
British painter and sculptor
James Earle Fraser
American sculptor
Thomas Eakins, detail of a self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1902; in the National Academy of Design, New York.
Thomas Eakins
American painter
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander
Pakistani-American artist
Ana Mendieta
Ana Mendieta
Cuban-born artist
Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas
American mixed-media artist
Smith, Tony: Throwback (1/3)
Tony Smith
American architect, sculptor, and painter
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
American artist
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning
American painter and writer

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