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Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
French painter
Henri Rousseau: Myself: Portrait-Landscape
Henri Rousseau
French painter
Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses
American artist
Horace Pippin
American artist
The Cornell Farm, oil on canvas by Edward Hicks, 1848; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Edward Hicks
American painter
John Kane
American artist
Joseph Pickett
American painter