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Also Known As Alfons Maria Mucha
Born July 24, 1860 • Czechoslovakia
Died July 14, 1939 (aged 78) • Prague • Czech Republic
Movement / Style Art Nouveau

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Georges Fouquet: Art Nouveau jewelry
poster for the play Lorenzaccio
lithograph poster for Hamlet
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Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg
American artist
French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
French artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Jacques Villon
French painter
William J. Glackens: East River Park
William J. Glackens
American painter
The Supreme Vice, India ink and watercolour by Félicien Rops.
Félicien Rops
Belgian artist
Adolf von Menzel
German painter
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh
American artist
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
Wake of the Ferry, oil on canvas by John French Sloan, 1907; in the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
John French Sloan
American artist
Miguel Covarrubias
Mexican painter and writer
Charles Demuth
American painter
Parrish, Maxfield: Very Little Red Riding Hood
Maxfield Parrish
American artist
Vedder, Elihu
Elihu Vedder
American artist
Grandville
French cartoonist
Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré
French illustrator

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