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Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Painter / Graffiti Artist / Brooklyn's Shooting Star

A runaway at 15

Tagged around Lower Manhattan as SAMO©

Blondie's DJ

Warhol's apprentice. Haring's friend. Dead at 27

Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Painter / Giant of Medieval Painting

Wounded in war and nursed to health by The Knights Hospitaller

Studied under Van Der Weyden

Painted the best Last Judgment

Hans Memling
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Painter / Printmaker / "The Sleep of Reason..."

Became deaf mid-career from... lead paint?

An artist in protest

Died alone, leaving his Black Paintings

Francisco Goya
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Animator / Inventor / Da Vinci of Disney

Yes, he created Mickey Mouse

Made the birds on Hitchcock's, The Birds

Oscar-winning FX pioneer

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Golden Age Giant / 'Arabian Nights' Artist

Born in France, worked in England

Studied to become a lawyer... then got bored of it

Designed many UK stamps and even European currency

Edmund Dulac Wikipedia Bio

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Illustrator / N.C. Wyeth's Teacher

Known for his novel, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Painted Captain Kid like no one's business

Street cred: Vincent Van Gogh loved his work

Howard Pyle Wikipedia Bio

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Painter / German Romantic

Master of mystical landscapes

Had early success, died poor and lonely

Work co-opted by the Nazis for its inherent Germanness

Caspar David Friedrich Wikipedia Bio

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Painter / American Treasure

Said her paintings weren't vaginal

Married to the influential photographer and gallery owner, Alfred Stieglitz

Has her own dinosaur, Effigia okeeffeae

Georgia O'Keffe Wikipedia Bio

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Illustrator / Author / Foppish Pervert

Buddies with Wilde and Whistler

Lecherous pen-and-ink drawings inspired by Japanese shunga 

Died of tuberculosis at age 25

Aubrey Beardsley Wikipedia Bio

Look out! Here's a piece I did recently for the January issue of Virginia Living. It's about an awkward skier trying to woo his little lady friend. Obviously she was having none of it.

Thanks for making it happen, Sonda! You and the team did a bang-up job on the layout.

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Illustrator / Czar of Slavic Fairy Tales

Born in a suburb of St. Petersburg

Influenced by traditional Japanese prints

Died in the Siege of Leningrad

Ivan Bilibin Wikipedia Bio

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So, here's a fun series I did for the fine people at the Houston Press. It's about their staff picks for the rootin'est, tootin'est food and entertainment in all of—you guess it!—Houston.

Yee-haw! (Thanks for making it happen, Monica.)

Seen top to bottom: Bimbo's Beer and Bar-B-Q, Mezzanine Lounge, Alice's Tall Texan, and the Phantom of the Opera touring company.

Illustration by Owen Schumacher

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Painter / The Son of Man 

Mother committed suicide when he was thirteen

Friends with writer, André Breton 

Graphic style influenced Warhol and Pop art

Forged Picassos during lean post-WWII period 

René Magritte Wikipedia Bio

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Painter / Printmaker / Spirit of Weimar 

Served in the German Army during WWI

Deemed a degenerate artist by the Nazis

Painted Lady Gaga's great grandmother?! 

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He steadies the little hardbound book on his leg, putting pencil to paper on a page between the next and last—naturally.

Squinting, he continues, drawing anything that comes to mind. Partridges in profile, a disheveled rake in platform shoes, and of course, buns—many, many naked buns. The buns of fantastically stubby, balding men whose walking-on-air leaps of joy so perfectly showcase a certain golden doughy confidence, the viewer's given no choice but to share in at least a bit of what they have... by the pound (after pound)—fancy, fancy freedom.

So jump, my gelatinous friends! Jump!

[To view Bryant's buns, click here.]