Twentieth-Century
European Art

A collage by Hannah Höch.

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely recognized as Britain's most important twentieth-century painter.

French-born Claude Cahun (1894-1954) is known today primarily for creating art that plays with concepts of gender.

Influential French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was considered both a genius and an irreverent prankster. 

Gluck (Hannah Gluckenstein, 1895-1978) defied the conventions of her time, but left her mark on modern art in England.

Duncan Grant (1885-1978), a major twentieth-century British artist, has been  called "the Matisse of Britain."

British artist Dorothy Hepworth (1898-1978) may have produced most of the art sold under the name of her partner,  Patricia Preece (1900-1971).

German bisexual artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) is best known for photomontages critiquing bourgeois culture.

English-born David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the liveliest and most versatile visual artists of his generation.

French artist Marie Laurençin (1883-1956) was associated with the lesbian salons of Gertrude Stein and Natalie Clifford Barney.

Polish-born artist Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) remains popular today for her highly sexualized art deco portraits.

German artist Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) created some of the most sympathetic depictions of lesbians since Sappho.

French artists Pierre et Gilles (founded 1976) create stylistically unique painted photographs that capture modern gay life.

Avant-garde Italian artist Filippo De Pisis (1896-1956) is best known for his cityscapes, still lifes, and male nudes.

Surrealism is an artistic movement that  embraced the idea that art is an expression of the subconscious.

Tom of Finland's (Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991) drawings reflect a hyper-masculine, working-class version of homosexual manhood.

Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989) filled his canvases with homoerotic images.

British artist Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) specialized in the depiction of male nudes in landscape.

Dame Ethel Walker (1861-1951) is best known for her portraits of women and for works with mythological themes.

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