Artists from Louisville, Kentucky

The list Artists from Louisville, Kentucky includes Larry Birkhead, Don Gummer, Wendy Whelan, D.W. Griffith and Odessa Clay. The list consists of 92 members and 1 sublist.

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Louisville, Kentucky

City in Kentucky

Architects from Louisville, Kentucky
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Larry Birkhead

American photographer

Overview: Larry Earl Birkhead (born January 22, 1973) is a former partner of American Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith. He is the father of her daughter Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead. He obtained full custody ...

Date of birth: 22 January 1973

Age: 52

Nationality: American

Occupation: Photographer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Doss High School alumni 7T

Twin people from the United States 693T

University of Louisville alumni 191T
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Don Gummer

American sculptor (born 1946)

Overview: Don Gummer (born December 12, 1946) is an American sculptor. His early work concentrated on table-top and wall-mounted sculpture; but, in the mid-1980s, he shifted his focus to large free-standing works ...

Date of birth: 12 December 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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21st-century male artists 1,869T

Sculptors from Indiana 20T

Sculptors from Kentucky 11T
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D.W. Griffith

American filmmaker (1875–1948)

Overview: David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Widely considered as the most important filmmaker of his generation, he pioneered financing of the feature-length movie ...

Date of birth: 22 January 1875

Date of death: 23 July 1948

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Methodists from Kentucky 18T

Stroke-related deaths in California 142T

Deaths by intracerebral hemorrhage 420T
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Wendy Whelan

American ballet dancer (born 1967)

Overview: Wendy Whelan (born May 7, 1967) is an American ballet dancer. She was principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and performed with the company for 30 years, and toured in U.S., Europe, and Asia. Whelan ...

Date of birth: 7 May 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: American

Occupation: Dancer

Gender: Female

Partner: David Michalek (Married)

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Kentucky women artists 29T

21st-century ballet dancers 171T

Dancers from Kentucky 3T
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Leee Black Childers

American, Photographer

Overview: Leee Black Childers (July 24, 1945 – April 6, 2014) was an American photographer, writer and rock music manager, who "recorded the legacy of a theatrical cross over between rock music and gay culture" ...

Date of birth: 24 July 1945

Date of death: 6 April 2014

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Photographer

Gender: Male

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American LGBT photographers 128T

Photographers from Kentucky 11T

Writers from Louisville, Kentucky 196T
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Jack Youngerman

American painter

Overview: Jack Youngerman (March 25, 1926 – February 19, 2020) was an American artist known for his constructions and paintings.

Date of birth: 25 March 1926

Date of death: 19 February 2020

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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2020 deaths 12,016T

20th-century male artists 5,867T

21st-century male artists 2,061T
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Odessa Clay

American artist

Overview: Cassius Marcellus Clay (November 11, 1912 – February 8, 1990) was an American painter and musician. He was the father of three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali and Rahman Ali, and the ...

Date of birth: 12 February 1917

Date of death: 20 August 1994

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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American male pianists 2,053T

Muhammad Ali family 8T

20th-century American pianists 1,888T
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Mary Fisher (activist)

American political activist, artist and author

Overview: Mary Fisher (born April 6, 1948) is an American political activist, artist and author. After contracting HIV from her second husband, she has become an outspoken HIV/AIDS-activist for the prevention, ...

Date of birth: 6 April 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Kentucky women artists 29T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
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Don Rosa

Writer and cartoonist

Overview: Keno Don Hugo Rosa (), known simply as Don Rosa (born June 29, 1951), is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his Disney comics stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and other ...

Date of birth: 29 June 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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21st-century American artists 700T

20th-century American artists 945T

Writers from Louisville, Kentucky 164T
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Sam Gilliam

American artist

Overview: Sam Gilliam ( GHIL-ee-əm; November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) was an American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam was associated with the Washington Color School, a group of ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1933

Date of death: 25 June 2022

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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African-American painters 131T

African-American contemporary artists 135T

20th-century American printmakers 560T
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Amanda Matthews

American sculptor and painter

Overview: Amanda Matthews (born 1968) is an American sculptor and painter from Louisville, Kentucky, United States, who lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

Date of birth: 1968

Age: 56

Occupation: Painter

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Bryce Hudson

Artist

Overview: Bryce Hudson (March 29, 1979, Rabat, Morocco) is a Moroccan-American Neo-plasticist (De Stijl) painter. Hudson's early geometric paintings explore race and stereotypes through means of the Geometric a ...

Date of birth: 29 March 1979

Age: 45

Nationality: American

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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African-American painters 131T

African-American contemporary artists 135T

American male painters 3,659T
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Amanda Roth Block

American artist

Overview: Amanda R. Block (February 20, 1912 – November 8, 2011) was an American artist. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Block studied art in Cincinnati, Ohio, and exhibited sculpture at her first national show at ...

Date of birth: 20 February 1912

Date of death: 8 November 2011

Age: 99 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Kentucky women artists 29T

20th-century American women artists 2,803T

21st-century American women artists 1,554T
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Stratton Hammon

American architect

Overview: Stratton Owen Hammon (March 6, 1904 – October 22, 1997) was a Louisville, Kentucky, architect known for his Colonial Revival style homes.

Date of birth: 6 March 1904

Date of death: 22 October 1997

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Architect

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20th-century American architects 1,474T

Monuments men 51T

DuPont Manual High School alumni 26T
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Jon Jory

American, Director

Overview: Jon Jory is a theatrical director instrumental in the development of Actors Theatre of Louisville; he is also widely rumored to be the writer behind the pseudonym Jane Martin.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

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American Theater Hall of Fame inductees 561T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

College of Santa Fe faculty 6T
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LaVelle Smith Jnr

American choreographer

Overview: LaVelle Smith Jr is an American choreographer and dancer. Known for his work in the music videos of singers such as En Vogue, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and Beyoncé Knowles, Smith has won the MTV Video ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Choreographer

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Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

African-American choreographers 74T

American dancers 1,010T
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Barney Bright

American artist

Overview: Jeptha Barnard Bright, Jr (July 8, 1927 – July 23, 1997), better known as Barney Bright, born in Shelby County, Kentucky and was a sculptor from Louisville, Kentucky, is best known for his work on the ...

Date of birth: 8 July 1927

Date of death: 23 July 1997

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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20th-century male artists 3,569T

Sculptors from Kentucky 11T

American male sculptors 936T
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Dean Cornwell

American artist

Overview: Dean Cornwell (March 5, 1892 – December 4, 1960) was an American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations, advertis ...

Date of birth: 5 March 1892

Date of death: 4 December 1960

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Artists from New Rochelle, New York 76T

American male painters 3,659T

Painters from Kentucky 49T
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Nicola Marschall

Confederate Army officer

Overview: Nicola Marschall (March 16, 1829 – February 24, 1917) was a German-American artist who supported the Confederate cause during the American Civil War. He designed the original Confederate flag, the ...

Date of birth: 1829

Date of death: 1917

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Male

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American male painters 3,659T

Painters from Kentucky 49T

American portrait painters 462T
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Bob Thompson (painter)

American artist

Overview: Bob Thompson (June 26, 1937 – May 30, 1966) was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were appropriated from the Old Masters. His art has also ...

Date of birth: 26 June 1937

Date of death: 30 May 1966

Age: 28 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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African-American painters 131T

American male painters 3,659T

Painters from Kentucky 49T