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Biography: You Need to Know: Maria Tallchief

Published: Sep 18, 2022

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America's first prima ballerina danced her way from Oklahoma to the world stage.

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Bill Watterson’s Career Since “Calvin and Hobbes”

Maya Lin Portrait of Vietnam Memorial designer Maya Yin Lin. (Photo by Steve Northup/Getty Images)

Maya Lin

GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918). /nAustrian painter. Photographed in 1913.(Eingeschränkte Rechte für bestimmte redaktionelle Kunden in Deutschland. Limited rights for specific editorial clients in Germany.) GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918). /nAustrian painter. Photographed in 1913. (Photo by d' Ora/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Gustav Klimt

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Lili Elbe

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Biography: You Need to Know: Maya Lin

Raphael (1483-1520), Italian painter, Self-portrait, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy - stock illustration Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian painter, 1483 - 1520). Etching after his self-portrait (1504-06) in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy, published in 1884.

Raphael

Salvador DaliPortrait of Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989). He is wearing a pinstriped suit and his trademark mustache. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Salvador Dalí

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Margaret Keane

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

James Van Der Zee

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Paul Gauguin

Norman Rockwell

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