Most Famous American Artists
United States has produced 759 notable artists throughout history, led by Frank Lloyd Wright. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.
Category All
Citizenship All
FL
Frank Lloyd Wright American Architect 1867 – 1959
#
473
JP
Jackson Pollock American Painter 1912 – 1956
#
516
GO
Georgia O'Keeffe American Painter 1887 – 1986
#
1,140
CP
Charlie Parker American Artist 1920 – 1955
#
1,575
SM
Samuel Morse American Painter 1791 – 1872
#
1,580
MR
Mark Rothko American Painter 1903 – 1970
#
1,755
JH
Jim Henson American Artist 1936 – 1990
#
1,783
IM
I. M. Pei American Architect 1917 – 2019
#
1,844
EH
Edward Hopper American Painter 1882 – 1967
#
2,028
AC
Alexander Calder American Sculptor 1898 – 1976
#
2,717
JK
Jeff Koons American Sculptor Born 1955
#
2,850
BS
Bessie Smith American Artist 1894 – 1937
#
2,884
AL
Annie Leibovitz American Photographer Born 1949
#
2,893
SD
Steve Ditko American Artist 1927 – 2018
#
4,273
LK
Louis Kahn American Architect 1901 – 1974
#
4,569
BI
Burl Ives American Artist 1909 – 1995
#
4,570
AW
Andrew Wyeth American Painter 1917 – 2009
#
5,763
GW
Grant Wood American Painter 1891 – 1942
#
7,782
WM
Winsor McCay American Cartoonist 1869 – 1934
#
8,726
ML
Maya Lin American Sculptor Born 1959
#
8,980