1.   American impressionist painters, who included Childe Hassam and Guy Wiggins.

2.   And that is more or less where things now stand in the war between the American painter R.B. Kitaj and British art critics.

3.   A century ago, an early American modernist painter named Ralph Albert Blakelock put his finishing touches on the charming landscape and set it aside.

4.   A Gloucester, Mass. native, Lane was perhaps the most important American maritime painter before Winslow Homer.

5.   Along with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning is the American abstract gestural painter of the postwar years to be reckoned with.

6.   But over the last two decades, the American painter has been rediscovered for a new generation of admirers.

7.   For unlike so many lesser American painters of his day, Homer never succumbed to the prestige of Europe or lost himself in emulation of its fashions.

8.   Future Tasende exhibitions will include works by American painter Helen Frankenthaler and a show of drawings and political cartoons by Beltway satirist Patrick Oliphant.

9.   He moved to New York, where he taught in an art school begun by American impressionist painter Edmund Graecen.

10.   Her close friends included the photographer Cartier-Bresson, as well as the expatriate American painter Shirley Jaffe.