This is a list of famous American painters.
- George Caleb Bingham (d. 1879)
- Grant Wood (d. 1942)
- Jackson Pollock (d. 1956)
- Edward Hopper (d. 1967)
- Mark Rothko (d. 1970)
- Norman Rockwell (d. 1978)
- Lee Krasner (d. 1984)
- Georgia O'Keeffe (d. 1986)
- Andy Warhol (d. 1987)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat (d. 1988)
- Willem de Kooning (d. 1997)
- Lois Mailou Jones (d. 1998)
- Frank Stella (d. 2024)
- Edward Ruscha (born 1937)
- Lucas Reiner (born 1960)
- Amy Sherald (born 1973)
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