I often see ideas about human interaction and struggles through paintings, photographs, and structures, especially when they appear in retrospectives of an artist's entire career. This list includes painters, sculptors, and architects whose body of work has exhibited in Brooklyn Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York Academy of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Keep an eye out for them if their work shows up near you.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Romare Bearden
- Chuck Close
- Salvador Dali
- Richard Diebenkorn
- Arthur Dove
- Audrey Flack
- Frank Gehry
- Keith Haring
- Edward Hopper
- Frida Kahlo
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Kentridge
- Edward Kienholz
- Lee Krasner
- Barbara Kruger
- Jacob Lawrence
- Fernand Leger
- Piet Mondrian
- Archibald Motley, Jr.
- Edvard Munch
- Pablo Picasso
- Diego Rivera
- Sebastiao Salgado
- Bill Viola
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Andrew Wyeth
