Field Leaders

Painting

Ranked by authority, profile quality, engagement, and recency. 11,493 artists.

All Artists Living Historical

#1 PaintingAuthority 100

Lisa Yuskavage

American artist who lives and works in New York City

American1962

Full Ranking

Rank	Artist	Nationality	Years	Authority
1	Lisa Yuskavage	American	1962	100
2	Luc Tuymans	Belgian	1958	100
3	Lynda Benglis	American	1941	100
4	Paul Klee	Swiss	1879–1940	100
5	Glenn Brown	British	1966	100
6	Julian Schnabel	American	1951	100
7	Elizabeth Peyton	American	1965	100
8	Gerhard Richter	German	1932–2090	100
9	Robert Ryman	American	1930–2019	100
10	Jean Dubuffet	French	1901–1985	100
11	Adriana Varejão	Brazilian	1964	100
12	Bruce McLean	British	1944	100
13	Georg Baselitz	German-Austrian	1938	100
14	Michael Heizer	American	1944	100
15	Christopher Wool	American	1955	100
16	Jasper Johns	American	1930	100
17	David Salle	American	1952	100
18	Ed Ruscha	American	1937	100
19	Rirkrit Tiravanija	Thai	1961	100
20	Robert Barry	American	1936	100
21	John Currin	American	1962	100
22	John Cage	American	1912–1992	100
23	Barbara Kruger	American	1945–2011	100
24	Chuck Close	American	1940–2021	100
25	Emily Mae Smith	American	1979	100
26	Keith Coventry	British	1958	100
27	Wassily Kandinsky	Russian-French-German	1866–1944	100
28	Edgar Degas	French	1834–1917	100
29	Sam Gilliam	American	1933–2022	100
30	Adam Pendleton	American	1984	100
31	Neo Rauch	German	1960	90
32	Beatriz Milhazes	Brazilian	1960	100
33	Daniel Buren	French	1938	100
34	Marsden Hartley	American	1877–1943	100
35	Arakawa	Japanese-American	1936–2010	100
36	Lawrence Weiner	American	1942–2021	100
37	Alex Katz	American	1927	100
38	Marcel Dzama	Canadian	1974	100
39	Anselm Kiefer	German	1945–2022	100
40	Ray Johnson	American	1927–1995	100
41	Kerry James Marshall	American	1955	100
42	Mike Kelley	American	1954–2012	100
43	Piet Mondrian	Dutch	1872–1944	100
44	Michaela Eichwald	German	1967	100
45	Robert Mangold	American	1937	100
46	Zhang Xiaogang	Chinese	1958	100
47	Philip Leslie Hale	American	1865–1931	100
48	Titus Kaphar	American	1976	100
49	Nam June Paik	American-German-South Korean	1932–2006	100
50	Rebecca Warren	British	1965	100

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