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Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
illustrator, costume designer, puppeteer
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University
Howard Pyle (1853-1911)
illustrator, painter
- Art Students League of New York
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
painter, sculptor, poet, graphic artist, lithographer, collagist, designer, jewelry designer, engraver, psychiatrist, architectural draftsperson, illustrator, printmaker, drawer
- University of Bonn
Dolly Parton (born 1946)
guitarist, country singer, actor, banjoist, autobiographer, businessperson, television actor, multi-instrumentalist, country musician, record producer, voice actor, film producer, composer, film actor, recording artist
Gail Levin (born 1948)
art historian, photographer, curator, academic, essayist, women's rights activist, historian, art theorist, artist, exhibition curator
- Tufts University, Rutgers University
Andrei Bely (1880-1934)
poet, autobiographer, playwright, literary critic, philosopher, critic, poetry study, illustrator
- Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University
André Thévet (1515-1592)
explorer, journalist, cosmographer, geographer, historian, translator, engraver, world traveler, visual artist
Jillian Tamaki (born 1980)
comics artist, illustrator
- Alberta University of the Arts