Who is the greatest American painter?
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fine art
modern art
Galenson. A survey of the illustrations in textbooks of modern art demonstrates that scholars do consider Jackson Pollock the most important modern American painter, but not by a wide margin over Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, the leading artists of the following generation.
Also asked, who is the most famous American painter?
Andy Warhol
Keeping this in view, who is considered the first great American painter?
THE FIRST GREAT AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PAINTER. Thomas Cole has long been known as the founder of the Hudson River School. He has also come to be recognized as a romantic landscape painter of comparable importance to American culture as John Constable is to England's or Caspar David Friedrich to Germany's.
The German painter Gerhard Richter is today our most admired living artist, having received 24 votes. Jasper Johns comes next with 20 votes, followed by Richard Serra with 19.