Famous Artists Word Search With Painters, Sculptors and Clues

Print a famous artists word search and answer key, 139 names by century, craft and place, as names or clues.

Name Date

Famous Artists Word Search

Find every word hidden in the grid. Words go across and down.

0 of 16 words found

REDFMGUOIBDAPWE

ARFGEVERMEERISY

DCLRIVERAFGCCAE

HARRSEAMTKACAAU

SSKPWDFIIBSHSCW

LSDETRUCSBMOSNP

KAHLOEIHSDUMOUI

ATDRCMDEEMFEBOI

KTINEBOLUOIRKWM

HOPPERAAOYKKGSO

EUHCGAANPOLLOCK

SLQURNCGASEWSTU

MUNCHDOEYFEVSNV

IBNRCTYLUBFSEUA

WARHOLEONARDOMQ

This grid is wider and taller than its box. Slide it to see every letter.To drag, hold the first letter for a moment, then slide.Keyboard: Tab to the grid, arrow keys to move, Enter on the first and last letter.

LeonardoLEONARDO
MichelangeloMICHELANGELO
RembrandtREMBRANDT
VermeerVERMEER
DegasDEGAS
CassattCASSATT
MunchMUNCH
HomerHOMER
PicassoPICASSO
MatisseMATISSE
KleeKLEE
KahloKAHLO
RiveraRIVERA
HopperHOPPER
PollockPOLLOCK
WarholWARHOL

16 of 24 words from the Famous Artists list.

Start from a list

Easy: words go across and down.

More options

Show clues, not words

Word list

Large print Lower-case letters Name and date line on paper

The puzzle changes as you go. See the puzzle

Answer key: Famous Artists Word Search

REDFMGUOIBDAPWE

ARFGEVERMEERISY

DCLRIVERAFGCCAE

HARRSEAMTKACAAU

SSKPWDFIIBSHSCW

LSDETRUCSBMOSNP

KAHLOEIHSDUMOUI

ATDRCMDEEMFEBOI

KTINEBOLUOIRKWM

HOPPERAAOYKKGSO

EUHCGAANPOLLOCK

SLQURNCGASEWSTU

MUNCHDOEYFEVSNV

IBNRCTYLUBFSEUA

WARHOLEONARDOMQ

LEONARDO, MICHELANGELO, REMBRANDT, VERMEER, DEGAS, CASSATT, MUNCH, HOMER, PICASSO, MATISSE, KLEE, KAHLO, RIVERA, HOPPER, POLLOCK, WARHOL

Next step Scramble the names of the 1900s as a warm-up Build a puzzle from the artists your class studied

All 139 artists

Renaissance Artists 20

Anguissola Italian portrait painter from Cremona who served at the court of Spain.
Bellini Painter from Venice, Italy. His pupils included Giorgione and Titian.
Bosch Dutch painter of The Garden of Earthly Delights, three panels crowded with strange creatures.
Botticelli Italian painter of The Birth of Venus and Primavera.
Bruegel Painter from the Low Countries of village life and of The Hunters in the Snow.
Cellini Italian goldsmith and sculptor who made a gold salt cellar for King Francis I of France.
Donatello Italian sculptor from Florence. His bronze David dates from the 1400s.
Dürer German painter and printmaker of Young Hare and of a woodcut rhinoceros he never saw.
El Greco Painter born on Crete who settled in Toledo, Spain. His nickname means The Greek.
Ghiberti Italian who made the bronze doors in Florence that are called the Gates of Paradise.
Holbein German portrait painter at the court of Henry VIII of England. He painted The Ambassadors.
Leonardo Italian painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. His notebooks are full of inventions.
Mantegna Italian painter who made a ceiling in Mantua look as if it opens to the sky.

Show all 139 artists (126 more)

Renaissance Artists, continued

Masaccio Italian painter of the Holy Trinity fresco in Florence, an early use of true perspective.
Michelangelo Italian who carved the marble David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Raphael Italian painter of The School of Athens, a fresco in the Vatican.
Tintoretto Italian painter from Venice. His nickname means little dyer, after his father's trade.
Titian Painter from Venice, Italy, admired for his color. He painted Bacchus and Ariadne.
Van Eyck Flemish painter in oils of the Arnolfini Portrait.
Verrocchio Italian sculptor and painter whose busy workshop in Florence trained the young Leonardo.

Artists of the 1600s and 1700s 20

Bernini Italian sculptor of Apollo and Daphne. He also designed the great square at St. Peter's.
Canaletto Italian painter of views of Venice and its Grand Canal.
Caravaggio Italian painter of strong light and deep shadow, as in The Calling of Saint Matthew.
Copley Painter from colonial Boston who moved to London. He painted Watson and the Shark.
Fragonard French painter of The Swing, a playful garden scene.
Gainsborough English painter of portraits and landscapes. He painted The Blue Boy.
Gentileschi Italian Baroque painter, the first woman in the academy of art and design in Florence.
Hals Dutch portrait painter from Haarlem. He painted the Laughing Cavalier.
Hogarth English artist who told stories in sets of pictures, such as A Rake's Progress.
Kauffman Swiss painter in London, one of 2 women among the founders of the Royal Academy.
Leyster Dutch painter of merry scenes. For years her pictures were credited to Frans Hals.
Rembrandt Dutch painter of The Night Watch and of dozens of self-portraits.
Reynolds English portrait painter and first to preside over the Royal Academy of Arts.
Rubens Flemish Baroque painter with a large workshop in Antwerp. He also served as a diplomat.
Stuart American painter of an unfinished portrait of George Washington, the face on the $1 bill.
Van Dyck Flemish painter who became court painter to King Charles I of England.
Velázquez Spanish court painter of Las Meninas, a young princess among her maids.
Vermeer Dutch painter from Delft of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Vigée Le Brun French portrait painter who painted Queen Marie Antoinette many times.
Watteau French painter of elegant outdoor parties, as in The Embarkation for Cythera.

Artists of the 1800s 42

Audubon American artist who painted the life-size plates of The Birds of America.
Bartholdi French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty.
Bierstadt German-born American painter of huge views of the Rocky Mountains and Yosemite.
Blake English poet and painter who printed his own illustrated books of poems.
Bonheur French painter of animals. Her best-known picture is The Horse Fair.
Cassatt American painter in Paris, known for mothers and children. She painted The Boating Party.
Catlin American who traveled the West in the 1830s painting portraits of Native Americans.
Cézanne French painter of The Card Players and, again and again, of Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Church American landscape painter of Niagara and The Heart of the Andes.
Claudel French sculptor in bronze and marble. Her works include The Waltz.
Cole English-born American landscape painter, founder of the Hudson River School.
Constable English landscape painter of The Hay Wain, set in the Suffolk countryside.
Courbet French leader of Realism. He painted ordinary workers in The Stone Breakers.
Degas French artist known for ballet dancers, in paint, in pastel and in one famous sculpture.
Delacroix French Romantic painter of Liberty Leading the People.
Eakins American realist painter from Philadelphia, known for his pictures of rowers.
Friedrich German Romantic painter of Wanderer above the Sea of Fog.
Goya Spanish court painter of The Third of May 1808.
Hiroshige Japanese printmaker of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido, a famous road.
Hokusai Japanese printmaker of The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
Homer American painter of the sea and of Snap the Whip, boys at play in a field.
Leutze German-born American painter of Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Lewis American sculptor who worked in Rome. She carved The Death of Cleopatra in marble.
Manet French painter of modern Paris life, as in A Bar at the Folies-Bergère.
Millet French painter of farm workers, as in The Gleaners.
Monet French painter of water lilies. His Impression, Sunrise gave Impressionism its name.
Morisot French Impressionist painter of The Cradle.
Munch Norwegian painter of The Scream.
Pissarro Impressionist painter born on St. Thomas in the Caribbean. He later worked in France.
Remington American painter and sculptor of the Old West. His first bronze was The Broncho Buster.
Renoir French Impressionist painter of Luncheon of the Boating Party.
Rodin French sculptor of The Thinker.
Rousseau French self-taught painter of jungle scenes such as Tiger in a Tropical Storm.
Saint-Gaudens American sculptor of the Shaw Memorial in Boston. He also designed a $20 gold coin.
Sargent American portrait painter who also painted Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.
Seurat French painter who built pictures from tiny dots, as in A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.
Tanner American painter of The Banjo Lesson. He worked mostly in France.
Turner English painter of light, sea and storms. He painted The Fighting Temeraire.
Van Gogh Dutch painter of The Starry Night and Sunflowers.
Varma Indian painter of scenes from the epics. Cheap prints put his pictures in many homes.
Velasco Mexican landscape painter of the Valley of Mexico.
Whistler American painter in London. His best-known picture shows his mother in gray and black.

Artists of the 1900s 57

Amaral Brazilian modernist painter of Abaporu.
Basquiat American painter from Brooklyn who began as a graffiti artist in New York.
Bearden American artist best known for collages of Black American life.
Brancusi Romanian sculptor in Paris of smooth, simple forms such as Bird in Space.
Braque French painter who developed Cubism side by side with Picasso.
Calder American sculptor best known for his mobiles, hanging sculptures that move.
Carr Canadian painter of the forests and totem poles of British Columbia.
Chagall Artist born in what is now Belarus who worked in France. He also made stained glass windows.
Dalí Spanish Surrealist painter of the melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory.
De Kooning Dutch-born American painter, a leader of Abstract Expressionism in New York.
Douglas American painter and muralist, a leading artist of the Harlem Renaissance.
Ernst German Surrealist who made pictures from pencil rubbings, a method called frottage.
Escher Dutch printmaker of impossible staircases, as in Relativity.
Giacometti Swiss sculptor of tall, thin bronze figures.
Gris Spanish Cubist painter whose home and work were in France.
Haring American artist whose bold outlined figures began as chalk drawings in the subway.
Hepworth English sculptor whose Single Form stands at the United Nations in New York.
Hopper American painter of Nighthawks, a late-night diner seen from the street.
Kahlo Mexican painter known for self-portraits, such as The Two Fridas.
Kandinsky Russian painter and a pioneer of abstract art. Ten of his works are titled Composition.
Klee Swiss-born German painter of Twittering Machine. He was a teacher at the Bauhaus.
Klimt Austrian painter of The Kiss, which glitters with gold leaf.
Kollwitz German printmaker and sculptor who drew the hard lives of working people.
Krasner American Abstract Expressionist painter, born in Brooklyn, New York.
Lam Cuban painter of The Jungle.
Lawrence American painter of the Migration Series, 60 panels about the move north.
Lichtenstein American pop artist who painted like a comic strip, dots and all, as in Whaam!
Magritte Belgian Surrealist painter of The Son of Man, a face hidden by a green apple.
Marc German painter of brightly colored animals, such as his blue horses.
Matisse French painter of The Dance. Late in life he made pictures from cut paper.
Miró Spanish painter from Barcelona of playful signs and shapes, as in Harlequin's Carnival.
Modigliani Italian painter in Paris of portraits with long necks and faces.
Mondrian Dutch painter of grids in red, yellow and blue. He painted Broadway Boogie Woogie.
Moore English sculptor of large bronze reclining figures.
Moses American folk painter of farm life who took up painting in earnest at age 78.
Mucha Czech Art Nouveau artist known for theater posters made in Paris.
Namatjira Arrernte painter from central Australia, known for watercolor desert landscapes.
Nevelson American sculptor of wall-sized wooden pieces painted a single color, often black.
Noguchi Japanese American sculptor who also designed gardens, stage sets, furniture and lamps.
O'Keeffe American painter of huge flowers and of the New Mexico desert.
Orozco Mexican muralist of The Epic of American Civilization at Dartmouth College.
Picasso Spanish painter of Guernica and a founder of Cubism.
Pippin American painter from West Chester, Pennsylvania, of scenes from his service in World War I.
Pollock American painter who dripped and poured paint onto canvas laid flat on the floor.
Qi Baishi Chinese painter whose later works often show shrimp, mice or birds.
Rivera Mexican muralist who painted the Detroit Industry Murals.
Rockwell American illustrator who painted the Four Freedoms series in 1943.
Rothko American painter, born in what is now Latvia, of soft-edged blocks of color.
Sher-Gil Painter born in Budapest to an Indian father. She painted Three Girls in 1935.
Siqueiros Mexican painter of huge public murals, famous alongside Rivera and Orozco.
Tamayo Mexican painter from Oaxaca of Zapotec heritage.
Thomas American painter of bright dabs of color who taught art in Washington, D.C. for 35 years.
Thomson Canadian painter of The Jack Pine and the lakes of Algonquin Park.
Varo Spanish-born Surrealist painter who made her best-known work in Mexico.
Warhol American leader of pop art who made silkscreen prints of soup cans and film stars.
Wood American painter from Iowa of American Gothic.
Xu Beihong Chinese painter best known for ink paintings of horses.

How this list was compiled: 139 artists chosen for this site, each entered by the single name a gallery label uses, in nine themed lists plus a key terms list, a short names list and a long names list. Every artist on the list died in or before 2000, so no living person is named. Each clue gives the country and one well-known work or fact, in our own words, with no quotation and no opinion about the artist. The year of death, the country and the work or fact in every clue were checked against that artist's own English Wikipedia article, https://en.wikipedia.org/, on 2026-09-19; the Bosch clue was checked again on 2026-09-20 against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights. Names with an accent, an apostrophe, a hyphen or a space are hidden as plain capital letters with no gap. Licence: own work

How it works

This famous artists word search hides 16 names from a first list of 24, Leonardo to Warhol, in a 15 by 15 grid. Eleven more lists sort 139 artists by century, craft and place, and every clue gives a country and a work or fact.

Read the full guide

Pick a century, or painters only

Start from a list offers nine themed lists. Four follow the timeline, from Renaissance Artists to Artists of the 1900s. Famous Painters drops the sculptors and printmakers for a famous painters word search of 39 names, Botticelli to Pollock. Sculptors, Women Artists, American Artists and Artists Around the World cut across the centuries.

What a clue says

Each clue states a fact, never an opinion of the art: a nationality and a craft, then a work, a place or a date. "Dutch printmaker of impossible staircases, as in Relativity" hides Escher.

Tick Show clues, not words, for an art history quiz: "Japanese printmaker of The Great Wave off Kanagawa" hides Hokusai.
For grades 2 and 3, pick Short Artist Names (26, such as Klee and Kahlo), then Large print under More options.
Names with a space, accent or apostrophe hide as plain capitals: Van Gogh is VANGOGH, Cézanne is CEZANNE. The printed list keeps the true spelling.

Questions and answers

Why is Leonardo not listed as Da Vinci?

Da Vinci means from Vinci, the town near Florence where Leonardo was born, so it is not a family name. Museums use Leonardo, as this list does. Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and Rembrandt also go by a given name, and Tintoretto by a nickname.

Which artists are listed, and how were they checked?

The 139 names run from Masaccio, who died in 1428, to Jacob Lawrence, who died in 2000, so none is living. Twenty-two are women, and 18 worked outside Europe and the United States. Each clue was checked against the artist's Wikipedia article in September 2026.

Which women artists are on the list?

Twenty-two, from Anguissola, who served at the court of Spain, to Varo. Leyster's clue: "For years her pictures were credited to Frans Hals." Moses "took up painting in earnest at age 78", and Hepworth's Single Form stands at the United Nations in New York.

All 139 artists

Renaissance Artists 20

Renaissance Artists, continued

Artists of the 1600s and 1700s 20

Artists of the 1800s 42

Artists of the 1900s 57

How it works

Pick a century, or painters only

What a clue says

Questions and answers

More tools