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August 19,1848-February 21, 1894

He was born in Paris, France

Born into a wealthy family, he trained to be an engineer but took an interest in painting

He ended up going to Ecole des Beaux Arts where he met Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir

He became the chief organizer, promoter, and financial backer of the Impressionist Art movement and exhibitions that later would become very popular

He used his money to purchase other Impressionist painter's art: notably Monet, Renoir, and Degas

In his will, Caillebotte left his art collection in the reluctant hands of the French government

His paintings later turned into the base of the Impressionist movement

He died due to a massive stroke

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February 25,1841-December 3, 1919

He was born in Limoges, France

He was born into a family of artisans

His father was a tailor who had seven children and moved his family to Paris around 1845

Renoir's gift as demonstrated at an early age so at age thirteen, so his parents sent him to work at a porcelain factory

Shortly after that, he was painting religious fans and cloth panels

In 1862, after he saved a little money, he was taking evening courses in drawing and anatomy at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as well as painting lessons at the studio of Charles Gleyre

The academic style of Gleyre didn't suit Pierre, he still accepted in order to learn the skills he needed to become a painter

In 1881 and 1882, he made several trips to Algeria, Italy, and Provvence which had a considerable effect on his art and on his life

He decided that his use of Impressionistic technique wasn't enough for him

He decided to explore the hall marks of classicism

A famous painting that resulted from that was Two Sisters ( On the Terrace)

He started to go bankrupt until 1890 when he was married to Aline Charigot

In 1894, he had his first attack of rheumatism and as he had more attacks, he spent more time in south France

While his joints got worse, he started to bind his paintbrush to his hand

Renoir's wife died in 1915 after having returned from Gerardmer, where she had seen her son Jean, who had been injured in the war

Renoir died four years after his wife due to complications from pneumonia

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January 23, 1832-April 30,1883

He was born in Paris, France

He broke new ground by defying traditional techniques

He was the son of Auguste Manet, who was the chief of personnel at the Ministry of Justice and Eugenie- Desiree Fournier

He was a day pupil at Canon Poiloup's school in Vaugirard where he studied French

From 1844 to 1848,  he boarded at the College Rollin then, then located near the Pantheon

His father wanted him to enroll in law school, which he didn't

His father refused for him to become a painter, so he tried the naval exam but ended up failing

He then became and apprentice pilot on a transports vessel in December of 1848

On his return to France in June of 1849, he failed the exam for the second time so his parents finally let him become a painter

From 1850 to 1856, he worked in the studio of Thomas Couture

His painting of Olympia was seen as indecent

He showed fifty of his paintings in Place de l'Alma and the Avenue Montaigne

Young novelist Emile Zola was interested in Manet's work and praised it

During the France-German War he served in the National Guard and witnessed the siege of Paris

He died of an STI called syphilis

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December 12, 1863-January 23, 1944

He was born in Loten, Norway

He was born into a middle-class family that had health problems

His mother died when he was five and his older sister died when he was fourteen; both because of tuberculosis

He captured his sister's death in The Sick Child

Munch's father and brother also died when he was young, while his younger sister developed a mental illness

During this time he said, " Illness, insanity, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life."

He received little formal training in his drawing

He started to take an interest in French Impressionism after a trip to Paris in 1889

His original style came in in about 1892

He suffered a nervous breakdown in around 1908

He died of pneumonia which was complicated by cardiovascular disease

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February 13, 1891- February 12, 1942

He was born near Anamosa, Iowa

He was one of the main exponents of Midwestern Regionalism during the 1930's

He was trained as a craftsman and designer

He spent 1923 at the Academie Julian in Paris; he then returned to Cedar Rapids, Iowa

In Cedar Rapids in 1927, he was commissioned to create a stained glass window

He knew nothing about stained glass windows where he went to Germany to learn about them

In 1934, he was made Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa in Iowa City

He died of pancreatic cancer and is buried on his family's plot in Anamosa

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March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890

He was born in Zundert, Netherlands

He was the oldest of six children to a Protestant pastor

His artistic career only lasted ten years

Became popular after his death

He worked for Goupil in London from 1873 to May 1875, and in Paris from the latter date until April 1876

Van Gogh's approach to life darkened after he was rejected by a London girl in 1874

He tried to be an evangelist

He created over 900 paintings and 1100 drawings

Goupil dismissed him from his firm in 1876 due to lack of motivation

He returned to Amsterdam to study theology in 1877

He declared his love to his widowed COUSIN in 1881, who rejected him

Later he decided to move in with a prostitute and her children and considered marrying her

He suffered from depression and was admitted to a mental hospital due to his own request

He took his own life after an aggravated fit of painting by shooting himself in the chest

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November 14, 1840-December 5,1926

He was born on the fifth floor of 45 rue Lafitte, in the ninth arrondissement of Paris, France

He was the second son of Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubree Monet

In 1845,  his family moved to Le Harve in Normandy.

His secondary school was Le Harve School of the Arts.

From 1861 to 1862 he served in the French Army and was stationed in Algiers, Algeria but was discharged after health problems

He entered the Salon in 1865 and even though his works achieved much praise he still struggled financially

He won the Salon in 1866 with a painting of his lover and future wife Camille Doncieux aka the Green Lady

Camille and Monet had two children before her death after giving birth to her second child

He drew his most famous paintings of waterlilies while losing his sight due to cataracts in both eyes