Baby names inspired by artists

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Add color to your baby's life by taking inspiration from one of these noted photographers, painters, or other artists. From old master to the avant-garde, the art world offers plenty of options for naming your own great creation.

Baby boy names

Name	Artist
Albrecht	Albrecht Dürer
Alberto	Alberto Giacometti
Alexander	Alexander Calder
Andrew	Andrew Wyeth
Andy	Andy Warhol
Auguste	Auguste Rodin
Chaim	Chaim Soutine
Claude	Claude Monet
Cy	Cy Twombly
David	Jacques-Louis David, David Hockney
Diego	Diego Rivera
Edgar	Edgar Degas
Edvard	Edvard Munch
Edward	Edward Hopper
Francis	Francis Bacon
Francisco	Francisco Goya
Frank	Frank Stella
Frederic	Frederic Church
George	George Catlin, George Segal
Georges	Georges Braque, Georges Seurat
Gerard	David Gerard
Gianlorenzo	Gianlorenzo Bernini
Gilbert	Gilbert Stuart
Gustav	Gustav Klimt
Henri	Henri Matisse, Henri Rosseau
Henry	Henry Moore
Hieronymus	Hieronymus Bosch
Jackson	Jackson Pollock
Jasper	Japer Johns
Javacheff	Javacheff Christo
Jean-Michel	Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jim	Jim Dine
John	John James Audubon, John Singleton Copley, John Singer Sargent
Julian	Julian Schnabel
Leonardo	Leonardo da Vinci
Lorenzo	Lorenzo Ghiberti
Marc	Marc Chagall
Mark	Mark Rothko
Marcel	Duchamp
Max	Max Beckmann, Max Ernst
Pablo	Pablo Picasso
Paul	Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Klee, Peter Paul Rubens
Peter	Peter Paul Rubens
Pierre	Pierre Auguste Renoir
Piet	Piet Mondrian
Ray	Man Ray
Robert	Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Delaunay, Robert Motherwell
Roy	Roy Lichtenstein
Salvador	Salvador Dalí
Stuart	Stuart Davis, Gilbert Stuart
Thomas	Thomas Eakins
Umberto	Umberto Boccioni
Vincent	Vincent Van Gogh
Wassily	Wassily Kandinsky
Willem	Willem De Kooning
William	William Blake
Winslow	Winslow Homer

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Baby girl names

Name	Artist
Alice	Alice Bailey, Alice Neel
Alma	Alma Woodsey Thomas
Angelica	Angelica Kauffmann
Anna Mary	Anna Mary Robertson, "Grandma Moses"
Anne	Anne Geddes
Annie	Annie Leibovitz
Barbara	Barbara Hepworth
Berenice	Berenice Abbot
Camille	Camille Claudel
Cecilia	Cecilia Beaux
Cindy	Cindy Sherman
Diane	Diane Arbus
Dorothea	Dorothea Lange
Elaine	Elaine Fried de Kooning
Elizabeth	Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Elizabeth Catlett
Eulabee	Eulabee Dix
Eva	Eva Gonzalès
Evelyn	Evelyn Pickering de Morgan
Frances	Frances Bagley
Francesca	Francesca Woodman
Françoise	Françoise Duparc
Frida	Frida Kahlo
Georgia	Georgia O'Keeffe
Helen	Helen Frankenthaler
Imogen	Imogen Cunningham
Jan	Jan Brueghel, Jan Steen, Jan Vermeer
Jaune	Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Jean	Jean Arp, Jean Dubuffet
Jennie	Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
Joan	Joan Miró
Julia	Julia Margaret Cameron
Kara	Kara Walker
Kelly	Ellsworth Kelly
Lavinia	Lavinia Fontana
Lee	Lee Krasner
Lilla	Lilla Cabot Perry
Lilly	Lilly Martin Spencer
Lola	Lola Álvarez Bravo
Margaret	Julia Margaret Cameron
Marguerite	Marguerite Gérard
Mary	Mary Cassatt
May	May Stevens
Raphaella	Raphael
Rebecca	Rebecca Solomon
Renee	René Magritte
Rosa	Rosa Bonheur
Sally	Sally Mann
Seraphima	Seraphima Blonskaya
Sonia	Sonia Delaunay
Susan	Susan Macdowell Eakins
Theresa	Theresa Pollak
Yayoi	Yayoi Kusama

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