Vanity Fair polled 100 artists to get their top six living artists. Fifty four of those contacted responded, a number that surprised Mark Stevens, deKooning’s biographer and an astute critic (read his accompanying essay here.) To see who voted, click here.
The Most-Voted-for Artists
Gerhard Richter: 24 votes
Jasper Johns: 20 votes
Richard Serra: 19 votes
Bruce Nauman: 17 votes
Cindy Sherman: 12 votes
Ellsworth Kelly: 10 votes
Other Artists Nominated
Artists Who Received Five VotesDavid Hammons, Brice Marden, Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, Kara Walker
Artists Who Received Four VotesJohn Baldessari, William Kentridge, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei
Artists Who Received Three VotesMarina Abramovic, Robert Adams, Chris Burden, Chuck Close, Walter De Maria, William Eggleston, Robert Gober, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Claes Oldenburg, Philippe Parreno, Sarah Sze, Lawrence Weiner
Artists Who Received Two VotesRichard Artschwager (died February 9, 2013), Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Mark Bradford, Vija Celmins, Tacita Dean, Marlene Dumas, Gilbert and George, Robert Irwin, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Christian Marclay, Steve McQueen, Julie Mehretu, Cildo Meireles, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Yoko Ono, Bridget Riley, Dana Schutz, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Tuttle, Luc Tuymans, Jeff Wall
Paint By Numbers (Vanity Fair)
The Full List of Participants and Nominees in Our Greatest-Living-Artist Survey (Vanity Fair)
