There’s definitely an argument for Lee Miller being Man Ray’s most influential muse… even more so than Kiki de Montparnasse, as she rediscovered the polarization process he popularized.

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Tony Just for Elizabeth Peyton

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what exquisite hands!

Every painting Alex Katz has produced is of his wife. I think she deserves a shout-out…

Cezanne’s wife, the most by theh most important artist. Not that he loved her. She was but an apple, but still his apple.

Peyton, with Tony Just or Jarvis Cocker, and Katz, with his wife Ada, were both considerations. It was just a matter of finding the right mix and then the right images, which I think we did; but it’s great that you brought them up.

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A great list a great idea, which could easily have included Goya’s La Maja, John Currin with Rachel Feinstein, Alex with Ada Katz, Paul Gauguin’s physically curious red haired Hiva Oa muse,Tohotaua and any number of a long list of artists deeply infatuated with themselves.

Jane Burden Morris was a muse for William Morris (whom she married) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She was also painted by many other Pre-Raphaelites.

Joanna Hiffernan was a muse for both Whistler and Courbet.

I would have included Joanna Hiffernan as a model for both Whistler and Courbet.

Also Jane Burden Morris as a muse for Rossetti, Morris (her husband) and other Pre-Raphaelites.

Yes, Lee Miller is much more important than Kiki, if you’re going to name someone who worked with Man Ray. Plus she was a great photographer in her own right – as someone else pointed out here – she was there for the moment of Solarization. Also, could you please spell Georgia O’Keeffe’s name correctly? The last image too just reminds us of Warhol with his Marilyns. Monroe should be on this list. So many artists have used her.

What about a female artist or two??

Douglas Park is the most influential artist muse in 1990s-2010 London.
Amongst the most well know, as muse for Gillian Wearing, Michael Landy, named the best artist by Pablo Leon de la Barra for his social inventiveness. Subject of Chris & Cosey song, star of many artist films including Mark Aerial Waller, Michelle Naismith, Anthony Gross, Claire Fontaine, and many more. Park is predominantly a writer, who positions his texts within the existing structures of fellow artist catalogues, performs throughout europe, including venice biennial Utopia Station. There have even been exhibitions devoted to his anachronistic phases,’Parkisms’
http://www.artreview.com/profile/DouglasPark?xg_source=activity

How about Luisa Casati, who was muse to many, many artists from a variety of disciplines?

It is spelled Georgia O’Keeffe.

Women artists don’t have muses? Am I missing something?

It’s an interesting question – who are the muses of women artists? Who would be a famous one? Frida Kahlo painted herself. Cindy Sherman photographs herself. In “Spending” by Mary Gordon, the main character is a woman artist who paints a man – he offers himself as her muse in the story. It’s really interesting and complicated.

Annie Leibowitz had Susan Sontag as a muse and Sally Mann makes her children and husband as muse,but generally women don’t seem to feel the need to have a muse . It is an interesting debate

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“….painting her endlessly as an erotic goddess over the years, even as she aged.”

This seems to suggest that as a woman gets older, she inherently becomes less of an ‘erotic goddess.’
Be careful with this sexist, ageist idea.

What about Rachel Feinstein to John Currin?

How disgusting of the writer you are sexist and ageist and a bad journalist as well! So it didn’t need to be pointed out that all the male artists’ muses were at least 20 years younger than them but low and behold, you are sure to make note that Gala was 10 years older that Salvador. Oh my God, horrors!

also there’s Bonnard’s wife/muse…and when did they stop using the term “sex change”? …gener reassignment surgery…hmm, what a mouthful…sounds like homework for the Almighty

This role was filled by my Late first wife, who was dance trained and aesthetically beautiful and herself an art creative and a wonderful photographer; she was my senior by some years and in the top 2 percent of the United States IQ tables. Her greater knowledge of the world helped my own development. My current muse is also highly intelligent and dance-trained; former trampoline star Amanda Hill, whose toned figure, self discipline and, amazing head for heights! – contribute greatly to my work; but these descriptive lists sell the role of muse short; a muse is far more than a model, however inspirational he or she may be visually; it is the mind and personality that bring compulsion and gravitas to one’s work. JXC

Where is Camille Claudel??

Camille Claudel was an excellent sculpturist in her own right and yes a muse as well. Funny I have this image on my phone :) Nice article.

Scary how many of these people killed themselves… Some artists just seem to devour their subjects. On the other hand, imagine being a nineteenth century woman asked to pose – naked no less – as a prostitute. Not an obvious call; yet she became immortal because of it.
Lots of missing candidates of course, starting with Frida Kahlo’s favorite muse: herself. Harry Callahan’s Eleanor. Lucian Freud and Leigh Bowery. Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne. Gaugain and a bunch of underage Tahitian girls…

Lee Krasner a muse of Jackson Pollock…well probably more like a day care provider and antagonist! Not a muse but without Lee…no Pollock. So if you broaden the definition of muse, she certainly was one.