Rivera's assistants on the mural included the pioneer African-American artist, dancer, and textile designer Thelma Johnson Streat.

When news broke of the diagnosis, it sent a shock throughout Pittsburgh and a national community of pioneer artists who still felt in his debt.

Yong Mun Sen (1896-1962), Malaysian pioneer artist, known as Father of Malaysian Painting.

He also was a contrast from other pioneer artists schooled in mainstream Chinese art aesthetic culture, by being a product of Western art education and a primarily self-taught artist.

Larsen has been working with electronic literature since the 1980s and is considered one of the pioneer artists in the field.

"Williamsburg has come to be thought of as hip, but we were a bunch of pioneer artists."

Glennie and Fredericka Hunter of Texas Gallery were the original inhabitants of the loftlike space, and they presented the first Houston performances of composer Philip Glass and pioneer perform-ance artist Joan Jonas in their home.

William Wegman usually appears in books on the art of the last two decades in his role as a pioneer Conceptual artist - and in particular as author of a piece called "Family Combinations" (1972).

Other pioneer artists created a different kind of net-poetry, as interactive environment on line including animated text and digital poetry: Ana Maria Uribe, Reiner Strasser (interactive video-sound poetry), Jim Andrews (vispo.com).

Blavatsky had a profound impact on pioneer geometric artists like Wassily Kandinsky, and Hilma af Klint.