Back in Spring of last year, Redon and Rego met in the Second Round.  Rego won a squeaker, six votes to five, but then ran smack into Raphael in the Third Round and fell to the Left Brackets.  Meanwhile, Redon has waited patiently, besting Moholy-Nagy, Modigliani, and Poussin, hoping always for this chanc

Richard Wilson1713 - 1782British

Here's the other half of the tiebreaker that we launched the day before yesterday.  Long-timers will now have seen George Bellows more than almost anyone else in the Tournament, but they sure haven't seen him recently.George Bellows1882 - 1925American

Hendrick Avercamp was in on the ground floor of the Infinite Art Tournament -- his name, after all, starts with an "A" -- but he's been locked in ties three times, the most recent one in a match that started in November 2014. Jacob Jordaens, meanwhile, has been running nose-to-nose with Ingres

They were near contemporaries, but it could be argued that their styles were distinct one from another.  Today, the first Saturday of August, gives us a Fourth Round showdown between Henri Rousseau and John Singer Sargent!Henr

Alfred Sisley1839 - 1899FrenchBeat David Alfaro Siqueiros in Round 1.Tied with Michiel Sittow in

Ties in First Round Elimination are pretty darn rare.  It's been a year and a half since the last one.  But, Yves Tanguy and Gerhard Ter Borch ended up deadlocked last weekend, and we're ready to do some timebreaking. Kenneth Noland and Tanguy will fight

Frederic Leighton1830 - 1896BritishTied with Fernand Léger in his first try at Round One.Tied with Paula Modersohn-Becker in his

Faceoff #1: Uccello v. UtrilloPaolo Uccello1397 - 1475FlorentineLost to Kitagawa Utamaro in Round 1.

As we creep ever closer to the end of the opening salvos of the Infinite Art Tournament -- as we begin to contemplate the idea that the Sixth Round will be kicking off, in all likelihood, within a year!! -- it behooves us to nudge some of the more conspicuous bracket logjams.  That's why I'm declaring th

James Abbot McNeill Whistler1834 - 1903American; worked in Britain

Third Thursday: Bringing big names to your mid-month!

George Stubbs1724 - 1806BritishMade short work of by Graham Sutherland in Round 1.Beat Gilbert Stuart in

Benjamin West1738 - 1820American; worked in Britain

Frank Stellaborn 1936AmericanLost to Dutch master Jan Steen in Round 1 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!Skunked -- Skunked! -- Canadian painter Jean-Paul Ri

Rufino Tamayo1899 - 1991MexicanBeat Yves Tanguy in Round 1.Held off Dutch Master David Teniers in

Carel Weight1908 - 1997British

If you're all like "What happens to Vaserely/Valazquez?" then you are really paying attention!  The answer was, it was a tie, and the brackets have been shuffled a bit accordingly.Jan Vermeer1632 - 1675DutchBeat Veronese easily i

Kitagawa Utamaro1753 - 1806JapaneseBeat Paolo Uccello in Round 1.

"Semifinals" designates the Fourth

Faceoff #1: Tintoretto v. TobeyJacopo Tintoretto1518 - 1594VeniceLost to James Tissot in Round 1.

Adolphe Bouguereau has been sweating it in the green room since back in 2014, while Lorenzo Ghiberti held up this chunk of the brackets by tying first with William Holman Hunt, then with Sir Henry Raeburn. Ghiberti finally fell this week, losing to Guido Reni, and leaves the Tournament with the peculiar record of 2-2-3.

John William Waterhouse1849 - 1917English

Jan Steen1626ish - 1679DutchDefeated Frank Stella in Round 1 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!Won easily against Adriaen van Ostade in

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec1864 - 1901FrenchCrushed Jean-François de Troy in Round 1.

Alfred Wallis1855 - 1942British

"Semifinals" designates the Fourth

James Tissot1836 - 1902FrenchBeat Tintoretto in Round 1 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

Édouard Vuillard1868 - 1940French