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 Votes

David Hammons, Brice Marden, Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, Kara Walker

Artists Who Received Four Votes

John Baldessari, William Kentridge, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei

Artists Who Received Three Votes

Marina 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 Votes

Richard 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