: Founded by an immigrant in 1919 who famously let struggling artists pay him back when they could during the Depression. Cheap Joe's Art Stuff

: Founded in 1887 near L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, it famously served Picasso , Cézanne , and Degas . Picasso even collaborated with them to invent the oil pastel.

: Archaeologists identified the Porc-Epic cave in Ethiopia as a 40,000-year-old production site for ochre pigment, essentially acting as a "Blick for the Middle Stone Age".

: Known for traditional ink-making and a massive selection of pigments housed in floor-to-ceiling cabinets.