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Tom Thomson
Tom Thomson, full name Thomas John Thomson, was a Canadian landscape painter whose oil paintings of northern Ontario shaped modern Canadian art before he drowned in Algonquin Park in 1917.
Toyen
Toyen was the pseudonym of Marie Čermínová (1902–1980), a Czech painter and founding member of the Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia, later active among the Paris Surrealists.
Trần Văn Cẩn
Trần Văn Cẩn is a Vietnamese painter who worked across oil, silk, lacquer, and woodcut; he is remembered as one of the four masters of modern Vietnamese art.
U Ba Nyan
U Ba Nyan (ဦးဘဉာဏ်; 1897–1945) was a Burmese painter born in Pantanaw who trained at the Royal College of Art in London and is regarded as a founder of modern painting in Myanmar.
Uemura Shōen
Uemura Shōen (上村松園, 1875–1949), real name Uemura Tsune, was a Kyoto nihonga painter of beautiful women and the first woman to receive the Order of Culture.
Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor, the leading artist of Italian Futurism, best known for the 1913 sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
Umehara Ryūzaburō
Umehara Ryūzaburō (梅原龍三郎, 1888–1986) was a Japanese yōga, or Western-style, painter who studied under Renoir in France and led modern Japanese oil painting through the Taishō and Shōwa periods.
Vanessa Bell
Vanessa Bell, born Vanessa Stephen (1879–1961), was a British painter and interior designer, a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group and elder sister of Virginia Woolf.
Victor Brauner
Victor Brauner (1903–1966) was a Romanian-born painter who joined André Breton's Surrealist group in Paris, best known for dream imagery and his premonitory 1931 Self-Portrait with Enucleated Eye.
Victorio Edades
Victorio Edades (1895–1985) was a Filipino painter who introduced modernist, expressionist painting to the Philippines, known for The Builders and named National Artist for Painting in 1976.
Vladimir Tatlin
Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin (1885–1953) was a Russian and Soviet painter and designer regarded as the founder of Constructivism, best known for his unbuilt Tatlin's Tower.
Walter Sickert
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942), German-born English painter, pupil of Whistler and friend of Degas; founder of the Camden Town Group, painter of music halls, Camden nudes and Dieppe townscapes; subject of a discredited Jack the Ripper claim.
Walter Spies
Walter Spies (1895–1942) was a Moscow-born German painter, musician, and curator who settled in Ubud, Bali, in 1927, co-founded the Pita Maha artists' association, and helped create the Kecak dance.
Wang Bu
Wang Bu (王步, 1898–1968), courtesy name Renyuan, was a Chinese ceramic artist of Jingdezhen known as the "King of Blue-and-White" who specialized in underglaze blue-and-white porcelain painting.
Wassily Kandinsky (Василий Васильевич Кандинский)
Wassily Kandinsky (Василий Васильевич Кандинский), 1866–1944, Russian-born painter and theorist, a founder of abstract art; author of Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911) and Point and Line to Plane (1926), co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus teacher.
Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam (1902–1982) was a Cuban painter who fused Cubism and Surrealism with Afro-Cuban imagery, trained in Havana and Madrid, and best known for The Jungle.
Władysław Strzemiński
Władysław Strzemiński (1893–1952) was a Polish painter, theorist, and teacher who created Unism, led the Łódź museum's modern art collection, and co-founded the city's art school.
Wu Guanzhong
Wu Guanzhong (吴冠中, 1919–2010) was a Chinese painter and art educator, born in Yixing, Jiangsu and trained in Paris, who fused Western oil painting with Chinese ink aesthetics.
Wu Hufan
Wu Hufan (吴湖帆, 1894–1968) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, collector, and connoisseur based in Suzhou and Shanghai, a central figure in 20th-century art collecting and authentication whose studio Meijing Shuwu trained notable artists.
Wu Zuoren
Wu Zuoren (吴作人; 1908–1997) was a Chinese painter who trained in oil painting under Xu Beihong, then turned to ink painting of yaks, camels, pandas, and goldfish.
Xie Zhiliu
Xie Zhiliu (谢稚柳, 1910–1997) was a Chinese painter, art historian, and connoisseur from Changzhou, Jiangsu, who led the national survey of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy in the 1980s.
Yasui Sōtarō
Yasui Sōtarō (安井曾太郎, 1888–1955) was a Japanese painter of yōga, Western-style oil painting, whose portrait manner, the Yasui style, dominated the early Shōwa era with Umehara Ryūzaburō.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (国吉康雄, 1889 to 1953) was a Japanese-born painter who spent his career in New York and became a leading figure of American modernism.
Ye Qianyu
Ye Qianyu (叶浅予, 1907–1995) was a Chinese cartoonist and painter from Tonglu, Zhejiang, who created the comic strip "Mr. Wang" and became a leading painter of dancers in modern Chinese ink painting.
Yi Sang-beom
Yi Sang-beom (이상범, pen name Cheongjeon, 1897–1972) was a Korean ink landscape painter born in Gongju whose foreground-centered rural scenes, developed after 1945, are known as the Cheongjeon style.
Yu Feian
Yu Feian (于非暗, original name Yu Zhao, 1889–1959) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher who specialized in gongbi flower-and-bird painting and revived the Song dynasty court style in modern Beijing.
Zhao Shao'ang
Zhao Shao'ang (赵少昂, 1905–1998) was a Chinese painter of the Lingnan School, best known for his flower-and-bird paintings and based in Hong Kong from 1948.
Zhao Wangyun
Zhao Wangyun (赵望云, 1906–1977) was a Chinese ink painter known for rural sketch reporting from 1932 and as founding figure of the Chang'an School in Xi'an.
Zhu Qizhan
Zhu Qizhan (朱屺瞻) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher from Taicang, Jiangsu, 1892 to 1996, known for vigorous ink landscapes and flowers blending Chinese tradition with Western color.