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Jeff Wall

1946 - Today

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Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian photographer. He is artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, and Ian Wallace. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeff Wall has received more than 402,128 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jeff Wall is the 1,096th most popular painter (up from 1,170th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Canada (up from 201st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Painter.

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  • 400k

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  • 53.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jeff Wall ranks 1,096 out of 2,023. Before him are Daniel Chodowiecki, Alexandre Calame, Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian, Hans Rottenhammer, and Giovanni Battista Crespi. After him are Luis Egidio Meléndez, Vicente Juan Masip, Frans Post, Marie-Denise Villers, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, and Laurits Tuxen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Jeff Wall ranks 257. Before him are Minoru Kobata, Stuart Wilson, Rocío Jurado, Al Green, Michael Czerny, and Ewa Kłobukowska. After him are Camilo Sesto, Adam Michnik, Leszek Miller, Abdul Ali Mazari, Farag Foda, and Dick Wolf.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Jeff Wall ranks 164 out of 1,622. Before him are Albert W. Tucker (1905), John Tuzo Wilson (1908), Denys Arcand (1941), Shawn Mendes (1998), Brian Mulroney (1939), and Raymond Massey (1896). After him are Stephen Harper (1959), Joe Shuster (1914), Henry Czerny (1959), James Doohan (1920), Emily Carr (1871), and Napoleon Sarony (1821).

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Among PAINTERS In Canada

Among painters born in Canada, Jeff Wall ranks 2. Before him are Maud Lewis (1903). After him are Emily Carr (1871), Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923), Philip Guston (1913), Agnes Martin (1912), John McCrae (1872), Maurice Prendergast (1858), Tom Thomson (1877), and Rob Gonsalves (1959).

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