1946 - Today
Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a 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 382,810 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jeff Wall is the 1,171st most popular painter (down from 1,135th in 2019), the 201st most popular biography from Canada (up from 211th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Painter.
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Among painters, Jeff Wall ranks 1,171 out of 1,421. Before him are Gustaaf Wappers, Giuseppe Abbati, Ilya Kabakov, Jan Mostaert, Otto Muehl, and Anna Elizabeth Klumpke. After him are Alberto Burri, Giacomo Ceruti, Giovanni Santi, Michiel Sweerts, Iaia, and Hans Erni.
1803 - 1874
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 1,165
1836 - 1868
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 1,166
1933 - 2023
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 1,167
1475 - 1555
HPI: 51.07
Rank: 1,168
1925 - 2013
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 1,169
1856 - 1942
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 1,170
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 1,171
1915 - 1995
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 1,172
1698 - 1767
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 1,173
1435 - 1494
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 1,174
1618 - 1664
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 1,175
100 BC - Present
HPI: 50.98
Rank: 1,176
1909 - 2015
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 1,177
Among people born in 1946, Jeff Wall ranks 272. Before him are Frank Welker, Andrzej Seweryn, Stan Winston, Gérard Grisey, Mireya Moscoso, and William Thurston. After him are Zülfü Livaneli, Zhang Dejiang, Michael Green, Dick van Dijk, George Duke, and Paul Davies.
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 266
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 267
1946 - 2008
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 268
1946 - 1998
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 269
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 270
1946 - 2012
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 271
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 272
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 273
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 274
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 275
1946 - 1997
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 276
1946 - 2013
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 277
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 278
Among people born in Canada, Jeff Wall ranks 201 out of 1,350. Before him are Phil Hartman (1948), Harold Innis (1894), Alanis Morissette (1974), Paul Haggis (1953), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), and Bobby Hull (1939). After him are Allan Dwan (1885), Mary Simon (1947), Nathan Fillion (1971), Ethel Smith (1907), Naomi Klein (1970), and Raymond Massey (1896).
1948 - 1998
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 195
1894 - 1952
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 196
1974 - Present
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 197
1953 - Present
HPI: 51.12
Rank: 198
1886 - 1950
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 199
1939 - 2023
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 200
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 201
1885 - 1981
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 202
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 203
1971 - Present
HPI: 50.99
Rank: 204
1907 - 1979
HPI: 50.97
Rank: 205
1970 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 206
1896 - 1983
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 207
Among painters born in Canada, Jeff Wall ranks 3. Before him are Maud Lewis (1903) and Emily Carr (1871). After him are Agnes Martin (1912), Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923), Philip Guston (1913), John McCrae (1872), Tom Thomson (1877), Rob Gonsalves (1959), and Maurice Prendergast (1858).
1903 - 1970
HPI: 59.67
Rank: 1
1871 - 1945
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 2
1946 - Present
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 3
1912 - 2004
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 4
1923 - 2002
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 5
1913 - 1980
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 6
1872 - 1918
HPI: 47.32
Rank: 7
1877 - 1917
HPI: 46.63
Rank: 8
1959 - 2017
HPI: 45.27
Rank: 9
1858 - 1924
HPI: 44.91
Rank: 10