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Jeff Wall

1946 - Today

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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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  • 51.03

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  • 20

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  • 5.23

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  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jeff Wall ranks 1,171 out of 1,421Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Jeff Wall ranks 272Before 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.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Jeff Wall ranks 201 out of 1,350Before 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).

Among PAINTERS In Canada

Among painters born in Canada, Jeff Wall ranks 3Before 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).