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Tyrus Wong

1910 - 2016

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Tyrus Wong (October 25, 1910 – December 30, 2016) was a Chinese-born American artist. He was a painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer and kite maker, as well as a set designer and storyboard artist. One of the most-influential and celebrated Asian-American artists of the 20th century, Wong was also a film production illustrator, who worked for Disney and Warner Bros. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tyrus Wong has received more than 1,104,551 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Tyrus Wong is the 84th most popular artist (down from 71st in 2019), the 913th most popular biography from China (down from 817th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Chinese Artist.

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  • 1.1M

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  • 41.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Tyrus Wong ranks 84 out of 78Before him are Joseph Smit, Alex Grey, Genco Gulan, Art Babbitt, William Wallace Denslow, and Borka Pavićević. After him are John Butler Yeats, Shepard Fairey, Vanessa Beecroft, Peter Sellars, Rachel Whiteread, and Neil Harbisson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Tyrus Wong ranks 333Before him are Tom Richards, Alexandru Cuedan, Mae Clarke, Vittorio Tamagnini, Bill Pickering, and Chidambaram Subramaniam. After him are Freddie Wolff, Aldo Montano, József Várszegi, David Lack, Ilona Massey, and Charles Olson. Among people deceased in 2016, Tyrus Wong ranks 451Before him are Gunnel Vallquist, Anatoli Isayev, Erwin Hahn, Fyvush Finkel, Eddie Keizan, and Rudolf Haag. After him are Cléber Santana, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Tammy Grimes, Joseph Mascolo, François Dupeyron, and Nancy Mackay.

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In China

Among people born in China, Tyrus Wong ranks 913 out of 1,392Before him are He Pingping (1988), Zhai Zhigang (1966), Hu Jun (1968), Pauline Chan Bo-Lin (1973), Chen Danqing (1953), and Zheng Zhi (1980). After him are Huang Zitao (1993), Wang Yaping (1980), Tashi Namgyal (1893), Chen Kun (1976), Angelababy (1989), and Fala Chen (1982).

Among ARTISTS In China

Among artists born in China, Tyrus Wong ranks 3Before him are Ai Weiwei (1957) and Hu Zhengyan (1584).