Artist

Chiang Yee

Chinese, 1903–1977

Chiang Yee was a Chinese Chinese Orthodox School artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Chiang Yee (simplified Chinese: 蒋彝; traditional Chinese: 蔣彝; pinyin: Jiǎng Yí; Wade–Giles: Chiang I; 19 May 1903 – 26 October 1977), self-styled as "The Silent Traveller" (哑行者), was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher. The success of The Silent Traveller: A Chinese Artist in Lakeland (1937) was followed by a series of books in the same vein, all of which he illustrated himself. He was a nominee for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Works by Chiang Yee

Collections represented

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