Yang Furu (杨馥如)
Yang Furu (1918) was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. He took a design crash course at the Shanghai Bai'e Drawing Academy in 1935 and in the following years designed New Year pictures after work. In 1956, he became a designer of New Year prints by special appointment at the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. Since 1949, he sas designed more than 180 New Year prints and has received official recognition for his work.
Sources:
Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), 中国美术年鉴 1949-1989 (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)
