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Yang Keyang (杨可扬)

Yang Keyang (Suichang, Zhejiang Province) studied wood engraving with various masters. In the early 1940s, he participated in anti-Japanese activities. Yang joined the All-China Wood Engraving Association Movement in Shanghai in 1946. After 1949, Yang was mainly involved in editorial work at the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House.

Yang is a well-known wood engraver.

Sources:

Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists - A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc: University of California Press, 2006)

Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), 中国美术年鉴 1949-1989 (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)

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