Why Yang Yisun matters
Yang Yisun is a documented Qing dynasty Chinese calligrapher whose work is held by the Cleveland Museum of Art and who also appears in a leading art market database, giving him a modest but verifiable public and market footprint. Public documentation of his life and practice is limited, but his presence in a major museum collection and in Artprice's records marks him as a figure whose work has periodically circulated in the traditional Chinese calligraphy market.
- Nationality
- Chinese
- Media
- Calligraphy
- Movement
- Qing dynasty (1644 to 1911)
- Signature motifs
- Seal-script calligraphy
By the numbers
- 1813 to 1881Life datesPer the Cleveland Museum of Art; MutualArt lists 1812 to 1881
- Seal-script calligraphyMediumPer the Cleveland Museum of Art object title
- Artprice artist record (Yisun Yang)Auction market listingNo confirmed sale price located in current sources
Selected works
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Biography
Yang Yisun is identified as a Chinese calligrapher working in the seal-script tradition, with life dates recorded as 1813 to 1881 in the Cleveland Museum of Art's object record for a hanging scroll attributed to him. A separate secondary-market listing, MutualArt, gives 1812 to 1881, a one-year discrepancy in the birth year that current sources do not resolve. No birthplace, teachers, formal training, or patrons are documented in the sources reviewed for this profile. Beyond his life dates and his identification as a calligrapher working in seal script, no further biographical narrative could be confirmed.
Critical reception
No exact, attributable critical commentary about Yang Yisun could be located in major art press or scholarly sources. His documentation rests on museum and secondary-market listings rather than on gallery texts, exhibition reviews, or published criticism.
Market
Yang Yisun has a limited public footprint in the market. Artprice maintains an artist record under the inverted name form Yisun Yang, confirming inclusion in a major art-market database, though detailed sale data sits behind a subscription wall and could not be independently verified. No auction house sale, hammer price, currency, or exact sale date could be confirmed for this artist in any source reviewed, so no auction record can be reported at this time.
Museum collections
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Authentication and provenance
No catalogue raisonne.
No catalogue raisonne or certificate-of-authenticity program has been identified for this artist. Works attributed to Yang Yisun are known chiefly through individual museum and auction house cataloguing, such as the Cleveland Museum of Art's record for a hanging scroll of his calligraphy, rather than through a published scholarly catalogue.
Primary reference: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.174.3
What collectors should know
Public documentation of Yang Yisun is unusually thin. His birth year is given inconsistently across sources (1812 versus 1813), no confirmed auction sale price is on record despite an artist listing in Artprice, and no catalogue raisonne, current gallery representation, or awards could be confirmed. His only confirmed museum presence is a calligraphic scroll in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. Collectors considering a work attributed to Yang Yisun should rely on direct museum and auction house cataloguing and expect to conduct independent research and authentication before transacting, given the scarcity of public reference material.
Further reading and resources
Data current as of 2026-07-18.
