Name Birth Year Death Year Nationality Notable Works Style Influences Yamato Takehiko 1055 1135 Japan Shuji Suisho Kana Taira no Kiyomori Zhang Zhi " ""1186""" " ""1260""" " ""China""" " ""Regular Script""" " ""Xingkai""" " ""Wang Xizhi""" William Morris 1834 1896 England The Kelmscott Press Arts and Crafts Gothic Revival Suzuki Shōnen 1851 1918 Japan Calligraphy Research Sumi-e Zen Buddhism Edward Johnston 1872 1944 England William Morris's Kelmscott Press Humanist Gothic Revival Sheikh Hamad Al-Thani 1952 Qatar Qatar National Museum Calligraphy Contemporary Islamic Art Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham 965 1040 Iraq Optics Various Scripts Islamic Golden Age Li Bai 701 762 China The Poems of Li Bai Chinese Calligraphy Taoism Wang Xizhi 303 361 China Lantingji Xu Regular Script Confucianism John Stevens 1700 1741 USA The Art of Calligraphy Penmanship American Colonial Kojiro Ikegami 1895 1977 Japan Modern Japanese Calligraphy Sumi-e Calligraphy Techniques Lisa Engelbrecht 1953 USA The Art of Brush Lettering Contemporary Brush Lettering Beatrix Potter 1866 1943 England Peter Rabbit Series Illustrated Calligraphy Victorial Style Alberto Giacometti 1901 1966 Switzerland Sculptural Calligraphy Surrealism Abstract Expressionism U Thant 1909 1974 Burma Preface on Calligraphy Diplomatic Calligraphy Buddhism Zhou Enlai 1898 1976 China Calligraphy of Zhou Enlai Regular Script Mao Zedong Henri Matisse 1869 1954 France Jazz Series of Prints Artistic Lettering Fauvism Jacques Derrida 1930 2004 Algeria/France Writing and Difference Philosophical Calligraphy Deconstructionism Usee Yamakawa 1894 1963 Japan Kyoto Calligraphy Sumi-e Traditional Styles Maya Angelou 1928 2014 USA I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Literary Calligraphy Personal Narrative Norihiro Matsuda 1943 Japan Modern Japanese Calligraphy Kanji Maid Traditional Japanese Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1868 1928 Scotland Mackintosh Furniture Art Nouveau Architectural Influence Mary E. L. Wright 1878 1934 USA Lyman Beecher Formal Calligraphy American Civil Society Ruth M. F. Dunham 1947 USA The Spirit of Calligraphy Contour Lettering Expressive Forms Zari A. Al-Khaldi 1970 Saudi Arabia Quran Inscriptions Arabic Script Islamic Culture Natsume Sōseki 1867 1916 Japan Kokoro Literary Calligraphy Meiji Era Mark Twain 1835 1910 USA Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Penmanship American Literature Ferdinand de Lesseps 1805 1894 France Suez Canal Plans Architectural Calligraphy Civil Engineering Shinsei Sakuma 1901 1980 Japan Modern Haiku Sumi-e Poetic Calligraphy Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864 1901 France Posters and Prints Art Nouveau Visual Calligraphy Hiroshi Yoshida 1876 1950 Japan Woodblock Prints Sumi-e Traditional Japanese Claude Monet 1840 1926 France Impression, Sunrise Artistic Calligraphy Impressionism Frederick G. Hibbard 1881 1946 USA Lincoln Memorial Engravings Sculptural Calligraphy Public Art Goethe Muzaffer 1930 1999 Turkey Turkish Poetry Contemporary Folkloric Adolf Loos 1870 1933 Austria Ornament and Crime Modernism Architectural Writing Keith Haring 1958 1990 USA Public Murals Street Art Contemporary Compositions Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 1926 Austria Letters to a Young Poet Literary Calligraphy Modernist Annie Leibovitz 1949 USA Photography and Calligraphy Photo-Lettering Contemporary Artist Yoko Ono 1933 Japan Conceptual Art Conceptual Calligraphy Avant-garde Mark Rothko 1903 1970 Latvia/USA Color Field Painting Abstract Expressionism Visual Art Lucian Freud 1922 2011 Germany/UK Figurative Painting Contemporary Calligraphy Realism Roberto Burle Marx 1909 1994 Brazil Landscape Architecture Tropical Calligraphy Modernism David Hockney 1937 UK Painting and Photography Contemporary Visual Calligraphy