Yamato-e: Yamato-e is a sophisticated and depersonalized form of native-style painting created for the Fujiwara nobility.

-Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Yeats, Jack Butler: Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was an Irish painter that began painting realistic imagery but gradually moved toward Expressionism

-About.com - Jack Butler Yeats

Yenkevich, William M.: William M. Yenkevich is a living, American painter, born in Gary, Indiana in 1955. He is a Realist painter who specializes in the tradition of the old masters who painted during the 15th and 17th centuries.

-William Yenkevich's website

Yisrael, Miryam: Miryam Yisrael is a living Portuguese artist living in Israel who creates art with pastels based heavily in line. Her subject matter is of Israel and themes regarding Judaism and the Torah. She creates highly elaborate cityscapes, created in one-point perspective and vivid expressionistic imagery from scenes within the Books of Jeremiah, Zechariah, and Isaiah.

-Miryam Yisrael's website

Yorke, William G.: William G. Yorke was born in St. John, New Brunswick in 1817. Starting out as a shipwright and eventurally becoming a painter of maritime scenes, Yorke emigrated to Liverpool where he had both North American and British clients. The painter lived until 1921.

-Art Net.com

Yu, Mei-lin: Mei-lin Yu is a living artist from Taiwan who paints expressive, abstract color-blocks and color fields.

You can see her work at Artbreak.com.

Yuri: Yuri is a living artist, born in St. Petersberg, Russia in 1987. She has just finished her first year in the School of Visual Arts at a University in New York and is studying to be an illustrator. She is a multi-media artist that produces photo-realistic works.

See her profile on Artbreak.com