林达川(1912—1985),原名林北滔。在早期西画家中,是将印象派色彩与东方书写意味结合的最完美的画家之一,也是我国现代油画艺术的奠基人之一。同时,在中国早期留日画家中属较为独特的一位。他在日本学习,生活时间最长,达二十余载,是战后日本美术界获得荣誉最高的华人画家。由于解放前的缺席和解放后的不合潮流,其名字一直未被画界,甚至本校学生所熟知。本文拟通过基本史实的 Linda Chuan (1912-1985), formerly known as Lin Beitao. Among the early Western painters, he was one of the most perfect painters to combine Impressionism with Eastern writing, and one of the founders of modern Chinese oil painting. At the same time, it is a more unique one among the early Japanese painters in China. He studied in Japan for the longest life span of more than 20 years and was the most honored Chinese painter in the post-war Japanese art circle. Due to the absence of the liberation and the unpopular trend after liberation, its name has not been drawn by the painting circles, and even its own students are familiar with it. This article intends to pass the basic historical facts