He Tianjian (Chinese: 贺天健; 1891 – 2 April 1977), formerly romanized as Ho T'ien-chien, was a Chinese guohua painter and a leading member of the Shanghai School of art.
[1][2] He Tianjian was born He Jun (贺骏) in Wuxi, Jiangsu province in 1891.
In 1911 he briefly studied at the Guomin University (国民大学) in Nanjing, but dropped out the same year and joined the Zhonghua Book Company in Shanghai as an editor for paintings.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he became a staff painter at the Shanghai Institute of Chinese Painting.
[3] He Tianjian is one of the seven artists featured in the Exhibition for Noted Painters at the China Art Museum in Shanghai.