Yi Sang-Bom was born in Gongju and graduated from Seo Wha Art Institute in 1918. He was a reporter for Dong Ah Il Bo (a leading Korean newspaper) during the years 1927-37 and taught art at Hong-Ik University during the period 1950-61. Yi Sang-Bom won the March 1st Cultural Award in 1962 and received the Seoul City Cultural Prize in 1966. He is well-known as a landscape painter.