乌叔养，1919年考入上海美术专门学校初级师范科，1920年7月毕业。后进入该校西画系学习，1922年毕业。毕业后到南京民众教育馆美术部任部主任。后进入私立南京美术专门学校学习。毕业后任职于江苏教育学院，任艺术指导。后至镇江，任江苏省民众教育馆艺术部主任。1925年8月参加“晨光美术会”的第四届展览会。1933年留学日本，入东京美术学校油画科。1936年学成回国，任教于苏南文化教育学院。抗战爆发后到武汉，任国民党教育部社会教育工作团展览部主任。1940年赴贵阳任西南公路局艺术专员。1944年担任重庆璧山国立社会教育学院艺术系教授。解放后在江苏师范学院任艺术系教授。1956年任教于鲁迅美术学院教授。文革期间被迫害致死。

乌叔养 的作品在艺术造诣上很深,创作态度严肃,长期诚恳地埋头于艺术劳动,始终坚持现实主义绘画的创作道路。他的作品具有坚实的基本功。作品既细腻充实、刻划入微，又奔放开阔、千变万化，作品有藏有露、含蓄深远；既发挥了油画的表现技巧，又富有民族的情感

 Wushuyang (1903-1966.8) was born in Zhenhai County, Zhejiang Province, and grew up in Hangzhou. He has successively been a professor of Jiangsu Normal University, Jiangsu Institute of Social Education, Jiangsu Academy of Cultural Education, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Vice Chairman of Liaoning Literature and Art Federation, Director of Liaoning Artists Association, etc. He is a representative of the Third National Literature Congress and a representative of the Third National People's Congress. The main works include oil painting "Sino-Japanese War" and Chinese painting "Ge Xian Anti-tax" and so on. Published "Wu Shu Yang Works Collection".

Wu Shuyang was admitted to the elementary Normal School of Shanghai Fine Arts Specialized School in 1919 and graduated in July 1920. Later, he entered the Department of Western Painting and graduated in 1922. After graduation, he went to Nanjing People's Education Museum as director of the fine arts department. After entering the private Nanjing Fine Arts Special School to study. After graduation, he worked in Jiangsu Institute of Education as an art director. Later, he was appointed Director of Art Department of Jiangsu Provincial Museum of People's Education. In August 1925, he participated in the fourth exhibition of "Morning Light Art Fair". In 1933, he studied in Japan and entered the Oil Painting Department of Tokyo School of Fine Arts. He returned home in 1936 and taught at the Southern Jiangsu Institute of Culture and Education. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he went to Wuhan and became director of the Exhibition Department of the Social Education Working Group of the Ministry of Education of the Kuomintang. In 1940, he went to Guiyang to be the Art Commissioner of Southwest Highway Bureau. In 1944, he was a professor in the Department of Art, Bishan National College of Social Education, Chongqing. After liberation, he was a professor in the Department of Art of Jiangsu Normal University. In 1956, he taught at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. He was killed by persecution during the Cultural Revolution.

Wu Shuyang's works are deep in artistic attainment, serious in creative attitude, long-term and sincere in artistic work, and always adhere to the creative path of realistic painting. His works have solid basic skills. The works are exquisite, full and subtle, open and ever-changing, and they are full of revealing and profound implications. They not only give full play to the expressive skills of oil painting, but also are full of national emotions.