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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection CollectionNg Eng Teng Collection Object numberN2001-0001-036-0 TitleRamshackle Hut CreatorNg Eng Teng Description“Art historian T.K. Sabapathy notes that Ng’s works demonstrate ‘significant’ departures from the prevailing aesthetic drive which was directed towards creating untroubled, idyllic images of nature; in Eng Teng’s pictures there are intimations of disequilibrium’ (Sabapathy 1998:45). Ramshackle Hut is included here as a sample of Ng’s paintings where the viewer is confronted with the region’s ‘disequilibrium’.” (Working the Tropical Garden, NUS Museum, Page 5) Production date 1960 Object categoryPainting MaterialOil on Board, Oil Paint, Paint, Board Dimensions H: 87 cm L: 40 cm H: 93 cm L: 52.5 cm Credit lineGift of Ng Eng Teng

Object numberN2001-0001-036-0

TitleRamshackle Hut

Description“Art historian T.K. Sabapathy notes that Ng’s works demonstrate ‘significant’ departures from the prevailing aesthetic drive which was directed towards creating untroubled, idyllic images of nature; in Eng Teng’s pictures there are intimations of disequilibrium’ (Sabapathy 1998:45). Ramshackle Hut is included here as a sample of Ng’s paintings where the viewer is confronted with the region’s ‘disequilibrium’.” (Working the Tropical Garden, NUS Museum, Page 5)

Production date 1960

Object categoryPainting

MaterialOil on Board, Oil Paint, Paint, Board

Dimensions

H: 87 cm
L: 40 cm
H: 93 cm
L: 52.5 cm

Credit lineGift of Ng Eng Teng

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