NUS Museum Collections Online

Sidebar content	Main content
Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection Object numberS2012-0005-198-0 TitleSketch of Rambutan Garden 2 红毛丹园（草稿二） CreatorLim Mu Hue DescriptionLim Mu Hue was born in Singapore to a humble family. Since an early age Lim had shown great interest in art, which led him to pursue an education at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), persuading the then-principal Lim Hak Tai to enroll him at a subsidised fee because he could not afford the school fees. In 1955, Lim graduated with a diploma in painting. He taught at NAFA for a few years before working as a cartoonist at the now-defunct daily Nanyang Siang Pau. Although Lim was trained in Western painting and known for his woodblock prints of local subjects such as kampong scenes, puppet theatres and the changing landscapes of Singapore, he always sought new ways of integrating Western and Chinese concepts and techniques, and developed his own distinctive style. In these two sketches, Lim uses baimiao (白描), the Chinese ink technique, to delineate the contours and tones of the larger-scale ink painting titled ‘Han Wai Toon’s Rambutan Gardens’. Production periodCirca. 1964 Object categoryChinese Painting, Painting MaterialChinese Ink and Colour on Paper, Chinese Ink, Ink, Paper Dimensions H: 48.3 cm W: 131.5 cm Credit lineGift of Wang Loke Meng

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

Object numberS2012-0005-198-0

TitleSketch of Rambutan Garden 2 红毛丹园（草稿二）

DescriptionLim Mu Hue was born in Singapore to a humble family. Since an early age Lim had shown great interest in art, which led him to pursue an education at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), persuading the then-principal Lim Hak Tai to enroll him at a subsidised fee because he could not afford the school fees. In 1955, Lim graduated with a diploma in painting. He taught at NAFA for a few years before working as a cartoonist at the now-defunct daily Nanyang Siang Pau. Although Lim was trained in Western painting and known for his woodblock prints of local subjects such as kampong scenes, puppet theatres and the changing landscapes of Singapore, he always sought new ways of integrating Western and Chinese concepts and techniques, and developed his own distinctive style. In these two sketches, Lim uses baimiao (白描), the Chinese ink technique, to delineate the contours and tones of the larger-scale ink painting titled ‘Han Wai Toon’s Rambutan Gardens’.

Production periodCirca. 1964

Object categoryChinese Painting, Painting

MaterialChinese Ink and Colour on Paper, Chinese Ink, Ink, Paper

Dimensions

H: 48.3 cm
W: 131.5 cm

Credit lineGift of Wang Loke Meng

Details