Details
CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection
Object numberS2013-0001-002-2
TitleChinatown Suite 2: 11:45 pm
CreatorJimmy Ong
DescriptionDonated to the NUS Museum in 2011, Jimmy Ong’s Chinatown Suite is a cluster of sketches predominantly from the period 1985-87, compiled by the artist. Consisting of 121 works, the Suite allows a critical glimpse into Ong’s formative years as a painter operating from his shophouse in Chinatown, Singapore, his formal art training having been at the Centre for Creative Art Studies, Detroit and his subsequent return to Singapore in 1987.
Best known for his powerful, large scale figurative charcoal drawings, Jimmy Ong began drawing as a child, growing up in Chinatown. The Suite is named after his formative years, both in his personal life in his grandmother’s house, and in his emerging studio-based practice at the same address. (Recent Gifts, Works and Documents of Lim Mu Hue & Jimmy Ong)
Production date 1985 - 1987
Object categoryDrawing
MaterialPen on paper
Dimensions
H: 10 cm
L: 15 cm
L: 15 cm
Credit lineGift of Ann Mui Ling
