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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 (1934 – 2001) 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 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

CreatorNg Eng Teng (1934 – 2001)

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

Dimensions

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

Credit lineGift of Ng Eng Teng

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