Détails
CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection
N° d'objetS1980-0858-001-0
TitreSingapore River
CréateurLim Cheng Hoe
DescriptionA founding member of the Singapore Watercolour Society established in 1969, Lim Cheng Hoe figures significantly as a pioneer of the watercolour medium in Singapore art. Lim was eleven when he migrated to Singapore from his place of birth in Amoy, China. While a student at the Raffles Institution in the 1930s, he took art lessons from British watercolourist and art educator Richard Walker. Although Lim Cheng Hoe's oeuvre includes portraits and figure drawings, he is particularly noted for his plein-air paintings of Singapore seafronts and riverine scenes to which he imbued the luminosity of light and colour of topics. In this 1959 painting of the river, he is sitting at his favourite painting spot along the Singapore River, a spot that grants him a commanding view of the OCBC Building across the bank. He brings an impressionistic touch to the scene and captures the river in its heyday as the busy heartof commerce in Singapore of the 1950s. Lim Cheng Hoe's Singapore River is presented in this exhibition in contrast to W. M. Clyde's work of the same subject matter to raise a broad question about how a locale is depicted in paintings and how it shapes viewers' understanding of place.Another view of Singapore River from the artist's favourite spot featuring shophouses cum godowns and the former old OCBC building which had long been demolished and replaced by its present skyscraper. The familiar clutter of tongkangs are anchored infront of the buildings without which no scene of Singapore River is complete.
Lieu de créationSingapore
Catégorie d'objetPainting
MatérielWatercolour on paper
Dimensions
H: 37.5 cm
L: 50.5 cm
L: 50.5 cm
