Title
Malay Girl
Creator
Year/Period
1973
Region
Singapore
Material
Watercolour on paper
Dimension
Image size: 54 x 33 cm
Accession No.
P-0770
Collection of
Credit Line
Donated by Michael Lim Hock Ann (Mr)
NLB Type
Painting
Born in Amoy, China in 1912, Lim Cheng Hoe came to Singapore when he was 7. Primarily a self-taught artist, Lim studied art under Richard Walker, Singapore’s first Art Inspector of Schools, at the Raffles Institution in the early 1930s. Lim was a prominent and significant first generation artist due to his treatment of the local landscape in the watercolour medium and is associated with the Nanyang Style. He was also a founding member of the Singapore Watercolour Society. Lim passed away in 1979 in Singapore.
