Title
City Photo Studio photographs of a ceremony
Year/Period
20th century
Region
Malaysia
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2018-00317
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Hall of Phoenix and Peony
These photographs show a ceremony and were found together in the envelope stamped with ‘City Photo Studio’.Low Kway Song (1889-1982) was a pioneering artist who painted portraits of many prominent personalities in Singapore and Malaysia. He became the first artist to be paid a four-figure fee when he was commissioned to paint a portrait of the magnate Oei Tiong Ham in 1927. Low Kway Song established the first Straits Chinese Methodist Church in Malacca and in 1940 he became the Pastor of the Malacca Straits Chinese Methodist Church, where services were conducted in Baba Malay. Part of an archive which provides a record and glimpse into his personal life and artistic practice, this came from a collection which belonged to Low Kway Song.
