Title
Nude
Creator
Year/Period
1939
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Frame size: 97.0 x 82.5 x 4.0 cm,
Image size: 79.0 x 64.0 cm
Image size: 79.0 x 64.0 cm
Accession No.
2022-00944
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Chang Si Fun (Shewin Chang), daughter of the artist
Nude (1939) demonstrate Tchang’s skills at figure drawing. Tchang outlines the physique of the woman with fine brushstrokes. Tchang highlights the makeup of the woman with an accentuation of the red on her cheeks and lips. Tchang was an intellectual, a critic and editor, an educator as well as a social “leader” and pivotal member of key art agencies and communities such as Society of Chinese Artists. A critic and activist against the Japanese Occupation of China and subsequently Singapore, Tchang was killed in 1942 during the Sook Ching Operation.
