Title
Singapore River
Creator
Year/Period
1959
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Image size: 31.3 x 45.8 cm,
Frame size: 52.6 x 65.8 cm,
Frame size: 45.6 x 58.7 cm (Mount)
Frame size: 52.6 x 65.8 cm,
Frame size: 45.6 x 58.7 cm (Mount)
Accession No.
2001-02707
Collection of
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.
