Title
Self-Portrait
Creator
Year/Period
1939
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Technique
Dimension
Image size: 62.0 x 49.0 cm,
Frame size: 70.5 x 57.5 x 5.0 cm
Frame size: 70.5 x 57.5 x 5.0 cm
Accession No.
2022-00938
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Chang Si Fun (Shewin Chang), daughter of the artist
Self-Portrait (1939) shows the artist behind a canvas confidently holding on to a paint brush, a re-affirmation of his identity as an artist. 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.
