Lee Boon Wang

Lee Boon Wang
Born January 1, 1934
Guangdong, China
Died October 30, 2016
Singapore
Cause of death cancer
Alma mater Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Occupation Painter
Spouse(s) Helen Teo
Children 1 son, 2 daughters
Relatives Lee Boon Yang (brother)
Chua Mia Tee (brother-in-law)

Lee Boon Wang (1 January 1934[1] – October 30, 2016) was a Chinese-born Singaporean landscape painter, best-known for his riverside and seaside paintings. Many of his paintings are exhibited at the National Gallery Singapore.

Early life

Lee Boon Wang was born on 1 January 1934 in Guangdong, China.[2][3][4] He emigrated to Singapore with his family as a child.[5][3] He had a brother, Lee Boon Yang, who became a businessman and politician, and a sister, Lee Boon Ngan, who married the painter Chua Mia Tee.[5][3]

Boon Wang graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1953.[3]

Career

Boon Wang began his career by teaching at his alma mater, the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.[5] He subsequently worked in advertising,[5] first for S. H. Benson and later for Leo Burnett Worldwide.[4] By the 1970s, he became a full-time landscape painter.[5] He painted many scenes by the river and the sea.[3] Many of his paintings were acquired by the National Gallery Singapore.[3] It was also exhibited at the Ngee Ann Cultural Centre and the Empress Place Museum Gallery.[4]

Boon Wang was a co-founder of the Equator Art Society, a left-leaning realist organization in the mid-1950s.[5][3] He later joined the Singapore Watercolour Society.[3]

Personal life and death

Boon Wang had a son and two daughters from his first marriage.[3] He was then married to Helen Teo for four decades.[5]

Boon Wang underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2014 and relapsed with colon cancer in 2016.[3] He died on October 30, 2016 at the St Andrew's Community Hospital in Singapore.[3]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.heavenaddress.com/Mr-Lee-Boon-Wang/1570602/
  2. ↑ Richard Lim (1990). Singapore artists speak. 1. C.H. Yeo. p. 59.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Kam, Leong Weng (October 31, 2016). "Painter Lee Boon Wang dies at 82 after battle with cancer". The Strait Times. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "VISUAL ARTIST - LEE BOON WANG". Tanoto Foundation Centre for Southeast Asian Arts at NAFA. Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kam, Leong Weng (May 10, 2016). "Cancer-stricken artist Lee Boon Wang misses show opening". The Strait Times. Retrieved July 6, 2017.



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