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TPH Tan Peng Hooi painter of Penang

Record

Press and writing

Coverage and notices on record, led by the 1981 Reader's Digest feature that first framed him as a painter preserving a vanishing Malaysia.

  1. Flagship feature

    The painter who preserves Malaysia’s past

    Robert Kiener · Reader's Digest (Asian edition) · August 1981 · pages 40 to 44

    The flagship early feature on Tan Peng Hooi. It records his Penang waterfront upbringing, his largely self-taught path with an early grounding in drawing and commercial art, his method of composing from memory in the studio, and, in his own words, his wish to record a way of life that is disappearing. It reproduces several works, including Feeding Ducks No. 1 and No. 2, Frolicking Pigeons, Sampans, The Tumbling Waves, and Malacca River-bank. The article text, layout, and the artist portrait carry Reader’s Digest and photographer copyright; quote sparingly and do not republish the scans until cleared.

    Read the 1981 feature in facsimile

    Sources (1)
    • docs/readers-digest-1981-source-record.md
    Cover of the August 1981 Asian edition of Reader's Digest, its contents naming the feature The Painter who Preserves Malaysia's Past on page 40.

    Reader's Digest, Asian edition, August 1981. The cover lists the feature, The Painter who Preserves Malaysia's Past, on page 40.

  2. Exhibition notice, 1966

    Unspecified · 1966

    A press notice recording an exhibition by Tan Peng Hooi in 1966. The outlet, author, and full text are not on record in the current sources and need confirmation.

    Sources (1)
    • docs/website-build-plan.md section 4

  3. Exhibition notice, 1967

    Unspecified · 1967

    A press notice recording an exhibition by Tan Peng Hooi in 1967. The outlet, author, and full text are not on record in the current sources and need confirmation.

    Sources (1)
    • docs/website-build-plan.md section 4