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Credit Line: Gift of Ian Holliday 2023, Collection of SMU

Thar Tint Htet is a senior artist who also works as an illustrator. He trained under his father-in-law, U Ohn Lwin (1907-1988), one of the most successful magazine and book cover illustrator and a model to young artists who wished to pursue commercial art.

The SMU Art Collection has over 70 paintings from Myanmar donated by Ian Holliday. A specialist in Burmese politics, Holliday assembled the Thukhuma Collection which comprises of Burmese paintings largely dating from the transitional decade of the 2010s, presenting multiple artistic perspectives on a society in reform. On display at School of Social Sciences and Li Ka Shing Library, the gifted paintings depict the people, culture and land, from the streets of Yangon and rural peripheries to political icons and indigenous deities.