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Mun Sen became Founder and Vice-President of Penang Chinese Art Club, otherwise knwon as the Penang Ying Ying Art Society. Besides Mun Sen, the collective consisted of Lee Cheng Yong (President), Quah Kuan Sin (Secretary), Tay Hooi Keat (Treasurer), Kuo Ju Ping, Tan Seng Aun, Tan Ghek Khean (Mrs Tan Hooi Keat), Zhong Baimu and Wan Fee.
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Sarena Abdullah. “Adaptation of the Post-Impressionist Style in Yong Mun Sen and Tay Hooi Keat's Art Works.” Essay. In Proceedings of the Art and Design International Conference (Andic 2016), 54. Singapore: SPRINGER, 2019.
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A meeting was held on 17 November 1935 at the New Life Restaurant in the Great World Amusement Park. In attendance were Tchang Ju Chi, Chuang U-Chow, Zhang Bohe, Lu Heng, Nai Wen Chie, C.S. Kau, Chen Chong Swee, Lin Tian, Hsu Chunlin, and Li Kuishi. It was at this meeting that the society previously known as Salon Art Society, founded a few months ago on 15 April, was renamed Huaren meishu yanjiuhui (Society of Chinese Artists). It was also decided that membership would be opened to all artists in Singapore, as well as those based in Malaya and Indonesia. 张汝器 was elected the president of the Society with Yong Mun Sen as his vice-president.
Yeo Mang Thong. 2019. Migration, Transmission, Localisation: Visual Art in Singapore (1886-1945), Singapore: National Gallery of Singapore, 80; https://soca.org.sg/about/history.html