John Lee Joo For with his oil on canvas, Sarong Women on Horses (1994, 102cm x 137cm)
ONE of Malaysia’s art icons, Lee Joo For (pic), died of terminal cancer at the age of 88 years recently. Born in Penang in 1929, he was appointed as an art teacher at St Xavier’s Institution, Penang, in 1948.
He held the job until 1957 when he went to pursue his art studies at various British schools, culminating in a two-year post-graduate scholarship at the prestigious Royal College of Art, London.
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