Like Renoir, Lee Cheng Yong seems to prefer more well-rounded women as can be seen in his paintings of women, including this one. Woman With White Cloth shows one who is half-naked, and with her tanned skin more reminiscent of Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian damsels. Besides, she is too large sized for a local while draping herself with a white cloth to cover her lower half. She seems to be stubbing the sand in front of her with the forefinger of her left hand while waiting for somebody, a lover perhaps, or something. The landscape is sparse except for the sturdy tree trunk on the right with the root tentacles prominent. Lee Cheng Yong is arguably the most versatile of the pioneer artist who also devoted his life to teaching Art, mostly at Han Chiang High School in Penang. He studied at the Sin Hwa Art Academy (later known as Shanghai Academy of Fine Art) in 1927 and taught Art at the Chung Ling High School in Penang. He was given a Retrospective by the Penang State Art Gallery in 1996 after solo exhibitions in 1934 (Philomatic Union, Penang) and 1960 (Chin Kang Association, Penang). He became first president of the Penang Chinese Art Club, which he formed in 1936.