The Da Nang Fine Arts Museum will open an exhibition entitled ‘Da Nang after Its Liberation and Now’ at 78 Le Duan at 4:30pm tomorrow, April 27, and it is slated to run till May 20. The free-of-charge event aims to celebrate the upcoming Reunification Day and May Day holidays.

A view of Son Tra, a watercolour sketch by the late artist Nguyen Duc Hanh (Photo courtesy of the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum)

On display at the event will be 35 sketches created by the late artist Nguyen Duc Hanh created from September 4, 1975, and 25 others showcasing the city’s present images painted by young students from the Architecture Faculty of the Da Nang University of Science and Technology and members of the Urban Sketchers Da Nang group.

The event will give the public a panoramic view of Da Nang during historical days after its liberation on March 29, 1975, and its current stature as a dynamic city boasting remarkable changes in the rapid urbanisation.

The late artist Nguyen Duc Hanh was a member of the Viet Nam Fine Arts Association. His hometown was Vinh Thanh, Yen Thanh, Nghe An Province. His family settled down in Thach Nham Dong village, Hoa Nhon Commune, Hoa Vang District, Da Nang. He passed away in 2010. As per his wishes, his relatives presented the municipal authorities a collection of about 200 valuable sketches reflecting the pace of life of Da Nang, and Central Viet Nam at large, during the past two resistance wars, and especially, a large number of them depict the General Offensive and Uprising in the spring of 1968.

A sketch featuring a corner of Hung Vuong Street after Da Nang’s liberation by the late artist Nguyen Duc Hanh (Photo courtesy of the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum)

The Con Market in Da Nang, a painting by Ho Kim Thanh (Photo courtesy of the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum)

The Da Nang Port, a watercolour painting by Nguyen Thanh Hien, is one of the 25 paintings by young students in Da Nang that will be displayed at the exhibition. (Photo courtesy of the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum)

A painting of the thousand-year-old banyan tree on Son Tra Peninsula by Thai Thi Hong Thuy

A sketch of the An Long Pagoda on September 2 Street, Hai Chau District by Nguyen Truong Giang in 2016

Reporting by Da Nang Fines Art Musem – Translating by A.T