Jai Krishna Agarwal
Jai Krishna Agarwal (b. 1941) Artist Camp, Jaipur, 2008 Prof. Jai Krishna Agarwal was born at Amroha, Uttar Pradesh in 1941. He was Principal cum Dean of College of Arts & Crafts, University of Lucknow from which he had graduated in 1962. He then went to England for advanced work in Print making. Besides a […]
Surya Prakash
Surya Prakash (1940-2019) Artist Camp, Hyderabad, 2014 Surya Prakash was born in 1940 in Madhira, Khammam district, and moved to Hyderabad to study art at the Government College of Fine Arts & Architecture. He then won a scholarship from the Andhra Pradesh Lalit Kala Academy and worked under renowned artist Ram Kumar in Delhi. He […]
Velu Viswanadhan
Velu Viswanadhan (b. 1940) Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, 2008 Velu Viswanadhan was born in 1940 in Kollam, Kerala and studied at the art academy in Madras. He is one of the founders of the Cholamandal artists’ village and was greatly influenced by his teacher KCS Paniker. In 1968 he moved to Paris, and joined the Galerie […]
Laxma Goud
Laxma Goud (b. 1940) Terracotta workshop, Jaipur, 2006 Laxma Goud was born in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh in 1940. He was inspired by Andhra leather puppetry and the creation of terracotta ornamentation. He graduated with a diploma in drawing from the College of Art and Architecture, Hyderabad after which he studied Fine Arts at M S […]
Jyotsana Bhatt
Jyotsana Bhatt (b. 1940) Ceramic centre, Vadodara, 1999 Jyotsana Bhatt was born in Mandvi, Kutch in 1940 and studied sculpture under Prof. Sankho Chaudhuri at the M S University, Baroda. She later studied ceramics under Shri Basab Barua and at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, USA. She learnt copper enameling at a private studio in […]
Anjolie Ela Menon
Anjolie Ela Menon (b. 1940) At a Wedding function, Vadodara, 2005 Anjolie Ela Menon was born in Burnpur, West Bengal in 1940. She studied Literature at New Delhi before studying at the J. J. School of Art, Mumbai which she left midway to study in Europe. She studied on a scholarship at Atelier Fresque, École […]
Manu Parekh
Manu Parekh (b. 1939) Archer Artist meet, Nathdwara, 1999 Manu Parekh was born in Ahmedabad in 1939 in Gujarat. He graduated with a Diploma in Drawing and Painting from J. J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1962. He then started his career as a stage actor in Mumbai and designed stage-sets in Ahmedabad. From the […]
Jogen Chowdhury
Jogen Chowdhury (b. 1939) Madhubhan Artist Camp, Anand, 2010 Jogen Chowdhury was born on 16 February 1939 at Faridpur in undivided Bengal and came to Kolkata during the Partition, where he was educated at the Government College of Art & Craft and at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Beside his numerous paintings and exhibitions, […]
Gopi Gajwani
Gopi Gajwani (b. 1938) Artist Camp, Jaipur, 2008 Gopi Gajwani was born in Sind in 1938 and graduated from the Delhi School of Art in 1959 with a degree in Graphic Designing. He worked as a designer at the American Centre for 29 years, creating posters for plays, films, dances, and workshops, both home-grown and […]
V S Patel
V S Patel (b. 1938) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1968 Vinod S. Patel was born in Vaso village near Nadiad in 1938 and did his graduation in fine arts from the M S University, Baroda and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London. He taught at the Department of Graphic Arts and later […]