Krishen Khanna
Krishen Khanna (b. 1925) Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, 1983 Krishen Khanna was born in 1925 at Lyallpur, now known as Faisalabad, Pakistan. He attended the Imperial Service College in Windsor, England and is largely a self-taught artist. He also studied at the Government College, Lahore, from 1942 to 1944 and in 1953 he moved to Madras […]
Balkrishna Patel
Balkrishna Patel (1925-2003) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1955-56 Balkrishna Patel was born in Ahmedabad in 1925 and studied painting under Ravishanker Rawal and N S Bendre at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda. He was one of the pioneer members of the Group 1890. He uses colour sparingly in his paintings […]
Ram Kumar
Ram Kumar (1924-2018) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1961 Ram Kumar Verma was born in Shimla, in 1924 into a family of eight brothers and sisters. His father was a British government employee from Punjab. He was one of the leading abstract painters in India that shaped the art of Indian modernists painters. He studied […]
K G Subramanyan
K G Subramanyan (1924-2016) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1969 Kalpathi Ganpathi Subramanyan was born in 1924 in Kerala and studied at the Presidency College, Madras. He then joined Santiniketan where he had the opportunity to study under the most gifted artist Binode Bihari Mukherjee. He also worked with him in execution of the large […]
F N Souza
F N Souza (1924-2002) Friend’s residence, Vadodara, 1962-63 Francis Newton Souza was born in the Portuguese colony of Goa, known as Saligao, in 1924 to a strict Roman Catholic family. He moved to Mumbai and studied at the J. J. School of Art from which he was later expelled in 1945 for his support to […]
Ambadas Khobragade
Ambadas Khobragade (1922-2012) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1971 Ambadas Khobragade was born in Akola, in 1922 and initially trained at a private school in Ahmedabad. He later received his diploma from the J. J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1952. He shifted to Madras to work at the government run Weavers’ Service Centre, where […]
Somnath Hore
Somnath Hore (1921-2006) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1960 Somnath Hore was born in 1921, in a village called Barama in Chittagong, present day Bangladesh. While he was still very young, he started making posters for the Communist party. It was with the help of the leader of this party that he was admitted into […]
Paritosh Sen
Paritosh Sen (1918-2008) Sen residence, Kolkata, 1989 Paritosh Sen was born 1918 in Dhaka, now Bangladesh and ran away from home to study art after reading the art journal Prabasi. He studied Fine Arts at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai and moved to Calcutta in 1942. There he founded and formed the […]
Dhanraj Bhagat
Dhanraj Bhagat (1917-1988) Konark Temple, Odisha, 1974 Dhanraj Bhagat was born in 1917 in Lahore and did his diploma from the Mayo School of Art in Lahore. He served as the head of the Sculpture Department at the College of Art, New Delhi, from 1947 to 1977 and began experimenting with different mediums for sculpting. […]
N B Joglekar
N B Joglekar (1916-2005) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1958-59 Narayan Balaji Joglekar was born in 1916 and undertook the study of art from J. J. School of Art, Mumbai. He also travelled to London and studied Diploma in Graphic Arts. Post his education he came back to India and became a teacher at the […]