Sarbari Roy Chowdhury
Sarbari Roy Chowdhury (1933-2012) Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, 1974 Sarbari Roy Chowdhury was born in 1933 in Ulpur (now Bangladesh). He graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata in 1956 and studied under sculptors Prodosh Dasgupta and Sankho Chaudhuri at the M S University, Baroda. He served as the Head of the Department […]
Himmat Shah
Himmat Shah (b. 1933) Shah residence, Ahmedabad, 1969 Himmat Shah was born in Lothal, Gujarat in 1933 and grew up surrounded by the remnants of the Harappan Civilization. He moved to Bhavnagar and studied at Gharshala, a school affiliated to Dakshinamurti, the intellectual and cultural centre of the nationalist renaissance in Gujarat. It was here […]
Lalitha Lajmi
Lalitha Lajmi (b. 1932) Artist Camp, Manor, Maharashtra, 2009 Lalitha Lajmi was born in Kolkata in October 1932 into a family having appreciation towards the arts. She herself was very fond of classical dance and had an urge to paint. So her uncle, B. B. Benegal, a commercial artist from Kolkata, brought her a box […]
Shanti Dave
Shanti Dave (b. 1931) Dave residence, Vadodara, 1963 Shanti Dave was born in 1931, in Badpura, Gujarat to a government peon. He later moved to Ahmedabad where he started his art career painting signboards and billboards for films. These artistic aspirations made him join the Faculty of Fine Arts of the M S University, Baroda […]
Ramesh Pandya
Ramesh Pandya (1930-2019) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1964 Ramesh Pandya was born in 1930 in Surat and brought up in Chanod village as he lost his parents at an early age. He was the first student of the Faculty of Fine Arts who got absorbed into the teaching staff after the completion of his […]
Kishor Parekh
Kishor Parekh (1930-1982) At a Wedding, Banni, Kutch, 1979 Kishor Parekh was born in Bhavnagar, Gujarat in 1930 and started out in life studying for a degree in Chemistry. The subject could not hold his interest, especially after he acquired a box camera in college. He went on to study filmmaking and documentary photography at […]
Khodidas Parmar
Khodidas Parmar (1930-2004) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1956 Khodidas Parmar was born on July 31, 1930 and was the only son of a poor Karadia Rajput family. He was named after the goddess Khodiyar as the family thought of him being a gift from the goddess after many daughters. Though hailing from a poor […]
Jeram Patel
Jeram Patel (1930-2016) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1973 Jeram Patel was born in 1930 at Sojitra in the Kheda district of Gujarat. He studied drawing and painting at J. J. School of Art, Mumbai and typography and publicity design at Central School of Arts and Craft, London for two years till 1959. Patel was […]
G R Santosh
G R Santosh (1929-1997) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1961 Poet-painter Gulam Rasool Santosh, was born in 1929 in the beautiful Kashmir valley. He completed his matriculation in 1945, with painting as a subject but had to give up further studies due to his father’s death. He did many odds jobs like writing, painting signboards, […]
Jagdish Swaminathan
Jagdish Swaminathan (1928-1994) Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, 1982-1983 Jagdish Swaminathan was born in 1928 in Shimla and pursued art education at the Delhi Polytechnic. He won a scholarship to study graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Warsaw, Poland and later joined the Communist Party of India, where he worked as a journalist and art […]