Akbar Padamsee
Akbar Padamsee (1928-2020) Uttarayan Graphic Camp, Vadodara, 2007 Akbar Padamsee was born in Mumbai in 1928. Padamsee was still a student at the J. J. School of Art in Mumbai at the time when the ‘Progressive Artists’ Group’ announced itself on the Indian art scene in 1947. Historically, this is considered to be one of […]
Mahendra Pandya
Mahendra Pandya (1926-2015) Artist Camp, Bhutan, 2007 Mahendra Pandya was born in Indore district of Bharuch, Gujarat in 1926. He studied B.A. in Sculpture from M S University, Baroda. He has accumulated many awards, scholarship and exhibitions till date by exploring various mediums like bronze, stone, wood, cement and metal sheet. His constant approach has […]
Feroz Katpitia
Feroz Katpitia (1926-1998) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1973 Feroz Katpitia was born in 1926 in Gujarat, and initially studied electrical Engineering in the Kala Bhavan at the Polytechnic in Vadodara. He then completed his MFA in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda under the guidance of N S Bendre […]
Ira Chaudhuri
Ira Chaudhuri (b. 1927) Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, 1992 Ira Chaudhuri was born in 1927 as the younger of two sisters to parents who were well known educationists spending their early career years in Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. The influence of both Rabindranath and Gandhian philosophy with its Nationalist ideology deeply inspired her parents. She […]
Tyeb Mehta
Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009) Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad, 1995 Tyeb Mehta was born in July 1925 in Kapadvanj, Gujarat. He was brought up in the Crawford Market neighbourhood of Mumbai, populated by Dawoodi Bohras. At the age of 22, during the partition riots of 1947 in Mumbai, he witnessed a man being stoned to death by […]
Satish Gujral
Satish Gujral (b. 1925) Pragati Maidan, Delhi, 1957 Gujral was born on 25th December 1925 at Jhelum in undivided Punjab in British India. He grew up along with his elder brother Inder Kumar Gujral, who later become the Prime Minister of India. While crossing a rickety bridge in Kashmir, he slipped and fell into the […]
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 […]