Timeline

Cats Sharing a Prawn (1950) by Jamini Roy/Opaque Watercolour on board

Presently at Harn Museum of Art Collection

Gift of Mr and Mrs Thomas J. Needham

P.A.-71-19 Jamini Roy (1887-1972)

c. 1851 Art Schools opened in Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta
c. 1870 Emergence of Academic art in the market led primarily by Ravi Verma (1846-1906)
c.1905 Establishment of Nationalist Bengal School of Painting, led by Abanindranath Tagore (1871-1951)
c. 1922 Exhibition of the works of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Johannes Itten and other Bauhaus artists in Calcutta;
c. 1922 Cubist experiments in art by Gaganendranath Tagore
c. 1930 Poet Rabindranath Tagore’s (1861-1941) expressionist works are taken across Europe for major exhibitions
c. 1930 Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) returns to India from Paris heralding the participation of woman in painting and mostly importantly introducing elements
of art from Paul Gauguin to Hungarian artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement
c. 1948 Exhibition of Bombay Progressives led by M. F. Husain (1915-)
c. 1970 Emergence of New Pictorialism of Baroda
c. 1980 Meera Mukherjee (1923- 98) is recognized as major sculptor giving impetus to woman’s involment in the art market
c. 1989 Anjolie Ela Menon’s phenomenal success at Sotheby’s and Christie’s since 1989 paved the way for female artists in India

Left: Kalighat Painting/ Watercolour over pencil drawing with colloidal tin accents

A collection of Kalighat paintings was purchased around 1860-70 and found its way into the Bodelian Library, Oxford.

An oeuvre of the Kalighat patuas consisting of seventy three items is showcased as a part of a collection acquired in India between 1865-1893 at Victoria and Albert Museum, London


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