Inaugural exhibition ‘India Modern’ to begin March 18.
By Sujeet Rajan
NEW YORK: Demand for Indian contemporary art in the US, which had waned during the recession, may be back, going by Delhi Art Gallery – which has India’s largest repository of modern masters and locations in New Delhi and Mumbai – opening a location at the historic Fuller Building in Manhattan, and will inaugurate it with an exhibition India Modern: Narratives from 20th century Indian Art, from March 18 through June 6, 2015.
The exhibition will include rare early works by some of the 42 artists on view, including close to a 100 pieces by India’s most prominent modernists such as F.N. Souza, M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, Manjit Bawa, S.K. Bakre, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee, Avinash Chandra, and G.R. Santosh.
“Indian art has had very little space in America,” Delhi Art Gallery’s India-based managing director, Ashish Anand, said in a statement. “We hope to significantly increase its presence and look forward to sharing Indian modern art with the rest of the world, particularly, New York City.”
Artists represented in the ‘India Modern’ exhibition include:
- J. Sultan Ali (b. 1920, d. 1990)
- Ambadas (b. 1922, d. 2012)
- K. H. Ara (b. 1914, d. 1985)
- S. K. Bakre (b. 1920, d. 2007)
- Manjit Bawa (b. 1941, d. 2008)
- Dhanraj Bhagat (b. 1917, d. 1988)
- Bikash Bhattacharjee (b. 1940, d. 2006)
- Sakti Burman (b. 1935)
- Avinash Chandra (b. 1931, d. 1991)
- Jogen Chowdhury (b. 1939)
- Sunil Das (b. 1939)
- Bimal Dasgupta (b. 1917, d. 1995)
- Dharamnarayan Dasgupta (b. 1939, d. 1997)
- Biren De (b. 1926, d. 2011)
- H.A. Gade (b. 1917, d. 2001)
- K. Laxma Goud (b. 1940)
- Ganesh Haloi (b. 1936)
- K.K. Hebbar (b. 1911, d. 1996)
- Somnath Hore (b. 1921, d. 2006)
- M.F. Husain (b. 1913, d. 2011)
- George Keyt (b. 1901, d. 1993)
- Krishen Khanna (b. 1925)
- P. Khemraj (b. 1934, d. 2000)
- Ram Kumar (b. 1925)
- Anjolie Ela Menon (b. 1940)
- Rabin Mondal (b. 1929)
- Akbar Padamsee (b. 1928)
- Laxman Pai (b. 1926)
- Gieve Patel (b. 1940)
- Jeram Patel (b. 1930)
- Ganesh Pyne (b. 1937, d. 2013)
- Sohan Qadri (b. 1932, d. 2011)
- S. H. Raza (b. 1922)
- Jehangir Sabavala (b. 1922, d. 2011)
- G. R. Santosh (b. 1929, d. 1997)
- Himmat Shah (b. 1933)
- F.N. Souza (b. 1924, d. 2002)
- K. G. Subramanyan (b. 1924)
- J. Swaminathan (b. 1928, d. 1994.