Three Sketches by Samarendranath Ghose - 1930's

Samarendranath Ghose, popularly known as Samar Ghose, was one of the finest students of Mukul Dey during his tenure as the principal of Government School of Art, Calcutta. As a student Ghose showed great talent in doing sketches from life, in painting and printmaking. 


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Sketch from life, pencil on paper, dated March 8, 1936

Sketch from life, pencil on paper, c. 1936

Samar Ghose's letter to Mukul Dey, dated April 18, 1942. The pen-n-ink drawing depicts exodus of displaced villagers from Harischar (now in Bangladesh) due to WW II