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

Portraits by Jyotirindranath Tagore - Late 19th Century to Early 20th Century

Jyotirindranath Tagore (May 4, 1849 – March 4, 1925) was a playwright, a musician, an editor and a painter.Endowed with an outstanding talent, he had the rare capability of spotting talent in others. He played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore.
He was an avid portrait artist, who worked almost exclusively by pencil on paper. Apart from the members of the Tagore family, he almost drew everybody who visited him at Calcutta or his Morabadi Hill residence at Ranchi. In 1914, twenty-five of his exquisite portrait drawings were printed by by Sir Emery walker of London in collotype method. the album carried a sensitive Foreword by William Rothenstein. The book was titled "Twenty-five Collotypes from the Original Drawings by Jyotirindranath Tagore", 1914.

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 Portrait of Rabindranath Tagore

 Portrait of Gaganendranath Tagore

The interior of the Arsenal, Fort William, Calcutta (Kolkata) by William Prinsep - 1835

Pencil and ink drawing of the interior of the Arsenal in Fort William at Calcutta by William Prinsep (1794-1874) dating from the 1830s. This view shows rifles stacked in three-tiered rows. The new Fort William was constructed as a result of the damaging attack on the original fort by the forces of Siraj-ud-Daulah the Nawab of Bengal in 1757. It was situated to the south of the city in Gobindpore and designed by John Brohier. The structure is polygonal in form and has extensive defences including bastions, earthworks and a moat. The area surrounding the fort, known as the Maidan, was cleared to provide an unrestricted line of fire.

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Pujarini by Hemendranath Mazumder 1931

Charcoal and colored pencil on paper

Food, where is food? by Gobardhan Ash 1944

Pencil and Watercolor

Gobardhan Ash ( 1907 -1996) studied Fine Arts at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata from 1926 to 1930 and worked as a professor there from 1953 to 1955. He won several awards during his long and illustrious career, including the Madras Fine Art Society Award (1935), the Silver Medal of the Delhi Fine Arts Society, the Kolkata Academy of Fine Arts Award, the Silver Medal of the Progressive Writers and Artists Association, Kolkata (1945) and the Abanindranath Award from Government of West Bengal in 1985. The artist passed away in 1996.