Osian's Auction Catalogue Masterpieces and Museum-Quality III | March 2004

233 BIOGRAPHIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES K. G. SUBRAMANYAN b. 15 February 1924, Kuthuparambu, Kerala Education Studied under the tutelage of Benode Behari Mukherjee, Nandalal Bose and Ramkinkar Baij 1942-3 Presidency College, Madras 1944-8 Kala Bhavan, Visvabharati, Santiniketan 1955-6 British Council Research Fellowship to Slade School of Art, University of London Teaching Experience & Infrastructure–building Activities 1945 Helped organise the first Delhi exhibition featuring Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinkar Baij, New Delhi 1947 Mural for Hindi Bhavana with Benode Behari, Santiniketan 1951-9 Lecturer, Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda 1955 Mural, Industry , Jyoti Ltd., Baroda 1959-61 Deputy Director, Design, All India Handloom Board, Bombay 1961-5 Reader, Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda Member, Gujarat Lalit Kala Akademi 1961-6 Design Consultant, All India Handloom Board, Bombay 1961-7 Member, All India Board of Technical Studies in Applied Art 1963 Mural, King of the Dark Chamber , Rabindralaya, Lucknow 1965 Mural, India Pavilion, New York World Fair, New York Cement relief mural, Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda 1966-80 Professor, Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda 1967-77 Member, All India Handicrafts Board 1967-79 Member, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1968-74 Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda Member, Gujarat Lalit Kala Akademi 1969 Mural, India of My Dreams Pavilion , Gandhi Darshan, New Delhi Published, When God First Made the Animals He Made Them All Alike 1972 Published, The Butterfly and the Cricket , A Summer Story and Robby 1974 Published, Our Friends the Ogres and The King and the Little Man 1974-5 Member of Direction, World Crafts Council 1974-6 President, Crafts Council of India 1974-8 Member, Governing Council, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad 1975 Member, World Crafts Council. Attended the Asian Assembly in Sydney, Australia. Delegate, Asian Assembly, World Crafts Council, Sydney, Australia 1976 Member Delegate, General Assembly, World Crafts Council, Oaxtepec, Mexico Visiting Lecturer, Canadian Universities in Ottawa and Hamilton, Canada Mural, R & D Building, Jyoti Pvt. Ltd., Baroda 1978 Published, Moving Focus: Essays on Indian Art , Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1979 Published, How Poppy Grew Happy , Cat’s Night and Day and Frog Life is Fun Life 1980-89 Professor, Painting Department, Kala Bhavan, Visvabharati, Santiniketan 1981-4 Member, Siksha-samiti and Karma- samiti, Visvabharati, Santiniketan Member, All India Handloom and Handicrafts Board 1982 Invited for seminar on Traditional Arts at Barbican Centre, London 1985 Guest, Chinese Artists’ Association, China Published, Of Ogres, Beasts and Men 1987 Published, The Living Tradition , Seagull Books, Calcutta 1987-8 Christensen Fellow, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford 1988 Mural, Sand-cast Cement, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan 1989 Mural, Reverse painting on Glass (with school children), Santiniketan 1990 Professor Emeritus, Kala Bhavan, Visvabharati, Santiniketan Mural, Black and White, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan (first phase) Solo Exhibitions 1951 Salon de Mai, Paris 1954 Organised by United States Information Services, Madras 1955 India House, New York 1956 Life of Buddha, Centenary Hall, Government Museum, Madras Awards & Honours 1953 President’s Award, All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi Honoured with Fellowships conferred by the Central Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and the Tamil Nadu Ovia Nunkalai Kuzhu, Madras First Prize, All India Arts Exhibition, Hyderabad Second Prize, International Poster Competition Select Collections Government Museum, Chennai Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Osian’s–Connoisseurs of Art Archive Ministry of Education, New Delhi South Zone Cultural Centre, Thanjavur Tamil Nadu Ovia Nunkalai Kuzhu, Chennai Select Bibliography Books Rao, P.R. Ramachandra. Modern Indian Painting. Madras: Rachana 1953. (pp.83–4) Appasamy, Jaya. (Ed.). K. Sreenivasulu . New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi 1966. [Text: S.A. Krishnan] Raman, A.S. The Southern Accent. Chennai: Tamil Nadu Ovia Nunkalai Kuzhu 2000. (pp.191–5) Mago, Pran Nath. Contemporary Art in India: A Perspective. New Delhi: National Book Trust 2000. (p.100) Journals & Essays Subramanyan, K.G. Review of K. Sreenivasulu in LKC 9 September 1968 . New Delhi. (p.48) Auction & Exhibition Catalogues NGMA. Catalogue of Collections, Vol. 1. New Delhi: 1989 (pp.211 & 256) Osian’s/Tuli. India: A Historical Lila. Mumbai 2001. (L123 & L124) Osian’s/Tuli. A Historical Mela. The ABC Of India. Mumbai 2002. (L109) Osian’s/Tuli. Masterpieces & Museum- Quality Indian Modern & Contemporary Paintings. Mumbai 2002. (L64) Newspaper & Magazine Articles A.S. Raman. ‘Some Younger Indian Painters’ in The Studio March 1956.