Osian's Auction Catalogue Creative India Series 1 Bengal | December 2011

Born: 15 February 1924, Kuthuparambu, North Malabar, Kerala Education Studied under the tutelage of Benode Behari Mukherjee, Nandalal Bose and Ramkinkar Baij 1942-43 Presidency College, Madras 1944-48 Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan 1955-56 British Council Research Fellowship to Slade School of Art, University of London Select Teaching and 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 1951-59 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 1961-65 Reader, Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda Member, Gujarat Lalit Kala Akademi 1961-66 Design Consultant, All India Handloom Board, Bombay 1961-67 Member, All India Board of Technical Studies in Applied Art 1963 Mural, King of the Dark Chamber, Rabindralaya, Lucknow 1965 Mural, India Pavilion, NewYork World Fair, NewYork 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’ 1974-75 Member of Direction, World Crafts Council K. G. Subramanyan 1974-76 President, Crafts Council of India 1974-78 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, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan 1981-84 Member, Siksha-samiti and Karmasamiti, Visva Bharati, 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 1987-88 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, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan Mural, Black and White, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan (first phase) 1992 Published, The Creative Circuit, Seagull Books, Calcutta 1993 Mural, Black and White, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan (second phase) 1995 Published, ‘How Hanu Became Hanuman, Death in Eden and In the Zoo’ 1998 Published, ‘The Tale of the Talking Face’ Select Awards and Honours 1955-56 British Council Scholarship 1956 Governor’s Prize, Bombay Art Society 1957 Bombay Art Society Award 1961 Maharashtra State Award Medallion of Honourable Mention, Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil 1965 Studio, National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1966 Fellowship, J.D. Rockerfeller III Fund 1968 Gold Medal, I International Triennale, New Delhi 1975 Padmashree, Government of India 1977-78 Visiting Fellow, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan 1980 Kalidas Samman 1985 Fellow, Lalit Kala Akademi 1987 Gagan-Aban Puraskar, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan