Durga, 1985
Bikash Bhattacharjee, (1940 – 2006)
Oil on canvas, 41 1/2 x 39 3/4 inches (105.4 x 101 cm)
Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, E301220
© The Estate of Bikash Bhattacharjee. Image courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, photograph by Walter Silver.
Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence
On view February 2, 2013 to April 21, 2013
Located in the: Peabody Essex Museum
The political freedoms gained from Britain at midnight on August 15, 1947, inspired a revolutionary art movement that continued through the economic boom of the 1990s. Unrestricted by cultural expectations, three generations of Indian artists fully engaged with the world around them, embracing their individualistic approaches to modern art.
Drawn from PEM's Herwitz Collection and loans from museums and private collections.
Support provided by the Chester and Davida Herwitz Charitable Trust, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Marguerite and Kent Srikanth Charugundla, Dr. Mahesh and Smita Patel, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, and the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.
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Images
The Bombay Buccaneer, 1994
Atul Dodiya, (b. 1959)
Acrylic and oil on canvas with film clapstick
72 x 48 inches (182.9 x 121.9 cm)
Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, E301042
©Atul Dodiya. Image courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, photograph by Walter Silver.
Sketch, 1994
Sudhir Patwardhan, (b. 1949)
Oil on canvas with pencil on paper drawing
48 x 40 inches (121.9 x 101.6 cm)
Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, E303393
© Sudhir Patwardhan. Image courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, photograph by Walter Silver.
Ganapati the Warrior, 1977
Jogen Chowdhury, (b. 1939)
Pen, ink, pastel, and lacquer on paper
21 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches (55.2 x 75.6 cm)
Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, E300806
©Jogen Chowdhury. Image courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, photograph by Walter Silver.
Family - 1, 1983
Ranbir Singh Kaleka, (b. 1953)
Oil on canvas
80 1/2 x 85 1/4 inches (204.5 x 216.5 cm)
Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, E301025
©Ranbir Singh Kaleka. Image courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, photograph by Walter Silver.
Sequence, 1981
Tyeb Mehta, (1925 - 2009)
Oil on canvas
69 x 102 1/2 inches (175.3 x 260.4 cm)
Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, E301015
©The Estate of Tyeb Mehta.
Image courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, photograph by Walter Silver.
Durga, 1985
Bikash Bhattacharjee, (1940 – 2006)
Oil on canvas, 41 1/2 x 39 3/4 inches (105.4 x 101 cm)
Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, E301220
© The Estate of Bikash Bhattacharjee. Image courtesy Peabody Essex Museum, photograph by Walter Silver.
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An ASKlabs Film for the Keystone Trust
Produced by Alberta Chu
11-11:30 am and 2:30-3 pm | Morse Auditorium
A film about some of the works of renowned contemporary artist Anish Kapoor, one of the most influential artists today. Filmmaker Alberta Chu will be in attendance at both screenings.
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11:30 am and 2 pm | Meet at information desk
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EXPLORING MIDNIGHT TO THE BOOM
1–2 pm | Morse Auditorium
Curator Susan Bean and Ajay Sinha, professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College, discuss the creation of Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence and illuminate the modern art movement in post-colonial India.
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The people of Rani's village are hungry. But when she is rewarded for a good deed she first asks for only a single grain of rice. Will her clever plan save her people? Find out as we read The Rajah's Rice by David Barry, and then create a colored rice mosiac to take home.
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