HA227: Indian Painting
Art, Nationalism, Modernism (II)
7 November 2002

1a: Map of India
1b: Abanindranath Tagore, Bharat Mata, wash on paper, ca.1904-05

2a: Abanindranath Tagore, The Journey’s End, ca.1912-13
2b: HOLD

3a: Gaganendranath Tagore, Dhanyeswari, lithograph, ca.1918
3b: detail

4a: Gaganendranath Tagore, Ballroom Dance, lithograph, 1916
4b: Yogi Wrestling with a Tiger, souvenir painting, watercolors on paper, Kalighat, West
Bengal, late 19th c.

5a: Gaganendranath Tagore, Poet Rabindranath Tagore on Island of Birds, oil, 1920s
5b: Blank

6a: Rabindranath Tagore, A Fantastic Bird (w/poem inscribed in Bengali), watercolor
and ink on paper, 1929
6b: Rabindranath Tagore, Composition, 1932

7a: Amrita Sher-Gil, Bride’s Toilet, oil, 1937
7b: Paul Gauguin, Three Tahitian Women, oil on wood, 1896

8a: Amrita Sher-Gil, Resting, 1939
8b: Amrita Sher-Gil, The Child Bride, 1936

9a: HOLD
9b: Jamini Roy, A Woman, tempera, 1940s

10a: Cat with Prawn, Kalighat, West Bengal, ca.1880
10b: HOLD

11a: Jamini Roy, Santhal Dance, tempera, 1927
11b: HOLD

svaraj: ‘self-rule’
swadesh: ‘of one’s own country;’ early 20th-century movement that encouraged Indians to boycott British in favor of Indian-made goods; any preference for styles of art and culture of Indian, as opposed to European, origin