Gobardhan Ash

Gobardhan Ash
Born(1907-08-05)5 August 1907
Begampur
Died22 December 1996(1996-12-22) (aged 89)
OccupationPainter
Movement
Standing third row second from right – Gobardhan Ash. Seated middle row from right second Percy Brown and third Jamini Roy. Front row from right fourth Atul Bose at the Government College of Art & Craft 1929
Standing from left: Abani Sen, Gobardhan Ash, Bimal Dey, Jahar Sen, Ardhendu Chatterjee, Haridhan Dutta.Sitting from left: S.N. Dey, Atul Bose, Amiya Basu at Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata First Annual Exhibition, Kolkata -1933

Gobardhan Ash (5 August 1907 – 22 December 1996) was an Indian artist from Begampur, Hooghly and an early modernist as per the art critic Sovom Som.[1][2][3] Ebrahim Alkazi[4] states that "Gobardhan wielded considerable influence as an artist in the 1940s". He co-founded the Art Rebel Center in 1933 and was a member of the Calcutta Group. He was mentored by and close to the artist Atul Bose.[5] Gobardhan was employed as the Chief Artist at the Indian Institute of Arts and Industry in Kolkata in 1946 for a period of two years and subsequently employed from 1953 as a Senior Teacher at the Indian Art School of Kolkata.[6] Ranjit Hoskote specifically identifies Gobardhan's 1948 - 1951 period wherein Gobardhan "focusses on creating a style similar to various idioms within pattachitra into a consciousness that is clearly aware of cinema and animation".[7]

Education

Ash was born in Begampur in the Hooghly district into an impoverished family and, following his stint in Calcutta in 1926-30, joined the government school of arts and crafts in Madras in 1932 under Debiprasad Roy Choudhury[8]. Gobardhan Ash had initially joined the Government College of Art, Kolkata as a student in 1926.[9] He lost his scholarship at the school due to his involvement with the civil disobedience movement in 1930's.[10] Differences with the teaching methods and an open skirmish with the then principal Mukul Dey ultimately led to the formation of a group called the Young Artist's Student Union in 1931[11] and the Art Rebel Center.[12][13] He subsequently studied under Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury at the Government Art School in Madras.[14]

Lifetime achievement awards

Exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ Art Heritage Season 1983 - 84. New Delhi: Art Heritage. 1984. p. 24.
  2. ↑ Sovon, Som. "Art Critic". Amazon.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ "A Mumbai NFT auction looks back at Gobardhan Ash's prolific oeuvre". Architectural Digest. 13 January 2022.
  4. ↑ Art Heritage Season 1983 - 84. New Delhi: Art Heritage. 1984. p. 3.
  5. ↑ Gobardhan, Ash. "Artist".
  6. ↑ "Indian Art School Prospectus, 1955" (PDF).
  7. ↑ "Ranjit Hoskote on Gobardhan Ash". Facebook.
  8. ↑ "Gobardhan Ash | HENI News Profile". HENI News. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
  9. ↑ "AstaGuru - Gobardhan Ash Profile".
  10. ↑ "A lifetime on canvas". Economic Times. 28 August 1993.
  11. ↑ "Young Artists Student Union". 30 November 2021.
  12. ↑ Gobardhan, Ash. "Rebel Artists Center" (PDF).
  13. ↑ Trouilloud, Julia (2017). "The Reception of Modern European Art in Calcutta: a Complex Negotiation (1910s-1940s)". Academia.edu. Artl@s Bulletin 6, no. 2 (2017): Article 7.: 106.
  14. ↑ Nag, Ashoke (2012). "Kolkata art gallery, Aakriti, celebrates famed Bengal artist Gobardhan Ash's 105th anniversary". Economic Times (published 30 July 2012).
  15. ↑ "Gobardhan Ash profile". Saffron Arts. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  16. ↑ Ash, Gobardhan. "Abanindra Puraskar for Gobardhan Ash". Delhi Art Gallery. DAG.
  17. ↑ "SaffronArt - Gobardhan Ash Awards".
  18. ↑ "Gobardhan Ash (1907-1996) profile". Aakriti Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 12 August 2023.
  19. ↑ Calcutta University. "Calcutta University Institute Art Exhibition" (PDF).
  20. ↑ Gobardhan, Ash. "Art Rebel Center" (PDF).
  21. ↑ "First Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts" (PDF).
  22. ↑ "Second Annual Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts" (PDF).
  23. ↑ "Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts" (PDF).
  24. ↑ "Society of Modern Art Exhibition" (PDF).
  25. ↑ "Twenty Third Annual Exhibition by the Students and ex-Students of the Government College of Art" (PDF).
  26. ↑ "Catalogue of Indian Exhibition in Singapore" (PDF).
  27. ↑ "Exhibition of the Calcutta Group and the Bombay Progressives".
  28. ↑ Basu, Atanu. "Gobardhan Ash Retrospective". Frontier. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
  29. ↑ "Kolkata Centre for Creativity Welcomes A Retrospective On Gobardhan Ash". Grazia India. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
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