| Name(s) |
MUKUL CHANDRA DEY |
| Date of
Birth |
July 23, 1895
- in Sridharkhola, now Bangladesh. |
| Date of
Death |
March 01, 1989 |
|
Identity |
Indian Artist |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was one of the
brightest students from
Santiniketan during Rabindranath
Tagore's era.
- He was the first Indian to go
overseas to study
printmaking as a form of
art and profession.
- He travelled to different cities
across America and Japan to learn
printmaking from established artists
in the western world.
- He returned to India and took up
drypoint-etching as
a profession.
- He is considered to have
established this art form in India.
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Commemorations |
- His works are found in the
collections of the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
the Indian Museum, Kolkata, the
National Gallery of Modern Art NGMA
in Mumbai, and the National Gallery
of Art, New Delhi.
- The Mukul Dey Archives
are housed at his former home, named
Chitralekha, at Santiniketan.
- He was also the
illustrator for many book
projects, one of his earliest was a
scholarly book Shantiniketan Bolpur
School of Rabindranath Tagore.
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