Pattachitra is a traditional painting style from Odisha and West Bengal. The word “patta” means cloth, and “chitra” means picture. These paintings are made on cloth prepared with natural materials.The ...

In 1964, the British painter Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) traveled to India, accompanied by a curator of Indian art from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Hodgkin had been interested in Indian ...

A long-forgotten painting by Amrita Sher-Gil, one of India’s most important modern artists, is going under the hammer for the first time. The rediscovered portrait is expected to fetch up to $2.8 ...

THE PIECE: "American Indian Shooting a Bow and Arrow," oil on canvas, unsigned and unframed, by a painter of the American School in the early 20th century. THE OWNER: Cathy Cole Hightower of Metairie ...

“Dauji II Performing Arati on Sharada Purnima ” (first quarter of the 19th century), Nathdwara, Rajasthan, India, Amit Ambalal Collection (photo by Anuj Ambalal) (click to enlarge) One of India’s most ...

Amrita Sher-Gil’s paintings feel alive in a way that resists easy classification. Born in 1913 to a Hungarian mother and Sikh aristocrat father, trained in Paris and transformed by India, she fused ...

The color and detail in this 19th-century painting of a prize stallion will blow you away The combined effect of optical dazzle, sumptuous detail and color intensity in this Indian miniature at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former bank employee crafts intricate pictures of famous politicians and public figures using a typewriter Artist uses typewriter ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s strangely unsettling to peer into the razor-sharp, beautifully toned photographs of 19th-century English colonial gentry, servants, and native royals in India, now on view at ...