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Modern artists: Art of the Moderns

Emboldened by Independence, modern Indian artists explored and experimented while drawing from their cultural heritage.

A A Almelkar

A A Almelkar

1920 – 1982

A A Raiba

A A Raiba

1922 – 2016

A Ramachandran Nair

Achuthan Kudallur

Akbar Padamsee

Akbar Padamsee

1928 – 2020

Altaf Mohammedi

Altaf Mohammedi

1942 – 2005

Amit Ambalal

Arpita Singh

B Prabha

B Prabha

1933 – 2001

B Vithal

B Vithal

1935 – 1992

Badri Narayan

Badri Narayan

1929 – 2013

Bhanu Shah

Bhupen Khakhar

Bhupen Khakhar

1934 – 2003

Bikash Bhattacharjee

Bikash Bhattacharjee

1940 – 2006

Biren De

Biren De

1926-2011

Chandranath Acharya

Dashrath Patel

Dashrath Patel

1927 – 2010

F N Souza

F N Souza

1924 – 2002

G R Santosh

G R Santosh

1929 – 1997

G S Shenoy

G S Shenoy

1938-1994

Gajendra Shah

Ganesh Haloi

Ganesh Pyne

Gieve Patel

Gurcharan Singh

H.A Gade

H.A Gade

1917 – 2001

Haku Shah

Haku Shah

1934 – 2019

Himmat Shah

Jagdish Swaminathan

Jagdish Swaminathan

1928 – 1994

Jatin Das

Jeram Patel

Jeram Patel

1930 – 2016

Jogen Chowdhury

Jyoti Bhatt

Jyotsna Bhatt

Jyotsna Bhatt

1940 – 2020

K G Subramanyan

K G Subramanyan

1924 – 2016

K Laxma Goud

K R Yadav

K R Yadav

1932 – 1992

K S Kulkarni

K S Kulkarni

(1918 – 1994)

Khodidas Parmar

Khodidas Parmar

1930 – 2004

Krishen Khanna

Lalitha Lajmi

Lalu Prasad Shaw

Madhvi Parekh

Maite Delteil

Manu Parekh

Meera Mukherjee

Meera Mukherjee

1923 – 1998

Nagji Patel

Nagji Patel

1937 – 2017

Natu Mistry

Natvar Bhavsar

Navin Dhagat

P Khemraj

P Khemraj

1934 – 2001

Paritosh Sen

Patit Paban

Piraji Sagara

Piraji Sagara

1931 – 2014

Prabhakar Kolte

Prof V M Sholapurkar

Prof V M Sholapurkar

1931 – 2021

R B Bhaskaran

Rabin Mondal

Rabin Mondal

1929 – 2013

Raghav Kaneria

Raghu Rai Chowdhry

Ram Kumar

Ram Kumar

1924 – 2018

Rameshwar Broota

Reba Hore

Reba Hore

1926 - 2008

Rekha Hebbar Rao

Rini Dhumal

Rini Dhumal

1948 - 2021

S G Vasudev

Sakti Burman

Sanat Kar

Satish Gujral

Satish Gujral

1925 – 2020

Shanti Dave

Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharya

Shyamal Dutta Ray

Shyamal Dutta Ray

1934 – 2005

Somnath Hore

Somnath Hore

1921 – 2006

Sudhir Patwardhan

Sunil Das

Sunil Das

1939 – 2015

Surya Prakash

Surya Prakash

1940 – 2019

Thota Vaikuntham

Toofan Rafai

Toofan Rafai

1921 – 2014

U Bhaskar Rao

V S Gaitonde

V S Gaitonde

1924 – 2001

Vrindavan Solanki

Yusuf Arakkal

Yusuf Arakkal

1945 – 2016