Nandalal Bose

1882-1966

Nandalal Bose began his art education under Abanindranath
Tagore; he was also a pupil at the Government College of Art.
He became the principal of Kala Bhawan, Shantiniketan in 1922.
Nandalal Bose was awarded a prize of Rs. 500 at the first art
exhibition organized by it in 1908 for his painting Shiva-Sati.
In 1956, he became the second artist to be elected Fellow of
the Lalit Kala Akademi, India’s National Academy of Art. In
1954, Nandalal Bose was given-upon the title award of Padma
Vibhushan. Several universities conferred honorary Doctorates
on him. Vishvabharati University honoured him by conferring
on him the title of Deshikottama. The Academy of Fine Arts in

Calcutta awarded him with the Silver Jubilee Medal. The Tagore
Birth Centenary Medal was awarded to Bose in 1965 by the Asiatic
Society of Bengal. His works have been shown in exhibitions
worldwide, many of them posthumously.