An insider's account of the birth of Modern Indian Art |
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RICHARD BARTHOLOMEW Art Critic, Photographer, Poet, Painter. (1926-1985) |
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Richard Bartholomew escaped from Burma around the time of the Japanese invasion during the Second World War and made New Delhi his home. Here, he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in English Literature after which he began his career as a full-time art critic writing for various newspapers, journals and magazines. His creative writing includes poems and short stories which were published frequently in journals like Thought and the Illustrated Weekly. As a painter, he held one-man shows in New Delhi and Bombay in the 50s and 60s. As a photographer, he recorded life around him including his family and artist friends. “A Critic’s Eye”, a selection of his photographs, was exhibited at Sepia Gallery, New York in 2008, at Photoink, New Delhi, in January 2009, at the Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata, in 2010 and at Fishbar Gallery, London, in 2011. |
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1926 Born, 29th November in Tavoy, Burma |
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1971 Husain, Harry N Abrams, New York (co-author) |