![]() Early Years of Mukul Dey Dey did his initial training in arts from Santiniketan. He travelled to America from Japan in the year 1916 to learn the art of etching from Bertha E. Jaques and James Blanding Sloane in Chicago. They were introduced to Dey, by an American artist named Roi Partridge and his wife Imogen Cunningham. Mukul was a life member in Chicago Society of Etchers. Upon his return to India Mukul Dey fully concentrated on making etching as fine art. He supported himself through making portrait drawings for rich and wealthy peoples. Dey once again travelled aboard in the year 1920, to take special lessons on engraving, etching under Frank Short and Muirhead Bone. He studied at both Royal College of Arts and Slade School of Fine Arts, in London. Professor Henry Tonks taught Mukul Dey at Slade School of Art. Career as a Painter for Mukul Dey During his stay in America, Mukul impressed Stanislaw Szukalski, an American sculptor, a lot. He impressed a lot of people in the field of art. His works of art were mainly based on various ways of life in India. Unlike artists like Haren Das, whose wood work art was more inclined to Indian art form, Mukul mainly concentrated on drypoint etching, a strictly European practice. Despite following western techniques, Dey would choose subjects from West Bengal like: baul singers, market place of Kolkata, life tribes of West Bengal and strictly related to Birbhum District. At Vichitra Club upcoming artists like Nandalal Bose, Mukul Dey, Asit Kumar Haldar, and Narayan Kashinath Deval were optimistic to try-out in ever new creative standards and art forms. Achievements of Mukul Dey ![]() Archives of Mukul Dey * Mukul Dey's 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 * The National Gallery of Art, Delhi The Mukul Dey Archives are housed at Mukul Dey's former home, named Chitralekha, at Santiniketan. Life as Illustrator for Mukul Dey Dey did the illustration for books at Shantiniketan Bolpur School. He even illustrated books for Rabindranath Tagore. Personal Life of Mukul Dey Manishi Dey, who is also an accomplished painter, is the younger brother of Mukul Dey. He was also a member of Progressive Artists Group and a prominent painter of Bengal School of Art. Death of Mukul Dey Dey died in the year 1989. (Last Updated on : 13-08-2014) |
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