Fact File
» Timing 3 pm to 8 pm (except the Rabindra Gallery;
12.00 noon to 6 pm daily)
» Address - 2, Cathedral Road, Kolkata – 700071
Location
Academy of Fine Arts is located near Victoria Memorial, Kolkata.
About Academy of Fine Arts
Established in 1933 by Lady Ranu Mukherjee, the Academy hosts an
impressive collection of miniature paintings, Indian textiles and
sculptures. The Academy is a place where the city's culturally
conscious intellectuals converge. It's art galleries feature
exhibitions by contemporary artists throughout the year. The
Rabindra gallery contains personal belongings, manuscripts and
paintings by Tagore. The Academy also runs an Artists studio for the
benefit of working artists.
Enchanting Attractions
The Academy of Fine Arts is one of the oldest and finest art
society in the country. The ground floor houses eight galleries
which is the largest gallery space in the India, display objects by
artists and groups from all over India as well as abroad. The most
enchanting galleries are as...
Rabindra Gallery' opened in 1962 contains original paintings,
published and unpublished manuscripts in Bengali and English and
personal belongings of Tagore. The Textile Gallery contains several
exquisite specimens of hand-woven fabrics like dhakai, baluchari,
patola, brocade, benarasi silk and jamewar shawls. The Carpet
Gallery is rare, -as we do not think there is as yet in India a
gallery exclus -ively for carpets -is from the Late T. L. Martin and
other donors. There are authentic Mughal miniatures in the
Miniatures Gallery.
The Contemporary Art Galleries boasts painting and sculptures of
India from 1900 to till date which has a charming collection of
Acharya Abanindranath Tagore and Gaganedra Nath Tagore, who was the
first to introduce cubism in India. Abanindranath's popular
disciples such as Nandalal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, Kshitin Mazum
-dar , Samar Gupta and their disciples like Benod Behari Mukherjee,
Sarada Ukil, Sudhir Khastagir, Ram Kinkar Beij and others are all
represented here.
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