The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India

Exhibition Website

Sep 14 2018 - Jan 20 2019

Asia Society Museum

New York City, NY

Just over seven decades after the declaration of India’s independence in 1947 and the emergence of a modern art movement in India, Asia Society presents a landmark exhibition of works by members of the Progressive Artists’ Group, which formed in Bombay, now Mumbai, in the aftermath of independence. The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India will examine the founding ideology of the Progressives and explore the ways in which artists from different social, cultural, and religious backgrounds found common cause at a time of massive political and social upheaval.

The exhibition comprises important works from the Group’s core founders—K.H. Ara, S.K. Bakre, H.A. Gade, M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, and F.N. Souza—as well as later members and those closely affiliated with the movement: V.S. Gaitonde, Krishen Khanna, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, Akbar Padamsee, and Mohan Samant.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.         

  • Various Media
  • Asian
  • 20th Century
  • India
  • K.H. Ara
  • S.K. Bakre
  • H.A. Gade
  • M.F. Husain
  • S.H. Raza
  • F.N. Souza
  • V.S. Gaitonde
  • Krishen Khanna
  • and others

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