M. V. Dhurandhar

Rao Bahadur Mahadev Vishwanath Dhurandhar FRSA (18 March 1867 – 1 June 1944) was an Indian painter[1] and postcard artist from the British colonial era.[2] Among his most popular paintings are his illustrations of average colonial-era women.[3]

Rao Bahadur

M. V. Dhurandhar

FRSA
Self-portrait, c. 1928
Born(1867-03-18)18 March 1867
Kolhapur, Kolhapur State, British India
Died1 June 1944(1944-06-01) (aged 77)
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
Alma materSir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai
Notable work
  • Shivaji Maharaj and Baji Prabhu at Pawan Khind
  • Radha-Krishna
  • Sheshashayi-Laxminarayan
ChildrenAmbika Dhurandhar
Awards

Early life
MV Dhurandhar, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife

Dhurandhar was born in a Marathi Pathare Prabhu family[4] at Kolhapur, Maharashtra.[5] After schooling at Rajaram High School in Kolhapur, he was accepted into J.J. School of Art, Bombay in 1890. There he was student of the artist John Griffiths. As a student he won many medals for his work. He graduated in 1895.[6]

Career

After graduating from J. J. School of Art, Dhurandhar was offered a position at the same school in 1896 where he spent the rest of his career. In 1910, he was appointed as the Head Master. He was appointed Inspector of Drawing and Craft in 1918 and served in that position until 1931. He was the Vice-Principal for two years before retiring.[7] In the year 1938, Dhurandhar was elected as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[8]

Style and works

His popular works include documenting the city of Bombay and its people, as well as painting scenes from Hindu mythology and Omar Khayyam series.[9] A prolific artist, Dhurandhar is said to have made some thousands of paintings and illustrations, including some that were turned into lithographic prints, such as his illustrations for the book Women of India by Otto Rothfield (1920).[10] Dhurandhar also designed postcards, provided the illustrations for the S. M. Edwardes By-Ways of Bombay (1912) and C. A. Kincaid's Deccan Nursery Tales, besides drawing cartoons for the Gujarati periodicals Aram and Bhoot.[11] He also made religious illustrations published by the Ravi Varma Press. He wrote an autobiography in Marathi about his years at the J.J. School. In 1926, he was commissioned by the ruler of Aundh State, Maharaja Bhawanrao Pantpratinidhi to make paintings on the life of Shivaji.[12]

Paintings
  • Self Portrait of Painter
    Self Portrait of Painter
  • Cover art of 1916 issue of Gujarati magazine
    Cover art of 1916 issue of Gujarati magazine
  • Shivaji Maharaj and Baji Prabhu at Pawan Khind
    Shivaji Maharaj and Baji Prabhu at Pawan Khind
  • A 1927 depiction of Tarabai in battle.
    A 1927 depiction of Tarabai in battle.
  • Lengha Choli
    Lengha Choli
  • Radha and Krishna
    Radha and Krishna
  • Sheshashayi - Laxminarayan
    Sheshashayi - Laxminarayan

References
  1. "Promoting contemporary art". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 17 January 2008. Archived from the original on 21 January 2008.
  2. "Women Of India By M.v. Dhurandhar". Archived from the original on 20 January 2016.
  3. "Still life to move art lovers". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 13 December 2007. Archived from the original on 15 December 2007.
  4. Partha Mitter (1994). "The Age of Optimism". Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521443548.
  5. "Profile of master artist M. V. Dhurandhar on Indiaart.com". www.indiaart.com. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  6. "Kipling's home may become a museum". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 5 March 2007. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012.
  7. "M V Dhurandhar Profile: Delhi Art Gallery". Archived from the original on 19 July 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
  8. "COUNCIL". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 86 (4470): 885–886. 1938. ISSN 0035-9114. JSTOR 41362749.
  9. "Array of art". 30 July 2009.
  10. "M. V. Dhurandhar". Images of Asia. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
  11. Partha Mitter (1994). Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations. Cambridge University Press. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-0-521-44354-8. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
  12. "M. V. Dhurandhar The Romantic Realist" (PDF). ngmaindia.gov.in.

Further reading
  • Partha Mitter (1994). Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations. Cambridge University Press. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-0-521-44354-8. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
  • Allan Life. "Picture Postcards by M.V. Dhurandhar: Scenes and Types of India-with a Difference," in Visual Resources (XVII, pp. 401–416, 2001).
  • Dhurandhar, M. V. "Kalamandirantil Ekechalish Varsham" [Marathi autobiography] Bombay, 1940.
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