Sarbari Roy Choudhury (1933 – 2012) 

Born Ulpur, East Bengal (now Bangladesh). Graduated in Sculpture from the Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta and Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda. 

During his study tour in Europe Roy Choudhury visited Paris and Italy, and was able to meet two great masters, Alberto Giacometti and Ossip Zadkine, who appreciated his small bronzes. He studied sculpture at the Academia dei Belle Arti, Florence, Italy, interacting with Marino Marini, Henry Moore. Back in India, he joined the Department of Sculpture at Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. He was a Connoisseur of Hindustani and Carnatic classical music and collected rare albums and recordings. 

He has participated in the Paris Biennale in 1965. has been shown widely in India by major art galleries and under the Ministry of Culture along with the Lalit Kala Akademi in 2012, and in 2013 at the Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai.  

His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and at The Madam Shenue Museum, Florence, Italy and in many private collections across the world.

A major publication on his work was released by the Lalit Kala Akademi, Ministry of Culture, India in 2008.

Gopal Ghose (1913 - 1980)

Born on the 5th of December 1913 in Shyambazar (Kolkata), Gopal Ghose spent his childhood and adolescence shifting between Simla, Benaras and Allahabad, since his father was in army. In 1931 he enrolled as a student at the Maharaja School of Art & Craft, Jaipur, under guidance of Sailendranath Dey, from where he obtained his Dip. in Painting in 1935. Subsequently he enrolled at the Government School of Art, Madras, in 1936 under the tutelage of Deviprasad Roy Chowdhury.

Beginning with a pictorial language Gopal Ghose transformed during the 1940s.  His drawings appeal to the senses in their vitality and simplicity. He also drew delicate pencil sketches of temples and landscapes, as well as a number of brush drawings of nature’s vagaries, the brevity of his brushstroke recalling the gracefulness of Far Eastern landscapes.

He is revered today as the originator of modern landscape painting in India, having led  it away from its traditional role of backdrop to the figures and making it the mainstay of composition.

Diagnosed with lung-cancer, he was under medical attention, but breathed his last on the 30th of July, 1980.

Prodosh Das Gupta (1912-1991)

Born in Dacca, Pradosh Das Gupta graduated from the Calcutta University in 1932. He took up sculpture in the same year and received his first training in the subject under two distinguished teachers, Mr. H. Roy Choudhary and Mr. D. P. Roy Choudhary at Lucknow and Madras. He had the distinction of being awarded Guru Prasanna Ghose Travelling Scholarship by the Calcutta University, enabling him to study sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, under Mr. W. Macmillan R. A. during 1937-39. He studied also for some time Ecolede Grand Schaumere, Paris. His studies in the academic tradition for which the Royal Acdemy is famous and his constant touch with the more liberal trend of Paris helped him in gaining a broad and balanced view on sculptures. On his return to India in 1940 he set up a studio in Calcutta.

In 1950 Das Gupta went twice to the South East Asian countries to gain a knowledge of the arts of those countries and to assess for himself the extent of influence of the Indian Art there. In the same Year he was appointed Reader in sculpture in the university of Baroda. But in 1951 he was called back to join the post of Professor of sculpture in the Government College of Arts and Craft, Calcutta. In 1953 he represented India in the International Sculpture Competition held in London.