Crossroads of Exchange: Indian Paintings from the Mughals to the Company Style
Art ADAPTS, LLC presents a new traveling art exhibition now available for booking.
Crossroads of Exchange: Indian Paintings from the Mughals to the Company Style
Crossroads of Exchange explores how artists working across the Indian subcontinent developed varied and prolific forms of painting from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. Examining how Islamic art, architecture, and culture from the Middle East, Persianate world, and Mughal period enriched Indian painting, this exhibition illuminates exchanges and encounters among Muslims, various Indian ethnic groups, and the British through unique, vibrant historical and religious subjects, aristocratic portraits, depictions of myths and legends, and scenes of daily life.
In more than 100 paintings, drawings, and prints, Crossroads of Exchange focuses on major developments in Indian painting from the Jain, Mughal, Deccani, Rajasthani, Bengali, and Pahari traditions, as well as the Company style and other colonial-period trends. This exhibition features works by various artists (and their collaborators) from the Rajasthani, Pahari, and Persian courts such as Sahibdin (Udaipur), Ghulam Muhammad (Jaipur), Jiva (Udaipur), Chokha (Devargh), Baghvan Das (Kullu), Ghulam Hussayn (Punjab Hills), and Muhammad Hassan Afshar Qaher al-Dolweh (Qajar Dynasty). Examples that were made by artists and workshops of the Company style and colonial periods include Shiva and Chuni Lal of Patna, Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya, Mary Ann Ricketts Buckland, Fanny Parkes, Henry Brabazon Urmston, and Walter Duncan.
For more info, click on the link below:
https://www.artadapts.com/exhibitions/crossroads-of-exchange
Comprehensive text panels, wall labels, and exhibition booklet are provided.
For booking, contact Daniel Fulco
Email: principal@artadapts.com
Phone: 443-886-4418
Image credits (left to right): Unknown, Indian (Deccan), Fourth Son of Dara Shikoh on Horseback (likely Sipihir Shikoh), late 17th–early 18th century, opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper, 14 x 10 ¼ in.
Unknown, Indian, Pahari (Punjab Hills), Radha Pining for Krishna in a Palace Bedchamber,
likely from a Bihari Satsai series, c. 1820, opaque watercolor on paper, 14 ¾ x 11 ¼ in.
Unknown, Indian (Company style, likely Kolkata), Michelia champaca (Chumpah Plant), c. 1777–85, watercolor, gouache, gum arabic, and ink on laid paper, 21 ½ x 22 ½ in. All photos are by Art ADAPTS, LLC.
