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National Gallery of Modern Art

Jaipur House Delhi.jpg
The Jaipur House

Established March 29, 1954 (1954-03-29)
Location
Jaipur House, Rajpath, New Delhi
Coordinates
28°36′36″N 77°14′04″E / 28.610083°N 77.234399°E / 28.610083; 77.234399Coordinates: 28°36′36″N 77°14′04″E / 28.610083°N 77.234399°E / 28.610083; 77.234399
Type
modern art museum
Owner Government of India
Website ngmaindia.gov.in

The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) is the premier art gallery under Ministry of Culture, Government of India.[1] The main museum at Jaipur House in New Delhi was established on 29 March 1954 by the Government of India, with subsequent branches at Mumbai and Bangalore. Its collection of more than 14,100 works includes works by artists such as Thomas Daniell, Raja Ravi Verma, Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil as well as foreign artists, apart from sculptures by various artists. Some of the oldest works preserved here date back to 1857.[1] With 12,000 square meters of exhibition space,[2] the Delhi branch is one of the world's largest modern art museums.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Collections


    • 2.1 Paintings


    • 2.2 Sculpture


    • 2.3 Phtography




  • 3 Gallery


  • 4 See also


  • 5 Notes


  • 6 External links





History[edit]




National Gallery of Modern Art, entrance signage


Situated at the end of Rajpath, in the Central Hexagon around the India Gate, the building was a former residential palace of the Maharaja of Jaipur, hence known as Jaipur House. The butterfly-shaped building with a central dome and built in 1936, and designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield, after the construction of Lutyens' Delhi. The Central Hexagon around the India Gate, where the buildings of leading princely states were situated, was itself designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.[1]


Though the idea of the National Gallery was floated in 1949, it was formally inaugurated by Vice-president Dr S.Radhakrishnan in 1954, in the presence of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Hermann Goetz (1898–1976),[3] a noted German art historian became its first curator and in time it added new facilities such as Art restoration services, an Art reference Library and a Documentation Centre.[4]


Then in 2009, a new wing of the National Gallery of Modern Art was inaugurated adding almost six times the space to the existing gallery, plus it has a new auditorium, a preview theatre, conservation laboratory, library and academic section as well as a cafeteria and museum shop.[1][5]



Collections[edit]



Paintings[edit]


The gallery has works by artists including Thomas Daniell, Raja Ravi Verma, Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil and various other artists.[6]



Sculpture[edit]


The NGMA has a collection of modern sculptures by famous sculptors like D. P. Roy Choudhury, Chintamoni Kar and Ramkinkar Baij.[7]



Phtography[edit]


The NGMA has a large collection of photographs by Lala Deen Dayal, one of the pioneers of photography in India.[8]



Gallery[edit]




See also[edit]



  • National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

  • National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore

  • The Last Harvest : Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore

  • Kolkata Museum of Modern Art



Notes[edit]




  1. ^ abcd "History". National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2019-02-24..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Inauguration of the New Wing of National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi". India: Ministry of Tourism. Retrieved 8 October 2018.


  3. ^ "About the Author". Bhartiya Vidhya Bhawan's University.


  4. ^ National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi Saatchi Gallery.


  5. ^ Nayar, Mandira (2004-11-07). "Modern art gets a new extension". The Hindu. Retrieved 2019-02-24.


  6. ^ "Virtual Galleries". National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2019-02-24.


  7. ^ "Virtual Galleries - Modern Sculptures". National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2019-02-24.


  8. ^ "Virtual Galleries - Photography". National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2019-02-24.



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