K G Subramanyan was born on 15 February 1924 in Kerala and was an important post-Independence Indian artist. In 1944, he graduated from Presidency College in Chennai with a Bachelor's degree in Economics before attending Santiniketan for four years under the tutelage of Benode Behari Mukherjee, Nandalal Bose, and Ramkinkar Baij. Subramanyan received a British Council Research Fellowship in 1955 to study at the Slade School of Art, University of London. He was also a prolific artist, employing a variety of mediums and styles as a writer, scholar, teacher, and art historian. His belief in the revival of Indian traditions led him to create a new artistic idiom that included drawing, oil painting, watercolour, murals, sculpture along with toy making, set design, glass painting, pottery, and weaving. His dedication to his art transformed Indian modernism and made it more diverse. Subramanyan began his career in earnest in the 1950s, and his early training in Santiniketan was evid...