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Pioneer Indian graphic artist Mukul Dey
was one of the most important practitioner of drypoint-etching and
engraving, active in Bengal from second decade of the last century
till his death in 1989.
Mukul Dey had travelled widely in Japan, Europe and the USA, interacting
with a world-wide cross section of important people, both in the
East and the West, spanning about 70 years.
The entire Neo-Bengal School of Abanindranath Tagore; the "reorganised"
Nihon Bijutsuin artists of Japan; Chicago Society of Etchers, USA
were Dey's contemporaries and teachers. Some prominent personalities
with whom Dey had interacted intimately were — Rabindranath
Tagore, E. B. Havell, Yokoyama Taikan, James Blanding Sloan, Muirhead
Bone, Sarada Ukil and Jamini Roy. Apart from them, Mukul Dey was
fortunate to interact with Albert Einstein, Sven Hedin, George Clausen,
Henry Tonks, M. K. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Francis Younghusband,
W. W. Pearson, Thomas Sturge-Moore etc.
Here we give Mukul Dey's interactions
with:
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