Painters

Art & Design

S. H. Raza

Painter known for the bindu and a founder of the Progressive Artists’ Group

1922 – 2016

Art & Design

Amrita Sher-Gil

Painter and a founding figure of modern Indian art

1913 – 1941

Art & Design

Raja Ravi Varma

Painter who brought Indian mythology to life in a realist style

1848 – 1906

Music

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, writer and composer; first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature

1861 – 1941

Art & Design

M. F. Husain

Painter and member of the Progressive Artists’ Group

1915 – 2011