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3 unusual facts about Mukul Dey


Ilambazar

During late 1940s Ilambazar terracotta temples were photo-documented by artist Mukul Dey of Santiniketan.

Mukul Dey

He then traveled to America from Japan in 1916 to learn the technique of etching under James Blanding Sloane and Bertha Jaques in Chicago, to whom Dey was introduced by American artist Roi Partridge and his wife Imogen Cunningham.

In 1920 Dey once again traveled abroad for the purpose of study, this time learning etching and engraving under Frank Short and Muirhead Bone.



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