Born in 1907 in India, Gobardhan Ash studied at the Fine Arts Government School of Arts in Kolkata between 1926 and 1930 and at the Government School of Arts and Crafts in Chennai in 1932. He was appointed Chief Artist at the Indian institute of Arts and Industry in Kolkata in 1946, where he stayed for two years, until 1948. In 1953, he became a Senior Teacher at the Indian Art School of Kolkata, where he stayed another two years, before founding the Fine Art Mission of Begumpur in 1956. He then started his career as an independent artist and remained so until he death in 1996. His many awards include the First Prize of the Madras Academy of Fine Arts (1983), Silver Medals from form the Progre...