MURAL PAINTINGS OF THE BOMBAY SCHOOL
By W. E. Gladstone Solomon
BOMBAY: The Times of India Press
1930
pp. 125 with 30 plates, 2 in colour
Original beige cloth binding with gilt title and elephant motif on cover
Size: 11 x 9 inches.br.
THE BOMBAY REVIVAL OF INDIAN ART
A descriptive account of the Indian Room constructed and decorated by the Staff and Students of the School of Art
With notes on Indian architecture, pottery, arts and crafts, and the Bombay Art Society, bywell known experts
By W. E. Gladstone Solomon
BOMBAY: published by the author
No date [c. 1920]
pp. vi, 155 + plates
A propagandist book to promote the Bombay School of Art at the British Empire Exhibition London in 1924. The Indian Room was created in Bombay and shipped to London for the exhibition. See p. 192 of Partha Mitter 'The Triumph of Modernism' (Oxford, 2007)
A good softcover with lovely bookplate of I. Booth showing an elephant
Size 7 x 5 inches
THE PEOPLESOF BOMBAY
By Percival Strip and Olivia Strip
With illustrations in colour by RAO BAHADUR M.V. DHURANDHAR
BOMBAY: Thacker & Co.
1944
pp. 48 + 15 plates
Original green pebbled cloth with gilt title on cover
Presentation inscription on front endpaper
size 10 x 7 inches
DECCAN NURSERY TALES or Fairy Tales from the South
By C. A. Kincaid
with 8 colour plates carrying paintings by M. V. DHURANDHAR
LONDON: Macmillan
1914
pp. 135
Size 8.5 x 6.5 inches.br.CONDITION: Covers grubby and soiled, corners a little worn. But an excellent copy inside.
ANTONIO XAVIER TRINDADE - An Indian Painter from Portuguese Goa
Limited Edition of 1,000 copies issued in the US in 1996
Published by the GeorgiaMuseum of Art, University of Georgia
pp. 87 with 33 of Trindade's works illustrated in colour
Essays on origin and early history of Bombay School of Painting, biography of Trindade, catalogue, bibliography and an essay on Angela Trindade, theartist's daughter who was also a painter of Indian scenes.
These are:
1. THE ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF BOMBAY SCHOOL OF PAINTING by Bradley L. Tindall
2. ANTONIO XAVIER TRINDADE: A BIOGRAPHY by Marcella Sirhandi
3. ANGELA TRINDADE, INDIAN ARTIST by William U. Eiland
4. ANTONIO XAVIER TRINDADE: A REMEMBRANCE by Nans Ghumman
Trindade was a colleague of M V Dhurandhar
Fine softcover/ size 11 x 8.5 inches
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