Category Fine Arts (Individual) First awarded 1955 First awardee(s) Jamini Roy (1955) | Instituted 1955 Last awarded 2006 | |
Description Honour for the fine arts
in India | ||
The Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship, also, Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna (Sanskrit ratna, "gem") is an honour for the fine arts in India, given to eminent artists for their lifetime achievements in the field of visual arts. It is awarded by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art, it is the highest honour in the fine arts conferred by the Government of India.
The ‘Fellow,’ carries a purse-money of Rs.25,000/-, a citation and a plaque. The Fellow is honoured with a portfolio about their major art works. The first elected fellow, in 1955, was the artist Jamini Roy.
List of Fellows
No. Name of the Fellow Year
- Jamini Roy 1955
- Nandalal Bose 1956
- D. P. Roy Chowdhury 1962
- Kuppali Venkatappa 1962
- Akbar Padamsee 1962
- O. C. Ganguly 1963
- Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar 1964
- S. L. Haldar 1964
- Rai Kishan Dass 1964
- G. Venkatachalam 1965
- C. Sivaramamurti 1965
- Benode Behari Mukherjee 1970
- Ravi Shankar Raval 1970
- Anil Karanjai 1972
- N. S. Bendre 1974
- Mulk Raj Anand 1974
- Umesh Chopra 1975
- Ram Kinker Baij 1976
- Kanwal Krishna 1976
- Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar 1976
- K. C. S. Paniker 1976
- M. F. Hussain 1978
- Dhanraj Bhagat 1978
- B. C. Sanyal 1980
- Karl J. Khandalavala 1980
- V. R. Amberkar 1980
- P. T. Reddy 1980
- K. S. Kulkarni 1982
- S. Dhanapal 1982
- Sankho Chaudhuri 1982
- Prodosh Dasgupta 1982
- M. S. Randhawa 1982
- K. H. Ara 1984
- S. H. Raza 1984
- K. G. Subramanyan 1985
- K. Sreenivasulu 1985
- Shaivax Chavda 1986
- Paritosh Sen 1986
- Mukul Dey 1987
- Svetoslav Roerich 1987
- Ram Gopal Vijaiwargiya 1988
- Ranbir Singh Bisht 1988
- Bimal Dasgupta 1990
- Radha Mohan (art teacher) 1990
- A. S. Raman 1993
- Amar Nath Sehgal 1993
- Kapila Vatsyayan 1995
- Anand Dev 1995
- Dinkar Shankar Thopte 1996
- Sheshirao Biradar 1997
- A. Ramachandran 2002
- Bikash Bhattacharjee 2003
- Keshav Malik 2004
- Jeram Patel 2007
- M. V. Krishnan 2007
- Ram Kumar 2011
References
List of Lalit Kala Akademi fellows Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA