The Magic of Indian Miniatures (Arpana Fine Arts : Miniature Museum)

"The owner of this exquisite collection Arpana Caur a distinguished Indian painter, has been exhibited since 1974 across the globe. Her solos apart from Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore and Chennai have been held in Galleries in London, Glasgow, Berlin, Amsterdam, Singapore, Munich, New York and in Stockholm and Copenhagen National Museum. Her work can be seen in Museums of Modern Art in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Dusseldorf, Singapore, Bradford, Stockholm, Hiroshima, Smithsonian Washington and Victoria and Albert Museum London. She has been extensively written about, filmed, invited to various countries and awarded, including a Gold Medal in Sixth international Triennele 1986 in Delhi. She was commissioned by Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art to execute a large work for its permanent collection for the 50 anniversary of the Holocaust in 1995, and by Bangalore city and the city of Hamburg to do large noncommercial murals in public spaces. Since 1981 she did three large non-commercial murals in Delhi. Today her paintings support several projects for the underprivileged, including free vocational training in the Academy of Fine Arts and Literature of which she along with her mother the renowned writer Ajeet Caur, is the founder member, a leprosy home in Ghaziabad, Guru Shri Sahib ji\'s ration projects for poor and old widows all over the country and a small support network for young artists and crafts people." (jacket)