Harvard Art Museums > 2014.516: Untitled (Banyan Trees, Palm Tree, and Altar) Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Untitled (Banyan Trees, Palm Tree, and Altar) (Nandalal Bose) , 2014.516,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/352294. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2014.516 People Nandalal Bose, Indian (1882 - 1966) Title Untitled (Banyan Trees, Palm Tree, and Altar) Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1960 Places Creation Place: South Asia, India, West Bengal Culture Indian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/352294 Physical Descriptions Medium Black ink with traces of charcoal and incidental red chalk on Asian paper Dimensions 38.7 x 28 cm (15 1/4 x 11 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: signed: lower right: black ink, Bengali: ১.৮ ৬০ (1.8 60) [1 August 1960], signature of the artist seal: lower right: rectangular, red, intaglio seal of the artist inscription: lower right: graphite, Bengali: ১ ২০ (২৮?) ৬০ (1 20 [28?] 60) [January 20 (28?) 1960] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Nandalal Bose, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, (-1966), by inheritance; to his son, Biswarup Bose, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India (1966-1969 to 1971), gift; to Supratik Bose, grandson of Nandalal Bose, Cambridge, MA, (between 1969 and 1971-2014), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mary K. Eliot and Supratik Bose in honor of Sonya Rhie Quintanilla Accession Year 2014 Object Number 2014.516 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description In this monochromatic ink drawing, the trunk of a palm tree shoots upward through the mass of branches produced by a neighboring banyan tree. The scene recalls a well-known Bengali poem by Rabindranath Tagore, who founded the school where Nandalal Bose spent much of his life as a teacher and an artist: “One-legged palm tree/topping the other trees/peering at the sky […]”. A seated figure at a modest altar seen through the tree trunks lends the scene a sense of human scale. Exhibition History 32Q: 2590 South and Southeast Asia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/26/2016 - 11/02/2016; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/31/2022 - 04/17/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
