Arun Bose

Following the heels of the Lehman College Art Gallery’s annual faculty exhibition will be a show focusing on the work of faculty member Arun Bose. 

The Bose show, which will run from Thursday, October 3, through Saturday, November 2, will consist of a selection from the paintings and prints to be included in a major museum retrospective of the artist’s work in Bombay in early 1992. A reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, October 3, from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., to which the public is invited. 

The Lehman College Art Gallery’s annual faculty exhibition will run from Thursday, September 12, through Saturday, September 28.

Arun Bose of Calcutta was a Professor of Graphic Arts at Lehman College. he began his career as an art teacher at the Indian Art College Calcutta and subsequently at the Government College of Art and Craft in the same city. He graduated from the government College and got a scholarship of the French government for higher studies at the L’ecole Supereur de Beaux’art in Paris. He learnt the modern technique of etching on metal at the Atelier seventeen of the English Grahpic Artist Hayter in Paris. Before that for two consecutive years in 1961 and 1962 he received the National Academy Award.

He was one of the founding members of the Society of Contemporary Artists. He taught his friends the intaglio technique of deep etching on metals. After returning from Paris Arun initiated many to the intaglio etching technique. The picture was etched on the metal mould and rollers of different sizes and weights were used to reach the deepest crevices of the metal and then fixed to a printing machine. The wheels of the machine were turned and prints were drawn on wet paper of the correct size. He brought a revolution in multi-colored graphic prints.

Arun almost gave up oil painting in the sixties and was famous for his expertise in etching. This fame propelled him in the International arena. He was also a famous graphic artist in the West but he resumed his painting. His paintings are done either in acrylic or by using an air brush.