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      Past Exhibition

      Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence

      On view February 2 through April 21, 2013

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      10 am–5 pm

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      The political freedoms gained from Britain at midnight on August 15, 1947 inspired a revolutionary art movement.

      Unrestricted by cultural expectations, three generations of Indian artists fully engaged with the world around them, embracing their individualistic approaches to modern art.

      Drawn from PEM's Herwitz Collection and loans from museums and private collections.

      Support provided by the Chester and Davida Herwitz Charitable Trust, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Marguerite and Kent Srikanth Charugundla, Dr. Mahesh and Smita Patel, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, and the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.

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      Midnight to the Boom book

      Exhibition catalogue

      This abundantly illustrated volume is the first in-depth study of the three generations of artists responsible for critical shifts in the development of India’s modernist art.

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      Tyeb Mehta, Untitled (from Diagonal Lines Series), 1973. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2001. Photo by Walter Silver/PEM.

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