Press Release: Miniature Worlds: Art from India

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[Your Institution] Hosts Miniature Worlds: Art from India

Watercolors, drawings, and sculpture spanning 400 years of Indian history are on view in Miniature Worlds: Art from India, opening on [opening date] at [your institution]. Drawn from the extensive permanent collection of The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts, the exhibition illuminates various forms of Indic media from the 15th to the 19th centuries as well as aspects of its religion and history.

Two major Indian painting traditions, Rajput and Mughal, are represented in the watercolors on display. Rajput paintings focus on religious themes and are painted in a native style with bold, flat colors. These earliest Indian paintings illustrate sacred Jain and Hindu texts. The establishment of the Mughal dynasty in 1526 ushered in new themes, particularly history painting and portraiture. Mughal paintings were composed by artists affiliated with the court and reflect a style based on the Persian miniature painting tradition.

The exhibition also includes three-dimensional works, such as Dancing Ganesha, a sculpture executed in the first half of the 20th century. Other exciting works in Miniature Worlds portray heroic battles and hunting scenes.

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All of the works in Miniature Worlds are from the Leland C. and Paula Wyman Collection at The Art Complex Museum, an extraordinary collection of 300 paintings purchased in the late 1960s. The exhibition is curated by Alice R. M. Hyland, Ph.D., of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in collaboration with Catherine Mayes, Senior Curator at The Art Complex Museum.

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