List of Fellows of the Lalit Kala Akademi

Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship (Ratna)
Awarded by Lalit Kala Akademi, Government of India
Category	Fine Arts (Individual)
Description
Description	Honour for the fine arts in India
Instituted	1955
First awarded	1955
Last awarded	2006
First awardee(s)	Jamini Roy (1955)

The Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship, also, Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna (Sanskrit ratna, "gem") is an honour for the fine arts in India, given to eminent artists for their lifetime achievements in the field of visual arts. It is awarded by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art, it is the highest honour in the fine arts conferred by the Government of India.

The ‘Fellow,’ carries a purse-money of Rs.25,000/-, a citation and a plaque. The Fellow is honoured with a portfolio about their major art works. The first elected fellow, in 1955, was the artist Jamini Roy.

List of Fellows

No. Name of the Fellow Year

1. Jamini Roy 1955
2. Nandalal Bose 1956
3. D. P. Roy Chowdhury 1962
4. Kuppali Venkatappa 1962
5. Akbar Padamsee 1962
6. O. C. Ganguly 1963
7. Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar 1964
8. S. L. Haldar 1964
9. Rai Kishan Dass 1964
10. G. Venkatachalam 1965
11. C. Sivaramamurti 1965
12. Benode Behari Mukherjee 1970
13. Ravi Shankar Raval 1970
14. Anil Karanjai 1972
15. N. S. Bendre 1974
16. Mulk Raj Anand 1974
17. Umesh Chopra 1975
18. Ram Kinker Baij 1976
19. Kanwal Krishna 1976
20. Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar 1976
21. K. C. S. Paniker 1976
22. M. F. Hussain 1978
23. Dhanraj Bhagat 1978
24. B. C. Sanyal 1980
25. Karl J. Khandalavala 1980
26. V. R. Amberkar 1980
27. P. T. Reddy 1980
28. K. S. Kulkarni 1982
29. S. Dhanapal 1982
30. Sankho Chaudhuri 1982
31. Prodosh Dasgupta 1982
32. M. S. Randhawa 1982
33. K. H. Ara 1984
34. S. H. Raza 1984
35. K. G. Subramanyan 1985
36. K. Sreenivasulu 1985
37. Shaivax Chavda 1986
38. Paritosh Sen 1986
39. Mukul Dey 1987
40. Svetoslav Roerich 1987
41. Ram Gopal Vijaiwargiya 1988
42. Ranbir Singh Bisht 1988
43. Bimal Dasgupta 1990
44. Radha Mohan (art teacher) 1990
45. A. S. Raman 1993
46. Amar Nath Sehgal 1993
47. Kapila Vatsyayan 1995
48. Anand Dev 1995
49. Dinkar Shankar Thopte 1996
50. Sheshirao Biradar 1997
51. A. Ramachandran 2002
52. Bikash Bhattacharjee 2003
53. Keshav Malik 2004
54. Jeram Patel 2007
55. M. V. Krishnan 2007^[1]
56. Ram Kumar 2011 ^[2]

References

1. "13 eminent artists given Lalit Kala Ratna awards". www.oneindia.com. 2007-09-10. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
2. "List of Fellowship Awardees". Retrieved 2012-03-25.

External links

• Lalit Kala Akademi Official Site