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Meera Mukherjee
Meera Mukherjee (1923–1998) was an Indian sculptor and writer, known for bringing modernity to the ancient Bengali sculpting art. She is known to have used innovative bronze casting techniques, improving the Dhokra method employing Lost-wax casting, which she learnt during her training days of the Bastar sculpting tradition of Chattisgarh.〔 She received the fourth highest civilian award of the Padma Shri from the Government of India in 1992 for her contributions to Arts.
== Biography ==
Meera Mukherjee, born in Kolkata to Dwijendramohan Mukherjee and Binapani Devi in 1923, had her initial training in Arts at the ''Indian Society of Oriental Art'' of Abanindranath Tagore where she stayed till her marriage in 1941. The marriage was short-lived and Mukherjee, after the divorce, resumed her art studies by joining the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata and the Delhi Polytechnic, Delhi (present day Delhi Technological University) and secured diploma in painting, graphics and sculpture. Later, she assisted Effendi, an Indonesian artist, at Shantiniketan till she got a scholarship for studies in Munich〔 in 1953 which gave her opportunities to work under Toni Stadler and Heinrich Kirchner. It was Toni Stadler who supported Mukherjee's transition from a painter to a sculptor. She returned India in 1957 and took up the job as an art teacher at Dowhill School, Kurseong where she stayed till 1959 when she moved to (Pratt Memorial School ), Kolkata, teaching there for one year.〔
Mukherjee started freelancing after resigning from her regular job at Pratt Memorial in 1960 and trained in Dhokra casting technique under the tribal artisans of Bastar of Chattisgarh. Receiving a senior research fellowship in 1962 from the Anthropological Survey of India, she did research on the bell metal craft goods of India and Nepal till 1964.〔 During this time, she also started exhibiting her works at various places in India and abroad. Known to create only a few pieces a year, she created many notable works like ''Ashoka in Kalinga'', ''Earth Carriers'', ''Smiths Working Under a Tree'', ''Mother and Child'', ''Srishti'', ''The Rumour'' and ''portrait of Nirmal Sengupta''.〔 One of her creations, ''Emperor Asoka'' is on display at the Nandiya Gardens of ITC Maurya, New Delhi.〔 Her works have featured in many international auctions such as that of Christies〔 and Invaluable. Simultaneously, she pursued a career as a writer of children's stories and published a few books, ''Little Flower Shefali and Other Stories'', ''Kalo and the Koel'' and ''Catching Fish and Other Stories'' being some of the notable ones. She also published one monograph, ''Metal Craft in India'' in 1978, and two books on the traditional metal craft in India namely ''Metal Craftsmen in India'' in 1979 and ''In Search of Viswakarma'' in 1994.
Meera Mukherjee died in 1998, at the age of 75.〔
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