Online Biographies & Memoirs books Karuna Shaha (1921-1996) was one of the first
women students to enroll in the Government College of Art and Crafts,
Calcutta, and amongst the first woman artists who persisted-indeed,
insisted-on claiming professional space in her own right. She exhibited
regularly, continuing with her drawing, sketching and painting right
till the end of her life. She was a founder member of The Group, a
collective of women artists.
Shaha remains best known for her studies of the female nude, and art
historian Tapati Guha-Thakurta's insightful analysis explains how 'the
nude would become for her the prime symbol of artistic freedom and the
shedding of inhibitions...[with] Karuna wresting this motif from the
space of the European Academy and taking it home with her as her most
prized and powerful inheritance...
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