Essay by Stuart Cary Welch

48 pages, 8 3/8 x 9 1/2", 29 illustrations, 11 in color. 1997

ISBN 0-942324-10-2 (paper), $15

On the occasion of their 20th anniversary season in the spring of 1997, The Drawing Center, New York, presented its first non-Western historical exhibition of works on paper produced in the royal courts of the Indian state of Rajasthan. The exhibition featured 75 works that the Harvard University Art Museums acquired by gift and purchase from the collection of Stuart Cary Welch, curator of Islamic and Later Indian art, upon his retirement in 1995. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, this catalogue illustrates some of the exhibition's most exciting paintings, which reveal the entire repertory of princely Rajput themes-battles, hunts, boisterous revels, formal state occasions, and religious, poetic, and amorous scenes. An essay by Stuart Cary Welch provides a historical and stylistic context for these works and chronicles the formation of his collection. Included in the catalogue is a checklist of the works exhibited and a selected bibliography on Indian painting.