Water Carriers

D. P. Roy Chowdhury was the first Indian artist principal (1930-57) of the art school in Madras who laid emphasis on the development of a fine arts curriculum in a manner that put forth an empirical and perceptual approach to art making, and axed the colonial pedantry of human form study based on classical statuary. His own art reflected this stance, created from an Indian standpoint, with the vision of ‘marking a new departure in the aesthetic activities of the Presidency’. Water Carriers represents a group of women balancing pots of water on their heads, their clothes placing them geographically in Rajasthan or Gujarat