Artist S.G. Thakur Singh (1899 - 1976) | Paintings

S.G. Thakur Singh was born in 1899 at Verka, a tiny, insignificant village four miles from Amritsar, Punjab, India, died in 1976. He never had proper education owing to his poor family circumstances. His heart being set upon painting and drawing from a very early age, he apprenticed himself to Mohammed Alam, a local skilled Mohammedan painter of some repute. From Alam he learnt the rudiments of the art; later he accompanied Mohammed Alam to Bombay where the latter had secured a job as a stage painter in a certain theatrical company.
In 1917, when he was just 18 years old, he was awarded a cash prize of Rs. 500 at an exhibition held at Simla. This was the beginning of a fruitful life which thrust the simple Punjabi village boy to world fame. He worked for various theatrical companies in Calcutta; it became apparent that he would excel as a painter.
He painted in oils, pastels and water color. His job at the theater was routine work but he sought no leisure and drove himself hard. Thus between his winning that first prize at the Simla Exhibition and his return to Amritsar in 1933, he had painted nearly ten thousand pictures. His painting “After the Bath” won the second prize of ₤800 at the British Empire Exhibition in London in 1924.
Ten years later at the Exhibition of Modern Indian Art, held in London and opened by the Duchess of York (now the Queen Mother) on December 30, 1934, his painting entitled “Ganesh Puja” which depicts a typical statuesque Maharashtrain Lady offering Puja before the idol of Ganesha and later bought by Mr. M.S. Aney, created a sensation.
The country has honored him in other ways too. He was nominated to the First Punjab Legislative Council in the year 1952. He is represented on the Executive Board of the National Academy of Art (Lalit Kala Akademy) and was Chairman of the Decoration Sub Committee at the 61st Session of the Indian National Congress held at Amritsar in 1956.
It is the wish of the admirers that he should be nominated to the Rajya Sabha (The House of elders) to represent Art. He was invited to U.S.S.R. and Hungary to hold his one man shows of paintings in the principal cities of these countries like Moscow, Leningrad and Budapest.
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