Dey, Mukul : trained under Abanindranath Tagore at Santiniketan (1905-11), then worked there as a member of the staff, retaining his guru’s style with his own touches. In April 1919, he met Sri Aurobindo & made three portraits of him. Later he became principal of the Calcutta School of Art, a Fulbright Scholar in USA in 1953-54, & visiting professor at foreign universities. (S/a Binyon)
... Page Frontispiece Mirra at the turn of the century 45 Rabindranath Tagore; autographed in March, 1930 (courtesy Abhay Nahar) 48 Abanindranath Tagore, detail of a dry-point by Mukul Dey 55 A sketch by Nandalal Bose, from Abhay's autograph book 58 Nandalal Bose (courtesy Mrs Jamuna Sen) 67 Sujata, around four 74 From Abhay's autograph book 75 'Progress' bush ...
... principle,—one never knows in these days. The noteworthy poem of the number is Henry Ruffy's "London Nocturne", placed, I presume as a study in significant contrasts, opposite Page 631 Mukul Dey's drawing of Tagore. It is an admirable specimen of the now dominant vitalistic or "life" school of modern poetry. Personally, this school does not appeal to me. Its method seems to be to throw quite ...
... I told you how Sri Aurobindo gave up at one stroke His age-long habits. Now following the chronology, we come to 1920 - January. Before that, there is another record that we can look into. Mukul Chandra Dey, an artist who afterwards became the Principal of the Calcutta School of Art, came to Pondicherry and met Sri Aurobindo. 116 He took sittings for four days in order to draw a portrait of Sri ...
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