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{{Infobox person
| name = Badri Narayan
| image = Badri-Narayan.jpg
| birth_date = 1929
| birth_place = Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh
| death_date = 2013
| death_place = Bangalore, Karnataka
| nationality = Indian
}}
'''Badri Narayan''' (22 July 1929, [[Secunderabad]], India - 23 September 2013, [[Bangalore]]) was an artist, illustrator, author and story-teller.

Narayan began painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954. He had over 50 solo shows and his work is in several collections, including the [[National Gallery of Modern Art]] and the [[National Museum (India)|National Museum]] in [[New Delhi]] as well as the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]'s South Asian Collection. Initially, he worked on tile and ceramic, and this informed some of his subsequent water-colours. His paintings are intimate and appealing, often with an element of fantasy, with simple outlines and accessible subject matter in two-dimensional stylised representations. He worked primarily in ink or pastel and watercolour.

He also illustrated children's books and wrote short stories and verse. He has been the subject of a documentary by Mumbai [[All India Radio]], and received numerous awards, including the [[Padma Shri]] in 1987 and the Maharashtra Gourav Puruskar in 1990.

Badri Narayan died on 23 September 2013 due to frail health, at a hospital in [[Bangalore]].

==Work==

===As Illustrator===
*''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4258128W/The_Mahabharata The Mahabharata]'' by Shanta Rameshwar Rao; illustrations by Badri Narayan. (1985, Orient Longman)
*''[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ramayana.html?id=FHPXAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y The Ramayana]'' by Laxmi Lal, illustrated by Badri Narayan (1988, Orient Longman)

==External links==
* [http://www.saffronart.com/artists/badri-narayan "Badri Narayan Profile, Interview and Artworks"]
* [http://www.colorsofindia.com/story/badri.html Badri Narayan at colorsofindia.com]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161020172900/http://www.indianartcircle.com/renaissance/badri_profile.shtml Badri Narayan at indianartcircle.com]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011072752/http://www.lalitkala.gov.in/golden_jubilee/arties/B.asp Picture in the Lalit Kala Akademi collection]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234047/http://www.theartstrust.com/artistexhibhition.aspx?artistid=89&name=Narayan%20Badri Paintings by Badri Narayan at The Arts Trust online gallery (archived)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040927081756/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/09/05/stories/2004090500590800.htm Article on Badri Narayan in The Hindu newspaper, including a picture of a painting]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030302112408/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200120200.htm Article including a photograph of the artist]
*[http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan152005/metro6.asp Article in the Deccan Herald]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061206234256/http://galleryartmotif.com/Badri.htm Picture of house and trees by Badri Narayan]
*[http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/328980.html?mulR=845146019%7C2742 Squares in the PMA]
*[http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/328979.html?mulR=845146019%7C2741 Man Standing in the PMA]

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[[Category:1929 births]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian painters]]
[[Category:Indian illustrators]]
[[Category:Indian children's book illustrators]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education]]
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[[Category:People from Secunderabad]]
[[Category:Indian male painters]]
[[Category:Painters from Telangana]]

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