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{{Short description|Indian painter (1867–1944)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2015}}
{{Infobox artist
| honorific_prefix = [[Rao Bahadur]]
| name = M. V. Dhurandhar
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|FRSA|size=100}}
| image = M. V. Dhurandhar, self portrait.jpg
| caption = Self-portrait, {{circa|1928}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1867|3|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Kolhapur]], [[Kolhapur State]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Maharashtra]], India)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|6|1|1867|3|18|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], India)
| alma_mater = [[Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art|Sir J. J. School of Art]], Mumbai
| works = {{ubl|''Shivaji Maharaj and Baji Prabhu at Pawan Khind''|''Radha-Krishna''|''Sheshashayi-Laxminarayan''}}
| awards = {{ubl|[[Rao Bahadur]]|[[Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts]]}}
| children = [[Ambika Dhurandhar]]
}}
[[Rao Bahadur]] '''Mahadev Vishwanath Dhurandhar''' {{Postnominals|country=GBR|FRSA|size=100}} (18 March 1867 – 1 June 1944) was an Indian painter<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/17/stories/2008011751200200.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121065801/http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/17/stories/2008011751200200.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=21 January 2008 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Promoting contemporary art | date=17 January 2008}}</ref> and postcard artist from the [[British Raj|British colonial era]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesofasia.com/dhurandhar.php|title=Women Of India By M.v. Dhurandhar|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120061013/http://imagesofasia.com/dhurandhar.php|archivedate=20 January 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Among his most popular paintings are his illustrations of common colonial-era women.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/13/stories/2007121350940200.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215181411/http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/13/stories/2007121350940200.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=15 December 2007 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Still life to move art lovers | date=13 December 2007}}</ref>

==Early life==
[[File:M V Dhurandhar.jpg|thumb|left]]
Dhurandhar was born in a [[Pathare Prabhu]] family<ref>{{cite book|author=Partha Mitter|chapter=The Age of Optimism|title=Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations|year=1994 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mRTtkri8E0C&pg=PA90|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521443548}}</ref> at [[Kolhapur]], [[Maharashtra]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Profile of master artist M. V. Dhurandhar on Indiaart.com|url=https://www.indiaart.com/old-masters/M-V-Dhurandhar/Info-of-M-V-Dhurandhar.asp|access-date=2021-02-07|website=www.indiaart.com}}</ref> After schooling at Rajaram High School in Kolhapur, he was accepted into [[Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art|J.J. School of Art, Bombay]] in 1890. There he was student of the artist [[John Griffiths (artist)|John Griffiths]]. As a student he won many medals for his work. He graduated in 1895.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/05/stories/2007030505331300.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106224338/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/05/stories/2007030505331300.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=6 November 2012 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Kipling's home may become a museum | date=5 March 2007}}</ref>
[[File:MV Dhurandhar, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife,.jpg|thumb|MV Dhurandhar, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife]]
==Career==
After graduating from J. J. School of Art, Dhurandhar was offered a position at the same school in 1896 where he spent the rest of his career. In 1910, he was appointed as the Head Master. He was appointed Inspector of Drawing and Craft in 1918 and served in that position until 1931. He was the Vice-Principal for two years before retiring.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.delhiartgallery.com/artist/profile-m-v-dhurandhar.aspx |title=M V Dhurandhar Profile: Delhi Art Gallery |accessdate=2010-07-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719032155/http://www.delhiartgallery.com/artist/profile-m-v-dhurandhar.aspx |archivedate=19 July 2010 }}</ref> In the year 1938, Dhurandhar was elected as the [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1938 |title=COUNCIL |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41362749 |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Arts |volume=86 |issue=4470 |pages=885–886 |jstor=41362749 |issn=0035-9114}}</ref>

===Style and works===
His popular works include documenting the city of Bombay and its people, as well as painting scenes from Hindu mythology and [[Omar Khayyam]] series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Array-of-art/495900|title=Array of art|date=30 July 2009 |publisher=}}</ref> A prolific artist, Dhurandhar is said to have made some thousands of paintings and illustrations, including some that were turned into lithographic prints, such as his illustrations for the book ''Women of India'' by Otto Rothfield (1920).<ref>{{cite web|title=M. V. Dhurandhar|url=http://www.imagesofasia.com/biography/html/dhurandhar/Dhurandhar.php|publisher=Images of Asia|access-date=27 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326112419/http://www.imagesofasia.com/biography/html/dhurandhar/Dhurandhar.php|archive-date=26 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Dhurandhar also designed postcards, provided the illustrations for [[S. M. Edwardes]], ''By-Ways of Bombay'' (1912) and [[Charles Augustus Kincaid|C. A. Kincaid]]'s ''Deccan Nursery Tales'', besides drawing cartoons for the Gujarati periodicals ''Aram'' and ''Bhoot''.<ref name="Mitter1994">{{cite book|author=Partha Mitter|title=Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mRTtkri8E0C&pg=PA91|accessdate=27 April 2012|year=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-44354-8|pages=91–}}</ref> He also made religious illustrations published by the Ravi Varma Press. He wrote an autobiography in Marathi about his years at the J.J. School. In 1926, he was commissioned by the ruler of [[Aundh State]], Maharaja [[Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi|Bhawanrao Pantpratinidhi]] to make paintings on the life of [[Shivaji]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=M. V. Dhurandhar The Romantic Realist |url=http://ngmaindia.gov.in/pdf/Press-release-of-M-V-dhurandhar-exhibition.pdf |website=ngmaindia.gov.in}}</ref>

After he retired from Sir J.J School of Art in 1913, he continued painting and wrote his memoirs about his years at the art School. The book was published in 1940, titled, ''Kalamandiratil Ekkechalis Varshe'' (Forty-one years in the Temple of Art). It has become an authentic documentation on the history of Art of that period.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopaedia visual art of Maharashtra: artists of the Bombay School and art institutions (late 18th to early 21st century) |date= |publisher=Pundole Art Gallery |isbn=978-81-89010-11-9 |editor-last=Bahulkar |editor-first=Suhas |edition=First |location=Mumbai |editor-last2=Ghāre |editor-first2=Dīpaka |editor-last3=Patwardhan |editor-first3=Sudhir |editor-last4=Ranade |editor-first4=Dilip |editor-last5=Pundole Art Gallery}}</ref>

==Paintings==
<gallery>
File:Self Portrait of Painter.jpg|Self Portrait of Painter
File:Visami Sadi 1916 Magazine cover.jpg|Cover art of 1916 issue of Gujarati magazine
File:Shivaji Maharaj and Baji Prabhu at Pawan Khind.jpg|[[Shivaji|Shivaji Maharaj]] and [[Baji Prabhu Deshpande|Baji Prabhu]] at [[Battle of Pavan Khind|Pawan Khind]]
File:Maharani Tarabai of Karvir.jpg|A 1927 depiction of [[Tarabai]] in battle.
File:Lengha Choli.jpg|Lengha Choli
File:Radha and Krishna by DHURANDHAR MV.jpg|Radha and Krishna
File:Sheshashayi - Laxminarayan by DHURANDHAR MV.jpg|Sheshashayi - Laxminarayan
File:Shiva's Twilight Dance.jpg|Shiva's Twilight Dance
File:Raja Shivaji at Aurangzeb's Darbar- M V Dhurandhar.jpg|[[Agra Fort|Agra]] visit of Raja Shivaji at [[Aurangzeb|Aurangzeb's]] Darbar
File:Tanaji's famous vow during Kondana campaign “Aadhi lagin kondhanyache mag mazya Raybache”.jpg|[[Tanaji Malusare|Tanaji's]] famous vow during [[Sinhagad|Kondana fort]] campaign
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|author=Partha Mitter|title=Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mRTtkri8E0C&pg=PA91|accessdate=27 April 2012|year=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-44354-8|pages=91–}}
* Allan Life. "Picture Postcards by M.V. Dhurandhar: Scenes and Types of India-with a Difference," in ''Visual Resources'' (XVII, pp. 401–416, 2001).
* Dhurandhar, M. V. "Kalamandirantil Ekechalish Varsham" [Marathi autobiography] Bombay, 1940.

==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160120061013/http://imagesofasia.com/dhurandhar.php Paintings of M. V. Dhurandhar]
* {{Gutenberg author | id=34773| name=M. V. Dhurandhar}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Mahadev Vishwanath Dhurandhar}}

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