Indian Art Today: Four Artists from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Family Collection exhibition records

These curatorial records were created and collected during the research and execution of the Indian Art Today: Four Artists from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Family Collection exhibition. The exhibition presented ten works each of the following four contemporary Indian artists; Raza, Laxma Goud, Ramanujam, and M.F. Husain.

In the foreword to the exhibition catalogue, Director Laughlin Phillips writes, “My selections of the work of the four artists were based on the type of considerations we normally apply to loan exhibitions: that the artists have a unique, personal esthetic vision, and in this case that the vision is strongly reflect their Indian cultural heritage and not simply the prevailing international art movements.”

This exhibition opened at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. on February 22, 1986 and closed on April 6, 1986.

The primary creator of the exhibition planning records was Willem de Looper, Curator. The bulk of this collection consists of material pertaining to the organization of the exhibition, including correspondence, loan agreements, articles, publicity, individual artist files, exhibition catalogues and photographs. The remaining source material is comprised of information pertaining to the Festival of India.