Town; Sudhir Patwardhan; India; 1984; 156.8 x 186.7 cm. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, and Google Arts & Culture

A tendency in early Modernist painting in India, marked by the presence of both narrative and figuration and deviating from the conventions of European Modernism, which focused on non-representational subject matter. It is particularly associated with the Baroda School of Art, notably artists such as Gulammohammed Sheikh, Bhupen Khakhar and Sudhir Patwardhan.