Janakpur Women's Development Center: an Exhibition of Maithil Paintings on Asianart.com

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JWDC
Janakpur Women's Development Center
Maithil Paintings, an Exhibition

Janakpur is now famous for its colorful paintings on paper, yet this "tradition" began in the first days of the JWDC when, under a grant from the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, a talented group of women were selected to learn how to transfer their wall designs to paper. They travelled from their villages to the Center in Janakpur where, without losing their originality, they developed skills in composition as well as in the use of color and line

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Four Camels	Spotted Tiger

Red Tigers with Birds	Pregnant Elephants

Coiled Peacocks	Pregnant Hen

Spotted Elephants	Women and minahs pick lentils

Peacocks with Hukkha	Marriage Ceremony of Ram and Sita

Women with Fishes	Bicycling to JWDC

Bus carrying goats for the Dasain festival	Four Birds

Moon and Faces	Fish Aripana

Peacock with Hukka	Fish Swimming in the Janakpur pond

Fish and Leaves	Aripana

Scene of Child Birth


Godhna Design	Bamboo Khobar	Two Tigers

Ganesh	Tortoise	Vishnu in Turtle form

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Introduction to Exhibition