Kisory Roy

Kisory Roy (1 May 1911 – 17 December 1965) was an Indian painter and artist, known for depicting the landscapes and vistas of the Indian countryside along with portrait paintings.

Early life Born in 1911 in British India, Roy was inspired to take up the arts by his father, who was an occasional painter himself. Winning a school competition led him to the Government School of Art, Calcutta, where he studied fine art from 1931 to 1937.

Notable works Roy’s oil paintings of natural vistas, such as Darjeeling by Night, Smoking Copper Refinery, They Live on Leaves, Kumaun Landscape, among other works, stand out for their treatment of light and shadow and are a great balance between Bengal School and academic mannerisms. He exhibited widely in Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay.

Kisory Roy died in 1965 at Kolkata at the age of 54.

Students Some of his notable students were Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, Sunil Das, Ganesh Haloi, Shakti Burman and Anju Chaudhuri.