"“Greater preference is accorded to sculptures and paintings created by artists attached to the royal courts over the centuries. Artefacts from rural and tribal India were outrightly dismissed as everyday objects, completely unfit for display in a museum. No one, with the sole exception of K.C. Aryan, realised that the illiterate and unknown craftsmen living and working in the countryside had nurtured our artistic and cultural heritage since hoary antiquity, and preserved it from getting lost for good.”"
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Dr. Subhasini Aryan, chairman of the Museum of Folk and Tribal Art
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K. C. Aryan
1919 – 2002
K. C. Aryan (1919-2002) was a painter, sculptor, art historian and a pioneer-collector of folk and tribal art objects; and founder of the Museum of Folk and Tribal Art, better known as K.C. Aryan's Home of Folk Art, founded in 1984 in Gurgaon.
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