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Pahari painting exhibition underway in Washington
The Indian Embassy described the event as a stunning tribute to centuries of Indian artistic genius.
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Staff Reporter - Fri, 01, May 2026
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Representative image of a Pahari painting / Wikimedia commons
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art kicked off an exhibition of Pahari paintings on April 18.
Titled “Of the Hills: Pahari Paintings from India’s Himalayan Kingdoms,” the exhibition will continue through July 26 and will showcase the extraordinary beauty and unique history of paintings made for Hindu kings in India’s Pahari (hill) region between the 1620s and 1830s.
The Indian Embassy spotlighted the event on X and described it as a “stunning tribute to centuries of Indian artistic genius.”
It further said, “Delighted to see India’s rich artistic heritage celebrated at the National Museum of Asian Art.”
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The National Museum described the works of Pahari artists as consisting of “radically different styles ranging from lyrical and naturalistic to boldly colored and abstracted.”
Through the works, attendees can learn about the political, cultural and religious contexts of these 48 exquisite works.
“Of the Hills: Pahari Paintings from India’s Himalayan Kingdoms” illuminates new scholarship on the collaborative artist communities in which most painters worked, the museum remarked.
The collection will showcase paintings the museum had acquired from renowned art historians Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim.
Some of the works featured in the exhibition are artworks that have never been exhibited publicly before, including works on loan from the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Washington exhibition runs concurrently with Pahari exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum.
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