 "John Davison Rockefeller III")
Some finds are serendipitous and happen entirely by chance. While documenting the histories of several Indian modernists, a recurring “fellowship” or “grant” that kept finding mention was the Rockefeller Fund. What was this Fund and why was it important? Why did so many artists in the 1960s and ’70s get it, and what did it entail? Even though several artists had availed of it, information about it appeared scanty and few artists outside its privileged community knew about it.
It was this sketchy premise that has developed into a full blown curatorial venture as I set about investigating its antecedents. The
