Village Barber, Indian Topics

J. D. Gondhalekar (1909-1981) was an Indian artist from a Pune family that owned a successful printing press. He studied at the Slade School of Art in London and in the 1950s served as the Dean of the J. J. School of Art in Bombay. He also worked in film and for the press in a varied, successful career. In the early 1940s he produced a series of at least ten postcards, much like another former J. J. School luminary, M.V. Dhurandhar four decades previously. They seem to be woodcuts, a very rare original medium for postcards, but he seems to have studied wood engraving at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in the late 1930s.