The work deals with Eye. Photographed by Nazmul Alam Badhon. + - Entry no.: V1 CC30 2020 AC0 000 Y 001 Title: Untitled Artist: Anonymous Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Nazmul Alam Badhon Copyright info: All rights reserved by Nazmul Alam Badhon Date Photo Taken: 2020 Location: Old Dhaka, Bangladesh Resolution info: 2048x1406 Source: The photographer's personal collection Notes: Painted on the wooden base of the passenger seat Subjects: Eye Bibliographical Reference/s: N/A Previous Next

The work deals with Film, Snake, Nagin, Folk, Fantasy, Snake-charmer. Photographed by Anduze traveller. + - Entry no.: V1 CC4 2008 AC5 000 Y 004 Title: Untitled Artist: Old Situ Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Anduze traveller Copyright info: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Date Photo Taken: January 20, 2008 Location: Banani Model Town, Dhaka, Bangladesh Resolution info: 2236x3504 Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45306251@N00/2206410884 Notes: Probably inspired from Bangladeshi film Beder Meye Josna; the duo on the right looks like Anju Ghosh and Ilias Kanchan Subjects: Film, Snake, Nagin, Folk, Fantasy, Snake-charmer Bibliographical Reference/s: N/A Previous Next

The work deals with Bird, Water, Eagle, Tree, Grass, Sky. Photographed by Kevin Bubriski. + - Entry no.: V1 CC23 1994 AC0 000 Y 012 Title: Untitled Artist: Anonymous Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Kevin Bubriski Copyright info: All rights reserved by Aramco Americas Date Photo Taken: 1994 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Resolution info: 3072x2048 Source: AramcoWorld Notes: Painted on a metal backboard and attached to the back of a rickshaw Subjects: Bird, Water, Eagle, Tree, Grass, Sky Bibliographical Reference/s: Kirkpatrick, Joanna and Kevin Bubriski. “Transports of Delight: Ricksha Art Of Bangladesh.” Aramco World 45, no. 1 (1994): 32-35. Previous Next

The work deals with Man, Woman, Film, Action, Gun, Love, Bird. Photographed by Kevin Bubriski. + - Entry no.: V1 CC23 1994 AC0 000 Y 003 Title: Untitled Artist: Lower: Unknown; Upper: probably Barek Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Kevin Bubriski Copyright info: All rights reserved by Aramco Americas Date Photo Taken: 1994 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Resolution info: 3072x2048 Source: AramcoWorld Notes: Lower: painted on a metal backboard and attached to the back of a rickshaw; lower middle: painted on a metal backboard and attached to the back of a rickshaw; upper: painted on the canvas hood Subjects: Man, Woman, Film, Action, Gun, Love, Bird Bibliographical Reference/s: Kirkpatrick, Joanna and Kevin Bubriski. “Transports of Delight: Ricksha Art Of Bangladesh.” Aramco World 45, no. 1 (1994): 32-35. Previous Next

The work deals with Mosque, Religion, Deer, Flower, Architecture, Islam, Animal. Photographed by Tom Learmonth. + - Entry no.: V1 CC18 1985 AC22 000 Y 011 Title: Untitled Artist: Farid Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Tom Learmonth Copyright info: Copyright Tom Learmonth 1985; https://www.tomlearmonth.com/ Date Photo Taken: 1985 Location: Unspecified Location, Bangladesh Resolution info: 3538x5270 Source: The photographer's personal collection Notes: Painted on a metal backboard and attached to the back of a rickshaw Subjects: Mosque, Religion, Deer, Flower, Architecture, Islam, Animal Bibliographical Reference/s: N/A Previous Next

The work deals with House, Sun, Tree, River, Water, Village. Photographed by Mohammad Asif Hossain. + - Entry no.: V1 CC33 2020 AC37 000 N 006 Title: Untitled Artist: Sumon Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Mohammad Asif Hossain Copyright info: All rights reserved by Mohammad Asif Hossain Date Photo Taken: 2020 Location: Rajshahi Resolution info: N/A Source: The photographer's personal collection Notes: Painted on the metal back of an electric rickshaw Subjects: House, Sun, Tree, River, Water, Village Bibliographical Reference/s: N/A Previous Next

The work deals with Tiger, Jungle, Forest, Animal. Photographed by Oliur Sun. + - Entry no.: V1 CC31 2018 AC0 000 N 002 Title: Untitled Artist: Anonymous Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Oliur Sun Copyright info: All rights reserved by Oliur Sun Date Photo Taken: 2018 Location: T-badh, Rajshahi, Bangladesh Resolution info: 1296x1875 Source: The photographers's personal collection Notes: Painted on the metal back of an electric rickshaw Subjects: Tiger, Jungle, Forest, Animal Bibliographical Reference/s: N/A Previous Next

The work deals with Film, Romance, Love, Man, Woman, Movie. Photographed by Samirah Tabassum. + - Entry no.: V1 CC34 2020 AC0 000 Y 005 Title: LOVE Artist: Unknown Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Samirah Tabassum Copyright info: All rights reserved by Samirah Tabassum Date Photo Taken: 2020 Location: Chandina, Comilla, Chattogram, Bangladesh Resolution info: 3024x4032 Source: The photographer's personal collection Notes: Painted on the metal back of an electric rickshaw; based on a scene taken from a Bangladeshi film Subjects: Film, Romance, Love, Man, Woman, Movie Bibliographical Reference/s: N/A Previous Next

The work deals with Bird, Tree, Water, Lilly, Flower, Love, Romance, Sky. Photographed by Istiak Ahamed Toushik. + - Entry no.: V1 CC29 2020 AC0 000 Y 006 Title: Untitled Artist: Anonymous Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Istiak Ahamed Toushik Copyright info: All rights reserved by Istiak Ahamed Toushik Date Photo Taken: 2020 Location: Krishtopur, Mymensingh, Bangladesh Resolution info: 1201x1602 Source: The photographer's personal collection Notes: Painted on the metal back of an electric rickshaw Subjects: Bird, Tree, Water, Lilly, Flower, Love, Romance, Sky Bibliographical Reference/s: N/A Previous Next

A list of resources on rickshaw art of Bangladesh Interactive Information | Select Publications | Exhibitions/Projects | Essays/Review | Documentary/Video Works Interactive Information Interactive Information Evolution of Rickshaw Art 🔗 Rickshaw Art Collections Around the World 🔗 Rickshaw: The Vehicle 🔗 > Select Publicatons Select Publications Akbar, Shireen. Rickshaw Painting – Traffic Art in Bangladesh. Fukuoka: Fukuoka Art Museum, 1994. Akhnd, Shawon. “Cinema banner painting ebong o onnano onushongo” [“Cinema Banner Painting & Miscellaneous”]. In Art and Crafts , edited by Lala Rukh Selim, 451-459. Vol. 8, Cultural Survey of Bangladesh Project. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2007. Gallagher, Rob. The Rickshaws of Bangladesh . Dhaka: The University Press Limited, 1992. Glassie, Henry. “Moving Pictures.” In Art and life in Bangladesh , 420-432. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Glassie, Henry. “The Pictorial System.” In Art and life in Bangladesh , 433-437. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Islam, Nazmul. A Study on Material Culture in Dhaka: Rickshaw, A Motion Craft . Master’s thesis, McGill University, 2015. Kirkpatrick, Joanna. “Bangladeshi Arts of the Ricksha.” Asianart.com , December 5, 1997, http://www.asianart.com/articles/ricksha/index.html Kirkpatrick, Joanna. “Metaphor and Motive in Bangladeshi Ricksha Art.” SCT – Correspondence, Memorandums, Minutes, and Miscellaneous (2003). http://hdl.handle.net/11209/10173. Kirkpatrick, Joanna. “Rickshaw Art.” In The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics , edited by Meghna Guhathakurta and Willem van Schendel, 396-400. USA: Duke University Press, 2013. Kirkpatrick, Joanna. “The Painted Ricksha as Culture Theater.” Studies in Visual Communication 10, no. 3 (1984): 73-85. Kirkpatrick, Joanna. Transports of Delight: The Ricksha Arts of Bangladesh . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. CD-ROM. Kirkpatrick, Joanna and Kevin Bubriski. “Transports of Delight: Ricksha Art Of Bangladesh.” Aramco World 45, no. 1 (1994): 32-35. Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, and David J Williams. Moving Pictures: Rickshaw art of Bangladesh . Ahmedabad, India: Mapin Publishing, 2010. Lasnier, France. Rickshaw Art in Bangladesh . Dhaka: The University Press Limited, 2002. Learmonth, Tom. "Rickshaw Art in Bangladesh." Mimar: Architecture in Development 39 (1991): 76-79. Rahman, Md Mostafijur. Bangladesher Rickshaw Chitra . Master’s Thesis, Charukala Institute, Dhaka University, 1992. Moishan, Shahman. “Representation of Anthropomorphic Beast in Rickshaw Painting: Figurative Fantasy of Social Biology.” Depart Magazine , 12/13 (n.d.). Warner, Rachel, Dan Jones, Barbara Joseph, Jayne Spittle, John Wallett, Tom Learmonth, and Shah Ahmed Sadeque. Rickshaws: Art & Industry . Basement Project/Young World Books, 1989. > Exhibitions/Projects Exhibitions/Projects 2020 Rongbaaz , Group Project/Exhibition, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh 🔗 2017 Group Exhibition of S.A. Malek, National Art Gallery, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh 2016 Summer in Colour , Solo Exhibition of Nobo Kumar Bhadra, Zoom Galerie of Alliance Française de Dhaka 2016 Bangladeshi Rickshaw Arts from 1972 to 1998 , Curated by Joanna Kirkpatrick, The Huntington Archive 🔗 2016 বাদল/Badal , Solo Exhibition of Nobo Kumar Bhadra, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 🔗 2014 Deshoj Spondon - 2 , Group Exhibition, Gallery Jalrong, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2014 Group Exhibition, Dhaka Rickshaw Fiesta Week 2014, National Museum of Dhaka, Bangladesh 2013 Solo Exhibition of Nobo Kumar Bhadra, La Gallerie of Alliance Francaise de Dhaka, Bangladesh 2013 Rickshaw Art Exhibition , Group Exhibition, Zainul Gallery, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 2013 Setouchi International Art Triennale , Takamatsu, Japan 2010 Solo Exhibition of Nobo Kumar Bhadra, La Gallerie of Alliance Francaise de Dhaka, Bangladesh 2008 Solo Exhibition of S.A. Malek, the Club of Australian Embassy, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2005 Group Exhibition, Arranged by Britto Arts Trust, Alliance Francaise de Dhaka, Bangladesh 2000 Group Exhibition of S.A. Malek, German Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh 1999 Group Exhibition, Alliance Française de Dhaka, Bangladesh 1999 Solo Exhibition of S.A. Malek, Alliance Française de Dhaka, Bangladesh 1994 Rickshaw Painting - Traffic Art in Bangladesh , Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 🔗 1988-91 Traffic Art: Rickshaw Paintings from Bangladesh , The Museum of Mankind (now closed), London, UK 1987-8 Rickshaws: Art and Industry , Touring Exhibition in the UK 🔗 > Essays/Reviews Essays/Reviews Rongbaaz , Rickshaw, Revival | Mohammad Zaki Rezwan | April 2020 🔗 Please visit the contribute section if you want to submit your essay. > Documentary/Video works > Documenary/Video Works

The work deals with Taj Mahal, Religion, Flower, Lotus. Photographed by Henry Glassie. + - Entry no.: V1 CC27 1995 AC28 000 N 003 Title: Untitled Artist: Mohammad Ali Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Henry Glassie Copyright info: All rights reserved by Henry Glassie Date Photo Taken: 1995 Location: Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh Resolution info: N/A Source: Glassie, Henry. “Moving Pictures.” In Art and life in Bangladesh, 420-432. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. ; This photo is used in this archive with permission taken from the photographer/author Notes: Painted on a metal backboard and attached to the back of a rickshaw; a similar version of the work can be noticed on the upper side; the author's name and address are clearly written in Bangla on both side of the frame; asymmetric composition Subjects: Taj Mahal, Religion, Flower, Lotus Bibliographical Reference/s: Glassie, Henry. “Moving Pictures.” In Art and life in Bangladesh, 420-432. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Previous Next

The work deals with Film, Gun, Man, Woman, Saree. Photographed by Stephen Bugno ; https://bohemiantraveler.com/. + - Entry no.: V1 CC19 2015 AC0 000 N 003 Title: Untitled Artist: Anonymous Year of creation: Unknown Photographer: Stephen Bugno ; https://bohemiantraveler.com/ Copyright info: All rights reserved by Stephen Bugno ; https://bohemiantraveler.com/ Date Photo Taken: 2015 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Resolution info: 1000x667 Source: https://bohemiantraveler.com/2016/08/dhaka-cycle-rickshaws/ ; This photo is used in this archive with permission taken from the photographer Notes: Painted on a metal backboard and attached on the back of a rickshaw; intricate designs on the saree; inspired by a unknown Bangladeshi film Subjects: Film, Gun, Man, Woman, Saree Bibliographical Reference/s: N/A Previous Next