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1. Sam Butler quoted from his book Erewhon of 1872. The P.A.G used
this as the motto for their inaugural exhibition in July 1949.
2. F.N. Souza, ‘A Fragment of Autobiography’, Words and Lines,
Villiers Publications, London 1955, p. 7.
3. The college, which is in the Fort area of Mumbai,
was opened in 1869 and still exists today.
4. G. Kapur, (in conversation with the artist), Contemporary Indian Artists ,
Vikas, New Delhi, 1978, p. 5.
5. F.N. Souza, ‘Nirvana of a Maggot’, Words and Lines,
Villiers Publications, London 1955, p. 16.
6. i.b.i.d., p. 15– 16
7. Y. Dalmia, From Jamshetjee Jeejeebhoy to the Progressive Painters,
Continum, pag, dag, 2011.
8. F.N. Souza, ‘Red Trees, Black Skies’, Times of India, June 4 th 1989.
9. J. Mohan, Souza in the Forties, Dhoomimal Gallery, Delhi, p. 4.
10. F.N. Souza, quoted in Jag Mohan, Souza in the Forties,
Dhoomimal Gallery, Delhi, p. 5.
11. F.N. Souza, ‘The Progressive Artist’s Group’, The Patriot Magazine,
Sunday, 8 February 1976, p. 4 & 5.
12. F.N. Souza, Nirvana of a Maggot, Words and Lines, Villiers Publications,
London 1955, p. 12.
13. He wrote a long scholarly article in the Baroda museum Bulletin
(Vol. 4, pt. 12) entitled ‘The rebel artist Francis Newton’. The article
was reprinted by Mulk Raj Anand in Marg, (Vol. 3, No. 3).
14. F.N. Souza, ‘Red Trees, Black Skies’, Times of India, June 4 1989
15. A. Allana, Alkazi and the Progressives, The Progressive Revolution,
Asia Society Museum/Prestel, 2019, p 43.
16. F.N. Souza, ‘The Progressive Artist’s Group’, The Patriot Magazine,
Sunday, 8 February 1976, p. 4 & 5.
17. R. V. Leyden, The Times of India , 30 July 1946
18. F.N. Souza, ‘The Progressive Artist’s Group’, The Patriot Magazine,
Sunday, 8 February 1976, p. 4 & 5.
19. Ratan Parimoo and Nalini Bhagwat, Progressive Artists Group of Bombay:
An Overview over The Spirit of Late 1940s and Early 1950s, date unknown.
20. F.N. Souza, The Patriot Magazine, 12th February 1984 .
21. F.N. Souza, ‘The Progressive Artist’s Group’, The Patriot Magazine,
Sunday, 8 February 1976, p. 4 & 5.
22. F.N. Souza, The Patriot Magazine, 12th February 1984.
23. S.H. Raza quoted in Shirin Bahadurji’s, ‘Point of Creation’,
Bombay Magazine, 7th March 1984.
24. E. Alkazi, Ebrahim Alkazi: Directing Art - The Making of a Modern
Indian Art World, Ahmedabad, 2016, p. 81.
25. G. Kapur,Contemporary Indian Artists , Vikas, New Delhi, 1978, p. 7.
26. H. Goetz, The Rebel Artist: Francis Newton, Marg, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1949.
27. F.N. Souza, The Free Press Bulletin, 9th July 1949.
28. F.N. Souza, ‘A Fragment of Autobiography’, Words and Lines,
Villiers London, 1955, p. 10.
29. Jag Mohan ‘Two Exhibitions In The City’ (undated).
30. R.V. Leyden, Souza in the Forties, Dhoomimal Gallery, 1983, p. 10 & 11.
31. Newspaper article, undated and untitled.
32. F.N. Souza in the catalogue of his exhibition opened by E. Schlesinger
at Bombay Art Society Salon, Mumbai, November 1948, Undocumented.
33. The Times of India, 30th November 1948, p. 7.
34. K. Khanna, ‘Memories of a Progressive Past’ Art India Magazine, Bombay,
Volume 2, Issue 1, quoted in Yashodhara Dalmia, The Making of Modern Art:
The Progressives, OUP, India, 2001.
35. F.N, Souza, Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery One, 1961.
36. E. Alkazi, in conversation with Amal Allana in New York 1999,
The Progressive Revolution, Asia Society, New York, 2018, p. 42.
37. Review published in Jag Mohan’s, Souza in the Forties,
Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, 1983 p.12–13.
38. Ed. A.Vaypeyi, Geysers, Letters Between Sayed Haider Raza & his
artist friends, Raza Foundation, p. 11–15.
39. i.b.i.d., p 11–15.
40. i.b.i.d., p 21.
41. Goetz writing to Souza following his purchase of The Blue Lady
in F.N. Souza, ‘The Progressive Artist’s Group’, The Patriot Magazine,
Sunday, 8 February 1975, p 4 & 5.
42. Souza’s note on the back flap of his farewell exhibition in 1949.
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