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{{Short description|Indian artist (1929–2013)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1929|07|22|df=y}}
| image            = Badri-Narayan.jpg
| nationality      = Indian
| birth_place      = Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh
| death_place      = [[Bangalore]], Karnataka
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2013|09|23|1929|07|22|df=y}}
}}

'''Badri Narayan''' (22 July 1929 – 23 September 2013) was an Indian artist, illustrator, author and story-teller.

Narayan began painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954. He had over 50 solo shows and his work is in several collections, including the [[National Gallery of Modern Art]] and the [[National Museum (India)|National Museum]] in [[New Delhi]] as well as the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]'s South Asian Collection. Initially, he worked on tile and ceramic, and this informed some of his subsequent watercolours. His paintings are intimate and appealing, often with an element of fantasy, with simple outlines and accessible subject matter in two-dimensional stylised representations. He worked primarily in ink or pastel and watercolour.

He also illustrated children's books and wrote short stories and verse. He has been the subject of a documentary by Mumbai [[All India Radio]], and received numerous awards, including the [[Padma Shri]] in 1987 and the Maharashtra Gourav Puruskar in 1990.

Badri Narayan died on 23 September 2013 due to frail health, at a hospital in [[Bangalore]].

==Work==

===As Illustrator===
*''[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4258128W/The_Mahabharata The Mahabharata]'' by Shanta Rameshwar Rao; illustrations by Badri Narayan. (1985, Orient Longman)
*''[https://books.google.com/books?id=FHPXAAAAMAAJ The Ramayana]'' by Laxmi Lal, illustrated by Badri Narayan (1988, Orient Longman)

==External links==
* [http://www.saffronart.com/artists/badri-narayan "Badri Narayan Profile, Interview and Artworks"]
* [http://www.colorsofindia.com/story/badri.html Badri Narayan at colorsofindia.com]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161020172900/http://www.indianartcircle.com/renaissance/badri_profile.shtml Badri Narayan at indianartcircle.com]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011072752/http://www.lalitkala.gov.in/golden_jubilee/arties/B.asp Picture in the Lalit Kala Akademi collection]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234047/http://www.theartstrust.com/artistexhibhition.aspx?artistid=89&name=Narayan%20Badri Paintings by Badri Narayan at The Arts Trust online gallery (archived)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040927081756/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/09/05/stories/2004090500590800.htm Article on Badri Narayan in The Hindu newspaper, including a picture of a painting]
*{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20030302112408/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2002/06/02/stories/2002060200120200.htm Article including a photograph of the artist]}}
*[http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan152005/metro6.asp Article in the Deccan Herald]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061206234256/http://galleryartmotif.com/Badri.htm Picture of house and trees by Badri Narayan]
*[http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/328980.html?mulR=845146019%7C2742 Squares in the PMA]
*[http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/328979.html?mulR=845146019%7C2741 Man Standing in the PMA]

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