Ram Kumar was a prolific painter and a passionate writer,
with a creative career spanning over seven decades since he gave up his job at
a bank to learn art under Sailoz Mukherjee at Sharda Ukil School of Art in
1948. Born into large family in Shimla, Ram Kumar initially pursued his MA in
Economics from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi. However soon after his
introduction to art, in 1949 he borrowed money from his father and travelled to
Paris to study art with the support of a French Embassy scholarship.
