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{{short description|Bangladeshi painter}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Qayyum Chowdhury
| image = Qayyum Chowdhury 1960.png
| caption = Chowdhury in 1960
| native_name = কাইয়ুম চৌধুরী
| native_name_lang = bn
| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|3|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Feni District|Feni]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|11|30|1932|3|9|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| field = Painting, book design and illustration
| awards = [[#Awards|full list]]
}}

'''Qayyum Chowdhury''' (9 March 1932 – 30 November 2014)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-177188|title=Qayyum Chowdhury's 79th birthday celebration|date=11 March 2011|work=The Daily Star|access-date=15 November 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name=collapse/> was a Bangladeshi painter. Along with [[Zainul Abedin]], [[Quamrul Hassan]] and [[Safiuddin Ahmed]], he is considered as a first generation artist of Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/qayyum-chowdhury-56884|title=Qayyum Chowdhury|date=26 December 2014|work=The Daily Star|access-date=13 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Ekushey Padak]] in 1984 and the [[Independence Day Award]] in 2014 by the [[Government of Bangladesh]].<ref name=ekushey>{{cite news|url= http://www.moca.gov.bd/site/page/c706da0c-29ee-4f0f-95d9-fa6705e19001/|script-title=bn:একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ|access-date=23 August 2017|publisher=Government of Bangladesh|language=bn|trans-title=Ekushey Padak winners list}}</ref><ref name=indepen>{{cite web|url=http://brri.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/brri.portal.gov.bd/page/87944ec4_496e_415d_af37_27a10fb35625/Independence%20Day%20Award.pdf|title=Independence Day Award|access-date=23 September 2016|publisher=Government of Bangladesh}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Chowdhury was born on 9 March 1932 in [[Feni District|Feni]]. His father, Abdul Quddus Chowdhury, came from a landlord family and was a cooperative-bank official. Because of transferring job, Chowdhury lived in [[Chittagong]], [[Comilla]], [[Narail]], [[Sandwip]], [[Noakhali]], Feni, [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]] and [[Mymensingh]] in his boyhood.<ref name=legacy>{{Cite news|url=http://dailyasianage.com/news/3703/the-legacy-of--qayyum--chowdhury-one-year-on|title=The legacy of Qayyum Chowdhury one year on|publisher=The Asian Age Online, Bangladesh|date=30 November 2015|access-date=14 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> His uncles, Mohtasambillah Chowdhury and Aminul Islam Chowdhury were writers.<ref name=versa>{{Cite magazine |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2010/04/03/cover.htm|title=An Artist of Exceptional Versatility |magazine=The Star |publisher=The Daily Star|date=16 April 2010|access-date=13 November 2022}}</ref> In 1949, he completed his matriculation from Mymensingh City Collegiate School.<ref name=legacy/> He graduated from Dhaka Art College (now [[Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka]]) in 1954.<ref name=collapse/>

== Career ==
[[File:Qayyum chudhury.JPG|thumb|right|Chowdhury in 2011]]
Chowdhury joined Dhaka Art College as a lecturer in 1957.<ref name=collapse/> He then took a job at the newly established Design Centre to work under [[Quamrul Hassan]]. Within a year he joined the then [[Pakistan Observer]] where he served as the chief artist. He also started working for the Observer group's other publications namely ''Chitrali'', a cine magazine and ''Purbadesh'', a news magazine.<ref name=versa/> He went back to Dhaka Art College in 1965.<ref name=collapse/> He was promoted to the position of assistant professor in 1970, to associate professor in 1986 and to professor in 1991.<ref name=legacy/> He retired from the organization in 1994 but he kept teaching in the institute until 2002.<ref name=legacy/>

==Works==
Chowdhury's early work include ''"My Sister"'' (oil painting, 1954), ''"Pawnbroker"'' (oil painting, 1956), ''"Boat in Moonlight"'' (watercolor, 1956) and Self-portrait (oil painting, 1959).<ref name=legacy/> His later work were ''"Boat"'' (pen and ink, 2001), ''"Setting Sun"'' (pen and ink, 2001), ''"Secret Talk"'' (acrylic, 2004) and ''"Worried"'' (acrylic, 2004).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/an-epitaph-for-qayyum-chowdhury-53401|title=An epitaph for Qayyum Chowdhury|date=5 December 2014|work=The Daily Star|access-date=13 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> He held four solo exhibitions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-176914|title=Qayyum Chowdhury Turns 79|date=9 March 2011|work=The Daily Star|access-date=15 November 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-225523|title=Qayyum Chowdhury exhibition opens today|date=9 March 2012|work=The Daily Star|access-date=15 November 2017|language=en}}</ref>

Chowdhury began designing book covers by working on [[Zahir Raihan]]’s book ''"Shesh Bikeler Meye"''.<ref name=collapse/> He designed the cover of [[Shamsur Rahman (poet)]]’s first poetry collection, ''Prothom Gaan Dwityo Mrittyur Agey'', and several books of [[Syed Shamsul Haque]].<ref name=collapse/>

Chowdhury was a member of [[Bangladesh Bank]]’s currency note design committee and mural committee and designed several currency notes in circulation.<ref name=collapse/>

Chowdhury had been involved with daily [[Prothom Alo]] since its inception in 1998.<ref name=collapse/> He was the convenor of the ''Charu Karu Shilpi Songram Parishad'' during the liberation war in 1971.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/nation-grieves-qayyums-death-52985|title=Nation grieves Qayyum's death|date=2 December 2014|work=The Daily Star|access-date=15 November 2017|language=en}}</ref>

== Awards ==
* First prize for Painting, National Art Exhibition in Lahore (1961)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Dhaka Art Center, Qayyum Chowdhury|url=http://www.dhakaartcenter.org/artist_directory/Qayyum_chowdhury.html|access-date=5 March 2021|website=www.dhakaartcenter.org}}</ref>
* The Imperial Court Prize, Tehran Biennale (1966)<ref name=":0" />
* Gold medal for book design from the National Book Centre, Dhaka (1975)<ref name=":0" />
* Shilpakala Academy Award (1977)<ref name=":0" />
* [[Ekushey Padak]] (1984)<ref name=ekushey/>
* 6th Bangabandhu Award (1994)<ref name=":0" />
* Leipzig Book Fair Prize for book illustration (1983)<ref name=":0" />
* Sultan Padak (1999)<ref name=":0" />

==Personal life and death==
[[File:Qayyum Chowdhury and Tahera Khanum.jpg|thumb|Chowdhury with his wife]]
In 1960, Chowdhury married Tahera Khanum, (1935 - 2021) an artist who was one of the first four girls to get admitted to the Art College in 1954.<ref name=versa/> Together they had a son Moinul Islam Zaber.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/adieu-qayyum-chowdhury-52968|title=Adieu, Qayyum Chowdhury|date=2 December 2014|work=The Daily Star|access-date=13 November 2017|language=en}}</ref>

On 30 November 2014, Chowdhury fell sick while delivering his speech on the fourth-day of [[Bengal Foundation]] organized classical music festival in Bangladesh Army Stadium. He had been taken to [[Combined Military Hospital (Dhaka)|Combined Military Hospital]], where he was declared dead.<ref name=collapse>{{cite news|title=Painter Qayyum Chowdhury dies after collapsing at classical music fest|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/11/30/qayyum-chowdhury-collapses-at-classical-music-fest|access-date=30 November 2014|agency=bdnews24.com|publisher=bdnews24.com|date=30 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/artist-qayyum-chy-passes-away-52789|title=Artist Qayyum Chy passes away|date=30 November 2014|work=The Daily Star|access-date=13 November 2017|language=en}}</ref>

==Documentary on Qayyum Chowdhury==

A documentary film on the life and work of Qayyum Chowdhury was directed and scripted by Fahmida Akhter (as "Fahmida Munni”) in 2004 entitled “Nishorger Ankiey" (2004, Ode to Nature : Portrait of an Artist), produced by Bengal Foundation.
<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTU9uuO9hKk|title=Nishorger Ankieya (2004) (Part-1) a documentary film on painter Qayyum Chowdhury by Fahmida Munni}}</ref>,<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zcBicA84lA|title =Nishorger Ankieya (2004) (Part-2) a documentary film on painter Qayyum Chowdhury by Fahmida Munni}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Artists of Bangladesh}}
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[[Category:People from Feni District]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi painters]]
[[Category:University of Dhaka Faculty of Fine Arts alumni]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Ekushey Padak]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Independence Day Award]]
[[Category:Honorary Fellows of Bangla Academy]]
[[Category:Burials at Azimpur Graveyard]]

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