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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian painter, sculptor and dancer}}<br />
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| known_for = painting, sculpting and dancing<br />
| spouse = Nagesh Yawalkar<br />
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'''Sushila Yawalkar''' was an Indian painter, sculptor and dancer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Asthana |first=Pratima |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AxAqAAAAYAAJ&q=Sushila+Yawalkar |title=Women's Movement in India |date=1974 |publisher=Vikas Publishing House |isbn=978-0-7069-0333-1 |pages=156 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Sushila Yawalkar 1.jpg|thumb|273x273px|Yawalkar' painting of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in 1948]]<br />
Yawalker was from [[Goa]] in [[Western India]] and was married to artist Nagesh Yawalkar.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3F3rAAAAMAAJ&q=Sushila+Yawalkar |title=Silpi |date=1947 |volume=2 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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In 1947, Yawalker was described as an artist with "a lively unspoilt imagination."<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raE8AAAAMAAJ&q=Sushila%20Yawalkar |title=Mārg̲: A Magazine of Architecture and Art |date=1947 |publisher=National Centre for the Performing Arts |volume=2 |pages=59 |language=en}}</ref> Her paintings and sculptures were exhibited in a studio exhibition in 1949,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ok0d2LTHJMAC&q=Sushila+Yawalkar |title=Roopa-lekhā |date=1949 |publisher=Printed at the I.M.H. Press, Chandri Chowk, Delhi, for the Fine Arts & Crafts Syndicate Limited, Delhi |pages=38 |language=en}}</ref> then in [[New Delhi]] in 1950.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-GnrAAAAMAAJ&q=Sushila+Yawalkar |title=Pathway |date=1950 |publisher=Marg Publications |language=en}}</ref> She also exhibited her sculptures and paintings at the [[All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society|All Indian Fine Arts and Crafts Society]] (AIFACS).<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Sculpture by Sushila Yawalkar |url=https://roerichsmuseum.website.yandexcloud.net/DD/DD-252.pdf |journal=All Indian Fine Arts and Crafts Society News |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=4}}</ref><br />
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