Usha Rani Hooja was born in Delhi in 1923 and completed her MA in Philosophy from St Stephen’s College. It was a sculpture class at the Delhi Polytechnic that inflamed her passion for art. In 1949, she went to England with a scholarship for a four-year sculpting course at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Back in India, Usha Rani arrived in Jaipur in 1959 where she devoted her life to creating works. Her humanistic and realistic creations have won her critical acclaim, public appreciation and several prestigious awards. “A rare achievement for a woman at a time when sculpture was considered a restricted arena and a man’s world, more or less out of bounds for women.”
Usha Rani’s monumental and larger than life-size public works have become familiar and beloved landmarks in many Indian cities, in particular Jaipur.
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