Contemporary Paintings
The museum has a unique collection of modern Pakistani paintings by prolific Pakistani artists and a good number of Bengal School paintings. The Bengal School represents the works of master-artists such as Abanindranath Tagore, Asit Kumar Haldar; Nandalal Bose; Bireswar Sen; M.H. Qadari; and Rabindranath Tagore.
The paintings presented in this gallery are masterpieces by pre-Partition artists such as Amrita Sher Gil, Abdur Rehman Chughtai and Ustad Allah Baksh. Artists who defined mid-century Modernism in Pakistan such as Sadequain, Ismail Gulgee, Shakir Ali, Anna Molka Ahmad, Zubaida Agha and Anwar Jalal Shamza. This gallery also hosts works from artists spanning the eary to recent decades of Pakistani art including: Ijaz Anwar, S. Safdar Ali, Ijaz ul Hassan, Saeed Akhtar, Mehmood ul Hassan Rumi, Aslam Kamal, Colin David, Ghulam Rasool, Hanif Ramay, Ahmad Pervai, Zubaida Javed, Dr. Nazir Ahmad, Iqbal Mehdi, Jamil Naqash, Salima Hashmi, Ghulam Mustafa, Zahoor ul Akhlaq, Moyene Najmi, Iqbal Hassan and Tanveer Murshad. The collection spans the whole history of painting in Pakistan, executed in various techniques and styles.
