Background
Berkson was born in New York in 1924.
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Carmel Berkson
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She majored in history at the Duke University and after graduation, studied sculpture at the Columbia University under Milton Hebald.
Career
By the time she first visited India in 1970 Berkson had been a practising sculptor for 22 years. That trip, during which she visited Elephanta, Ellora and Mahabalipuram, was a transformative one for her. Berkson soon gave up her career as a sculptor and began to tour India to study its important architectural and cultural sites.
In 1977 she moved her main residence to Mumbai in India to continue with her research into the philosophy, mythology and artistic developments in Indian sculpture.
Achievements
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The Government of India honoured Berkson by conferring the Padma Shri on her in 2010. Berkson announced her retirement from work and plans to return to the United States of America later that year. She donated 38 of her sculptures to the permanent collection at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai in 2011.
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Christian