Votive Figure of Durga, the Mother Goddess, on her Lion. One of the earliest remaining examples of the work of the national craftsman, Gulab Chand of Gorakhpur, India.

A Mithila painting of a groom leading his weeping bride from her home, with the village crowds weeping around them. Made c 2000 by Santosh Kumar Das, Bihar, India, in honor of the late Raymond Owens, patron of Mithila art.

A Mithila painting of the Hindu god Krishna playing his flute, by Shanti Devi, Bihar, India, c 1975.

A scene from a Bengali scroll (pata) of the Hindu epic the Ramayana. Here the goddess Sita, wife of Rama, been kidnapped by the demon Ravana. The bird Jatayu, a friend of Rama's, tries to save Sita, but is felled by Ravana's arrows, c 2001.

A Bengali scroll (pata) depicting that portion of the Hindu epic the Ramayana in which Lanka, home of the demon Ravana, is burned by the monkey-god Hanuman, c 1999.

Detail of the par (ritual drawing) of Devnarayan, painted by Ghisulal and Durgalal Joshi in the 1950s. Devnarayan is a god worshipped by the herders of rural Rajasthan. Two painters representing this tradition will be at the exhibition.

Votive Shrilal Joshi beginning the design of a par. Shrilal and his son Kalyan Joshi will present their tradition at the exhibition between Nov. 17 and Dec. 20.