$625 Mansion at Night signed 1966 oil on board 24.5" x 31"
Gopal C. Mitra (1929-1992)
Gopal Mitra came to the United States in 1958 from his native India and became a fine arts instructor and graduate assistant at the University of Minnesota from 1958 to 1967.
Over those years he earned a master’s degree in fine arts and a doctorate in philosophy. He also taught in the Worthington public school system in Minnesota and helped establish a student exchange program between the United States and India.
The mayor of Worthington presented one of Mitra’s paintings to President John Kennedy for the White House art collection in 1962.
Mitra taught art at Chicago State University for a year before joining the faculty at Edinboro University in 1969. He was a fine art professor at Edinboro for the next 23 years, until his death in 1992.