The Bombay Art Society is a premier art organisation based in Mumbai that was founded in 1888. The Bombay Art Society is a 127-year-old institution founded for encouraging art and for educating people to appreciate it. Almost all renowned artists on India's art scene have been associated with the Society in some way. The society boasts of a rich past though its members and there is no denying its historical context and it is against this that the Bombay Art Society's greatness can be best understood.
The society has operated in the Jehangir Art Gallery since 1952, which is also the regular venue for the Society's Annual Exhibitions, thus faces difficulties in executing many of its ambitious plans like a permanent art gallery and an art library. During the Society's Centenary year in1990 veteran artist and the then president of the Society K. K. Hebbar and the committee took the initiative for the complex. The Prime Minister then Shri Rajiv Gandhi through Maharashtra Government has gifted a piece of land in Bandra, Mumbai for the complex which is now ready.
A number of awards and medals are given by the society.The prestigious Bendre-Husain Scholarship for encouraging and supporting the emerging artists instituted in 1989-90 was donated by legendary artist M.F. Husain.
Recipients of the Roopadhar award for lifetime achievement include Sadanand Bakre (2004) and Tyeb Mehta (2007).
The stamp depicts a painting by one of the artists of the society. The First Day Cover depicts the society's emblem which decorates the obverse of the Gold Medal that was designed by Rao Bahadur Ganpatrao Mhatre.
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