The artist and painter Chitra Ramanathan has been featured in "The Artists Bluebook 2004 - 32,000 North American Artists - 16th Century to August 2004"- by Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, Editor.
The book is a 9"x14" spiral bound, 448 page, easy-to-use portable guide and a directory of www.AskART.com artists' database, as of August 2004. The directory contains biographies of the Old Masters dating from the 16th century to biography/artwork descriptions of professional contemporary artists.
Chitra Ramanathan has held several solo and group exhibitions in the United States, notably on Broadway, New York City since 1995, beginning with a major solo exhibition at Chicago's ARC Gallery/Educational Foundation in 1994. Her work was well-received in New York resulting in good reviews, and several of her mostly large-scale, conceptual mixed media abstact paintings in her signature style that she is known for, are now with collections around the United States and in Europe.
An academically trained professional artist, Chitra earned her Bachelors degree in Fine Arts with honors in Painting and her Masters degree in Business Administration, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Aside from being a committee member of the College Art Association go America, New York, Chitra recently completed a major commission for the MGM Mirage Group in August 2004 for their Cafe Bellagio located inside the Conservatory of the Hotel Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada. This entailed creating two four feet by six feet paintings for permanent display in the interior of the Cafe Bellagio as of October 2004.
During the same period, the book titled "The Artists Bluebook 2004 - 32,000 North American Artists - 16th Century to August 2004"- by Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, Editor, has been published. To quote from www.askART.com, it contains "market values for artworks and other pertinent information at a glance".
"Sample of what you will find in this book:
Full Name • Dates • Primary State • Subject/Method Description • Total Number of Book/Exhibition Catalogue References • Total Number of Auction Lot Transactions from 1987 • Highest Price Realized of those lots • Name of Auction House making highest sale • Size of Top-Priced Auction Lot"-From the www.askART.com website page "Books on this artist".