Black Wall Art

Black — 13 museum-grade prints in this palette. Kalighat Pat grew up in 19th-century Kolkata, painted by migrant patua (chitrakar) scroll-painters who settled near the Kalighat Kali temple and sold quick watercolour souvenirs to pilgrims. Working on mill-made paper with a bold single black brush outline and soft 'boneless' shaded strokes on a plain ground, they painted gods and goddesses alongside what is often called India's first modern social satire — sharp, affectionate caricatures of the colonial 'babu' and the hypocrisies of Calcutta life. The 1-101st Aviation Regiment — parent lineage to the 1-101st Attack Battalion — is widely cited for firing the opening shots of Operation Desert Storm from AH-64 Apache helicopters on 17 January 1991. Fort Campbell, straddling the Kentucky–Tennessee line, hosts the 101st Airborne Division and remains one of the US Army's principal attack-aviation hubs. The TT remains the defining event of motorcycle road racing — a closed-road time trial on the Crown Dependency's public highway network, separate from the Formula 1 calendar but sharing the same reverence among enthusiasts who know Ballaugh Bridge by name. The triskelion (Three Legs of Man) is the island's national symbol; its appearance here is geographic identity, not team branding.

Updated 22 Jun 2026