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Edmund Thomas Clint
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Clint featured in a news article

Edmund Thomas Clint (1976-1983) was an Indian child prodigy. He worked mostly on sheets of foolscap paper that were the backs of discarded office memos and letters his father brought home for the boy to work on. Clint especially loved painting Hindu festivals and traditional events near his home in Kochi, Kerala. When he died of kidney failure in 1983, he was just six years and 11 months old, yet left behind some 20,000 artworks.

Temple Festival, c. 1982
Temple Festival, c. 1982

Legacy

Clint Road in Kochi is named after him.