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Angela Trindade(1909-1980) was born in Bombay to Goan parents Florentina Noronha and the renowned artist António Xavier Trindade. She belonged to the generation which witnessed the decline of colonial powers in the Indian subcontinent and the formation post-independence India. Trindade's early art was deeply influenced by her father’s aesthetics and her western education. Like her father, Angela enrolled at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Bombay and, during this period, became the first woman painter to be granted a fellowship by the same institution.

Her training included the study of both traditional Indian aesthetics and Western Academic style of oil painting. Trindade explored a variety of other genres in her paintings such as landscapes, still life as well as non-representational forms. In 1949, the artist had the opportunity to present her first solo exhibition abroad at the Fine Art Club, Washington D.C.

Trindade experimented with both abstract expressionism as well as cubism, in the wake of the growing interest in contemporary Western modes of painting. She also took ardent interest in Tantric art, and delivered lectures on the spiritual authority inherent in Indian art at schools, institutes and universities all over America, where she held successful exhibitions too. Though she received numerous awards and recognitions in her life, her highest honour was receiving the 'Pro Ecclesia Et Pontifice', The Gold Cross from the late Holy Father Pope Pious XII for her contribution to the field of religious art.