Anwar Afzal was one of Pakistan's pioneering women artists and art educators, best known for her landscapes in oils and sensitively observed figurative paintings. Born in Sargodha, she received her early education in Delhi. She initially wished to study at Shantiniketan in Bengal, then, one of the subcontinent's leading centres of art education, but her father was reluctant to send her so far from home. Instead, in 1941, he enrolled her in the newly established Fine Arts Department at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, where Afzal began her formal artistic training with the ambition of becoming a professional artist. There she studied under Anna Molka Ahmad who became both her...