Gobardhan Ash (5 August 1907 – 22 December 1996) was an Indian artist and an early modernist as per the art critic Sovom Som. Ebrahim Alkazi states that "Gobardhan wielded considerable influence as an artist in the 1940s". He co-founded the Art Rebel Center in 1933 and was a member of the Calcutta Group. He was mentored by and close to the artist Atul Bose. Gobardhan was employed as the Chief Artist at the Indian Institute of Arts and Industry in Kolkata in 1946 for a period of two years and subsequently employed from 1953 as a Senior Teacher at the Indian Art School of Kolkata. Ranjit Hoskote specifically identifies Gobardhan's 1948 - 1951 period wherein Gobardhan