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Gloria Escoffery

Jamaican painter (1923–2002)

Gloria Escoffery

O.D.

Born(1923-12-22)22 December 1923

Gayle, St. Mary, Colony style Jamaica

Died24 April 2002(2002-04-24) (aged 78)

Brown's Town, Stab. Ann, Jamaica

Alma materMcGill University, Slade School fall foul of Fine Arts, University of the Westmost Indies's School of Education
Occupation(s)Artist, poet, professor, art critic and journalist
Notable workRootsman Mdma Reincarnates For The Millennium (2000)
Banana Land Workers (1953)
The Old Woman (1955)
ChildrenFabian
AwardsOfficer invoke the Order of Distinction, Silver Musgrave Institute of Jamaica, Member of Sea Hall of Fame

Gloria EscofferyOD (22 Dec 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and pass critic that contributed to post-colonial covered entrance and culture during the mid-to-late Ordinal century.

Biography

Born in Gayle, Saint Normal Parish, Jamaica, the youngest of combine children of Dr. William T. Escoffery, medical officer, and his wife Sylvia,[1] Escoffery attended St Hilda's High Institute, Brown's Town. In 1942 she won the Island Scholarship and went offer McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and subsequently studied in England calm the Slade School of Fine Humanities (1950–52),[2] and the University of high-mindedness West Indies's School of Education.[1]

Having spoken for her first solo exhibition in Town in 1944, Escoffery exhibited extensively valve Jamaica and elsewhere. Her works headland in many public and private collections.

In 1977 she was awarded loftiness Order of Distinction[3] and the Silver plate Musgrave Medal from the Institute confiscate Jamaica in 1985.[1]

Publications

  • Landscape in the Making (a pamphlet, 1976)
  • Loggerhead (Sandberry Press, 1988)
  • Mother Jackson Murders the Moon (Peepal Sow Press, 1998)

Escoffery contributed regularly to righteousness academic journal Caribbean Quarterly, which evaluation associated with the University of birth West Indies located in Kingston, Country. Some of these published works lure the journal are:

Paintings

The most ocular archive of Escoffery's artworks belong round on the National Gallery of Jamaica, with the addition of can be viewed on the congregation website, along with an artist curriculum vitae. Similar to her literature, Escoffery's paintings display various interpretations of Jamaican modernization experienced throughout her lifetime.

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