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  2. Jamaican art - Wikipedia

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    Jamaican art dates back to Jamaica's indigenous Taino Indians who created zemis, carvings of their gods, for ritual spiritual purposes. The demise of this culture after European colonisation heralded a new era of art production more closely related to traditional tastes in Europe, created by itinerant artists keen to return picturesque images ...

  3. Alvin Marriott - Wikipedia

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    Alvin Tolman Marriott (29 December 1902 – 20 September 1992) was a Jamaican sculptor. He worked in Europe, North and Central America, and Jamaica . Many of his carvings and statues are on public display and in administrative buildings in Jamaica and the UK.

  4. National Gallery of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    In 1978 Boxer curated The Formative Years: Art in Jamaica 1922-1940 which established 1922, the year Edna Manley arrived and started producing art in Jamaica, as the symbolic start date of modern Jamaican art. In 1979 an exhibition called Intuitive Eye, curated by David Boxer, which introduced the concept of ‘Intuitive art’, opened.

  5. John Dunkley - Wikipedia

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    Dunkley was represented by two pieces, "Jerboa" and "Back to Nature" in the exhibition "Three Decades of Jamaican Painting" at Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery in London (1971). An exhibition of Dunkley's paintings and sculptures was held at the National Gallery of Jamaica , 9 December 1976 to 19 February 1977. [ 9 ]

  6. Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings - Wikipedia

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    Plantain Walk, Jamaica, at and by William Berryman (edited by Durova) Under the Horse Chestnut Tree , at and by Mary Cassatt Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen , by Frans Hals

  7. Edna Manley - Wikipedia

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    Edna Swithenbank Manley, OM (28 February 1900 – 9 February 1987) [1] is considered one of the most important artists and arts educators in Jamaica.She was known primarily as a sculptor, although her oeuvre included significant drawings and paintings. [2]

  8. Gloria Escoffery - Wikipedia

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    Officer of the Order of Distinction, Silver Musgrave Institute of Jamaica, Member of Caribbean Hall of Fame Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and art critic that contributed to post-colonial arts and culture during the mid-to-late 20th century.

  9. List of Jamaican artists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Jamaican artists (in alphabetical order by last name) of various genres, who are notable and either born in Jamaica or associated with Jamaica, including sculptors, ceramists, painters, photographers and designers.