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Nationality
  
Jamaican

Education
  
Role
  
Poet

Name
  
Gloria Escoffery

Children
  
Fabian


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Born
  
December 22, 1923 (
1923-12-22
)
Gayle, St. Mary, Jamaica

Alma mater
  
McGill University, Slade School of Fine Arts, University of the West Indies's School of Education

Occupation
  
Artist, poet, teacher, art critic and journalist

Notable work
  
Rootsman Adam Reincarnates For The Millennium (2000)Banana Plantation Workers (1953)The Old Woman (1955)

Awards
  
Officer of the Order of Distinction, Silver Musgrave Institute of Jamaica, Member of Caribbean Hall of Fame

Died
  
April 24, 2002, Brown's Town, Jamaica

Books
  
Mother Jackson murders the moon, Loggerhead

Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and art critic active in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Biography

Born in Gayle, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, the youngest of three children of Dr. William T. Escoffery, medical officer, and his wife Sylvia, Escoffery attended St Hilda's High School, Brown's Town. In 1942 she won the Island Scholarship and went to McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and subsequently studied in England at the Slade School of Fine Arts (1950–52), and the University of the West Indies's School of Education.

Having held her first solo exhibition in Kingston in 1944, Escoffery exhibited extensively in Jamaica and elsewhere. Her works feature in many public and private collections.

In 1977 she was awarded the Order of Distinction and the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica in 1985.

Publications

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

    Gloria Escoffery Wikipedia


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