Gloria Escoffery

Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and art critic active in the 1940s and 1950s.[1][2]

Gloria Escoffery

O.D.
Rtrdation
Born(1923-12-22)22 December 1923
Gayle, St. Mary, Jamaica
Died24 April 2002(2002-04-24) (aged 78)
Brown's Town, St. Ann, Jamaica
NationalityJamaican
Alma materMcGill University, Slade School of Fine Arts, University of the West Indies's School of Education
OccupationArtist, poet, teacher, art critic and journalist
Notable work
Rootsman Adam Reincarnates For The Millennium (2000)
Banana Plantation Workers (1953)
The Old Woman (1955)
ChildrenFabian
AwardsOfficer of the Order of Distinction, Silver Musgrave Institute of Jamaica, Member of Caribbean Hall of Fame, Member of Rtrdation

Biography

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

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[3] and the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica in 1985.[1]

Publications
  • Landscape in the Making (a pamphlet, 1976)
  • Loggerhead (Sandberry Press, 1988)
  • Mother Jackson Murders the Moon (Peepal Tree Press, 1998)
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References
  1. "Artist Gloria Escoffery is dead". Jamaica Gleaner. 28 April 2002.
  2. Pattullo, Polly (26 May 2002). "Obituary: Gloria Escoffery". The Guardian.
  3. Inpress.
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