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    National Gallery of Jamaica

    The National Gallery of Jamaica, in Kingston, Jamaica, is Jamaica's public art museum. It was established in 1974 and is located in the Kingston Mall, a commercial and cultural center on Kingston harbour. The National Gallery of Jamaica also has a branch in Montego Bay, National Gallery West.

    The gallery houses several important works, mostly by artists from Jamaica, including John Dunkley, Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds, Edna Manley, Barrington Watson, Albert Artwell, Everald Brown, Cecil Baugh, Albert Huie, Carl Abrahams, Osmond Watson, Judy Ann MacMillan, Omari Ra, Laura Facey, Jasmine Thomas-Girvan, Petrona Morrison, Hope Brooks, Ebony G. Patterson, Philip Thomas and Leasho Johnson .

    The National Gallery also exhibits works by various international artists and traveling exhibitions. It offers research material on Jamaican art and culture, and coordinates educational programmes.

    History

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    In 1972 an advisory committee was set up, including

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    Edward Baugh

    Jamaican poet and scholar (1936–2023)

    Edward Alston Cecil BaughCD (10 January 1936 – 9 December 2023) was a Jamaican poet and scholar, recognised as an authority on the work of Derek Walcott,[1] whose Selected Poems (2007) Baugh edited, having in 1978 authored the first book-length study of the Nobel-winning poet's work, Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision.[2][3]

    Biography

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    Edward Alston Cecil Baugh was born on 10 January 1936 in Port Antonio, Jamaica,[4] the son of Edward Percival Baugh, purchasing agent, and Ethel Maud Duhaney-Baugh.[5] He began writing poetry at Titchfield High School. He won a scholarship to study English literature at the University College of the West Indies and later did postgraduate studies at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, and at the University of Manchester in England, where he earned a PhD in 1964.

    Baugh taught at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indi

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    Cecil Baugh

    Jamaican master potter and artist

    The Honourable

    Cecil Archibald Baugh

    OJ, CD

    Born(1908-11-22)November 22, 1908

    Portland, Colony of Jamaica, British Empire

    DiedJune 28, 2005(2005-06-28) (aged 96)
    OccupationPotter
    Spouse

    Iris Baugh (née Johnson)

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    Cecil Archibald BaughOJ, CD (November 22, 1908 – June 28, 2005), was a Jamaican master potter and artist.

    Early life

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    Baugh was born on November 22, 1908, in Bangor Ridge, Portland Parish, Jamaica to Isaac Baugh, a sawyer, and Emma Cobran-Baugh, a farmer.[1] He attended the Bangor Ridge Primary School.[2][3] Baugh then moved to Kingston, the capital city, and began an apprenticeship under Susan and Ethel Trenchfield from Saint Elizabeth Parish.[4] Later, he worked alongside Wilfred Lord a free form eller gestalt potter. Baugh sold much of his early pottery as a 'yabba man', selling at

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