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Barbara Kassab-Every was a Dutch painter born on the Caribbean island of
Saba Saba may refer to: Places * Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea * Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras * Șaba or Șaba-Târg, the Romanian name for Shabo, a village in Ukraine * Saba, ...
who lived in St. Kitts.


Biography

Barbara Kassab was born in 1945 on the island of Saba in the
Netherlands Antilles The Netherlands Antilles (, ; ), also known as the Dutch Antilles, was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba (island), Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, ...
. Beginning at a young age, Kassab started painting
landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...
of her home of Saba, including portrayals of the hills and iconic winding roads of the island. One of these pictures depicting an s-shaped road was presented to the Queen of the Netherlands on one of her visits to the Netherlands Antilles. Kassab had one brother, Floyd Every. After moving to St. Kitts, she married Bichara Kassab and had two children: Brian and Sandra. She had an art studio in her home in the Fortlands.


Works

Barbara Kassab's works have been exhibited in
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, St. Kitts,
Curaçao Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela. Curaçao includ ...
, and other Caribbean islands. Her paintings include: * ''Iveora Flower'' * ''Landing at Fort Bay, Olden Days'' (Saba) * ''Road to Mount Scenery'' (Saba) * ''Golden Profiles'' * ''Local House'' (Saba) In 2009, one of Kassab's acrylic landscape paintings was given as a gift to a member of the United States of America's Federal Reserve Board.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kassab-Every, Barbara 1945 births 2016 deaths 20th-century Dutch women artists 21st-century women artists Women from Saba (island) Dutch women in politics