Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a
Jamaica
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n painter, poet and art critic active in the 1940s and 1950s.
Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica
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, 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
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. In 1942 she won the Island Scholarship and went to
McGill University
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in
Montreal, Quebec
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, Canada, and subsequently studied in
England
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University of the West Indies
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's School of Education.
Having held her first solo exhibition in
Kingston
Kingston may refer to:
Places
* List of places called Kingston, including the five most populated:
** Kingston, Jamaica
** Kingston upon Hull, England
** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia
** Kingston, Ontario, Canada
** Kingston upon Thames, ...
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
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Musgrave Medal
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from the
Institute of Jamaica
The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), founded in 1879, is the country's most significant cultural, artistic and scientific organisation:
Publications
* ''Landscape in the Making'' (a pamphlet, 1976)
* ''Loggerhead'' (Sandberry Press, 1988)
* ''Mother Jackson Murders the Moon'' ( Peepal Tree Press, 1998)