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Edna Swithenbank Manley, OM (28 February 1900 – 9 February 1987) is considered one of the most important artists and arts educators in Jamaica. She was known primarily as a sculptor, although her oeuvre included significant drawings and paintings.
Mrs. Manley has played a major pioneering role in the history of 20th century Jamaican art. Her works are in private collections, galleries and public buildings worldwide. Since 1924 she exhibited in many one woman and group exhibitions mainly in London, the United States, the Caribbean and in Jamaica.
Edna Swithenbank Manley, OM (28 February 1900 – 9 February 1987) is considered one of the most important artists and arts educators in Jamaica. She was known primarily as a sculptor, although her oeuvre included significant drawings and paintings. Her work forms an important part of the National Gallery of Jamaica's permanent collection, and ...
famous jamaicans. Edna Manley was born in Yorkshire, England in 1900 to a Jamaican mother and an English father and died February 2, 1987. She studied at various art schools in England including St, Michael’s School of Art, London and privately with Maurice Harding, the animal sculptor.
Edna Manley was a Jamaican artist, who primarily worked as a sculptor. Born in England in 1900, her father was English and her mother a white Jamaican. Manley trained in art schools in London but spent most of her career in Jamaica, becoming one of the country's most significant artists whose work has left a long-lasting cultural and political ...
Central Pavilion. Admission with ticket. Edna Manley was a key forebear of Jamaican art history whose work aimed to ennoble the culture and people of her adopted homeland. Negro Aroused (1935), Manley’s most iconic sculpture, is emblematic of her political commitments during a vital period in Jamaican labour history.
Sculptor Edna Manley, "the mother of modern mother Ja- permitted her to go to London to work in the maican art,"' was also the wife of Norman Manley, Pensions Branch of the War Office-this was to be from 1955 to 1969 Jamaica's first prime minister, her contribution and to the war effort. After the war she is the mother of Michael Manley ...
