Jamaican artist barrington watson biography

Jamaican painter (1931–2016)

This article is about the Jamaican painter. For the British long-distance runner, see Barry Watson (athlete).

Basil Barrington WatsonCD (9 January 1931 – 26 January 2016) was a Jamaican painter.

Biography

Born in 1931 January 9th in Lucea,^[1] Barrington Watson made his original mark in Jamaica as a football player for Kingston College.

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However, he ultimately followed his artistic yearnings by enrolling at the Royal College of Art in London at the age of 20. Watson also studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam.^[2] He travelled widely and then returned to the first Director of Studies at the Jamaica School of Art and co-founded the Contemporary Jamaican Artists' Association (1964–74).^[3][4] He later served as visiting professor at Spelman College, Atlanta.^[3] In 1967 he won a prize at the first Spanish Biennale at Barcelona.

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