The National Gallery of Jamaica, in Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...

, is Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

's premier art collection. It is located in the Kingston Mall, a commercial and cultural center on Kingston harbour.

The gallery

Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 houses several important works, mostly by artists from Jamaica, including Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds, Cecil Baugh, Albert Huie

Albert Huie

Albert Huie was a Jamaican painter.Huie moved to Kingston when he was 16 years old; in the 1930s he became part of the "Institute Group" at the Institute of Jamaica, where he received his first formal training, with Koren der Harootian.In the early 1940s he worked as an assistant...

, Carl Abrahams

Carl Abrahams

Carl Abrahams OD was a Jamaican painter from the parish of St. Andrew. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica and began his career in commercial art at the age of 17 as a cartoonist and an illustrator for The Daily Gleaner and The Jamaica Times...

, and Edna Manley

Edna Manley

Edna Manley OM was a sculptor and contributor to Jamaican culture, as well as the wife of Norman Manley, the founder of the Jamaican People's National Party. She is often considered the "mother of Jamaican art". She is the daughter of English cleric Harvey Swithenbank and a Jamaican woman by the...

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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.

External links

• National Gallery of Jamaica
• Institute of Jamaica, parent organization of National Gallery of Jamaica
• Jamaica's Museums
• Island Thresholds, Peabody Essex Museum’s (USA) showcase of Caribbean artists