Life and Work

Artist's Resume Edna Manley
Born: 1900,Yorkshire, ENGLAND
Educated at St Martin's School of Art, London.
Died: 1985
Major Professional Appointments
Founder/Tutor Jamaica School of Art

Major Exhibitions
  • 1929 Summer Exhibition, Goupil Gallery, London
  • 1930 London Exhibition, Selfridges, London
  • 1931 Edna Manley, Koren Der Harootian, Kingston
  • 1934 Koren Der Harootian, Kingston
  • 1937 Edna Manley, Jamaica Mutual Assurance Society, Kingston
  • 1937 Edna Manley, French Gallery, London
  • 1948 Edna Manley, Doorly Hall, Kingston
  • 1960 Edna Manley, Hills Gallery, Kingston
  • 1970, 1971 Edna Manley, Bolivar Gallery, Kingston
  • 1971 Three Decades of Jamaica Painting, Commonwealth Institute, London
  • 1972 Edna Manley, Spelman College, Atlanta
  • 1975 Ten Jamaican Sculptors, Commonwealth Institute, London
  • 1976 Five Centuries, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston
  • 1977 Edna Manley, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston
  • 1978 The Formative Years, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston
  • 1983 Remembrance, Commonwealth Institute, London
  • 1983 Jamaican Art 1922 1982, SITES, Washington and Touring
  • 1985 Inaugural Exhibition, Contemporary Arts Centre, Kingston
  • 1990 Forty Years: Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston
  • 1990 Edna Manley: Sculptor, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston
  • 1998 Black as Colour, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston
  • 2000 Fifty Years-Fifty Artists, EMCVPA, Kingston

Honours and Awards
1929 Silver Musgrave Medal of The Institute of Jamaica
1943 Gold Musgrave Medal of The Institute of Jamaica
1975 Honorary Degree of Letters, University of The West Indies
1980 Order of Merit, National Honours

Publications
  • ARCHER-STRAW, P. & ROBINSON, K., JAMAICAN ART: AN OVERVIEW (1990)
  • ARCHER STRAW, P. (ed.) FIFTY YEARS - FIFTY ARTISTS, Ian Randle, Kingston (2000)
  • ARCHER-STRAW, PETRINE CULTURAL NATIONALISM : ITS DEVELOPMENT IN JAMAICA
  • 1920-1940, (UWI M.Phil Thesis) Mona, 1986
  • BHALA, Hans Edna Manley (exh.cat.) Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973
  • BOXER, David, Ten Jamaican Sculptors (exh.cat.), NATIONAL GALLERY OF JAMAICA, 1975
  • BOXER, David Edna Manley: Selected Sculptures (exh.cat.) NATIONAL GALLERY OF
  • JAMAICA, Kingston, 1977
  • BOXER, DAVID EDNA MANLEY: SCULPTOR, Kingston, 1990
    • BOXER, D. & POUPEYE, V., MODERN JAMAICAN ART, Ian Randle, Kingston (1998)
  • BROWN, WAYNE, EDNA MANLEY:THE PRIVATE YEARS 1900 1938, (1979)
  • CRESSWELL Peter Edna Manley: Sculptor THIRD TEXT, 14, 1991
  • KERR, Madeline, The Wood Carvings of Edna Manley, THE STUDIO, 139:687,1950
  • MANLEY, RACHEL (ed.) EDNA MANLEY: THE DIARIES, KINGSTON, 1989
    • MANLEY, RACHEL DRUMBLAIR: MEMORIES OF A JAMAICAN CHILDHOOD, Ian Randle, Kingston (1999)
  • NATIONAL GALLERY OF JAMAICA, "The Formative Years," Kingston, 1977
  • NATIONAL GALLERY OF JAMAICA, "Five Centuries of Jamaican Art" Kingston, 1975
    • MacFARLANE, Basil, Edna Manley: Fifty Years a Sculptor, JAMAICA JOURNAL, 4:1, 1970
  • SITES, JAMAICAN ART 1922 1982, Washington, 1983.
  • SMITH, M.G. Edna Manley: Selected Sculpture and Drawings, (exh.cat.) MUTUAL LIFE CENTRE, Kinston, 1976
  • TATE, Mae, Edna Manley: A Legend in her own Time', THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART, 7:4. 1987

Source

Edna Manley College: http://emc.edu.jm/?q=artlibrary/artist_bio/171


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