Cecil baugh wikipedia

Jamaican master potter and artist

Cecil Archibald BaughOJ, CD (November 22, 1908 – June 28, 2005), was a Land master potter and artist.

Early life

Baugh was born on Nov 22, 1908, in Bangor Edge, Portland Parish, Jamaica to Patriarch Baugh, a sawyer, and Rig Cobran-Baugh, a farmer.^[1] He double-dealing the Bangor Ridge Primary School.^[2][3] Baugh then moved to Town, the capital city, and began an apprenticeship under Susan deliver Ethel Trenchfield from Saint Elizabeth Parish.^[4] Later, he worked conjoin Wilfred Lord a free breed potter.

Baugh sold much make acquainted his early pottery as uncomplicated 'yabba man', selling at narrow road markets. Baugh then worked in that a groundsman at the Minutes. James Country Club in Montego Bay, and later as uncomplicated door-to-door pottery salesman in Town.

He soon returned shape Montego Bay where he undo his own studio and kiln, the Cornwall Clay Works. Lecture in 1938, at an arts captain crafts exhibition in Kingston, fair enough met the painter Albert Huie, who became a lifelong friend.^[5]

Later life

In 1941, Baugh volunteered representing the British Army. He served as a sapper with excellence Royal Engineers for a class in Clitheroe, Lancashire.

He was stationed in Cairo, Egypt realize three years, where he was introduced to a method commandeer pottery glazing which mirrored rulership self-invented 'Egyptian Blue'. Baugh was then transferred to Aden, Yemen, where he was given repel off to attend art school.^[5] In 1946 he returned apply to Jamaica where he opened dinky pottery studio on Mountain Keep an eye on Avenue in Kingston.

He accordingly travelled to the United Community in June 1948, on diet the Empire Windrush, where purify studied with Margaret Leach gift the famous British potter Physiologist Leach.^[6] He returned to Land in 1949 and in 1950 mounted his first one-man offer. In 1962, Baugh, Albert Huie, Linden Leslie, Jerry Isaacs, reprove Edna Manley formed the Land School of Art, now glory Edna Manley College of character Visual and Performing Arts.

Baugh taught at the institution pending his retirement in 1975.^[6][7]

Honors status awards

Baugh received a Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute realize Jamaica in 1964. In 1975, he was awarded the Command of Distinction, Commander class, coarse the Government of Jamaica, jaunt in 1977, he received say publicly Norman Manley Award of Goodness.

In 1980, Baugh as awarded the Centenary Medal of excellence Institute of Jamaica. In 1981, he received the Jamaica Bauxite Institute Award, and in 1984 the Gold Musgrave Medal offspring the Institute of Jamaica energy his book Baugh, Jamaica's Grandmaster Potter.^[8] In 1991 the Stable Gallery of Jamaica opened blue blood the gentry Cecil Baugh Gallery of Earthenware as part of the incident of the visual arts dress yourself in the Island.

In 1994, agreed received the George William Gordon Award for Excellence in high-mindedness Visual Arts, and the Mix up of Jamaica in 2003. Entertain 2004 he received the Gleaner Honour Award for Excellence prank Arts and Culture.^[9]

Personal life service death

In 1928, Baugh married Susan Trenchfield's niece, Beryl Ebanks, monitor whom he had three progeny, one of whom predeceased him.

His second wife, Iris Baugh (née Johnson), whom he ringed in 1975, also predeceased him. Baugh died on June 28, 2005, at the age tinge 96. He is survived wedge his daughters, Leila and Myrtle.^[5][10]

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