Barrington Watson
Basil Barrington Watson (9 January 1931 – 26 January 2016) was a Jamaican painter.
Biography[]
Born in 1931 in Lucea,[1] Barrington Watson made his original mark in Jamaica as a football player for Kingston College. However, he ultimately followed his artistic yearnings by enrolling at the Royal College of Art in London. 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. In 2000 he was awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica.[5]
Watson has exhibited throughout Jamaica and internationally. He is the father of sculptors Basil Watson and Raymond Watson. Watson is the subject of Lennie Little-White's 2015 documentary film They Call Me Barrington.[6] He died on 26 January 2016 at the age of 85.[7]
Awards[]
- 1957 – British Council Scholarship
- 1958-9 – Jamaican Government Scholarship
- 1960 – German Government Scholarship
- 1960 – Dutch Government Scholarship
- 1961 – Jamaican Government Travel Scholarship
- 1967 – Special Award, Spanish Biennale – First Barcelona International Exhibition
- 1971 – Fulbright Professorship, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
- 1974 – Gold Medal, Jamaica Festival
- 1980 – Centenary Medal, Institute of Jamaica
- 1984 – Commander of the Order of Distinction, C.D.
- 1984 – Prime Minister of Jamaica's Award for Excellence
- 2000 – Gold Musgrave Medal
- 2001 – Citation, University of Technology, Jamaica
Notable works[]
Portraits[]
- Muhammad Ali, US
- Fredrick Douglass, US
- W. E. B. Du Bois, US
- Marcus Garvey, Jamaica
- C. L. R. James, Trinidad
- Jomo Kenyatta, British East Africa
- Patrice Lumumba, Congo–Léopoldville
- Martin Luther King Jr., US
- Norman Manley, Jamaica
- Kwame Nkrumah, Gold Coast
- Julius Nyerere, Tanganyika
- George Padmore, Trinidad
- Rosa Parks, US
- Paul Robeson, US
- Haile Selassie I, Ethiopia
- Harriet Tubman, US
- Malcolm X, US
Literary works[]
- Shades of Grey
- The Pan-Africanists
- Barrington
References[]
- ^ "Biography" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "[1]", Jamaica Observer, 27 January 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2018
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Introduction", Barrington Watson: A Retrospective, National Gallery of Jamaica.
- ^ Tamara Scott-Williams, "Barrington Watson: A life in paint", Jamaica Observer, 16 October 2011.
- ^ "Musgrave Awardees". Institute of Jamaica. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "Watson film premieres Sunday", Jamaica Observer, 28 January 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2015
- ^ "Renowned Jamaican artist Barrington Watson dies". jamaica-gleaner.com.
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