Edna Manley

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Edna Manley was a pioneering Jamaican sculptor and cultural leader often regarded as the "Mother of Jamaican Art" for her central role in shaping the island’s modern artistic identity.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Edna Manley canonical 6
Louise Bennett-Coverley 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural leader
person
sculptor
activeYearsEnd 1980s
activeYearsStart 1920
birthName Edna Swithenbank
child Douglas Manley
Michael Manley
countryOfBirth United Kingdom
countryOfCitizenship Jamaica
dateOfBirth 1900-02-28
dateOfDeath 1987-02-02
ethnicOrigin Jamaican
familyName Manley
fieldOfWork art education
cultural activism
painting
sculpture
gender female
genre figurative sculpture
nationalist art
symbolic sculpture
givenName Edna
hasHonor Institute of Jamaica Gold Musgrave Medal
Musgrave Medal
Order of Distinction
Order of Jamaica
hasPart Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (named in her honor)
influenced Caribbean modern artists
Jamaican artists
inspired Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Caribbean modern art
Jamaican modernism
Jamaican nationalist art
name Edna Manley
notableFor being regarded as the Mother of Jamaican Art
mentoring young Jamaican artists
pioneering modern Jamaican sculpture
shaping Jamaican national artistic identity
supporting Jamaican independence movement
notableWork Beadseller
Ghetto Mother
Market Women
Mountain Women
Negro Aroused
Pocomania
The Ancestor
The Awakening
The Awakening of a People
The Banana Carrier
The Builder
The Children
The Dancers
The Dream
The Emancipator
The Family
The Fisherman
The Freedom Fighter
The Harvest
The Healer
The Hills of St. Andrew
The Journey
The Listener
The Market
The Mother and Child
The National Hero
The New Day
The Pioneer
The Ploughman
The Prophet
linked to: The Prophet (book)

The Reaper
The Road Menders
The Seedling
The Spirit of Emancipation
The Spirit of Independence
The Spirit of Jamaica
The Spirit of the Child
The Spirit of the Farmer
The Spirit of the Fisherman
linked to: The Fisherman

The Spirit of the Ghetto
The Spirit of the Hills
The Spirit of the Land
The Spirit of the Market
The Spirit of the Nation
The Spirit of the People
The Spirit of the Woman
The Spirit of the Worker
The Tree of Life
The Vision
The Washerwomen
The Young Cultivator
occupation art educator
painter
sculptor
placeOfBirth Bournemouth
placeOfDeath Kingston, Jamaica
religion Christianity
residence Kingston, Jamaica
spouse Norman Manley

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Académie Colarossi notableStudent Edna Manley
Order of Jamaica hasNotableRecipient Louise Bennett-Coverley
linked to: Edna Manley
Norman Manley spouse Edna Manley
Michael Manley mother Edna Manley
Edna Manley name Edna Manley
Negro Aroused creator Edna Manley
subject linked to: Negro Aroused by Edna Manley
Negro Aroused notableWorkOf Edna Manley
subject linked to: Negro Aroused by Edna Manley