Gloria Escoffery
Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and art critic that contributed to post-colonial arts and culture during the mid-to-late 20th century.
Gloria Escoffery
- Name
- Gloria Escoffery
- Born
- 22 December 1923
- Birthplace
- Gayle, St.
- Died
- 24 April 2002
- Place of death
- Brown's Town, St.
- Education
- McGill University, Slade School of Fine Arts, University of the West Indies's School of Education
- Occupation
- Artist, poet, teacher, art critic and journalist
- Awards
- Officer of the Order of Distinction, Silver Musgrave Institute of Jamaica, Member of Caribbean Hall of Fame
- Nationality
- Jamaica
- Honours
- Order of Distinction
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and art critic that contributed to post-colonial arts and culture during the mid-to-late 20th century.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Gloria Escoffery. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q3109113 · wikipedia · Gloria Escoffery
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Gloria Escoffery • Honorific Suffix — O.D. • Born — 22 December 1923 • Birthplace — Gayle, St. Mary, Colony of Jamaica • Died — 24 April 2002 • Place of death — Brown's Town, St. Ann, Jamaica • Education — McGill University, Slade School of Fine Arts, University of the West Indies's School of Education • Occupation — Artist, poet, teacher, art critic and journalist • Notable Works — Rootsman Adam Reincarnates For The Millennium (2000) Banana Plantation Workers (1953) The Old Woman (1955) • Children — Fabian • Awards — Officer of the Order of Distinction, Silver Musgrave Institute of Jamaica, Member of Caribbean Hall of Fame
Biography
Biography
Born in Gayle, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, the youngest of three children of Dr. William T. Escoffery, medical officer, and his wife Sylvia, Escoffery attended St Hilda's High School, Brown's Town. In 1942 she won the Island Scholarship and went to McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and subsequently studied in England at the Slade School of Fine Arts (1950–52), and the University of the West Indies's School of Education. Having held her first solo exhibition in Kingston in 1944, Escoffery exhibited extensively in Jamaica and elsewhere. Her works feature in many public and private collections. In 1977 she was awarded the Order of Distinction and the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica in 1985.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Kingston.
Birth place
Brown's Town.
Death place
Publications
• Landscape in the Making (a pamphlet, 1976) • Loggerhead (Sandberry Press, 1988) • Mother Jackson Murders the Moon (Peepal Tree Press, 1998) Escoffery contributed regularly to the academic journal Caribbean Quarterly, which is associated with the University of the West Indies located in Kingston, Jamaica. Some of these published works in the journal are: • House and Home (Taylor & Francis Group, 2003) • The Bicycle Lamp: An Artist's Reflections on Art Teaching (Taylor & Francis Group, 1968)
Paintings
The most visible archive of Escoffery's artworks belong to the National Gallery of Jamaica, and can be viewed on the gallery website, along with an artist biography. Similar to her literature, Escoffery's paintings display various interpretations of Jamaican modernism experienced throughout her lifetime.
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Gloria Escoffery”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3109113: Gloria Escoffery
General reference · Wikidata
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Studied at
1- University of the West IndiesOrganisation
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 18 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
38,988 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Gloria BirdAuthor
- Glória de Sant'AnnaAuthor
- Gloria del ParaguayAuthor
- Gloria E. AnzaldúaAuthor
- Gloria FuertesAuthor
- Gloria GervitzAuthor
- Gloria Jasmine RawlinsonAuthor
- Gloria KossakAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Gloria Escoffery?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.