Sybil Marjory Atteck was a pioneering Trinidadian painter known for her work in watercolor, oils, ceramics, acrylics and mixed media.
13 Facts About Sybil Atteck
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Sybil Atteck is celebrated as Trinidad and Tobago's "first outstanding female painter", "first Great Woman Painter", and was the inspiration for, and a founding member, of the Trinidad Art Society, now known as The Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago, the oldest established art organization in the Caribbean.
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Sybil Atteck was born on 3 February 1911 on her grandfather's cocoa estate at Tableland, Princes Town Region, South Trinidad.
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The Atteck family moved to Rio Claro in 1913 to the family's new home there.
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Two miles east of Rio Claro the Sybil Atteck family owned a large cocoa estate that was the prime source of income for the family.
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The elder Sybil Atteck daughters were home schooled in Rio Claro.
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Sybil Atteck moved with her two elder sisters to Port of Spain when she was 12 years old to attend formal school.
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Sybil Atteck was painting at home at that time and she produced a number of renderings of flora.
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In 1935, Sybil Atteck travelled to England, to study at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London.
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Sybil Atteck travelled again to study, in 1941 to study art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Lima.
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Stylistically, Sybil Atteck evolved her artistic styles as she encountered different instructors and stylistic formes of expression.
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Sybil Atteck exerted a great deal of influence on her contemporaries; Carlisle Chang, Willi Chen, Leo Glasgow, Althea McNish and Nina Squires are among the artists influenced by her work.
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In 1943 Sybil Atteck was a founding member of the Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago.