Tableland, Princes Town region, British Trinidad and Tobago
Died
15 April 1975(1975-04-15) (aged 64)
Trinidad
Nationality
Trinidadian
Known for
Watercolour painting
Sybil Marjory Atteck (3 February 1911 − 15 April 1975)[1] was a pioneering Trinidadian painter known for her work in watercolor, oils, ceramics, acrylics and mixed media. She is celebrated as Trinidad and Tobago's "first outstanding female painter", "first Great Woman Painter",[2] 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.[3][4]
^Keith Atteck, "A short story of Sybil Atteck (1911–1975)", Trinidad & Tobago Association of Ottawa, 6 October 2019.
^Gingeras, Alison M. (2022). Great Women Painters (first ed.). Phaidon Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-83866-328-5.
^Profile Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine at NALIS.
^"Women artists celebrate Atteck", Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 11 April 2011.
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