National Gallery of Jamaica

The National Gallery of Jamaica, in Kingston, Jamaica, is Jamaica's public artwork museum. It turned into mounted in 1974 and is located in the Kingston Mall, a business and cultural center on Kingston harbour. The National Gallery of Jamaica also has a branch in Montego Bay, National Gallery West. The gallery homes numerous important works, broadly speaking via artists from Jamaica, along with John Dunkley, Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds, Edna Manley, Barrington Watson, Albert Artwell, Everald Brown, Cecil Baugh, Albert Huie, Carl Abrahams, Osmond Watson, Judy Ann MacMillan, Omari Ra, Laura Facey, Jasmine Girvan, Petrona Morrison, Hope Brooks, Ebony G. Patterson, Philip Thomas and Leasho Johnson.

The National Gallery additionally reveals works by using diverse worldwide artists and traveling exhibitions. It gives research cloth on Jamaican artwork and culture, and coordinates instructional programmes. In 1972 an Advisory committee become set up, together with Sam Hart, Vayden McMorris, Edna Manley, Ralph Thompson, Bernard Lewis, Osmond Watson and Karl ‘Jerry’ Craig and on 22 November 1974 the National Gallery of Jamaica NGJ opened at Devon House, supervised via Liz Milner. Its preliminary series comprised 237 artwork and drawings and 25 sculptures that had been transferred from the Institute of Jamaica.