The NAGB’s Inter-Island Travelling Exhibition brings the National Collection to Exuma in partnership with Exuma Arts Network.
Taking the National Collection to Exuma
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From the Collection: “The Deanery” (1979) by Alton Lowe
By Natalie Willis The work of Alton Lowe, a realist painter born in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, has an easy
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Hearth and heart – E. J. Read’s ‘Clay Oven’
‘Clay Oven’ (1912) is earthy, it is full of sepias and greens and stony grays, and, it is homely and sincere. This watercolour by ex-patriot Elmer Joseph Read, more commonly known as E. J. Read, is of our oldest works in the National Collection, outside of the traditional black and white film photography by Jacob Coonley, on display in the first wing of the current Permanent Exhibition ‘From Columbus to Junkanoo’ curated by Averia Wright and Jodi Minnis.