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Albert Huie
Jamaican painter
Albert Huie (31 December 1920 – 31 January 2010) was a Jamaican painter.
Early life and education
Born in Falmouth, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, Huie moved to Kingston when he was 16 years old;[1] in the 1930s he became part of the "Institute Group" at the Institute of Jamaica, where he received his first formal training with Armenian artist Koren der Harootian.[2][3] In the early 1940s he worked as an assistant to Edna Manley while she taught at Kingston's Junior Centre.
A British Council scholarship was awarded to Huie in 1947.[4] Further study followed, in London at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and in Canada at the Ontario College of Art, before his return to Jamaica.[1]
Career
In 1950 he was one of the founding tutors of the Jamaica School of Art and Crafts.[2][5] He exhibited around the United States and Jamaica, and later in his career settled in the
