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SYBIL ATTECK
B. 1911
D. 1975  

Sybil Atteck was born in Rio Claro, Trinidad in 1911. When she was in her early teens, the Atteck family moved to Port of Spain.
Atteck joined the Botanical Department of the Ministry of Agriculture in 1928, using her drawing skills to produce botanical renderings. Some of these were shown at an exhibition organized by the Society of Trinidad Independents in 1930. In 1934.

Atteck went to London where she studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic. Returning to Trinidad, she resumed her work at the Department of Agriculture.
In 1942 she continued her studies in Lima, Peru, at the Escuela Bellas Artes. Her primary interest there was in Inca pottery, a form of expression that she could relate to the Caribbean's pre-Columbian art.

In 1943 Atteck attended the School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, where she was a student of the German Expressionist painter, Max Beckmann. Atteck's images and style form the nucleus of Trinidad's first recognizable school which prevailed throughout the 1950's and '60's. Those influenced by the Atteck genre were, among others, Carlyle Chang, Willi Chen, Leo Glasgow and Nina Squires. Through her expressionist images, Atteck celebrated the birth of a new nation and the hopes and aspiration of Independence, portraying Trinidad's landscape, birds, dances and festivals as the new symbols of national identity.

Courtesy Geoffrey Mclean

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