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ART: Ron Savory: A Guyanese quest – Moray House Presentation – By Alim Hosein

11/24/2020 – 12:05 am

Ron Savory 1933-2019

By Alim Hosein – Stabroek News  
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(The following is a revised version of an illustrated talk presented at Moray House Trust, on Saturday, November 7, 2020)

of the interesting things about Ron Savory is that while he was an active artist, and an innovator in Guyanese painting, very little critical work has been done on him. This is true of all Guyanese artists, but some have received scholarly attention in Guyana and even abroad, such as Stanley Greaves, Philip Moore, and Aubrey Williams.         

Savory felt this lack of recognition, as his niece Denise Savory-Archer wrote in a posthumous tribute to him in 2019: “He always spoke of the lack of appreciation for his art throughout the Caribbean.      Continue reading →

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