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Jamaica Master Painter Barrington Watson Claudia Hucke, Contributor Courtesy of the National Gallery of Jamaica, we present an essay from the catalogue of ‘Barrington: A Retrospective’, now on show at the National Gallery, the Bank of Jamaica and the Olympia Art Centre through April 29, 2012. When Barrington Watson returned to Jamaica in 1961, the island was at a historical crossroads. With Independence looming, there was a general optimism in the air and, as Watson remembers, “the island literally went wild” and he himself was determined to contribute to the…

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