Sybil Atteck was born on 3 February 1911 on her grandfather’s cocoa estate at Tableland, Princes Town Region, South Trinidad. The Atteck family moved to Rio Claro in 1913 to the family’s new home there. Then in 1948 she travelled to the United States of America where she attended the School of Fine Arts, Washington University, and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. At university she studied with Max Beckmann, whose ideas were to have a profound effect on her work. Stylistically, Atteck evolved her artistic styles as she encountered different instructors and stylistic forms of expression. After her return from North America she developed an expressionist style and this remained a prominent feature of her art for much of her career. Sybil Atteck exerted a great deal of influence on her contemporaries; Carlisle Chang, Willi Chen, Leo Glasgow, Althea McNish and Nina Squires are among the artists influenced by her work.

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