Sybil Atteck (1911-1975)

Expanding Knowledge: Collective Memory in the Ruth G. Waddy Sketchbook

Features a Sybil Atteck sketch that is in the book and used in this article.

Expanding Knowledge: Collective Memory in the Ruth G. Waddy Sketchbook

In 2011 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) acquired a sketchbook once belonging to Ruth G. Waddy (1909-2003). Waddy was an LA-based artist, educator, and activist dedicated to making Black arts visible and valued.

Waddy visited Trinidad in 1970 and asked Sybil Atteck to do a sketch in her sketchbook. See the Sybil Atteck sketch included in the article.

Sybil Atteck's sketch is number 73 in the sketchbook.

Other artists from Trinidad and Tobago include:

  • 70 Owen Peterkin Calder, Hall Road, Tobago
  • 71 M. P. Alladin, Trinidad
  • 72 Al Kong, Trinidad
  • 74 P. Bosland, Trinidad
  • 75 Lenox Holder, Trinidad
  • 76 Chu Foon, Trinidad
  • 78 Boscoe Holder, Trinidad
  • 79 Alf Codallo, Trinidad