About Amy Leong Pang
Lived 1908 – 1989 (aged 80–81). Amy Leong Pang was a painter.
Amy Leong Pang (1908–1989) was a painter from Trinidad and Tobago.
Of Chinese descent, Leong Pang was born in Princes Town and sent to school in China; she is known to have painted while there. After her return to Trinidad and Tobago she moved to Port of Spain. In 1929 she was among the founders of the Society of Trinidad Independents; other members included C. L. R. James, Alfred Mendes, Albert Gomes, Ivy Achoy, and Hugh Stollmeyer, with whom she would go on to develop a close working relationship. The group met in private homes to paint and discuss ideas, but was condemned for being bohemian and disbanded in 1938. Leong Pang would go on to help found the Trinidad Art Society in 1943.
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1908 - certain 1989
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Amy Leong Pang was born in 1908.
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Amy Leong Pang died in 1989.
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Amy Leong Pang was a painter.
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Amy Leong Pang's recorded nationality: Trinidad and Tobago.
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