Carl Abrahams

Carl Myrie Abrahams OD (14 May 1911 – 10 April 2005) was a Jamaican painter from Saint Andrew Parish.

Biography Abrahams was born in St Andrew, Jamaica to a middle class family. Carl's Father was a Jewish émigré from Austria-Hungary who came to the Island in 1906 to work on some of the Island's first motorcars. He began his career in commercial art at the age of 17 as a cartoonist and an illustrator for The Daily Gleaner and the Jamaica Times as well as creating ads for Myers Rum and the Jamaica Biscuit Company.

He was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal for his work by the Institute of Jamaica in 1987.

His final decades saw few new developments in his style and he often repeated or created variations on many of his earlier paintings. Abrahams described himself as an internationalist and was regarded by others as artistically a "citizen of the world". Abrahams died peacefully at his home in 2005 of cancer and a brain tumor.

Works Last Supper Destruction of Port Royal Woman I Must Be About My Father's Business Adam and Eve Thirteen Israelites The Henry Ford Show Pan and His Musicians Backyard Preacher The Hand of Columbus The Ascension Hallelujah "Afro Jewess"

Awards Royal Air Force (RAF) Award New York Critics Award Silver Musgrave Medal of the Institution of Jamaica Order of Distinction (Jamaica) Gold Musgrave Medal of The Institution of Jamaica (1987)