Cecil Baugh

Cecil Archibald Baugh (November 22, 1908 – June 28, 2005), was a Jamaican master potter and artist.

Early life Baugh was born on November 22, 1908, in Bangor Ridge, Portland Parish, Jamaica to Isaac Baugh, a sawyer, and Emma Cobran-Baugh, a farmer. Later, he worked alongside Wilfred Lord a free form potter. Baugh sold much of his early pottery as a 'yabba man', selling at street markets. Baugh then worked as a groundsman at the St. James Country Club in Montego Bay, and later as a door-to-door pottery salesman in Kingston. He soon returned to Montego Bay where he opened his own studio and kiln, the Cornwall Clay Works. In 1938, at an arts and crafts exhibition in Kingston, he met the painter Albert Huie, who became a lifelong friend.