About Cecily Sash
Lived 1925 – 2019 (aged 93–94). Cecily Sash was a South African artist, academic and teaching.
Cecily Sash (1924/1925 – 2019) was a South African artist, designer, and teacher. She taught design at the University of the Witwatersrand for more than 20 years.
Early life and education Cecily Sash was born in 1924 or 1925 in Delmas, a small town in Transvaal, Union of South Africa to parents Bessie (née Liverman) and Max Sash.
From 1943 to 1946, she studied art at Witwatersrand Technical College Art School in Johannesburg, studying under Maurice van Essche. The name “Amadlozi” was used for a conscious appropriation of African sculptural traditions. In 1965, Sash was included in the seminal South Africa artists’ exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery in London.
Sash died in 2019, at the age of 94.
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Who was Cecily Sash?
South African artist (1924–2019)
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Cecily Sash was born in 1925 in Union of South Africa.
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Cecily Sash died in 2019.
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Cecily Sash was an artist, academic and teaching.
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Cecily Sash was South African.
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