BOSCOE HOLDER

	Picture Hat with Bow, 1985 oil on canvas 24x18 inches SOLD		Shiela in Peignoir, 1985 oil on canvas 36x28 inches SOLD
	Child with Doll, 1986 oil on canvas 6x12 inches *inquire for price		Boys on Bicycle oil on canvas 11.25 x 15.4 inches (framed: 17.4 x 21.4 inches) *inquire for price
	Women in Yellow Turbans oil on canvas *inquire for price		Woman in Forest WIth A Red Turban oil on canvas SOLD
	Woman in Blue WIth A White Turban oil on canvas SOLD		Woman in White Lace With Pearls oil on canvas SOLD
	Woman in Blue WIth A White Turban oil on canvas SOLD

Boscoe Holder, a Trinidad-born artist of creative energy began painting at age five and never stopped until his death in 2007. His paintings have appeared in galleries and exhibitions in the US, UK, Finland, Sweden, Canada, Guyama, Brazil, as well as throughout the Caribbean. Holder is a household name in his native land where he is known best for his talents as a pianist, but also has become famous as a dancer, actor, television host, and performer of all sorts. In 1947, Holder went to New York for the first time. While there, he taught Caribbean dance at the Katherine Dunham School. Holder married, and later moved with his new wife, Shelia, to the UK in 1950.

While in Europe, Boscoe formed a dance group, Boscoe Holder and his Caribbean Dancers, and performed with them on television shows, cabarets, films, and club theaters across the continent. During this time, Boscoe painted regularly and continued to show his paintings. Holder returned to the Caribbean in 1969 and continued to show his work in galleries around the globe. In his native Trinidad he was continually honored by the government, receiving awards, invitiations to exhibit his work, and even had a street named after him. In 1981 one of his paintings was given to Prince Charles and Lady Diana as a wedding gift, and his work remains in imporatant private collections.   *click image for larger view