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Leonora Pujadas-McShine
Leonora Pujadas-McShine (1910 – 2 April 1995) was a Trinidadian women's rights activist and community worker. When Trinidad and Tobago granted universal suffrage, she established the first League of Women Voters in the country to educate women on their civic roles. She also was an advocate of equal pay and labour practices. She was posthumously awarded the Gold Hummingbird Medal. Early life Leonora Pujadas was born in 1910 in Trinidad to Leo Pujadas, an attorney and the deputy mayor of Port of Spain. She was descended of a well-known Afro-Trinidadian family of professionals. She attended St. Joseph's Convent in Port of Spain, taking tutoring in English from Cyril Lionel Robert James at the start of the 1920s. Upon her graduation, her father sent her to England to attend a finishing school. Completing her education, she returned to Trinidad and in 1934 married Austen McShine, with whom she had two sons: Kynaston Leigh Gerard and Arthur Leopold. Unusually for the time, she refu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Griffith
Esther Griffith is a Trinidadian painter. She mainly paints portraits. Griffith is a graduate of the University of the West Indies. She works in oil and watercolor. Apart from painting, she also creates ceramics. ''Trinidad and Tobago Guardian'' described one of her paintings as "radiated with an air of optimism but also reinforced a sense of shifts and motion with its energetic brushstrokes." ''Trinidad and Tobago Newsday'' states that "her paintings are usually portraits where hyper-realism is juxtaposed against the abstract." She has made portraits for Wiki Unseen, a Wikimedia Foundation collaboration aimed at providing depictions for BIPOC Wikipedia biographies without an image of the subject. As of 2022, she lives in Trinidad and Tobago. Watercolor Portrait of Leonora Pujadas-McShine on a Pink Background for Wiki Unseen.jpg, Leonora Pujadas-McShine Mercedes Richards Watercolor for Wiki Unseen.jpg, Mercedes Richards Asquith Xavier Watercolor for Wiki Unseen.jpg, Asquith Xa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
