Estelle Betty Manyolo (born 1938) is a Ugandan art painter and printmaker.

Biography

Betty Manyolo is a Muganda, and one of ten children. She studied art at the School of Fine Art at Makerere College. Later in her career, she worked as an artist for Uganda's Department of Health.

Work

Betty Manyolo illustrated the book Awo olwatuuka.[1]

Exhibitions

Several of her linocut prints, along with an oil painting, were exhibited through the Harmon Foundation beginning in 1961; her work was also included in the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit of Contemporary African Printmakers from 1966 to 1968.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Awo olwatuuka". Nypl.org. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  2. ↑ Evelyn S. Brown (1966). Africa's Contemporary Art and Artists: A Review of Creative Activities in Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, and Crafts of More Than 300 Artists Working in the Modern Industrialized Society of Some of the Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Published and distributed by the Division of Social Research and Experimentation] Harmon Foundation.


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