Discovering the Art of Boscoe Holder, Trinidadian Master

Hilton Als, Angus Cook, and Peter Doig

Last spring in Berlin, Peter Doig and Hilton Als co-curated an exhibition of portraits—mostly by young, unrecognized or forgotten artists—a show that included a rare look at the work of the remarkable but little known 20th-century Trinidadian painter Boscoe Holder (1921–2007). Here is a selection of his work, along with excerpts of a conversation I had with Doig and Als about the artist and his Caribbean milieu. —Angus Cook

read it all here in the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/03/discovering-art-boscoe-holder-trinidadian-master/