GEORGETOWN, CMC:

Philip Moore, considered the doyen of Guyanese art, who immortalized slave revolt leader and national hero Cuffy in the bronze 1763 Monument in the capital, died on Sunday, media reports here said.

He was 90 and died at his home on the Corentyne River in East Berbice county. A self-taught artist who considered himself “spirit-taught”, Moore credited his earliest sculptures to a seminal moment in his life somewhere around 1955 when he received a vision of a hand reaching down to him from the heavens with a sculptor’s tool – a image he captured on canvas with ‘Receiving the Gift’, now a part of the national collection.