Stanley Barnes painting titled "The Thinker"

Not exactly in my wheelhouse, but then, it is right there. I bought this painting at an estate sale in Albuquerque’s North Valley in early 2022. Titled “The Thinker”, it is by Stanley Barnes, a Jamaican artist, who died some time ago at a relatively early age. He studied at the Jamaica School of Art (now the Edna Manley College) in the 1970s. Along with fellow artist, Eric Cadien, he operated a small gallery in Stony Hill, which is on the northern outskirts of Kingston, for a while in the late 1970s. Stanley worked at the National Gallery of Jamaica as conservator in the early 1980s, leaving sometime in 1983 or early 1984 to continue his conservation studies in New York. He died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm in the mid ‘80s. (The information I have on Stanley is from correspondence with Veerle Poupeye, who is a Belgian-Jamaican art historian, curator and critic. She was Executive Director of the National Gallery of Jamaica from 2009 to 2018.)