Abrahams was born in St Andrew, Jamaica to a
middle class family. Carl's Father was a Jewish émigré from Austria-Hungary who came to the Island in 1906 to work on some some of the Island's first motorcars. He began his career in commercial art at the age of 17 as a
cartoonist and an illustrator for
The Daily Gleaner and the
Jamaica Times as well as creating ads for Myers Rum and the Jamaica Biscuit Company. He was awarded the
Musgrave Gold Medal for his work by the
Institute of Jamaica in 1987. His final decades saw few new developments in his style and he often repeated or created variations on many of his earlier paintings. Abrahams described himself as an internationalist and was regarded by others as artistically a "citizen of the world". Abrahams died peacefully at his home in 2005 of cancer and a
brain tumor. ==Works==