Amelia de Carrero is an artist from Venezuela. She lives and works in the countryside on a farm. She has shown her work at the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work is also in the permanent collection of the International Museum of Folk Art in Santa Fe.
Gérard Paul (b.1943) is a painter from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Eugène Jean (born 1950) is a Haitian painter. Born in Trou du Nord, Jean typically paints humorous scenes of common people. He has been a member of the Centre d’Art since 1971 and has had several exhibitions in the United States. He first worked with fellow Haitian painter Philomé Obin.
Born on December 24, 1903, to a middle-class family in Port-au-Prince, Gervais Émannuel Ducasse (1903 – 1988) received a respectable education. By working for the government, Ducasse had the opportunity to travel around Haiti. After observing Haitian life all around him, he turned to painting and depicted some of the scenes. His works are included in the books Haitian Art by Ute Stebich, Peintres Haitiens by Gerald Alexis, and Where Art is Joy/Haitian Art: The First Forty Years by Selden Rodman, and are in the permanent collections of the Musée d’Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre, in Haiti, and the Milwaukee Museum of Art, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
From “Masterpieces of Haitian Art: Seven Decades of Unique Visual Heritage” by Candice Russell. Schiffer Publications Ltd, 2013
Robert Saint Brice (1893 – 1973) was born in Pétionville. His semi-abstract, yet figurative, paintings are the product of his time as a Vodou priest. His career began as a result of an association with American artist Alex Johnes, who exposed him to Impressionist painting. He became a member of the Centre d’Art in 1949, and has said that he was depicting dreams as messages from his ancestors.
From “Masterpieces of Haitian Art: Seven Decades of Unique Visual Heritage” by Candice Russell. Schiffer Publications Ltd, 2013.
Seymour Etienne Bottex (born 25 December 1922) is a Haitian painter. Born in Port Margot, in northern Haiti, Bottex worked as a photographer until 1955 when his older brother Jean-Baptiste encouraged him to begin painting. He joined the Centre d’Art and later the Galerie Issa in Port-au-Prince. His paintings, mingling humorous, historical, and biblical themes, are exhibited worldwide and auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York. He is considered one of the finest Haitian naïf painters, and his murals in the Episcopal Cathedral de Sainte Trinité in Port-au-Prince are considered the most important achievement in Haitian modern art. Paintings by Seymour Etienne Bottex have been sold by the Friends of HAS Haiti to raise funds for the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, located in Deschapelles.
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Dieudonne Pluviose was born in 1928. Although little is explicitly written about the artist, this painting is the quintessence of the Cap Haitian style. It captures the everyday life of Haiti through vivid colors, dark outlines, and spatial composition.
Wilson Bigaud (1931 – 2012) was an apprentice with Hector Hyppolite at the age of fifteen and joined the Centre d’Art in 1946. His genius was memorialized in the massive mural, The Marriage Feast at Cana, in the Episcopal Holy Trinity Cathedral at Port-au-Prince. A series of nervous breakdowns between 1957 and 1961 promoted a change in his style. He created a plethora of masterpieces early in his career and a body of respectable paintings later, focusing on leisure and family life as well as Vodou personages. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, and is coveted by collectors today. He died in April, 2012.
From “Masterpieces of Haitian Art: Seven Decades of Unique Visual Heritage” by Candice Russell. Schiffer Publications Ltd, 2013.
Louisiane Saint Fleurant (1924 – 2005), one of Haiti’s most important female artists, was born in Petit Trou de Nippes and found her calling late in life. She was age fifty when she came to Soissons la Montagne to cook for Saint Soleil group. Instead, she became an esteemed painter, eventually leaving in 1978, becoming a cook again and painting on the side. Women, children, houses, birds, and animals are her preferred subjects. Flat figures and a lack of perspective are characteristic of her work, while her good sense of color and design establish her as a painter with few peers. Her other major contributions to Haitian art are her children: two sons – Ramphis Magloire and the late Stivenson Magloire – who developed styles of their own, and two daughters, Magda Magloire, a painter, and Aliciane Magloire, a ceramic potter. Louisane Saint Fleurant died on June 1, 2005.
From “Masterpieces of Haitian Art: Seven Decades of Unique Visual Heritage” by Candice Russell. Schiffer Publications Ltd, 2013.