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2010.0735.jpg
oil on canvas

Francoise Jean was born in Les Anglais, Haiti in 1953. She started drawing at an early age. When she was nine years old, she drew rural scenes on clothes for her mother to embroider. In teenage years, she moved to Port-au-Prince near…

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Oil on canvas

Carel Blain, born on September 23, 1961 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. As a beginner, Blain worked with great artists such as Lesly Exume, Francoise Jean and the late Carlo Dayan among others. Carel specializes in portraits of children.…

2007.0017.jpg
oil on board
S.E. Bottex was born in 1922 in Port Margot in the north of Haiti. After finishing secondary school, Bottex worked as a photographer. Around 1955, encouraged by his older brother, Jean-Baptiste, a well-known Haitian artist, he began to…

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oil on canvas
Wilson Bigaud was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1928. At age 18, he met Dewitt Peters and joined the Centre d'Art. In 1950, his painting, "Paradise", won second prize in an international art exhibit and was subsequently purchased by…

2007.0046.jpg
oil on canvas

Saincilus Ismael was born in 1940 in Petite Riviere de L'Artibonite. Ismael began drawing at age seven, then began to paint in 1956 after visiting the Centre d'Art and Foyer des Arts Plastiques. In 1967 he led a group of artists…

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oil on canvas

This painting, like many in this exhibition, was donated to the Waterloo Center for the Arts’ permanent collection by Janet Feldman. Feldman amassed a huge collection of art from Haiti, Mexico, and other cultures, then donated the…

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oil on board

Gabriel Alix was born in St. Marc in 1930. He came to Port-au-Prince in 1946 at the urging of his lifelong friend, the legendary Hector Hyppolite. He joined the Centre d’Art at that time.

Alix was a taciturn man who was married to…

2009.0011.jpg
oil on canvas

Didier Civil was born in 1973 in Jacmel. He began to draw at an early age. By 1990 he was exhibiting in various galleries in Jacmel. In 1994, Civil’s work was included in a book and a New York exhibition of the Jonathan Demme…

2007.0045.jpg
oil on canvas

Yves Lafontant was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1939. When he was young, his widowed mother married the Haitian master painter Rigaud Benoit so Yves was exposed to high quality art very early in his life. He did his first…
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