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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…

oil on canvas

oil on canvas

Calixte Henri was born in Port-au-Prince in 1933. He began to paint at the Centre d'Art in 1955. Soon after, he abandoned paint brushes in favor of razor blades and palette knives which lent a certain finesse and transparency to his…

oil on canvas

oil on canvas

Theard Aladin was born in Jacmel in 1925. He was a cousin to the renowned Haitian painters Prefete Duffaut and Pauleus Vital. For most of his life, Aladin was a stonemason and farmer. At the end of 1983, he injured his back and was…

Framed print of all the street names in the Uptown neighborhood in Chicago, IL.

Framed print of all the street names in the Uptown neighborhood in Chicago, IL.

Papier-mache vase with black background and blue and white flower.

Wooden covered vessel with carvings of flowers along the outside

Wooden covered vessel with carvings along the outside.