Haiti. 1919 - 2002
Stylized detailed landscape painting, wood carving, ceramic art, murals
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1930 Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 1996 Porr-au-Prince, Haiti. Known for: Surreal, vodou figure, landscape, structures and still life painting, Haitian themes.
Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue (Port au Prince, 1930–1996) was one of Haiti's most renowned painters of the 20th century. A Port-au-Prince native, Gourgue began painting at an early age and eventually... Read full biography
Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue (Port au Prince, 1930–1996) was one of Haiti's most renowned painters of the 20th century. A Port-au-Prince native, Gourgue began painting at an early age and eventually had his works exhibited throughout Europe and the Americas. His father was a French psychiatrist, and... Read full biography
Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue (Port au Prince, 1930–1996) was one of Haiti's most renowned painters of the 20th century. A Port-au-Prince native, Gourgue began painting at an early age and eventually had his works exhibited throughout Europe and the Americas. His father was a French psychiatrist, and his mother said to be a Haitian vodou priestess. He typically painted scenes of rural Haitian life and vodou ceremonies. Gourgue, who had no formal training, often combined flowers, mountains,... Read full biography
Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue (Port au Prince, 1930–1996) was one of Haiti's most renowned painters of the 20th century. A Port-au-Prince native, Gourgue began painting at an early age and eventually had his works exhibited throughout Europe and the Americas. His father was a French psychiatrist, and his mother said to be a Haitian vodou priestess. He typically painted scenes of rural Haitian life and vodou ceremonies. Gourgue, who had no formal training, often combined flowers, mountains, skeletal trees, peasants and their huts and vodou symbolism, in a personal style that managed to combine surrealism and naive art. "He is beyond dispute the leading figure in modern Haitian painting.". After a turbulent and troubled childhood, Gourgue came... Read full biography
Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue (Port au Prince, 1930–1996) was one of Haiti's most renowned painters of the 20th century. A Port-au-Prince native, Gourgue began painting at an early age and eventually had his works exhibited throughout Europe and the Americas. His father was a French psychiatrist, and his mother said to be a Haitian vodou priestess. He typically painted scenes of rural Haitian life and vodou ceremonies. Gourgue, who had no formal training, often combined flowers, mountains, skeletal trees, peasants and their huts and vodou symbolism, in a personal style that managed to combine surrealism and naive art. "He is beyond dispute the leading figure in modern Haitian painting.". After a turbulent and troubled childhood, Gourgue came to Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince in 1947. The following year his painting "The Magic Table"—an "unprecedented picture"—was exhibited at... Read full biography
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Untitled (Paysage Nocturne, vision vaudou)
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Haitian hillside village populated by human figures
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Painting
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Landscape, genre of the Old South
Minnesota, Louisiana / Sweden. 1875 - 1952
Bayou landscape, work genre and portrait painting, teaching
Louisiana. 1887 - 1988
Southern plantation folk art genre and landscape painting
Minnesota, Louisiana. 1902 - 1990
Urban-landscape, structures
United States, Haiti. 1898 - 1973
Painting
Ohio, Louisiana. 1875 - 1952
Courtyard scene, still life painting, buildings
Louisiana. 1928 - 1995
Figure, streetscape, genre, portrait painting
Louisiana. 1870 - 1934
Bayou landscape, marshes and portrait painting
Louisiana, Massachusetts. 1861 - 1939
Landscape painting, etching, teaching
New York, Connecticut, New Jersey. 1854 - 1907
Landscape, architectural, marine
Romania, France. 1886 - 1947
Art-deco sculpture, children, dancers, wild animals
New York / Mexico. 1932 - 2023
Abstract expressionist landscape painting, sculpture, murals
Hungary, France. 1877 - 1956
Abstract painting
New York, Louisiana / India. Born 1951
Neo-expressionist painting-exotic tropical birds
South Carolina, Maryland. 1838 - 1921
Cotton kingdom genre and landscape painting, trompe l'oeil
New York, California, New Jersey. 1864 - 1941
Cavorting nudes and landscape painting
California. Born 1937
Fantasy-western views, miniature
Missouri. 1927 - 2009
Sculpture, assemblage, abstraction
Haiti. 1931 - 2010
Modernist Haitian figure and genre painting, church murals
New York, New Jersey. 1870 - 1938
Color illustration, genre, figure, landscape and coastal scene painting
New York / Ireland. 1837 - 1928
Landscape, rural life, still-life and mural painting
Illinois. 1899 - 1956
Western theme painting
New York / Russian Federation, Ukraine, China. 1882 - 1967
Modernist landscape, still life and figure painting
New York, Pennsylvania / United Kingdom. 1842 - 1914
Mountain landscape, still life and animal painting
New York, Connecticut / France. 1921 - 2003
Landscape, still life, portrait and figure painting
New Jersey. 1909 - 1981
Town-landscape, marine, genre
New York, California / United Kingdom, France. 1920 - 2003
Landscape, still life and figure painting
California. 1911 - 1995
Seascape, some landscape, portrait painting
New York. 1899 - 1987
Social realist figure and genre painting, lithography, teaching