Haiti. 1923 - 2012
Pencil thin figure drawing, decorative art and mural painting
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1892 Cap-Haitien, Haiti - 1986 Cap-Haitien, Haiti. Known for: Naive style genre, history painting of Haiti.
Philome Obin, born in 1892, was a painter and muralist in naive, folk-art style of street scenes, Haitian history, allegory, native figures and genre. He is credited as largely responsible for the... Read full biography
Philome Obin, born in 1892, was a painter and muralist in naive, folk-art style of street scenes, Haitian history, allegory, native figures and genre. He is credited as largely responsible for the flowering of Haitian Art since 1945, and is described by some critics as "the greatest of all Haitian... Read full biography
Philome Obin, born in 1892, was a painter and muralist in naive, folk-art style of street scenes, Haitian history, allegory, native figures and genre. He is credited as largely responsible for the flowering of Haitian Art since 1945, and is described by some critics as "the greatest of all Haitian artists." . He was born in Cap-Haitien and took drawing lessons as a child. Many of his early paintings were on cardboard or masonite, and were unappreciated by the general public who looked more to... Read full biography
Philome Obin, born in 1892, was a painter and muralist in naive, folk-art style of street scenes, Haitian history, allegory, native figures and genre. He is credited as largely responsible for the flowering of Haitian Art since 1945, and is described by some critics as "the greatest of all Haitian artists." . He was born in Cap-Haitien and took drawing lessons as a child. Many of his early paintings were on cardboard or masonite, and were unappreciated by the general public who looked more to the 'sophisticated' art of France. By 1944, the artist was desperate because of his commitment to art and the lack of response he was receiving. However, the next year, he got the attention of Dewitt Peters, an American artist who was a Quaker and... Read full biography
Philome Obin, born in 1892, was a painter and muralist in naive, folk-art style of street scenes, Haitian history, allegory, native figures and genre. He is credited as largely responsible for the flowering of Haitian Art since 1945, and is described by some critics as "the greatest of all Haitian artists." . He was born in Cap-Haitien and took drawing lessons as a child. Many of his early paintings were on cardboard or masonite, and were unappreciated by the general public who looked more to the 'sophisticated' art of France. By 1944, the artist was desperate because of his commitment to art and the lack of response he was receiving. However, the next year, he got the attention of Dewitt Peters, an American artist who was a Quaker and pacifist, and who had established the Centre d'Art in Port-au Prince, Haiti's capital as an alternative to doing military se... Read full biography
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The Bourgeoisie of Cap-Haitien Before the Occupation of 1915
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United States, Haiti. 1898 - 1973
Painting
Haiti. 1894 - 1948
Naive painter of voodoo, still life, and religion
Ohio, Louisiana. 1875 - 1952
Courtyard scene, still life painting, buildings
Louisiana. 1928 - 1995
Figure, streetscape, genre, portrait painting
Louisiana. 1932 - 2001
Landscape, genre of the Old South
Cuba. 1912 - 1985
Figure painting, set design, book illustration, ceramics, sculpture
Haiti. 1920/22 - 2016
Painting
Haiti. Born 1934
Painting
Minnesota, Louisiana. 1902 - 1990
Urban-landscape, structures
Germany, France. 1893 - 1963
Figure, interior, still life, cityscape
Haiti. 1947 - 1996
Mystical voodoo figures, spirit painting, member of Saint Soleil movement
Minnesota, Louisiana / Sweden. 1875 - 1952
Bayou landscape, work genre and portrait painting, teaching
New York, Louisiana / India. Born 1951
Neo-expressionist painting-exotic tropical birds
Louisiana, California. 1944 - 2013
Blue dogs and bayou landscape painting, posters
Louisiana. 1870 - 1934
Bayou landscape, marshes and portrait painting
Louisiana. 1887 - 1988
Southern plantation folk art genre and landscape painting
Louisiana, Georgia. 1912 - 1997
Abstract painting and sculpture
Haiti. 1919 - 2002
Stylized detailed landscape painting, wood carving, ceramic art, murals
France, United States, Viet Nam. 1907 - 2001
Female figure and floral painting
New York, Michigan / Mexico. 1886 - 1957
Social realist mural painting
New York / Mexico. 1899 - 1991
Modernist landscape, still life and figure painting, murals
Florida / Cuba. 1950 - 1991
Ceramics with painted iconography, animal and figure shapes
Mexico. 1912 - 1998
Genre, figure, muralist, sculptor
Florida / Cuba. Born 1948
Symbolist landscape, genre
South Carolina, Maryland. 1838 - 1921
Cotton kingdom genre and landscape painting, trompe l'oeil
Cuba, France. 1896 - 1968
Avant-garde, abstract painting
Cuba, Mexico. 1912 - 1990
Abstract watercolor figure and still life painting, teaching
Mexico. 1883 - 1949
Mural painting
New York, Pennsylvania / France. 1924 - 2007
Still life painting, abstraction, lucite picture frame design, cloisonné
New York, Florida. 1925 - 2008
Assemblage, non objective painting, set design
Florida, District Of Columbia / Cuba, Puerto Rico. 1914 - 2008
Stylized figural motif painting