Our Haitian Art Collection
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Haitian Artists
Aladin, Agathe
Aladin, Theard
Alphonse, Fritzner
Auguste, Toussaint
Bottex, S.E.
Casimir, Laurent
Domond, Ezene
Domond, Wilmino
Dupoux, Raoul
Etienne, Gregoire
Francois, Roger
Guillaume, Jean-Jacques
Ismael, Saincilus
Jacques, Harry (dit Arijac)
Jean, Jean-Baptiste
Jean, Marie Carmel
Jean, Ulrick
Jean-Jacques, Carlo
Joseph, Reynald
Leopol, Lindor
Louissaint, Jacques
Louizor, Ernst
Maurice, A.M.
Obin, Fritzner
Obin, Othon
Pierre, André
Pierre, Eddy
Robuste, Jean Claude
St. Fleur, Michelle
Valcin, Pierre Joseph
Valery, Julien
Zephirin, Frantz

Collection Notes

Jean-Baptiste Jean

Jean-Baptiste Jean was born in 1953 in Cap-Haitian and began to paint in 1972 as a student of Philome Obin.  (In the first painting below, Jean-Baptiste Jean is seated at an easel with Philome Obin standing next to him, providing guidance.)  He also studied at the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince, formally joining the Centre in 1973.  He is known as a Third Generation Master of the Northern School.

Jean-Baptiste Jean died in 2005.

Publications:
Franciscus, John Allen.  Haiti: Voodoo Kingdom to Modern Riviera.  1980.  pg. 112.
Nadal-Gardere, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt.  La Peinture Haitienne  1986.  pg. 83.
AFHAC.  La Peinture Haitienne: Dialogue du Reel et de l'Imaginaire.  1990.  pp. 6, 82.
Drot, Jean-Marie.  An Encounter between Two Worlds as Seen by Haiti's Artists.  1994.  pp. 93, 106-7, 129, 164, 168-9, 176, 183, 193.
Demme, Jonathan.  Island on Fire.  1997.  pp. 144, 145.

Selected Jean-Baptiste Jean Links:
Galerie Macondo
Galerie d'Art Nader
Indigo Arts Gallery
Caribbean Fine Art

 
Visite de Monseignueur Makarios Chez Jn B. Jean, c. 1973
30 x 24 inches, Oil on Masonite, Framed
$ 3,500
 
Detail from Visite de Monseignueur Makarios Chez Jn B. Jean
 
 
Masons' Procession, c. 1978
36 x 24 inches, Oil on Masonite, Framed
$ 2,500