By The Sea: Paintings by Haitian Artists Boxed Notecards

Haiti has had a formal relationship with European-style figurative art since 1816, when the Haitian nationalist Alexandre Petion founded a school that offered painting classes. But what we identify as distinctly Haitian art became internationally known in the 1940s, with the establishment of the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince. The Centre made art education and exhibition space available to Haitian artists, most of whom worked in a strong, straightforward “naive” style to capture scenes of village life.

That tradition is strong to this day, and painting is often a matter of lineage--as in the case of the Obins, a family that has produced a number of well-known artists (Michaelle Obin is represented in this notecard set). For all its turmoil and suffering, Haiti is a lovely land, and its fishing seaports and farming towns would be familiar to the artists first associated with the Centre d’Art. All executed in the 1980s, the paintings reproduced here celebrate the unchanging rhythms of Haitian village life.

From The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. Twenty full-color 5 x 7" blank notecards (five each of four styles) with white envelopes in a decorative box. ISBN 0-7649-3690-5.


Haitian Village Seaside Notecard José Hilome, Untitled [Haitian Village: Seaside], c. 1980s. 5 x 7" blank note card with envelope. 8760$2.50		Haitian Village Gardening Notecard Michaelle Obin, Untitled [Haitian Village: Gardening], c. 1980s. 5 x 7" blank note card with envelope. 8761$2.50


Haitian Village Market Notecard C. Gerelis, Untitled [Haitian Village: Market], c. 1980s. 5 x 7" blank note card with envelope. 8762$2.50		Haitian Village Landscape Notecard J. Cameau, Untitled [Haitian Village: Landscape], c. 1980s. 5 x 7" blank note card with envelope. 8763$2.50

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