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The following artwork has been donated by Gladys Kinoian Lujan '56.
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Description
18" x 42", oil painting. Artist: Armand Gesner, (b. June 11, 1936, Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti - d. June 10, 2008, Haiti.)
Champs des Cannes (Cane Fields), 1959 -detail.jpg (10 kB)
Champs des Cannes (Cane Fields), 1959 - detail
Champs des Cannes (Cane Fields), 1959- detail2.jpg (9 kB)
Champs des Cannes (Cane Fields), 1959 - detail
Champs des Cannes (Cane Fields), 1959 - detail
Champs des Cannes (Cane Fields), 1959- detail2.jpg (9 kB)
Champs des Cannes (Cane Fields), 1959 - detail
Keywords
Armand Gesner; Haitian art; Gladys Kinoian Lujan
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Champs des Cannes (Cane Fields)
Gesner Armand
Born 1936, Croix des Bouquets, Haiti
Armand started his career as a watercolorist after having joined the Art Center in the early ’50s. Unlike some of his more ”naive” contemporaries, Armand was first and foremost an impressionist. He studied painting in Mexico between 1958 and 1960. He was then awarded a scholarship from the French government and lived in Paris until 1962, when he returned to Haiti and subsequently became Director of the Museum of Haitian Art at St. Pierre’s College in Port-au-Prince.
Armand has exhibited widely since 1957 in Mexico, the U.S., France, Spain, Jamaica, Martinique, Venezuela, Barbados, The Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, and Israel.
He is known for the brilliance of his paintings of peasant life, Carnival themes, and pigeons.
--Gladys Kinoian Lujan, Class of '56, Bryant College