The sparkling vitality of Haitian art first attracted attention and admiration when artists from the masses began to make their contribution. The work of these self-taught artists portrayed the whole kaleidoscope of Haitian life and spirit with an unprecedented openness and honesty. Although differing in style, feeling, and conception from the mainstream of European and American art, these works were immediately recognized as an important artistic current. HAITIAN ART illuminates the sources of inspiration for and the messages contained in the work of over fifty Haitian artists. Each artist's work has been subjected to a short stylistic analysis. Whenever possible, an attempt has been made to show the artist's development by including both early and more recent works. Each work is illustrated, and the illustration is accompanied by a commentary designed to guide the reader through the complexities of Haitian life and thought. Complementing the text are several valuable features. A chronology by Pierre Monosiet, Curator, Musée d'Art Haïtien du Collège St. Pierre, Port-au-Prince, dramatizes the events radiating from the establishment of the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince in 1944. Gerald Nordland, Director, Milwaukee Art Center, attempts a reassessment of several terms widely used in characterizing Haitian art. Irving Rouse, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, carefully considers the evidence of American Indian influences in Haitian art within the context of a summary of Haitian prehistory. Robert Farris Thompson, Professor of Art History, Yale University, provides a thorough analysis of the African presence in Haitian ritual arts. One of the primary strengths of HAITIAN ART is the role played by the artists themselves. Most of the artists were interviewed by the author. Though varying in style and approach, they all draw their content from Haitian history, religion, and everyday life. 200 illustrations, including 16 plates in full color.

Haitian art

BROOKLYN MUSEUM

New Orleans Museum Of Art

STEBICH, Ute

Milwaukee Art Center

Abrams

Artist's Palate Cookbook

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Artists Palate Cookbook

French paintings of three centuries from the New Orleans Museum of Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

The Museum

Creative clays: American art pottery from the New Orleans Museum of Art

Masterpieces of Faberge: Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection

Book by Keefe, John W., New Orleans Museum of Art

Keefe.John Webster

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

New Orleans Museum of Art

The Martcle line of handwrought silver in the Art Nouveau style by the Gorham Manufacturing Company is justly regarded as a major expression of that style on this side of the Artlantie Ocean. Officially introdticed at the intluential Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. Martele silver was widely admired, and was awarded a Grand Prix and many gold medals. The excitement created then by the new artistie line of Martele silver has been rekindled by this premiere exhibition of nearly three hundred works from the collection of Jolie and Robert Shelton. The mammoth and highly regarded Gorham Company developed from a small rewelry manufactory founded by Jabez Gorham (1792-1869) in Providence, Rhode Island, to the world's largest producer of sterling silver wares. In the process of this growth, the company Jistinguished itself by successfully combining new technological advances in the industry with exemplary design. So successful was Gorham in the closing years of the nineteenth century that it could devote considerable time, money and expertise to create an art line of hollowware produced entirely by hand. The new line in the latest cutting-edge taste departed dramatically from Gorham's flourishing line of machine-made commercial that and hollowwares. It was named Martele, from the French verb murteler. "the hammer." The line probably never would have come into existence without the driving influence and vision of two men, Gorham's energetic chief executive. Edward Holbrook (1849-1919) and its chief designer William Christmas Codman (1839-1923). To connoisseurs of silver, Codman is justly renowned for the development of the lavish Martele line, starting with designs in 1896 and commencing a limited production in 1897. 
The resounding success of the Martele line at the 1900 Paris exposition prompted the Gorham Manufacturing Company to exhibit at the famed Turn international exposition of 1902 and the 1904 St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which is widely credited with introducing the Art Nouveau style to the American public. Gorham's wares met with critical and popular acclum at these showings and attracted a glittering clientele for the Martele line. The company was soon producing silver for bicycle and motorcar magnate Albert A. Pope, publisher William Randolph Hearst, oil tycoon Harry Ford Sinclair and financier Charles Schwab. The exuberant outline and exquisite finish of Martele silver later appealed to cosmetics empress Helena Rubinstein, a pioneer collector of American nineteenth and early twentieth-century decorative arts. The resurgence of interest in the Art Nouveau style which began in the 1950s and has steadily escalated ever since has caused Martele silver to emerge as one of the most significant. American achievements in that complex and diverse style. This exquisite volume chronicles both the development of the Martele line and the assembling of the most significant collection of Martele silver yet formed. The collection of Jolie and Robert Shelton covers the history of this celebrated line from historical and aesthetic viewpoints, providing a rich visual record of this dazzling accomplishment in American silver.

Magnificent, Marvelous Martele: American Art Nouveau Silver

Hough, Samuel J.

Gorham Manufacturing Company

The Amistad Research Center, located on the Tulane University campus in New Orleans, is the nation's largest independent archive specializing in the history of African Americans and other ethnic groups. A lesser-known aspect of the Center is its extraordinary collection of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper dating from the nineteenth century to the present day. This volume presents, for the first time, nearly three hundred of these works.

Beyond the Blues: Reflections of African America in the Fine Arts Collection of the Amisted Research Center

Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan

Berry, Jason

Shannon, Helen

American Folk Art Museum

Fagaly, William A.

Morgan, Gertrude

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

Museum of Amer Folk Art

This is the catalogue of a 1984 exhibition, held to coincide with the Louisiana World Exposition, at the Historic New Orleans Collection. 85 paintings are briefly described and illustrated in black and white.

Waters of America: 19Th-Century American Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes, and Waterfalls : Exhibition May 6-November 18, 1984, to Commemorate the 1984 Louisiana

Historic New Orleans Collection

Historic New Orleans

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