Major collections of Haitian art
- Le Centre d'Art (Port-au-Prince)
Documents and displays Haiti’s significant visual arts heritage. The Centre also educates and mentors Haitian artists, identifying talent, enabling art creation and circulating it for the benefit of the entire art world. - Figge Art Museum: Haitian Collection (Davenport, IA)
Founded in the 1940s, this comprehensive collection covers "first generation" works to the most recent developments. - Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL) - Haitian art
The Frost Art Museum provides "transformative" experiences through art; collect, exhibits, and interprets art across cultures; and advances the mission of Florida International University. - Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D.C.) - Haitian art
Established by Congress, to complement the "Old Masters" collections in the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has one of the most important collections of postwar American and European art in the world. - Huntington Museum of Art (Huntington, WV) - Haitian art
An extensive permanent collection: American & European paintings, prints & sculpture, contemporary & natural history prints, studio & decorative glass, ceramics, folk art, Asian decorative objects, Haitian art, Peruvian pottery, and prayer rugs. - Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI)
The Richard and Erna Flagg Collection of Haitian Art: The Flaggs began collecting Haitian art in 1973 and proceeded to amass one of the world’s foremost collections of 20th-century Haitian art. Featuring some 90 paintings and sculptures, the Richard and Erna Flagg Collection includes works by artists such as Hector Hyppolite, Castera Bazile, Wilson Bigaud, Préfète Duffaut, Philomé Obin, Rigaud Benoit, and Georges Liautaud.
Major Collections of Haitian Art (con't.)
- Museé d'art Haïtien
Founded in 1962 the Musée d’Art Haïtien opened under the patronage of the Episcopal College St. Pierre and is dedicated to preserving Haitian paintings of the twentieth century. It's building was severely impacted by the 2010 earthquake and is presently closed to the public. A portion of the museum's collection is currently hosted by the Haitian Art Society. - El Museo del Barrio (New York)
The preeminent U.S. forum and resource dedicated to Caribbean, Latino, and Latin American art. Their 8,000+-object collection contains Caribbean, Latino and Latin American art.
Images of Cuban and Haitian art
- Haitian Art Society (Waterloo, IA)
The Haitian Art Society is a community art collectors, gallerists, museum professionals, scholars, and researchers who share an appreciation and affection for Haitian Art. "Collections" has links to a variety of works in public and private collections. The Society's goal is to strengthen and expand interest in, and understanding of, Haitian art and artists. It is an all-volunteer, non-profit group founded in 2003 and affiliated with the City of Waterloo, Iowa. - JCB Archive of Early American Images
A database of graphic representations of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, drawn entirely from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825. - Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic (exhibition)
Photographs of the Afro-Atlantic Sacred Art Collection at Duke University. Provides footage of ritual, videotaped interviews with priests, scholars, art dealers, and collectors, and “virtual online tours,” which tell stories about the deepest realities through the physical embodiments of black divinity. Texts explore ontological ideas, cultural history, material conditions, and aesthetic genius of Africa and its diaspora.