Roosevelt Sanon is a
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
an artist who was born in 1951 in
Jacmel to Bejamine Jean-Pierre Sanon and Clément Sanon. He began painting at age 17 with no instruction. He later received mentoring from Raphaël Surin and others. His siblings Lamar and Jeannet Sanon are also painters. When he was 23, Sanon was the grand prizewinner in an art competition sponsored by the German
embassy in Haiti and the ''Musée d’Art Haïtien.'' Afterwards, he traveled to
Germany to study the work of European artists.
From 1979 to 1985, Sanon has exhibited his work in
France,
Switzerland
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,
England and Haiti between 1979 and 1985.
Some of his work is displayed in the Haitian embassy in
Washington, DC.
His better known pieces include: ''A river runs through it'', ''Mapou tree'' and ''The walking tree''.
References
1951 births
Living people
Haitian painters
Haitian male painters
Naïve painters
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