Stevenson Magloire (August 16, 1963 – October 9, 1994) was a

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

born in Pétion-Ville,

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. He is the son of artist

Louisiane Saint Fleurant Louisiane Saint Fleurant (11 September 1924 – 1 June 2005) was a Haitian female artist and painter. She was a founder of the peasant Saint Soleil art movement. Saint Fleurant's paintings often depict maternal scenes of females, children, trees ...

, a founder of the School of Soleil art movement. Magloire's paintings are bold and expressionistic, frequently incorporating people, birds, and Vodou and

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symbolism.

Background

Magloire was named after Adlai Stevenson, a politician in the

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. Uncommon in Haiti, his given name was so frequently misspelled as "Stivenson" by registration clerks and school officials, that he eventually used that spelling himself. Magloire was the son of another famous Haitian artist,

, and his brother, Ramphis, also chose art as an avocation. Already a collectable artist by the mid-1990s, Magloire was

assassinated Assassination is the murder of a prominent or important person, such as a head of state, head of government, politician, world leader, member of a royal family or CEO. The murder of a celebrity, activist, or artist, though they may not have a ...

on October 9, 1994. He was stoned to death by

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''attachés'' of the

Raoul Cédras Joseph Raoul Cédras (born July 9, 1949) is a Haitian former military officer who was the ''de facto'' ruler of Haiti from 1991 to 1994. Background A mulatto, Cédras was educated in the United States and was a member of the U.S.-trained ''Leop ...

military ''

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'' while walking on the street in

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. His death was memorialized by his friend, Richard A. Morse, in the ballad ''Ayizan'', released by the ''

rasin Rasin, also known as Haitian roots music, is a musical style that began in Haiti in the 1970s when musicians began combining elements of traditional Haitian Vodou ceremonial and folkloric music with various musical styles. The late 20th century ...

'' band RAM on their second album, ''Puritan Vodou'', in 1997.

References

External links

Catalog of Magloire art at Galerie d'Art Nader
1963 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Haitian painters 20th-century male artists Haitian male painters Artists from Port-au-Prince Deaths by stoning Haitian murder victims People murdered in Haiti {{Haiti-painter-stub