Gerard Valcin

Gerard Valcin was born to poor parents in 1925 in Port-au-Prince. His father was an artist who started Valcin painting when he was 22. Valcin worked as a tile-setter until he joined the Centre d'Art in 1950 with the encouragement of Dewitt Peters. He is credited with bringing his half-brother Pierre-Joseph Valcin to the Centre in the early 1960's. He is the uncle of Favrange Valcin, who paints under the name Valcin II. Several artists, including Madsen Mompremier, Dieudonne Rouanez, and Louis Joseph, have studied with him.

Valcin is considered one of the most significant of Haiti's second generation painters along with

Wilmino Domond and André Pierre.

He died May 15, 1988.

Exhibits

2012 Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou.  Nottingham Contemporary

Permanent Collections

Musee d'Art Haitien du College Saint Pierre, Port-au-Prince

The Milwaukee Museum of Art

The Waterloo Museum of Art, Iowa

Published in

Haiti: Art Naif, Art Vodou (1988),

Where Art is Joy (Rodman, 1988),

Island on Fire (Demme, 1997),

Dialogue du Réel et de l’Imaginaire (1990).

Stebich, Ute. A Haitian Celebration: Art and Culture. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1992

http://www.haitianarthopkins.com/ValcinG.htm

Farquharson, Alex and Leah Gordon Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou.  2012. Nottingham Contemporary. Nottingham, England.

Nadal, Marie-Jose and Gerald Bloncourt. 1986. La Peinture Haitienne, Haitian Arts. Paris: Editions Nathan

Alexis, Gerald  2000  Peintres Haïtiens   Editions Cercle d’Art