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Master Painters of Haiti, 1990
Testament: M. G. Smith, 1994
The Dawning of the Renaissance in the Americas, 1995
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Painters of Haiti |
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This exhibit represented the first showing of the Siri von
Reis core collection of Haitian paintings in New York City.
The work of Philomé Obin Antoine Obin, Télémaque
Obin, Sénèque Obin, Jasmin Joseph, Wilson Biguad,
Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue, Micius Stéphane, Sainave
Philippe-Auguste, Riguad Benoit, Bourmond Byron, Wilmino Domond,
Hector Hyppolite, Robert St. Brice, André Pierre and
Peterson Laurent were displayed.
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Testament:
M. G. Smith |
M.G. Smith
was Franklin M. Crosby Professor Emeritus of the Human Environment
at Yale University. He also served as Senior Research Fellow
at the Research Institute for the Study of Man, and the Institute
of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies
(Jamaica); Professor of Anthropology at the University of California,
Los Angeles; and as Professor and Head of the Department of
Anthropology, University College London. Born in Jamaica, Professor
Smith received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from University
College London and carried out extensive field research in Northern
Nigeria, Jamaica, Grenada, and Carriacou. A prolific writer,
he authored twenty-four books and numerous articles on theory,
on Northern Nigeria, and on the West Indies. Among these are:
Government in Zazzau, 1800-1950 (1960), West Indian
Family Structure (1962), Kinship and Community
in Carriacou (1962), Dark Puritan (1963), The
Plural Society in the British West lndies (1965), Stratification
in Grenada (1965), Pluralism in Africa, (1969), Corporations
and Society: The Social Anthropology of Collective Action,
(1974), The Affairs of Daura, (1978), Pluralism, Politics
& Ideology in the Creole Caribbean (1991), Government
in Kano, 1350-1950 (1997) and The Study of Social Structure,
(1998). Among his awards are the Wellcome Medal for Anthropological
Research, the Curle Bequest Essay Prize, and the Amaury Book
Prize from the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 1972, Jamaica
bestowed upon Professor Smith its Order of Merit.
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The Dawning of the Renaissance |
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Naples, 1487
Rome,
1518
Mexico, 1540 |
Graziano Gasparini, noted architect and art historian, created
a visual representation of the transformative influence of
15th and early 16th century Italian Renaissance architects
and artists on the architecture, ornamental motifs and art
created during the 16th century in the Americas. The exhibit
consisted mainly of detailed comparisons of Italian cathedrals
and palatial residences with their later formed counterparts
in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Ecuador.
The beautiful panels convincingly portrayed the rapid adoption
and transformation of Italian Renaissance architectural and
artistic forms in the New World.
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