Stevenson Magloire

Stevenson Magloire (1963-1994) was a famous artist and painter born on August 16, 1963 in Pétionville, Haiti. He was an important contributor to the School of Saint Soleil art movement. His paintings are bold and expressionistic, frequently incorporating people, birds, and "vodou" and Christian symbolism. Magloire was named after Adlai Stevenson, a politician in the United States. 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, Louisianne Saint-Fleurant, and his brother, Ramphis, also chose art as an avocation. Already a collectable artist by the mid-1990s, Magloire was assassinated on October 9, 1994. He was stoned to death by paramilitary "attachés" of the Raoul Cédras military "junta" while walking on the street in Port-au-Prince. His death was memorialized by his friend, Richard A. Morse, in the ballad "Ayizan", released by the "rasin" band RAM on their second album, "Puritan Vodou", in 1997.

In episode 557 of The Dawn and Drew Show, Dawn Miceli's sister found a painting by Magloire in the miscellaneous bin at Goodwill in West Bend, Wisconsin, purchased it for $1.49, and gave it to Drew Domkus. - [http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewdomkus/484068865/ photo of painting]

External links

* [http://www.galeriedartnader.com/stevensonmagloirelevel1.htm Catalog of Magloire art at Galerie d'Art Nader]