Sisson Blanchard

Sisson Blanchard is a Haitian painter born in 1929 in the Southern village of Trouin. After migrating to Port-au-Prince, he found work as a gardener in the Centre d’Art. He began painting in 1948 and his very first works were shown at the Centre d’Art shortly after. His subjects range from paintings of birds which approach the point of abstraction to scenes of farm life. His work has been exhibited all over the world and is included in the permanent collections of the Davenport Museum of Art and the Waterloo Museum of Art, both of which are in Iowa. The artist passed away in 1981. His son; Smith Blanchard, is also a respected Haitian painter.