Untitled (Owl)
Sisson Blanchard, Haitian, 1929 - 1981
1960s (collected in 1966)
Oil on Masonite
Overall: 15 13/16 × 11 3/4 in. (40.2 × 29.8 cm)
Frame: 16 3/4 × 12 11/16 in. (42.5 × 32.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Micaela and Jack Mendelsohn, Class of 1956
2005.7.1
Geography
Place Made: Haiti, Caribbean, Central America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Americas
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in paint, lower left: S.BLANCHArd
Course History
ANTH 50, AAAS 88, LACS 50, Haiti at the Crossroads, Chelsey Kivland, Spring 2013
ANTH 50.4, AAAS 88.5, LACS 50.2, Race, Power, and Development in Global Haiti, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2013
ANTH 7, Haiti and Its Visitors, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2019
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-December 12, 2005.
Publication History
Katherine W. Hart et al., Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005, pp. 68, ill. p. 69, cat. no. 26.
Provenance
Collected in Port Au-Prince, Haiti prior to July 1966; Jack and Micaela Mendelsohn, Washington, D.C.; given to present collection, 2005.
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