The Two Sisters #2

Roland Dorcély, Haitian, 1930 - 2017

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about 1957

Tempera on cardboard

Sight: 47 in. (119.4 cm)

Sight: 31 in. (78.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist

P.958.46

Geography

Place Made: Haiti, Caribbean, Central America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Americas

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, upper right: Dorcély

Course History

ANTH 7, Haiti and Its Visitors, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2019

Spanish 60.04, Caribbean Afrodecendancies, Magdalena Lopez, Spring 2023

First Year Student Enrichment Program – Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Colleen Lannon, Summer 2023

First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Mokhtar Bouba, Summer 2023

Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023

Writing 2.05, Why Write, Anyway?, Erkki Mackey, Fall 2023

Writing 5.24, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2023

Writing 5.25, Photographic Representations, Amanda Wetsel, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, and Northeast Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 22, 2023–May 25, 2024.

Provenance

The artist; given to present collection, 1958.

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