La Fossette vers 1897: Les Bourgeois du Cap Revenant de leurs Habitations (The "Pit" (a Cap-Haitien neighborhood) about 1897: The Bourgeois Returning to Their Houses)
Philomé Obin, Haitian, 1892 - 1986
1958
Oil on panel
Overall: 24 × 30 in. (61 × 76.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Jay R. Wolf, Class of 1951
P.976.205
Geography
Place Made: Haiti, Caribbean, Central America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Americas
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: PH Obin, Cap Haitien 1958
Publication History
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.27, Fig.1.
Provenance
Julius (Jay) Rosenthal Wolf (1929-1976), Class of 1951, New York, New York; bequeathed to present collection, 1976.
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