Hector hyppolite paintings

Haitian painter (–)

Hector Hyppolite ( – ) was a Haitian painter. Considered as the "Grand Maître of Haitian Art"^[1] Born in Saint-Marc, Hyppolite was a third generation Vodou priest, or oungan.^[2] He also made shoes and painted houses before taking up fine art painting, which he did untrained.^[2] Hyppolite spent five years outside of Haiti from to His travels abroad included trips to New York and Cuba.^[2] Although he later claimed those years had been spent in Africa, such as Dahomey and Ethiopia, scholars regard that as more likely an instance of promotional myth-making than factual.^[2]

Hyppolite's talent as an artist was noticed by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, who brought him to Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince in ^[2] There, Hyppolite worked in the studio run by Dewitt Peters, a water-colorist and schoolteacher from the United States who had come to Haiti to teach the English language as part of the