Sisson Blanchard ( 1926-1981) 24"x72" Six Owls & Five Owlets c1970 Oil on Board Unframed Painting#1LA Category/Haitian Painters In The Diaspora combining flattened human silhouettes

combining flattened human silhouettes

a powerful work that confronts a massacre scene with vivid color and urgent narrative force

Working with a mixture of beeswax

lends the scene a sense of motion and daily rhythm along the Haitian coast

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Sisson Blanchard ( 1926-1981) 24"x72" Six Owls & Five Owlets c1970 Oil on Board Unframed Painting#1LA Category/Haitian Painters In The Diaspora combining flattened human silhouettesThis large scale oil on board by Sisson Blanchard presents a striking family of owls: six blue, densely dotted adults perched shoulder to shoulder along a green branch, their round eyes fixed outward against a deep black background, with five smaller owlets gathered beneath them among clusters of dark seed pods. Vivid red flowers and rust toned autumn leaves weave through the composition, filling the spaces between the birds and softening the black