Perhaps the last great master of Haitian "primitive" art (the other being P.J. Valcin, below), Alexandre Gregoire passed away at his home in Jacmel, Haiti on July, 28, 2001. You may read a more extensive obituary published by the Haiti Support Network (click to read the obituary). We were fortunate to visit Gregoire in his Port-au-Prince studio on several occasions, and have shown his work for the last ten years.

One of the great masters of 20th century Mexican art, and a dear friend of ours, Rodolfo Morales passed away in January of 2001. His obituary was published in the New York Times (click to read the obituary) on February 6, 2001. We have been privileged to show Rodolfo's work for twelve years, to meet him many times, to visit him in his Ocotlan, Mexico studio, and in 1997 to host him in his visit to Indigo Arts Gallery in Philadelphia. We will miss him.

February 6, 2001

Rodolfo Morales, Painter of Peasant Life in Mexico, Dies at 75

By GINGER THOMPSON

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5 — Rodolfo Morales, whose surreal paintings of rural Mexican culture won acclaim around the world, died last Tuesday in Oaxaca. He was 75.

He was being treated for pancreatic cancer, according to news reports in Mexico.

I visited Cuba in February and March 2000, while people in both our countries had been worked into a frenzy over the fate of a six year old boy named Elian. The media's fixation on the little boy playing on the back yard slide had turned Miami into what one writer called "Planet Elian". While cynical American politicians who normally preach "family values" conspired to keep Elian from rejoining his father, the Cuban government had realized what a massive propaganda gift the United States had bestowed upon them. They made the most of it.