Gurupada Chitrakar, one of the finest West Bengal scroll painters of his generation passed away on June 29, 2021, as the delta variant of the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged India.
Catastrophic fire in the "Grand Rue" Artists' Community in Haiti - and now COVID-19
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Saturday, March 21, 2020 - 12:00am
With all the hardship and tragedy in the world right now, with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, I will mention one tragedy, because most of you will not have heard of it, and it impacts several of our artists in Haiti.
I was sad to learn the news that Gerard Fortuné, the playful, prolific and much loved Haitian naif artist passed away on December 8th, 2019. I have heard several dates cited for Gerard's birth, - 1933, 1925, and according to the obituary below from Le Centre d'Art, 1924.
