Louverture Poisson (1914-1985) 14"x11" Village Scene c1960 Oil on Canvas Unframed Painting #1RS Artists/Sylvain Bien Aime and Ramapo College in Mahwah

and Ramapo College in Mahwah

The artwork is signed in the middle

including the United States

1956-1993) was born in Cap Haitian in 1956

The two women are framed within softly angled shapes that interact with the surrounding still life elements

Louverture Poisson (1914-1985) 14"x11" Village Scene c1960 Oil on Canvas Unframed Painting #1RS Artists/Sylvain Bien Aime and Ramapo College in MahwahThis 1960's oil on canvas by Louverture Poisson captures a quiet moment of daily life in rural Haiti. A woman in pink cradles a goat in the foreground while another figure in white stands nearby holding a long pole beneath a tree, and a woman in a red head wrap looks on from the doorway of a thatched roof home. Poisson's meticulous attention to light and detail, from the dappled shadows on the packed earth to the texture of the surrounding foliage,