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Mystical Imagination:
The Art of Haitian Master Hector Hyppolite
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Hector Hyppolite Papa Zaca and Papa Ogoun, Oil on Board, Circa 1947
Collection of Jonathan Demme


May 18 through July 5, 2009
Art Museum of the Americas
201 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm

OPENING RECEPTION: Monday, May 18 at 6pm

"Mystical Imagination” marks the sole exhibition in Washington of works by Haitian master Hector Hyppolite during Haiti’s Year of Hyppolite.  Comprised of more than fifty works from public and private collections, the exhibition reflects Hyppolite’s remarkably prolific period, from 1945 until his death in 1948.

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Mystical Imagination is presented in collaboration with the Haïtian Art Society, the Permanent Mission of Haiti to the Organization of American States, and the Waterloo Center for the Arts of Iowa.