A Gallery of Haitian Art
SINCE 1974

Fritz St. Jean is one of the best of the third generation of Haitian Artists. He was a member of the group that worked together in the mid 1970's in the atelier of the Galerie Monnin on the Grand Rue in Port-au-Prince. Some of his contemporaries in those heady creative days were the Blaise brothers, Serge, St. Louis, Fabolon and Andre, Simil, Jean-Louis Senatus, Eric Jean-Louis, Murat St. Vil, Fritzner Lamour, the Sanon brothers, and others. Some of these painters have been referred to in print as "The School of Jacmel", a misnomer; they should more properly be known as "The School of Monnin" because it was Michel Monnin who organized and nurtured them.

Fritz emigrated to New York in 1985 and worked as a waiter to support his family; he didn't stop painting and in fact by the end of the 80's his work had become stronger and more charged with political and social themes. Two monumental canvases of his graced the entrance and exit doors of the landmark show "The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou" at the Natural History Museum in New York in 1998.