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Haiti, Dorothy Hood’s first truly monumental painting, was the centerpiece of her 1970 exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. At the time Hood stated, “I feel that I have met my scale. I have now been able to do what I have never done before. . . . For me this has been the difference between a small orchestra and full symphony.”
Haiti also represents an unusually political statement for the artist. The swift-moving washes of gold earth tones and the blue and white of sky and sea are united under the shadow of an ominous black center. The painting conjures the island of Haiti as a "newly born wonder," Hood explained, at once lyrical and tragic.
ProvenanceGiven to MFAH, 1970.
Exhibition History"Dorothy Hood: Recent Paintings," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, May 8–June 14, 1970.
"Dorothy Hood Paintings," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, July 6–August 6, 1972.
"Women Artists '76: A Celebration," McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, May 23–June 30, 1976.
"Dorothy Hood Retrospective," Meredith Long & Co., Houston, March 27–April 16, 1984.
"Finders/Keepers," The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, May 10–August 3, 1997.
“Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 23, 2000–March 18, 2001.
"Color Field: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 28–August 4, 2002.
"The Color of Being/El Color del Ser: Dorothy Hood, 1918–2000," The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, September 30, 2016–January 8, 2017.
"Kindred Spirits: Louise Nevelson and Dorothy Hood," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 3, 2018–February 3, 2019.
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