Tree of Life with Roots Haitian Metal Sculpture Museum of International Folk Art Robert Gribbroek

Robert Gribbroek

of the great days of the railroad

Matthiessen confessed to Cheney that “never once has the freshness of your life lost any trace of its magic for me

Richard Diebenkorn

and the sensual abstraction of Huguette Caland

Tree of Life with Roots Haitian Metal Sculpture Museum of International Folk Art Robert GribbroekOil drum art was developed in Haiti in the early 1950s by blacksmith Georges Liautaud. He began by creating metal crosses for the graves in the Croix des Bouquets cemetery, and was later encouraged by American teacher, DeWitt Peters, to expand the art form and begin creating decorative metal sculptures. Eventually, Liautaud took on a few male apprentices, and today, hundreds of men have continued with the craft. Creating oil drum art brings a steady