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• Comment: Passing the criteria at WP:NARTIST would probably depend on work found in public and private collections both in the US and Europe, but you provide no details or sources. Theroadislong (talk) 15:11, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Just noting that the first source appears to be closely associated with the subject, and the second is authored by the subject's wife, ie. neither is independent. DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:41, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: I am not persuaded he passes WP:NARTIST nor WP:NJOURNALIST. Better referencing is required please. Vimeo is unsuitable as a reference 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 14:28, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Paul-Henri Bourguignon (1906–1988), an American visual artist, art critic, writer and journalist, was born in Brussels, Belgium. He studied painting at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and art history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels.^[1]. Between the two world wars Bourguignon traveled through Spain, Corsica, France, Italy, Bosnia, North Africa, and the Caribbean.^[2]

In 1944 Bourguignon began working as an art critic for Le Phare, Brussels' daily newspaper, and in 1947 convinced the paper to send him to Haiti, where he wrote travel articles for the paper and photographed the Haitian people^[3]. In May of 1947, he met his future wife, the anthropologist Erika Eichhorn, who was doing anthropological fieldwork on Haiti.^[4]

In July 1948 Bourguignon left Haiti for Peru, but returned to the US in 1950 to marry Erika Eichhorn, in Columbus, Ohio, where she had accepted a teaching position in the Ohio State University's Anthropology Department. Over the next 38 years Bourguignon painted and sketched full time, primarily remembered scenes from his previous world travels.^[5]

Most of Bourguignon's art consists of people, both individuals and groups, and landscapes; later in life however he began producing abstractions. Although he worked in gouache in the 1950s, he later turned to acrylics. In addition to paintings Bourguignon produced pencil, pastel, and ink drawings. His work has been described as timeless, passionate and visionary^[6], and is found in public and private collections both in the US and Europe.^[7] Since the 1960s Bourguignon's art has been exhibited in over 50 solo shows^[8], primarily in Ohio but also in New York City, Sedona, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14]} His art was used to illustrate Edward Lense’s Via Crucis: The Way of the Cross.^[15]

Bourguignon died on September 22, 1988, in Columbus, Ohio. After his death, the Ohio History Center in Columbus recreated his art studio, which is on display as a permanent exhibit^[16]

• Adams, Henry. 2016. Paul-Henri Bourguignon Citizen of the World. Artist Archives of the Western Reserve. pp. 4-5. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W30u8xaoMMqcQV83Bov1hxpS_g2_I_9tq1209Dy4iuA/edit

• Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. 2013. Paul-Henri Bourguignon (1906 - 1988). https://www.artistsarchives.org/archived_artist/paul-henri-bourguignon/

• Bourguignon, Erika. 2004. “Haiti and the Art of Paul-Henri Bourguignon.” Research in African Literatures 35.2 (2004) 173-188. [HAPB] <https://www.jstor.org/stable/3821352?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents>.

• Bourguignon, Erika. 2013. “The Painter's Eye: Paul-Henri Bourguignon's Haitian Photographs.” American Imago 
Volume 70, Number 3, Fall 2013, 
pp. 357-383. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26305056?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents

• Columbus Museum of Art. 2014. Paul-Henri Bourguignon: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective. ISBN 978-0-918881-50-2. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H-9MePL03kQ5FY_twGwVM6MdMNRaRIEqJSGW6UCftAg/edit

• Dayan, Joan. 1996. "The Craft of Memory: Bourguignon's Haitian Paintings." Exhibition Catalog: Paul-Henri Bourguignon 1906-1988 The Haitian Works. Columbus, Ohio: Gallery V, 1996, pp 2-4.

• Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati. ND. "Wonderheads: Featuring Paul-Henri Bourguignon’s Expressionist Painting." https://www.eiselefineart.com/single-post/wonderheads

• Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon obituary. 2015. The Columbus Dispatch. Feb 21, 2015. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dispatch/name/erika-bourguignon-obituary?id=16454819&fhid=8693

• Lense, Edward. 2013. Via Crucis: The Way of the Cross. Igloo Press (reprinted in 2023 as The Bronze Serpent: Liturgical Poems 1875-2014. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications).

• Musee d'ixelles - Museum van Elsene. 2020. "AT HOME - Intérieurs de la collection du Musée d’Ixelles: Sympathique cette vue depuis le balcon de Paul-Henri Bourguignon." https://www.facebook.com/museedixelles/photos/a.376685475704170/3021938104512214/?type=3&paipv=0&eav=AfZK_Yqj1YZ3kbah_DpvYF6mJJMYBcE-HZ7tI3-GdYz7MJWR6cCZmUIaXdKfU9-gWis&_rdr

• Paolucci, Christina. 2019. "Ohio History Center - Paul Bourguignon Exhibit." Vimeo video. https://vimeo.com/355383337

• Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center of Worthington. https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=209429

• Springfield Museum of Art. 2023. "Seeing Is Enough: Paul-Henri Bourguignon Apr 7–Jul 16, 2023". https://www.springfieldart.net/?exhibition=paul-henri-bourguignon

• Ventana Fine Art. "Paul-Henri Bourguignon (1906-1988)" Exhibit website. https://www.ventanafineart.com/paul-henri-bourguignon

• WOSU Public Media: Paul-Henri Bourguignon - dART

• Bourguignon's Facebook page.