Surinamese School
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Installation view Surinamese School: Painting from Paramaribo to Amsterdam, 12 December 2020 until 31 May 2021, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Installation view Surinamese School: Painting from Paramaribo to Amsterdam, 12 December 2020 until 31 May 2021, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Installation view Surinamese School: Painting from Paramaribo to Amsterdam, 12 December 2020 until 31 May 2021, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Installation view Surinamese School: Painting from Paramaribo to Amsterdam, 12 December 2020 until 31 May 2021, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Installation view Surinamese School: Painting from Paramaribo to Amsterdam, 12 December 2020 until 31 May 2021, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Installation view Surinamese School: Painting from Paramaribo to Amsterdam, 12 December 2020 until 31 May 2021, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Installation view Surinamese School: Painting from Paramaribo to Amsterdam, 12 December 2020 until 31 May 2021, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Installation view Surinamese School: Painting from Paramaribo to Amsterdam, 12 December 2020 until 31 May 2021, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Curatorial team Surinamese School, (fLTR) Mitchell Esajas, Inez Blanca van der Scheer, Ellen de Vries, Jessica de Abreu, Bart Krieger, Carlien Lammers and Claire van Els. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Armand Baag, The Fabric Dealer, 1976, oil on canvas. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Armand Baag, Rasta Morning, 1980, oil on canvas. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Armand Baag, Baag Familiy Portrait, 1989, oil on canvas. Collection Joyce, Sura and Surina Baag, Amsterdam

Erwin de Vries, Abstract, 1969, oil on canvas. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Jules Chin A Foeng, Chinese Flip-Flops, 1980-1983, oil on canvas. Collection Patrick Chin A Foeng

Nola Hatterman, Louis Richard Drenthe / On the terrace, 1930, oil on canvas. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

René Tosari, Untitled (400 years of Resistance and Fight Suriname), 1981, linocut on paper. Collection René Tosari

Paul Woei, Portrait Karsimen, 81 years, 1991, chalk on paper. Collection Niemel, Rotterdam

Wim Bos Verschuur, Rice Wittie Boitie, The Good Expectation, date unknown, oil on canvas. Kenneth E. Beeker (b’ker), Amsterdam

Rinaldo Klas, Escaped, 1978–1979, collection Ministerie van Education, Science and Culture , Directorate Culture, Suriname. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Armand Baag, Abaysa e go na maysa, ca. 1973, collection Sura and Surina Baag, Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Frank Creton, Refugee, 1983, collection Factor-IJ. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Ron Flu, Women of Prayer in the Palm Garden, 1964, collection T.P. Flu (zoon), Rijswijk. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Jules Chin A Foeng, Portrait of the Artist’s Grandmother, 1973, collection Patrick Chin A Foeng, Leiderdorp. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Wilgo Elshot, Muriël, 1982, collection P. F. Elshot, Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij