Post #196211 by OnaTiki on Wed, Nov 2, 2005 7:54 PM

Can't find anything on him either, but these just went off on E-Bay for a pretty penny.


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Tahitian In a Pagan Vally

Iti Vahine

Here is what the seller said about the artist.

• This is the best example of this genre you will ever see. The late artist Lou Behan exhibited thirty of his velvet paintings at the Hawaiian Pavilion at the New York Worlds Fair in 1964. He also exhibited in Honolulu. He had a permanent exhibition of 16 oil portraits of Air Force Military leaders, past and present at the headquarters building of the Randolph Air Force Base in Texas. He painted a portrait of Charles Lindbergh which was in the Library of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. He was a member of the friends of Tahiti. His interest in the Pacific started when he was in the Army Air Force during World War II. He served with Fourth Emergency Rescue Squadron as an Aerial Radar Observer. During 1946 and 1947, his tour of duty allowed him to visit or patrol various island groups. Among them were the Hawaiian, Marshalls, Marianas, Volcanos, Bismarks, Solomons, and the New Guinea area. In later years, he returned as a civilian to again visit the Society, Samoa, Fiji and again, Hawaii. He was completely captivated by Tahiti. He collected books and did extensive research on the Islands. *

[ Edited by: OnaTiki 2005-11-02 20:08 ]