Post #379353 by Koolau on Sat, May 10, 2008 1:28 AM

I was searching through the TC archives tonight and this old post sparked a memory of a news story I read last year.

In 2006, Puamana wrote about a mural by famed Hawaiian artist Herb Kane that was stolen from these old resort ruins on the Big Island. Kane has recreated the mural in a new painting:

The accompaning article reads:

*Revenge: Living legend Herb Kawainui Kane is best known for his paintings of ancient Hawaii.
He'd done a 24-foot mural of ancient Punaluu for a history center near Punaluu's famous black sand beach. The center was trashed by a 1975 tsunami, but the mural, miraculously unharmed, stayed on in the abandoned building. Until about a year ago, when thieves sawed the wall into five pieces and carted it away.

"I knew what to do," says Kane. He recently finished a new version of the painting, this time with more detail and refinement. "That leaves the thieves with what is now little more than a preliminary sketch," he says. "Vengeance is mine."*

Very cool, Mr. Kane - mahalo.

http://starbulletin.com/2007/08/19/news/heckathorn.html