Post #607002 by Psycho Tiki D on Fri, Sep 16, 2011 2:03 PM

As is above, so is below...

After a week and a few days, I was finally able to arrange a time to meet up with the seller and purchase this Bill Erwin velvet painting. I was just shy of owning both of the paintings, a good friend and velvet collector managed to score the other one which is called "Lote" and was painted in 1969.

I am not sure if the Erwin is titled, the back of the painting has a paper covering on the frame.

A little history about both paintings.

The last owner was Bob Shaw. These paintings were purchased by his father, Wally Shaw at a gallery in Waikiki. The gallery was located in the International Market Place. Bob seems to remember the gallery being located on the left side of the entrance of the International Marketplace; does not remember the name though.

Bob Shaw lived in Hawaii in 1957 when he was three months old and again in the late 1960's. The box that the painting came in had an address on Kalakaua with the Shaw name on it. Bob told me his father met one of the artists at the gallery at the time he purchased the paintings, again he could not remember which artist it was. Bob is going to send me more information and I will update this post when he does.

Happy to own my second Bill Erwin velvet.

Oh yeah. Thanks to those who mentioned to Bob he was selling them too cheap.

Later,

PTD

[ Edited by: Psycho Tiki D 2011-09-16 14:05 ]