In Search of Frank Bowers... - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sat, Mar 2, 2013 2:42 PM By the way, I am not sure if the menu cover design was done by Bowers. It was a generic template used by other tropical restaurants at the time: The native maiden here is more in Bowers style than some of the line art on the previous pages, but I tried to compare the palm trees and came back with the impression that Bowers must not have liked them: Not even in his clearly Polynesian paintings for the Leilani Hut and the Zamboanga did he make much use of them. This is interestingly unusual considering what a standard prop the palm was in any island girl scene at that time!

By the way, I am not sure if the menu cover design was done by Bowers. It was a generic template used by other tropical restaurants at the time:

The native maiden here is more in Bowers style than some of the line art on the previous pages, but I tried to compare the palm trees and came back with the impression that Bowers must not have liked them:

Not even in his clearly Polynesian paintings for the Leilani Hut and the Zamboanga did he make much use of them. This is interestingly unusual considering what a standard prop the palm was in any island girl scene at that time!

Post #669444 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Mar 2, 2013 2:42 PM