Post #722779 by tikilongbeach on Thu, Jul 17, 2014 8:41 AM

From Hawaii Magazine:
Among the exhibit’s most notable fine-art pieces are two series of large murals. The first series was created by Hawaii-based Armenian-American painter Arman Manookian, and was displayed at the Hotel Hana Maui (now Travaasa Hana resort) until 2010. The second series, by painter/sculptor Eugene Savage, is a series of six eight-foot-wide works commissioned in the 1930s by Matson Navigation Co., the then-dominant Hawaii passenger cruise line. Savage’s paintings feature gorgeous Hawaiian men and women smiling, dancing, and celebrating—images that aimed to entice travelers to visit the Islands.

You can read the rest of the article here:
http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2014/7/9/art_deco_hawaii_exhibit_honolulu_museum_of_art_2014

Eugene Savage. Pomp and Circumstance, c. 1940.

Arman Tateos Manookian. Red Sails, c. 1928