Hawaii-inspired Art Deco works subject of new Honolulu Museum of Art exhibition-Eugene Savage murals - Beyond Tiki

C creativenative Tiki Socialite Drifting on my outrigger canoe Joined: Feb 17, 2012 Posts: 353	C creativenative Posted posted on Sat, Jul 19, 2014 5:54 AM No matter where you are TLB, I appreciate the long distance heads up. Here are some pics from the Museum today. Luckily the Museum lifted the “no photography” band a couple days ago for the exhibit. Also my main camera on my cell phone couldn’t adjust, automatically nor manually to low indoor light or night conditions so I had to use my rear “selfie” camera which worked well but one has to put up with my ugly mug until I got shooting semi blindly from the side. Before the Art Deco Hawaii exhibit here are some classic Pacific art. Me, with a couple Robert Dampier portraits of some young Kamehamehas Theodore Wore painting Hawaiian Troubadour by Hubert Vos who, I think, influenced others like Sexton & Leetag One of the first Pacific as a subject artist, Jon Webber from one of James Cook’s voyages Of course, got to see a Gauguin Me, in the Pacific Island room with lots of religious idols and carved images Curiously, an exhibit of western religious idols and carved images was right next door to the Pacific Island exhibit. What is the Museum trying to say? To the Art Deco Hawaii Exhibit A beautiful limestone carving by Marguerite Blasingame greets you Than works by Arman Manookian. Pictured below is my favorite of his works Than the Holy of Holies of Deco Pacific art, the Eugene Savage room, with for the first time all six of the commissioned murals for Matson industries were displayed in one location. They are much bigger than my photos indicate, just refer to the wide photo of the room for a better perspective on scale. There are tiki in some of the paintings. Also in the room were original Matson Oceanliner menus of another Hawaii-Deco master of the era, Frank McIntosh Continuing the rest of the exhibit, here are some other samples. Two of about 8 prints buy another Deco Master John Kelly Surfers from Charles Barlett Mural from Ester Bruton R. F. Heckman painting, a forerunner to future airline travel posters Hawaiian teen by Lloyd Sexton Couple significant paintings, first from Gene Presser who along with Edward Eggleston (second painting) and New York music sheet artists, were some of the first to put Caucasian women in the Polynesian attire. For some, an even bigger fantasy (including the women). There were many more great artist in this exhibition of Hawaiian Art Deco but surprisingly absent were master Art Deco artist Eric Gill, Millard Sheets and Georgia O'Keeffe (O’Keeffe does have a couple works of her Hawaii period in the Art Deco Hawaii book published as a companion to the exhibit but I don’t recall seeing her work in the exhibit itself or I would of taken a picture of it.) Hope I don’t blow up the TC server with this huge post and hope all can enjoy it, even with my mug in some of the pics. Matt CreativeNative Tiki Movies & Tiki TV @ southseascinema.org [ Edited by: creativenative 2014-07-19 06:19 ]

No matter where you are TLB, I appreciate the long distance heads up. Here are some pics from the Museum today. Luckily the Museum lifted the “no photography” band a couple days ago for the exhibit. Also my main camera on my cell phone couldn’t adjust, automatically nor manually to low indoor light or night conditions so I had to use my rear “selfie” camera which worked well but one has to put up with my ugly mug until I got shooting semi blindly from the side.

Before the Art Deco Hawaii exhibit here are some classic Pacific art.

Me, with a couple Robert Dampier portraits of some young Kamehamehas

Theodore Wore painting

Hawaiian Troubadour by Hubert Vos who, I think, influenced others like Sexton & Leetag

One of the first Pacific as a subject artist, Jon Webber from one of James Cook’s voyages

Of course, got to see a Gauguin

Me, in the Pacific Island room with lots of religious idols and carved images

Curiously, an exhibit of western religious idols and carved images was right next door to the Pacific Island exhibit. What is the Museum trying to say?

To the Art Deco Hawaii Exhibit

A beautiful limestone carving by Marguerite Blasingame greets you

Than works by Arman Manookian. Pictured below is my favorite of his works

Than the Holy of Holies of Deco Pacific art, the Eugene Savage room, with for the first time all six of the commissioned murals for Matson industries were displayed in one location. They are much bigger than my photos indicate, just refer to the wide photo of the room for a better perspective on scale. There are tiki in some of the paintings.

Also in the room were original Matson Oceanliner menus of another Hawaii-Deco master of the era, Frank McIntosh

Continuing the rest of the exhibit, here are some other samples.

Two of about 8 prints buy another Deco Master John Kelly

Surfers from Charles Barlett

Mural from Ester Bruton

R. F. Heckman painting, a forerunner to future airline travel posters

Hawaiian teen by Lloyd Sexton

Couple significant paintings, first from Gene Presser who along with Edward Eggleston (second painting) and New York music sheet artists, were some of the first to put Caucasian women in the Polynesian attire. For some, an even bigger fantasy (including the women).

There were many more great artist in this exhibition of Hawaiian Art Deco but surprisingly absent were master Art Deco artist Eric Gill, Millard Sheets and Georgia O'Keeffe (O’Keeffe does have a couple works of her Hawaii period in the Art Deco Hawaii book published as a companion to the exhibit but I don’t recall seeing her work in the exhibit itself or I would of taken a picture of it.) Hope I don’t blow up the TC server with this huge post and hope all can enjoy it, even with my mug in some of the pics.

Matt
CreativeNative

Tiki Movies & Tiki TV @ southseascinema.org

[ Edited by: creativenative 2014-07-19 06:19 ]

Post #723062 by creativenative on Sat, Jul 19, 2014 5:54 AM