Sam and Mary Cooke have assembled at Kualii, their Manoa Valley home, a cultural treasure unsurpassed by any other private collection in the islands. This collection of paintings, drawings, and prints of the Hawaiian Islands uniquely reflects the kamaaina appreciation the Cookes have for various locales throughout the islands, including generations-long associations with people and places, and a love of legends and history. In this book, historian and bibliographer David W. Forbes presents a selection of the collection's finest works.

Paintings, Prints, and Drawings of Hawaii From the Sam and Mary Cooke Collection

Arts & Photography

Forbes, David W.

History & Criticism

Manoa Heritage Center

Since the beginning of the era of European exploration in the Pacific, in the late eighteenth century, the Hawaiian Islands have been the subject of literally thousands of paintings, prints, and drawings. In this unprecedented survey, author David W. Forbes frames the context in which visiting and resident artists experienced and portrayed the islands, and presents a selection of their finest renderings. The artworks create a revealing continuum of the dramatic changes affecting Hawaii and its people over a period of more than 160 years. The earliest paintings are by John Webber, official artist for Captain James Cook's third Pacific voyage. During the first-known European landing in Hawaii, on January 21, 1778, Webber went ashore with Cook, sketching the terrain, dwellings, and native people. Other explorer-artists followed. In the mid-nineteenth century, Western missionaries and traders settled in the Hawaiian Islands. First whaling and later sugar dominated the economy. Artists, many of them amateurs, remained for longer periods of time, producing pictures that reflect true familiarity with Hawaii's everyday life and customs. Late in the nineteenth century, with the arrival and residence of artists such as Charles Furneaux, Joseph Strong, and Jules Tavernier, a distinctive and recognizable school of Hawaiian painting developed. Known as the Volcano School, it is perhaps best exemplified by Tavernier's sensational depictions of craters and eruptions. Other artists, fresh from exposure to the current trends in Europe and America, reinterpreted the lush light and varied landscape of Hawaii to create a distinctive body of work. With the dawning of the twentieth century, art in Hawaii reflected the diminishing isolation of the islands and the emergence of a multicultural modernist tradition. Important mainland artists, notably Georgia O'Keeffe, visited the islands and created striking and original images. Resident artist such as Isami Doi and Keichi Kimura developed a legacy of Hawaiian modernism. In the unique collection, we discover a place--its geography, culture, and history--as well as the character, background, and training of the artists who tried to capture it. This landmark survey is a tribute to the pictorial richness and diversity of Western encounters with Hawaii.

Encounters With Paradise: Views of Hawaii and Its People, 1778-1941

Univ of Hawaii Pr

This book documents artistic views of Hawaii and its people from 1778 to 1941. Since the beginning of the era of European exploration in the Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands have been the subject of thousands of paintings, prints and drawings. In this study, David W. Forbes frames the context in which visiting and resident artists experienced and portrayed the islands, and presents the finest of their works, to reveal a continuum of dramatic changes affecting Hawaii and its people over a period of more than 160 years. The earliest paintings are by John Webber, official artist for Captain James Cook's third Pacific voyage, arriving in Hawaii in 1778. Other explorer-artists followed as, in the mid-19th century, did Western missionaries and traders. First whaling and then sugar dominated the islands economy. Artists of the period produced pictures that reflected the colourful Hawaiian 1ife and customs of the time. Late in the 19t century, with the arrival of artists such as Charles Furneaux,

Honolulu Academy of Arts

Treasures of Hawaiian History: From the Collection of the Hawaiian Historical Society

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Between 1834 and 1844, a remarkable collection of copperplate engravings issued forth from the Lahainaluna Seminary, a school on the island of Maui run by the Hawaiian Mission. Collectively, these engravings―views of the Hawaiian Islands,including towns and rural settlements, portraits, objects of natural history, and original maps and charts―form one of the most important visual records of nineteenth-century Hawaii before the age of photography. Although most of the drawings on which the engravings are based were done by members of the Hawaiian Mission, the actual engravings are all the work of young Hawaiians, many of them students at the Lahainaluna Seminary. This is the first study of the entire body of engraved work produced by Hawaiians at Lahainaluna Seminary and includes biographical information on the young engravers.

Engraved at Lahainaluna: A History of Printmaking by Hawaiians at the Lahainaluna Seminary, 1834-1844

History

Americas

Hawaiian Mission Childrens Society

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