An extensively illustrated book that includes over 500 color images, Finding Paradise looks at period objects from Hawai'i's traditional, monarchical, territorial, and early statehood eras. It features paintings and painters; drawings; prints and printmakers; photographs and photographers; and "The Hawai'i One Hundred," a list of essential books printed before the end of the nineteenth century chosen to represent the history of Hawaiian discovery and nationhood. There are also chapters on surfing; the 'ukulele; the promotion of Hawai'i as an island "paradise" in printed materials and popular kitsch; the development of Hawaiian quiltmaking; sculpture; and decorative arts including ceramics, furniture, souvenir spoons, and jewelry. Finding Paradise features objects selected from the holdings of numerous private collectors, many of which have never been seen by the public until now. They are discussed here in essays by both scholars and collectors, including DeSoto Brown, Bruce Erickson, Watters O. Martin, Jr., Derek McDonnell, Roger G. Rose, Jennifer Saville, Don R. Severson, and Loretta G. Woodard. Roger G. Rose, a historian of Hawaiian and Pacific culture, has also contributed an introductory essay on collectors and collecting. From browser to researcher, anyone with an interest in Hawai'i and Hawaiiana will find this handsome book to be an invaluable aid to understanding Island culture.

Finding paradise : island art in private collections, Honolulu Academy of Arts

Arts & Photography

Saville, Jennifer

Severson, Don R.

Horikawa, Michael D.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Univ of Hawaii Pr

During the summer of 1938, N. W. Ayer &amp; Son, one of the nation's oldest and most successful advertising firms, approached O'Keefe with a proposal from the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, Ltd. (shortly thereafter to become Dole Company). The firm invited O'Keeffe to the islands as its guest and, in exchange, requested two paintings of unspecified subject for use in a national magazine advertising campaign. O'Keefe remained in Hawai'I for two months, spending the first four weeks on O'ahu. Local newspapers noted the arrival this "famous painter of flowers" and recorded that she was visiting the islands at the invitation of Dole. She spent time on O'ahu, Maui, and Hawai'i. O'Keefe saw the pineapple fields "all sharp and silvery stretching for miles off to the beautiful irregular mountains....I was astonished - it was so beautiful". The practice of joining fine art to advertising, of creating art for commercial purposes, ha been both applauded and condemned, but O'Keefe's attitudes regarding corporate commissions underwent a change during the 1930's. The two paintings she produced for Dole were 'Pineapple Bud' and 'Heliconia - Crabs Claw Ginger' which appeared in magazines including "Vogue' and 'The Saturday Evening Post'. O'Keefe however did produce many paintings from this trip to Hawai'I and these are all included in this book.

Georgia O'Keeffe: Paintings of Hawaii

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Honolulu Academy of Arts

Arm's great cathedrals and buildings of Europe and America; accompanying essays and new material on the master printmaker as educator.

John Taylor Arms: Plates of Perfect Beauty

Graphic Design

Honolulu Academy Of Art

Book by Miles, Richard, Saville, Jennifer

A Printmaker in Paradise: The Art and Life of Charles W. Bartlett

Biographies & Memoirs

Miles, Richard

Bartlett, Charles W.

Community & Culture

Gives background information and artist profiles for a hundred representative paintings

The American Canvas: Paintings from the Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Simpson, Marc

Mills, Sally

History

Hudson Hills Pr

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