Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 8, Number 7, 1 July 1991 — Exhibit portrays Hawaiʻi through artists' eyes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Exhibit portrays Hawaiʻi through artists' eyes

"Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawai'i and Its People, 1778-1941," the first major exhibition of paintings and drawings depicting the Hawaiian Islands, is scheduled to open at the Honolulu Academy of Arts on Jan. 23, 1992 continuing through March 22. The exhibition will be the most comprehensive examination of art inspired by outsiders' as well as locals' visions of Hawai'i to date. Work included in the exhibition spans a period of 163 years, beginning with the earliest works by John Webber, who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Hawaiian lslands, and continuing to the beginning of World War II. Important works of art on temporary loan from England, Denmark, Sweden, France, the Soviet Union, Australia and New Zealand will be highlighted in the exhibition. Among the approximately 125 images selected for "Encounters With Paradise" are works by Louis Choris, Tikhanov and Robert Dampier in the early expedition category and Titian Ramsay Peale, Paul Emmert and Joseph Nawai, artists affiliated with missionaries or whalers. Also featured are D. Howard Hitchcock, Jules Tavernier and Theodore Wores of the Volcano School and Isami Doi, Juliet May Fraser, Georgia 0'Keefe, Reuben Tam and Madge Tennent of the Hawai'i modernist school. In conjunction with "Encounters with Paradise" the academy plans a series of Hawai'i-related activities including festivals, films, a symposium and lectures whieh will take plaee throughout the exhibition. A detailed schedule of events will be available this month. The Honolulu Academy of Arts is open Tuesday - Saturday 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m. Call 538-1006 for details.

Right: "The Pali, island of O'ahu," by Nicholas Chevalier, 1869. Below: "Captain Cook's Monument," by R. C. Barnfield, 1890.

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