United States
1948 to 1956
Color lithograph on paper
Provenance: Mark Blackburn Art
This is the Aloha, The Universal Word design from the menu series the artist Eugene Savage produced for the Matson Navigation Company between 1948 and 1956, used aboard the S.S. Lurline and at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The composition centers on a lei giving ceremony, a robed figure draping a long white lei over a seated man among a crowd bearing flowers, fruit, and feathered standards. Drawn from the murals Matson commissioned from Savage in 1938, these menus rank among the most collected pieces of mid century Matson and Hawaiian tourist art, and Savage's work was recognized in the Smithsonian's American Lithographs exhibition in 1951.
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United States
1948 to 1956
Color lithograph on paper
Provenance: Mark Blackburn Art
This is the Aloha, The Universal Word design from the menu series the artist Eugene Savage produced for the Matson Navigation Company between 1948 and 1956, used aboard the S.S. Lurline and at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The composition centers on a lei giving ceremony, a robed figure draping a long white lei over a seated man among a crowd bearing flowers, fruit, and feathered standards. Drawn from the murals Matson commissioned from Savage in 1938, these menus rank among the most collected pieces of mid century Matson and Hawaiian tourist art, and Savage's work was recognized in the Smithsonian's American Lithographs exhibition in 1951.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
