Festival of the Sea Menu by Eugene Savage Matson

$125.00

United States

1948 to 1956

Color lithograph on paper

Provenance: Mark Blackburn Art

This is the Festival of the Sea 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 shows a coastal gathering with a fishing party, outrigger canoes on the water, and figures bearing feathered standards and nets against a backdrop of palms and red cliffs. 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 Festival of the Sea 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 shows a coastal gathering with a fishing party, outrigger canoes on the water, and figures bearing feathered standards and nets against a backdrop of palms and red cliffs. 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.