Hon Chew Hee
Hawaii, United States
1950s
Watercolor on paper
Image 13 1/2 by 21 inches, excluding the original mat
Provenance: Private collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
This watercolor looks across a stretch of still water toward a ridge of sharp peaks rising in green and yellow beneath a heavy gray sky. A curving shoreline in yellow green sweeps in from the left and carries the eye toward a band of trees at the waterline, worked in yellow, dark green, and touches of red. Masses of foliage in green, deep red, and blue crowd the right side of the sheet, with bare branches drawn through them in fine dark lines.
The washes are laid in loosely, letting the paper show through and softening the edges of the hills and clouds. The sheet is signed H. C. Hee at the lower right and is presented in its original mat. The subject is the windward side of Oahu.
Hon Chew Hee, 1906 to 1993, was an American painter and printmaker born in Kahului, Maui. He trained in Chinese brush painting as a child in China, studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Art Students League, and Columbia University, and spent time in Paris in the 1950s studying with Fernand Léger and André Lhote. He founded the Chinese Art Association in San Francisco and the Hawaii Watercolor and Serigraph Society, and completed six murals for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. His work is held by the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the National Taiwan Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Hon Chew Hee
Hawaii, United States
1950s
Watercolor on paper
Image 13 1/2 by 21 inches, excluding the original mat
Provenance: Private collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
This watercolor looks across a stretch of still water toward a ridge of sharp peaks rising in green and yellow beneath a heavy gray sky. A curving shoreline in yellow green sweeps in from the left and carries the eye toward a band of trees at the waterline, worked in yellow, dark green, and touches of red. Masses of foliage in green, deep red, and blue crowd the right side of the sheet, with bare branches drawn through them in fine dark lines.
The washes are laid in loosely, letting the paper show through and softening the edges of the hills and clouds. The sheet is signed H. C. Hee at the lower right and is presented in its original mat. The subject is the windward side of Oahu.
Hon Chew Hee, 1906 to 1993, was an American painter and printmaker born in Kahului, Maui. He trained in Chinese brush painting as a child in China, studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Art Students League, and Columbia University, and spent time in Paris in the 1950s studying with Fernand Léger and André Lhote. He founded the Chinese Art Association in San Francisco and the Hawaii Watercolor and Serigraph Society, and completed six murals for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. His work is held by the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the National Taiwan Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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