American
1950s
Pastel on paper
Height 13 1/2" (34.3 cm) x Width 21" (53.3 cm) image size, not counting original mat
Provenance: Private collection, Honolulu, HI
Hon Chew Hee (1906–1993) was born in Kahului on the Hawaiian island of Maui and received his early training in Chinese brush painting before moving to the United States in 1920 to study at the San Francisco Art Institute. He subsequently studied in New York at the Art Students League and Columbia University, and spent three years in Paris in the 1950s working with Fernand Léger and André Lhote. His career spanned muralism, watercolor, printmaking, and painting, and he completed six murals for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
This pastel landscape depicts the Windward coast of Oahu in the warm, gestural manner characteristic of Hee's mature work, with the Ko'olau ridgeline rendered in layered color against an open sky. The composition reflects his integration of Western modernist training with close observation of the Hawaiian landscape. Hee was a central figure in mid-century Hawaiian art and a longtime teacher who shaped several generations of Island artists.
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American
1950s
Pastel on paper
Height 13 1/2" (34.3 cm) x Width 21" (53.3 cm) image size, not counting original mat
Provenance: Private collection, Honolulu, HI
Hon Chew Hee (1906–1993) was born in Kahului on the Hawaiian island of Maui and received his early training in Chinese brush painting before moving to the United States in 1920 to study at the San Francisco Art Institute. He subsequently studied in New York at the Art Students League and Columbia University, and spent three years in Paris in the 1950s working with Fernand Léger and André Lhote. His career spanned muralism, watercolor, printmaking, and painting, and he completed six murals for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
This pastel landscape depicts the Windward coast of Oahu in the warm, gestural manner characteristic of Hee's mature work, with the Ko'olau ridgeline rendered in layered color against an open sky. The composition reflects his integration of Western modernist training with close observation of the Hawaiian landscape. Hee was a central figure in mid-century Hawaiian art and a longtime teacher who shaped several generations of Island artists.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
