Hawaiʻi
1920s
Hand-colored photograph, period frame
9 × 14½ in. (22.9 × 36.8 cm) framed
Provenance: John Dominis Holt, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
This hand-colored photograph depicts a mass planting of night-blooming cereus in Hawaiʻi, a cactus species introduced to the islands that became a popular subject for early 20th-century island photography. The composition fills the frame with flowering stems, the pale cream blossoms set against deep green foliage in a dense, layered arrangement. The period frame is original to the presentation.
Hand-coloring in green, cream, and yellow brings out the tonal contrast between the flowers and surrounding vegetation, giving the botanical subject a painterly quality characteristic of the technique as practiced in the 1920s. The John Dominis Holt provenance places this photograph within an established Honolulu collecting context with direct ties to Hawaiian cultural and literary history.
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Hawaiʻi
1920s
Hand-colored photograph, period frame
9 × 14½ in. (22.9 × 36.8 cm) framed
Provenance: John Dominis Holt, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
This hand-colored photograph depicts a mass planting of night-blooming cereus in Hawaiʻi, a cactus species introduced to the islands that became a popular subject for early 20th-century island photography. The composition fills the frame with flowering stems, the pale cream blossoms set against deep green foliage in a dense, layered arrangement. The period frame is original to the presentation.
Hand-coloring in green, cream, and yellow brings out the tonal contrast between the flowers and surrounding vegetation, giving the botanical subject a painterly quality characteristic of the technique as practiced in the 1920s. The John Dominis Holt provenance places this photograph within an established Honolulu collecting context with direct ties to Hawaiian cultural and literary history.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
