Fine Art Friday - Featuring the Honolulu Academy of Arts

This week we will featured works of art that are housed in the Honolulu Academy of Art.

My family and I visited this local museum a week or so ago. I hadn't really taken the time to go through all the galleries in a long time. For me it was sheer joy rediscovering all the masterpieces that I had forgotten were here in Honolulu.

As you can imagine, this museum has a magnificent collection of Hawaiian art as well as Oceania, and Asian Art. A sampling of the Hawaiiana can be found below.

Kamehameha, King of the Sandwich Islands by Louis Choris, (Russian), Pen and watercolor, Gift of the Honolulu Art Society, 1944
What was more surprising to me is the large collection of Religious art that is there, especially Catholic art by famous artists. The HAA also has a large collection of Santos or statues of saints. They have quite a large collection of these small statues displayed on the wall. They also have a very large statue of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Dead Christ. Very impressive to behold!

Piero di Cosimo, Italian, 1462-1521 Saint John the Evangelist, 1504-06
Oil on wood panel, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1961

Another image of St. John can be found below. This time it is a statue:

St. John the Evangelist, 15th century French, Avignon School Wood, polychrome Gift of Mrs. Robert P. Griffing, Jr., 1960

Cain Killing Abel, mid 17th Century, Italian School Oil on canvas
Gift of the Miyabara and Oguri families in memory of their parents, Koshiro and Ichi Miyabara and Kanzo and Augusta Oguri, 1991

Did I mention they also have a few of my favorites, for example Van Gogh, Mary Cassatt, Monet. Below are a few we actually saw that day:

Henri Matisse French, 1869-1954 White Tulips and Anemones, 1944 Oil on canvas Gift of Friends of the Academy, 1946
American, 1844-1926 The Child's Caress Oil on canvas Gift in memory of Wilhelmina Tenney by a group of her friends, 1953