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 the Great](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5DLQ-vMSKiO4iTEoyndgGcCOsm39kT8hdESsmhnshqrmpUSQ3JDyBvU3NWbOb02-x4AKVNNlr1b0iLW6xGPMczZZ8mVTJEl0RoA361c9cqV75FnCFtFnzjboymHIGR5XOMWc/s320/AKamehameha2.jpg)
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!
![St. John Cosimo](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmmZCzf3HXB_jQliN4FVKRBWZxKS-lmXnkrqYQBn1jnmxZrAZchzzH_svsc1r7MvooHJxwygfiiN31IxLCXAakg_PUbEvoMpLr3aTQbweC5FGYr7igHDXSYN7abUpHenctFcX/s320/APierodiCosimo_Giovanni.jpg)
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 statue](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ztdYlKP1CkerFk82zlvdXtzgmhmLJKwVNvhooK6djb2WG8h1V3XRY7ZqOJQ5Ec_74TkjWk6mTq7plYaQZNC-IM6ddvGhiOEuTxQd4QgJ_HEcs92a2Zk88EIZrfkdpXJBfNRj/s320/ASt.John2.jpg)
![Cain Killing Abel](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMbi2mTQ9eUe_BsmmY1rqRX2KtJW56nkSUINJtPmthRdKQuFYfQWqSSf6Qwxcd7kR8Bscw9VCwwzeTBtes6X2EWFBZUpAf_cbeEyU74kxBcI1v4i_1VzZHJt-VALCNQ6ptDFj1/s320/ACain+Killing+Abel2.jpg)
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:
![Matisse](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxOinNfdzSXvXLf5semYWphqjoWT6EjBJxkupxiukX5Z5G9DobLYfz3R4O-J5YDg4CCJ984cw5ypa5xNc7UX8t_fQEokawrQPFiKmYKs87t9ECJsaBWJsZ_f7r-GXk8D6ZGF0a/s320/AHenri+Matisse2.jpg)
![Mary Cassatt](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcylF_dltVMH4uflX3lQgqwEj8csudg3pIqSuzpBU5W3rS8a28D2nuL-pPQCc6CXKaOdWuoAvbWt9qVYMcE-LfVrdnzQ9L_Vy2zGDZJtKO-eiRdU9hUZCTtc2ZUnVi5ViY5kR3/s320/AMaryCassatt2.jpg)
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