Title: | TAC_55_Hawaiians Hanging Holoku |
Circa: | 1934 |
Size: | 57.5" x 74" |
Frame Size: | 59.5" x 76" |
Medium: | Oil on canvas |
The Madge Tennent works form an intact permanent collection and are not for sale. The Tennent Art Foundation made Hawaii Preparatory Academy the custodian of the artist's work to conserve, preserve, and utilize for education in perpetuity. |
These are the paintings that made Mage Tennent world-famous, and they remain her signature to this day. Their creation coincides with many triumphs in Tennent’s life and career: she hit her stride in 1934, began exhibiting internationally in 1935, and was featured at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. On the home front, she defined and led the emerging Hawaiian Modernism movement.
Hawaiians Hanging Holoku, Local Color, Hawaiian Bride, and Two Lei Sellers were four of the five major canvases on the 1935 exhibition circuit (New York, London, and Paris).
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These are the paintings that made Mage Tennent world-famous, and they remain her signature to this day. Their creation coincides with many triumphs in Tennent’s life and career: she hit her stride in 1934, began exhibiting internationally in 1935, and was featured at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. On the home front, she defined and led the emerging Hawaiian Modernism movement.Hawaiians Hanging Holoku, Local Color, Hawaiian Bride, and Two Lei Sellers were four of the five major canvases on the 1935 exhibition circuit (New York, London, and Paris).