Ambrose McCarthy Patterson (1877-1967); Surfers at Waikiki with Diamond Head;

Ambrose McCarthy Patterson (1877-1967) Surfers at Waikiki with Diamond Head, n.d. Woodblock on wove paper, signed in pencil (faintly attenuated), with margins, framed. 7 15/16 x 5 15/16in (20.2 x 15.1cm) sheet 11 15/16 x 9 3/16in (30.3 x 23.3cm) Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, Honolulu, Hawai'i. Ambrose Patterson, an Australian painter and printmaker, was enroute to New York from Sydney when he stopped in Honolulu to visit a friend. He stayed in Hawai'i for eighteen months, from February 1916 to August 1917. 1 Patterson was quickly embraced by the Honolulu art community, capturing genre scenes and landscapes in woodblock prints and paintings. He exhibited alongside Lionel Walden and David Howard Hitchcock among others in the first annual exhibition in June 1917 of the Hawaiian Society of Artists at the Pan-Pacific Pavilion in Bishop Square. This society and exhibition formed out of preparation for the 1920 Pan-Pacific Union, an ambitious conference meant to galvanize business, civic and cultural interests 'common to Pacific nations.' 2. The exhibition was important as it was the first art show open to everyone and paved the way for Honolulu's first art museum in 1927. 3 1 Danielle Marie Knapp, Rethinking Ambrose Patterson and Modern Art in Seattle, MA thesis, University of Oregon, June 2010, pp. 19-20. 2 'The Pan-Pacific Union And Its Activities,' The Mid-Pacific Magazine, September 1917, Vol. XIV, No. 3, p. 219. 3 Don R. Severson, Michael D. Horikawa, Jennifer Saville, Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2002, pp. 109-110. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing