Betty Hay Freeland (1939-2023) Cottage, Spreckelsville, Maui 16 x 18 in. (40.6 x 45.7 cm) (In a...

Betty Hay Freeland (1939-2023) Cottage, Spreckelsville, Maui signed '© BH FREELAND' (lower left) oil on canvas 16 x 18 in. (40.6 x 45.7 cm) In a Koa wood frame. Painted in 1985. Footnotes: Provenance The artist. Thomas and Joy E. (née Scott) Major, Palos Verdes Estates, California, 1985, commissioned from the above. Private collection, Palos Verdes Estates, California, acquired from the above by descent. Betty Hay (née Wodehouse) Freeland was born on the Kohala sugar plantation on the Big Island. She was the paternal granddaughter of Annie Pauahi (née Cleghorn) Wodehouse, the older half-sister of Princess Kaʻiulani through their father, the Royal governor of Oʻahu Archibald Scott Cleghorn (1835-1910). She graduated from Punahou School and studied at the University of Colorado. After further study in New York City, she returned to the Hawaiian Islands in 1961 where she practiced interior design and pursued painting under Lloyd Sexton. Freeland began exhibiting in Oʻahu and Maui in 1969, eventually settling in Lahaina. The present work was painted from a July 1941 photograph and depicts the Majors' beach cottage in Spreckelsville on Maui's North Shore, seen from Paia looking toward the West Maui mountains. The work was commissioned in loving memory of their first home as newlyweds. The Majors lived there from June until December 7, 1941, when they relocated to Honolulu for military service. The cottage was lost to the tsunami of April 1, 1946. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing