1956 SS Lurline Menu by Eugene Savage Amazing Colorful Hawaii Art A God Appears

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1956 SS Lurline Menu by Eugene Savage Amazing Colorful Hawaii Art A God Appears:
$86.00

Description: ThisVintage menu art by \"Eugene Savage\" is of a Gorgeous Hawaii Scene with Stunning Colors. This is a cover for a Menu from the Matson Line from July 30, 1956. Captain\'s Dinner Aboard S,S, Lurline. Image titled \"A God Appears\" and features a Hawaii king meeting Captain Cook for the first time. The hawaiian natives meeting and praising him as a god and then killed him a year later. Would make a great image to frame.

History \"Eugene Francis Savage (March 29, 1883—October 19, 1978) was an American painter and sculptor known for his murals in the manner made official under the Works Projects Administration. Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much smaller but more famous project, the Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. Savage was born in Covington, Indiana. In 1915, while studying at the Chicago Art Institute, he won the Rome Prize in painting, enabling him to study at the American Academy in Rome, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. Later he received Bachelor of Arts (1924) and Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. Savage subsequently taught at the Yale School of Art and Architecture for twenty-eight years, where he was the Leffingwell Professor of Painting & Design. Savage was commissioned by the Matson Navigation Company to paint nine 4 by 8 foot Hawaiian-themed murals in Hawaii. They were completed in 1940, but never installed in the company\'s ships, which had been converted to troopships. In 1948, lithographs based on these murals were used as menu covers on Matson\'s Flagship, SS Lurline.\"

Measures 21\" W x 11-3/4\" H opened.

Condition: Corners and edges are sharp. There is a fold down the vertical middle of the picture. Very colorful. Some light small stains on inside menu part. Very small stain in the border of the picture area.

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