A hand-tooled copper image of a hula girl wearing a grass skirt. It was likely created for the tourist trade and is unsigned. According to an appraisal, this was created around 1948. Framed.
A group of two tooled and enameled copper art pieces in identical frames. Each depicts the face of a Hawaiian girl in profile, wearing or holding hibiscus flowers, with a green background. The pieces were created for the tourist trade. Labels on the back of each read: "A Wanda Irwin original. Genuine tooled copper. Made expressly for Jerry Cowden, Hawaii. Copyright 1948, Philip Irwin Co." Jerry Cowden was the owner of a gift and art supply store in Honolulu where these pieces were likely originally sold.
An open-edition print by Peggy Chun depicting leis draped over carved koa bowls. Signed and framed in dark wood. One of two similar prints; see PUA_ART_2021_18
An open-edition print by Peggy Chun depicting leis draped over carved koa bowls. Signed and framed in dark wood. One of two similar prints; see PUA_ART_2021_19
A framed open-edition lithograph titled "Banana Leaf II". Signed in pencil. One of a trio of identically framed prints by Pegge Hopper; see PUA_ART_2021_15_1 and PUA_ART_2021_15_2.
A framed open-edition lithograph titled "Banana Leaf 1979". Signed in pencil. One of a trio of identically framed prints by Pegge Hopper; see PUA_ART_2021_15_1 and PUA_ART_2021_15_3.
Two open-edition lithographs framed together: "Kailua Noon A"; and "Kailua Noon B." Signed in pencil. One of a trio of identically framed prints by Pegge Hopper; see PUA_ART_2021_15_2 and PUA_ART_2021_15_3.
Small, open-edition print of Theodore Wores' "Hawaiian Child with Poi Bowl." The original was an oil painting created circa 1901; this print was likely produced between 1980-2010. Framed in koa wood.
A diptych of two small transfer prints on wood depicting two red dragons on a blue background. The dragons are based on a sculpture of naga (mythical serpent-like creatures) at Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, a Theravada Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai province, Thailand. They resemble the Pacific Univeristy mascot, Boxer. One dragon, whose head is at the bottom of the diptych, appears to be devouring the other dragon, whose neck and head extend from his mouth. The pieces are signed by the artist with the note, 'hand-transferred 2014.' The diptych was donated by Dr. Timothy Choy in honor of Gerald C. Yoshida, chairman of the Pacific University Board of Trustees.
One of two black and white photographs taken in the early 1980s of the Dazu rock carvings in china. The carvings are in the high mountains and not easily accessible which explains why many if the larger than life size carvings in the mountain caves survived the destruction of the Red Guards. The photographs from theartist's China Trips were exhibited soon after the trip at The Rourke Gallery in Moorhean, Montana. This photograph captures a series of carved figures along a wall.
One of two black and white photographs taken in the early 1980s of the Dazu rock carvings in china. The carvings are in the high mountains and not easily accessible which explains why many if the larger than life size carvings in the mountain caves survived the destruction of the Red Guards. The photographs from the artist's China Trips were exhibited soon after the trip at The Rourke Gallery in Moorhean, Montana. This photograph captures three statues with ornate clothing and closed eyes.
Two panels made up of two canvases each. Depicts blue, green and cream colored abstract blocks with bird silhouettes.
Purchased on behalf of Dr. Tim Choy's 75th birthday
A spiral of fire stars shines a reflection on Huntington Lake at night. The globe floating on the lake glows with the same pattern, but in reverse: When we view the same pattern from the outside of the smaller globe, the 6-fold stars spin the opposite way from the ones on the inside of the dome of the heavens.
'This scene evokes Neal Stephenson’s novel Anathem, which describes isolated communities of mathematicians living apart from society. The gates of these monasteries open, depending on the community, every year, ten years, hundred years, or, for an enigmatic few, every thousand years.Before the virtual lighting altered them, the colors of both patterns, gates and globe, were the same, drawn from a photograph (and negative) of a medallion of blue Morpho butterfly wings that I inherited from an ancestor. The pattern on the gates shows color-reversing wallpaper symmetry; the pattern on the floating globe is icosahedral.'
'This image tests the limits of ray-tracing, with a virtual lamp inside a partially transparent, icosahedrally painted globe placed atop a pumpkin stem in a crystal vase. Two opposing slightly curved reflective walls create a festival of reflections and projections. The source of the colors is my now-familiar stained glass window.'
'The three windsails racing down Huntington Lake exemplify the (rotational) symmetries of the Platonic solids: icosahedron/dodecahedron, cube/octahedron, and tetrahedron. The icosahedron is painted with a picture of sweet peas, the cube with a bright marigold. The tetrahedron was too twisted to paint, so I used simple primary colors. Reflections on the water are a trick of ray-tracing.'
