Exhibition

Opening this week is Charles Furneaux and the Sublime, which debuts a major museum acquisition—an untitled painting by Charles Furneaux (pictured above) that underwent careful conservation by Larry and Rie Pace. It’s a pleasure to finally be able to show it to the public for the first time, along with recent artwork gifts, and spectacular pieces on loan to present examples of Furneaux’s small on-site field sketches, his dramatic large-scale renderings of the eruptions, and vibrant landscape scenes.

When the doors opened to the exhibition Art Deco Hawai‘i on July 3, it was the culmination of three years of hard work and research by curator Theresa Papanikolas. Through the artwork in Art Deco Hawai‘i, we see how artists and commercial illustrators presented their romanticized interpretation of the islands.