OLD ORIGINAL SET 3 Hawaiian Menus EUGENE SAVAGE Matson/Lurline JUNE 15, 1950

Description

This is a set of three menus published by the Matson steamship line as the decorative back of menus for the steamship Lurline, showing scenes of ancient Hawaii. In gorgeous full color. By artist Eugene Francis Savage (1883-1978).
Each menu is 14 x 22 inches when opened up.
CONDITION
One of the three is in excellent condition. The other two have minor issues with the paper in places--please look carefully at our photos for details. All are very suitable for framing.
On the back of the prints, which are on heavy card stock, are the menus themselves, dated 1950.
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Eugene Francis Savage (1883-1978).
Birth place:
Covington, IN
Addresses:
Woodbury, CT; NYC
Profession:
Painter, teacher, sculptor
Studied:
CGA; AIC; Am. Acad. in Rome; Reynolds; Henderson.
Exhibited:
Arch. Lg., 1921 (gold); AIC, 1922 (gold), 1924 (prize), 1925 (prize); NAD, 1922 (prize), 1924 (gold), 1961 (mural prize); Corcoran Gal biennials, 1923, 1926, 1928; PAFA Ann., 1924, 1926; Grand Central Gal., 1926 (prize),1929 (prize). Other awards: Fellowship, Am. Acad. in Rome, 1912-15.
Member:
ANA, 1924; NA, 1926; NSMP; Century Assn.; Mural Artists Gld.
Work:
AIC; CAM; LACMA; Providence Mus. Art; fountain, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn; Nebraska State Mus.; Herron AI; Oshkosh Pub. Mus.; murals, Yale Univ.; Columbia Univ.; USPO, Wash., DC; Greenwich House, NYC; Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles; Purdue Univ., 1961; Penn. Treasury, Harrisburg; murals, WFNY 1939; Elks Nat. Mem., Chicago; Covington (IN) Court House; Texas State Centennial Mem., Dallas, 1936; mosaics, Tabernacle facade, Honolulu U.S. Military Mem., Epinal, France; Queens County Court House, 1960; work reproduced in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Comments:
Author: report on art schools for Carnegie Corporation of NY. Position: appointed to Nat. Comm. FA, by Pres. Hoover, re-appointed by Pres. Roosevelt; William Leffingwell Prof. FA, Emeritus, Yale Univ.
Sources:
WW66; WW47; Falk,
Exh. Record Series.