Huc-Mazelet Luquiens

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens was an American printmaker and art educator who was born June 30, 1881 in Massachusetts to French-speaking Swiss parents. He graduated from Yale University where he received training in art, earning both a bachelor of arts and master of fine arts degrees. After Yale, he continued his studies in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and at the Academie Julien.

In New England, Luquiens focused his etchings on portraiture and architectural. In search of portrait commissions, he came to Hawaii in 1917 to visit his sister, who had married into the Judd family. The island landscapes proved irresistible, and Luquiens produced numerous studies. He is known for naming the Volcano School of Hawaiian painting the 'Little Hawaiian Renaissance'. After teaching at the Punahou School for some years, he was hired as the first teacher of art at the University of Hawaii where he is credited with the formation of the department and served as its chair from 1936-1945. Among the instructors who joined him were Ben Norris, Henry H. Rempel, Millard Sheets and Frederik Taubes. Norris calls Luquiens “the dean of Hawaiian artists of his generation and its professional leader in a very real way.” During his life, Luquiens was extremely active in community affairs concerning nature and art. He co-founded the organization, Honolulu Printmakers, which continues today. Huc-Mazelet Luquiens died in Honolulu in 1961.

The Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Hilo Art Museum (Hilo, Hawaii), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding prints by Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.

References

* Forbes, David W., "Encounters with Paradise, Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941", Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 178-214.
* Luquiens, Huc-Mazelet, "Huc Luquiens' Hawaii, prints, 1918-1950", Honolulu, Hawaii, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, 1998.
* Luquiens, Huc-Mazelet, "Hawaiian Art", Honolulu, Hawaii, Bernice P. Bishop museum, 1931.
* Luquiens, Huc-Mazelet, "Copper Plate Printing", Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1928.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Hilo Art Museum — The Hilo Art Museum was chartered in 2007 by a group of Hawaii Island citizens desiring to share their love of art with others in their isolated island home. The Museum became an Hawaii non profit corporation on April 16, 2007. The Hilo Art… …   Wikipedia

  • Hawaiian art — The Hawaiian archipelago consists of more than a hundred islands in the Pacific Ocean that are far from any other land. Polynesians arrived there one to two thousand years ago, and in 1778 Captain James Cook and his crew became the first… …   Wikipedia

  • Volcano School — The Volcano School refers to a group of non native Hawaiian artists who painted dramatic nocturnal scenes of Hawaii’s erupting volcanoes. Some of the artists also produced watercolors, which, by the nature of the medium, tended to be diurnal. Two …   Wikipedia

  • Charles W. Bartlett — Watercolor self portrait, 1933 Born 1 June 1860 Bridport, Dorset, England …   Wikipedia

  • Cornelia MacIntyre Foley — Varhey Circle Fountain , cast concrete fountain by Henry H. Rempel and Cornelia MacIntyre Foley, 1934, University of Hawaii at Manoa Cornelia MacIntyre Foley (1909 – 2010) was an artist who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on January 31, 1909. She… …   Wikipedia

  • John Melville Kelly — was an American painter and printmaker. He was born in Oakland, California in 1879. He studied art at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (San Francisco), the Partington Art School (San Francisco) and with Eric Spencer Macky (1880 1958). Kelly worked… …   Wikipedia

  • Kate Kelly (sculptor) — Kate Kelly or Katherine Kelly (1882 1964) was an American sculptor. She married the painter and printmaker John Melville Kelly. After living in San Francisco, the couple went to Hawaii in 1923. Their plan was to stay a year, while John worked for …   Wikipedia

  • Hawaii State Art Museum — No. 1 Capitol District Building, home of the Hawaii State Art Museum The No. 1 Capitol District Building, on the site of the former Armed Services YMCA Building, now houses the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture… …   Wikipedia

  • Honolulu Printmakers — is a non profit organization of Honolulu based print artists that operates a printing studio open to the community. It also conducts public exhibitions, lectures, demonstration, workshops, and an outreach program in local intermediate and high… …   Wikipedia

  • Charles W. Bartlett — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Bartlett. Autoportrait, 1933 Charles William Bartlett ( …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”