Edward Bailey

Road to Wailuku, Maui, 1887
Oil on Linen
18 x 27.50 x 4 in (45.72 x 69.85 x 10.16 cm)
28 x 36 x 4 in
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An unusually large painting by Edward Bailey (1814 - 1903) depicts a view looking westward from near Puunene.  Just out of view to the right would be Kahului Harbor.  The road leading up to late 19th Century Wailuku is Kaahumanu Avenue which would be the major route from the harbor and growing industrial district into the business and civic center in Wailuku.  It's about 12 miles from the vantage point of this painting up to what is now the Hawaii State Park in Iao Valley.  

 

Edward Bailey (1814–1903) was the most accomplished of the Hawaiian missionary period artists in Hawaii. Along with his wife Caroline Hubbard, Bailey arrived in Hawaii as a missionary-teacher in 1837 on the ship Mary Frazier. He worked at the Wailuku Female Seminary in Maui from 1840 until its closure in 1849. After the seminary closed, he helped build the still standing Ka'ahumanu Church in Wailuku and operated a small sugarcane plantation that eventually became part of the Wailuku Sugar Company. Bailey's early works were sketches and drawings which were engraved by students at the Lahainaluna Seminary between 1833 and 1843. He began painting about 1865, at the age of 51, without any formal instruction.[2]

 

  • Forbes, David W., Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, pp. 86–7, 95, 160-1.
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