Helen Hitchcock Maxon, in Islander, the biography of Howard Hitchcock, wrote that Howard made his first trip to Kauai in 1906 for a sketching, "tramping" and camping adventure in the company of Augustus Knudsen.  The Knudsen family owned and operated a huge sugar plantation at Koloa, and over the next two decades Howard Hitchcock would return to Kauai to stay as a familiar guest of the Knudsens while he painted the scenery of Kauai.  Most notably, Howard painted monumental views of beautiful Hanalei Bay and Waimea Canyon.  Although several of the Knudsen family paintings were damaged from Hurricane Iwa in 1982, the family sold several  of the surviving works dated from 1909 to 1915. One work, probably conceived on that first trip to Kauai is a large, dramatic landscape of Waimea Canyon now hanging in the Hawaii State Art Museum.

Provenance: Private collection, New York, sold at public auction, then to Douglas Frazer Fine Art

Restoration: Cleaning and minor retouch around the rabbet edge. Work performed by Patty West at South Coast Fine Art Conservation.  Otherwise very fine original condition.  Quartersawn oak frame.