LE NAMOLOKAMA PEINT PAR DAVID HOWARD HITCHCOCK

 

 

DAVID HOWARD HITCHCOCK  (1861-1943)
Namolokama (1,347m)
Hawaï (Etats-Unis-

In Hanalei, Kauai, Mount Na Molokama

La montagne
Le mont Namolokama, (1,347m) est l'une des trois montagnes caractéristiques qui dominent la baie d'Hanalei dans l'ile de Kaui a Hawaï. Cette montagne est remarquable par le nombre de cascades qui jaillissent sur ses flancs, surtout lorsqu'il pleut et que les cascades coulent à flot...Ce qui arrive au moins une fois par jour. C'est une des attractions touristiques majeures de l'ile.

Le peintre
David Howard Hitchcock, est un peintre américain. Il étudia à Paris et retourna à Hawaï en 1893, où il continua ses études avec Jules Tavernier. Durant ses voyages dans les années 1900, Hitchcock explora les régions volcaniques des îles Hawaï, et en juillet 1907 il fit sa première visite de l'île de Kaui, où il peint le Canyon de Waima. Il visita et peint l'île de Maui en 1915 et 1916. Il fut le membre précurseur de la Volcano School d'Hawaiï, et ses peintures les plus importantes datent d'une période étalée entre 1905 et 1930.Hitchcock peint plusieurs peintures murales à Honolulu et exécuta des vues spectaculaires de Hawaii pour la vaisselle de l'Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company. Durant la fin des années 1920, après son voyage à New York appliqua le style impressionniste. En 1894, Hitchcock devint un des fondateurs de la Kilohana Art League. En 1927, il exposa plusieurs peintures à l'inauguration de la Honolulu Academy of Arts, où il eut une rétrospective en 1936. Ses peintures furent exposées à la Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition à Seattle en 1909 (où il fut primé) et à la Panama-Pacific International Exposition à San Francisco en 1915. En 1939 il exposa à la Exposition internationale du Golden Gate à San Francisco et à l'Exposition Universelle de New York 1939-1940. Hitchcock mourut à Honolulu le 1er janvier 1943. Plusieurs des peintures d'Hitchcock sont généralement visibles à la Honolulu Academy of Art.

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2025 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
Un blog de Francis Rousseau     

HALEMA'UMA 'U CRATER PAINTED BY DAVID HOWARD HITCHCOCK

 

DAVID HOWARD HITCHCOCK (1861-1943),

Halemaʻumaʻu Crater / Kilauea (1,247 m - 4,091 ft) 

United states of America (Hawaii) 

In Halemaumau, lake of fire, oil on board,  1888

The volcano

Halemaʻumaʻu Crater (six syllables: HAH-lay-MAH-oo-MAH-oo) is a pit crater within the much larger summit caldera of Kīlauea in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The roughly circular crater was 770 meters (2,530 ft) x 900 m (2,950 ft) before collapses that roughly doubled the size of the crater after May 3, 2018. Halemaʻumaʻu is home to Pele, goddess of fire and volcanoes, according to the traditions of Hawaiian religion. Halemaʻumaʻu means "house of the ʻāmaʻu fern".

Halemaʻumaʻu contained an active lava lake for much of the time before 1924, and was the site of several eruptions during the 20th century. The crater again contained an active lava lake between 2008 and 2018, usually fluctuating between 20 to 150 meters below Halemaʻumaʻu's crater floor, though at times the lava lake rose high enough to spill onto crater floor.

As new volcanic vents opened in lower Puna in May 2018, the level of the lava lake began to drop in early May 2018, eventually to the point where the lava lake was no longer visible. The subsidence of the lava lake was accompanied by a period of explosions, earthquakes, large clouds of ash and toxic gas, and finally a gradual collapse of the summit caldera around Halemaʻumaʻu Crater, resulting in the closure of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park from May 10 to September 22, 2018. The collapse events ceased abruptly on August 2, 2018.

In the summer of 2019, for the first time in recorded history, a water pond appeared in Halemaʻumaʻu. The greenish pond has deepened and enlarged since first being observed.

The painter
David Howard Hitchcock  was an American painter of the  so called Volcano School, known for his depictions of Hawaii.  Born in Hilo, Hawaii, Hitchcock attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where he saw his first art exhibition. Back in Hawaii, he wandered the volcano wilderness with a sketch pad and watercolors. French artist Jules Tavernier, painting in Hawaii, saw Hitchcock's sketches and convinced him to study art seriously.
After Tavernier's death in 1889 Hitchcock studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City and from 1891 to 1893 at the Académie Julian in Paris under Aldolphe Bourguereau and Gabriel Joseph Ferrier. His work was accepted at the Paris Salon of 1893. He returned to Hawaii in 1893.
In 1894, Hitchcock became one of the founders of the Kilohana Art League, an active art program in Honolulu at the turn of the century, exhibiting at least twice a year.
During extensive travels in the 1900s, Hitchcock explored the volcanic regions of the island of Hawaii, and in July 1907 he made his first visit to the island of Kauaʻi, where he painted Waimea Canyon. He toured and painted the island of Maui in 1915 and 1916. He was a leading member of Hawaii's Volcano School, and his most important paintings date from about 1905 to 1930.
His canvases were displayed in 1924 at the First Hawaiian and South Seas Exhibition in the Los Angeles Museum in Exposition Park. In 1927, he exhibited several paintings at the opening of the Honolulu Museum of Art, where he had a retrospective exhibition in 1936. In 1939 he exhibited in the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco and at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau