By Hal Steward Wilcox
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Hal Stuart" and inscribed "Tahiti"
Woodblock figurative showing a group of figures in traditional dress traveling in an outrigger canoe, with a man in a wide-brimmed hat paddling at the rear of the canoe, and two women and an infant riding in the front with baskets of fruit while a pig and a dog peer over the side of the boat.
Hal Steward (Stuart) Wilcox was born in California on March 14, 1892. Wilcox used several aliases for his art works: Piko Siska, Hal Stuart, Michelle Stuart, and Harold Stuart Wilcox. He lived in Laurel Canyon (Los Angeles) in 1931-32 and then made a trip to Tahiti and the Cook Islands. Later in his life he owned a fabric company in Honolulu where he designed native patterned fabric, and was enlisted in the WWI army working on camouflage alongside the "Camofleurs". He went on to do paintings of Mexico...
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1940s Hal Steward Wilcox Art