Seen at the Honolulu Museum of Art:
The corresponding item does not
disappoint. It is indeed a “plaque with yak.” Your mission, should you choose
to accept, is to find this Seussian sign for yourself. I offer no prizes, let
your quest through the galleries be its own reward.
Also, check out “Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: The Hawaii Pictures” while you’re there. Interesting side-note: both of these 20th-century masters where brought to the Islands by commerce, with O'Keeffe invited out by an advertising agency for work that would be used in Dole Pineapple ads, while Adams' second trip was at the behest of Bishop National Bank (now First Hawaiian Bank) to shoot for a book on Hawaii the bank was producing. I don't think mid-century America gets enough credit for being a time when high-brow culture and middle-brow culture worked comfortably with one another.
Speaking of Seuss, the museum is also running its Artists of
Hawaii 2013 exhibit, until Nov. 24, including the acrylic paintings of Ryan Higa, whose line work and flat color blocks of bright pastels always
struck me as heavily influenced by Dr. Seuss books, especially the color
palette of I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sellew.
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