Ogura Yonesuke Itoh Photo of Kilauea Volcano
1920s
Height 8" Width 17" including original period frame
Provenance: John Dominis Holt, Honolulu, HI
Ogura Yonesuke Itoh (1870–1940) was a Japanese-American artist. He was born in Japan in 1870. At 25 years of age, he jumped ship in Hawaii and hid from the authorities in Punchbowl Crater. He became a member of Hawaii’s volcano school of landscape painters. Ogura is considered to be the first ethnically Japanese painter and photographer of any stature to paint and photograph Hawaiian subjects. His paintings closely resemble those of Jules Tavernier. Itoh left the majority of his paintings and photographs unsigned due his circumstances.
1920s
Height 8" Width 17" including original period frame
Provenance: John Dominis Holt, Honolulu, HI
Ogura Yonesuke Itoh (1870–1940) was a Japanese-American artist. He was born in Japan in 1870. At 25 years of age, he jumped ship in Hawaii and hid from the authorities in Punchbowl Crater. He became a member of Hawaii’s volcano school of landscape painters. Ogura is considered to be the first ethnically Japanese painter and photographer of any stature to paint and photograph Hawaiian subjects. His paintings closely resemble those of Jules Tavernier. Itoh left the majority of his paintings and photographs unsigned due his circumstances.
1920s
Height 8" Width 17" including original period frame
Provenance: John Dominis Holt, Honolulu, HI
Ogura Yonesuke Itoh (1870–1940) was a Japanese-American artist. He was born in Japan in 1870. At 25 years of age, he jumped ship in Hawaii and hid from the authorities in Punchbowl Crater. He became a member of Hawaii’s volcano school of landscape painters. Ogura is considered to be the first ethnically Japanese painter and photographer of any stature to paint and photograph Hawaiian subjects. His paintings closely resemble those of Jules Tavernier. Itoh left the majority of his paintings and photographs unsigned due his circumstances.