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Kaneohe scene (1949)

Here’s another little greeting card by the late Marcel Cailliet, titled “Kaneohe” and dated in pencil 1949.

Unlike the original prints by Huc Luquiens featured here earlier this week, this is a reproduction of a full-size print done by Cailliet, which we are also fortunate to have a copy of.

From AskArt.com:

Born in Dijon, France on Sept. 11, 1914. After coming to the U.S. in 1917, Cailliet lived in New York. He studied at the PAFA before moving to Los Angeles in 1938. There he continued his studies at the Chouinard Art School and USC. In 1941 he was teaching at Arizona State College. He later lived in Hawaii until his death in Honolulu on Dec. 20, 2007. Member: Calif. Watercolor Society; Laguna Beach Art Ass’n. Exh: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939; Oakland Art Gallery, 1939.

My mother recalls Cailliet in earlier years, when friends called him “Yippee”, as in yippee ki-yay.

1949 card

In any case, another nice print conveying the feeling of Hawaii in the early part of the last century.