1930s Alexander Samuel MacLeod Hawaiian Boat Basin Lithograph

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Alexander Samuel MacLeod (Canadian, 1888-1956) "Boat Basin, Honolulu" lithograph on paper, pencil signed.

MacLeod studied at McGill University in Montreal. … Read more Alexander Samuel MacLeod (Canadian, 1888-1956) "Boat Basin, Honolulu" lithograph on paper, pencil signed.

MacLeod studied at McGill University in Montreal. He moved to San Francisco where he continued his artistic training at the California School of Design under Frank Van Sloun. In 1921, MacLeod arrived in Hawaii, where he worked in the art departments of the magazine Paradise of the Pacific and the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspapers. He spent the 1930s living back in Canada. When he returned to Hawaii, MacLeod became the director of the graphic art department for the United States Army in the Pacific. In 1943, he published a book of his Hawaiian prints, The Spirit of Hawaii, Before and After Pearl Harbor. MacLeod retired to Palo Alto, California, where he died in 1956.

MacLeod is best known for his Hawaiian landscapes and representations of rural Hawaii's native population. The California State Library, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Honolulu Museum of Art, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts (Stanford University), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Seattle Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and University of Hawaii at Manoa are among the public collections holding works by MacLeod. See less