Lester McCoy Pavilion Bas Relief Panels – Honolulu HI

Description

Marguerite Louis Blasingame completed this “pair of low-relief marble tablets of a Hawaiian couple set into a wall” (source note 1) in 1935 for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Entitled, “Hawaiian Couple,” it is located in the Banyan Court gardens of Lester McCoy Pavilion in Ala Moana Park.

Source notes

(1) Mayor’s Office of Culture & the Arts, Honolulu, Hawai’i, at https://hiculturearts.pastperfect-online.com/34250cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=364B0A15-3A17-45EF-873F-604619195135;type=101, accessed March 21, 2015.  (2) “Public Art: Location and descriptions of public works of art,” Honolulu Data, https://data.honolulu.gov/dataset/Public-Art/yef5-h88r, accessed March 21, 2015.  (3) “Art Works pages with Funded by the Works Progress Administration as Credit,” Honolulu Art in Public Places, at https://honolulu-art-in-public-places.silk.co/page/Bas-Relief%20Panels, accessed March 21, 2015.

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Location Info


Lester McCoy Pavilion, Ala Moana Park
Honolulu, HI 96814

Location notes: The bas relief is located in the Banyan Court garden.

Coordinates: 21.290557, -157.850459

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