Original 1930s - 1940s Hawaiian illustration painting attributed to Robert Lee Eskridge (1891-1975).

Gouache on illustration board. Unsigned. Penciled inscription on reverse "Robert Lee Eskridge".

"WESTVACO" painted under the image. Probably painted for an issue of "Westvaco Inspirations For Printers" a magazine which hired many famous artists and illustrators to make paintings illustrations and graphics for publication in their issues.

The painting is a fine stylized view of two Hawaiian fishermen hanging their nets to dry on trees at the shore.

PAINTING (image): 9" x 13 1/4"

BOARD: 11 3/4" x 19"

PROVENANCE: California collection.

NOTES / REFERENCES: Robert Lee Eskridge (1891 - 1975) was an American genre painter, muralist and illustrator. Born in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, Eskridge moved with his family to Pasadena, California as a child. He studied at the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles College of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and with George Senseney and Andre Lhote in Paris. After traveling extensively in Spain and the South Seas, he lived in Chicago, New York, and Coronado Beach, California (1917–32). He moved to Honolulu in 1932 and taught at the University of Hawaii. During the Great Depression he was a Works Progress Administration muralist. His murals are in the Ala Moana Park Sports Pavilion in Honolulu and at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. The Honolulu Museum of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum are among the public collections holding works of Eskridge.

Westvaco Inspirations for Printers was a graphic arts publication issued by the Westvaco Corporation, formerly named the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, with the objective of showing typography, photography, art work and other graphic inventiveness on papers manufactured at its mills. Because Westvaco Inspirations was intended to demonstrate printing processes and papers, its primary audience consisted of 35,000 designers, printers, teachers and students.

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Painting in good condition with no damage or restoration. Illustration board appears to have been cut and with some roughness and losses at the edges (see photos).