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Honolulu Museum of Art

The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single collections of Asian and Pan-Pacific art in the United States, and since its official opening on April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to more than 55,000[2] works of art.[3]

Established

1922

900 South Beretania Street (between Ward and Victoria Streets), Honolulu, Hawaii

Halona Norton-Westbrook

www.honolulumuseum.org

900 S. Beretania St.,
Honolulu, Hawaii

21°18′14″N 157°50′55″W / 21.30389°N 157.84861°W / 21.30389; -157.84861

1927

Bertram Goodhue

Hawaiian

72000415[1]

March 25, 1972

Halona Norton-Westbrook: 2020 to present

[19]

Sean O’Harrow: 2017 to 2019

Stephan Jost: 2011 to 2016

Stephen Little: 2003 to 2010

George R. Ellis: 1982 to 2003

James W. Foster: 1963 to 1982

Robert P. Griffing, Jr.: 1947 to 1963

Edgar C. Schenck: 1935 to 1947

Kathrine McLane Jenks: 1929 to 1935

Catharine E. B. Cox: 1927 to 1928

Frank M. Moore: 1924 to 1927

Gustav Ecke

Honolulu Museum of Art School

Richard Douglas Lane

Shangri La (Doris Duke)

Spalding House

Ecke, Gustav (1965). Chinese painting in Hawaii, in the Honolulu Academy of Arts and in private collections. Honolulu: University Academy of Arts.

Ellis, George R., Honolulu Academy of Arts, Selected Works, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1990.

Ellis, George R. and Marcia Morse, A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 2000.

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Academy Album; A Pictorial Selection of Works of Art in the Collections, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1968.

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu Museum of Art Collection Highlights, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2016  9780937426913

ISBN

Little, Stephen, Visions of the Dharma, Japanese Buddhist paintings and prints in the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1991,  0937426148

ISBN

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