The Painted King: Art, Activism, and Authenticity in Hawaii by Glenn Wharton
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Overview: The famous statue of Kamehameha I in downtown Honolulu is one of the state’s most popular landmarks. Many tourists–and residents–however, are unaware that the statue is a replica; the original, cast in Paris in the 1880s and the first statue in the Islands, stands before the old courthouse in rural Kapa`au, North Kohala, the legendary birthplace of Kamehameha I.
In 1996 conservator Glenn Wharton was sent by public arts administrators to assess the statue’s condition, and what he found startled him: A larger-than-life brass figure painted over in brown, black, and yellow with "white toenails and fingernails and penetrating black eyes with small white brush strokes for highlights. . . . It looked more like a piece of folk art than a nineteenth-century heroic monument."
Genre: Non-Fiction > General | Art
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