Isami Doi
Koloa Mountains, Kauaʻi', Hawaii, circa 1928
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Signed lower right; signed on the reverse
'Doi, however, is a versatile artist. His landscape in oils, Koloa Mountains, is a straightforward, highly simplified delineation of the mountains of his home island, Kauai. By this simplification, and...
"Doi, however, is a versatile artist. His landscape in oils, Koloa
Mountains, is a straightforward, highly simplified delineation of the
mountains of his home island, Kauai. By this simplification, and by an
impressively direct treatment, he attains the effect of the height, abruptness
and characteristic contour of Hawaiian mountains, without resorting to the use
of representational detail. The result is a landscape of striking solidity and
reality, conveying even a feeling of the texture of these volcanic mountain
masses, covered with a thin layer of vegetation."
- Clifford Gessler in 1929
Mountains, is a straightforward, highly simplified delineation of the
mountains of his home island, Kauai. By this simplification, and by an
impressively direct treatment, he attains the effect of the height, abruptness
and characteristic contour of Hawaiian mountains, without resorting to the use
of representational detail. The result is a landscape of striking solidity and
reality, conveying even a feeling of the texture of these volcanic mountain
masses, covered with a thin layer of vegetation."
- Clifford Gessler in 1929