Rose Ranch (Ulupalakua, Maui)
Enoch Wood Perry American
Boston-born Perry had a peripatetic career painting portraits, genre scenes, and landscapes across the United States. He sailed to Hawaii in 1864, one of the first professional American artists to do so. Here, he records a view of Rose Ranch, owned by Massachusetts native John Makee. In addition to raising cattle, the ranch was the most productive sugar plantation on the island. In the distance, workers—possibly Indigenous Hawaiian and Chinese immigrants—labor beneath the American and Hawaiian flags. Perry’s painting captures the Westernization of Hawaii a few decades before U.S. annexation in 1898.
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