Edward Bailey (1814–1903) was the most accomplished of the Hawaiian missionary period artists in Hawaii. Along with his wife Caroline Hubbard, Bailey arrived in Hawaii as a missionary-teacher in 1837 on the ship '' Mary Frazier''. He worked at the Wailuku Female Seminary in

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from 1840 until its closure in 1849. After the seminary closed, he helped build the still standing

Ka'ahumanu Church Kaahumanu Church is a church in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii. The hymns and invocation in the services are in the Hawaiian language. which echo the legacy of Hawaiian churches in the survival of the Hawaiian language where it was banned from being spok ...

Wailuku Wailuku is a census-designated place (CDP) in and county seat of Maui Island, Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 17,697 at the 2020 census. Wailuku is located just west of Kahului, at the mouth of the Iao Valley. In the ...

and operated a small

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plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...

that eventually became part of the Wailuku Sugar Company. Bailey's early works were sketches and drawings which were engraved by students at the Lahainaluna Seminary between 1833 and 1843. He began painting about 1865, at the age of 51, without any formal instruction. Bailey's best known paintings are landscapes depicting the natural beauty of central

. The

Bailey House Museum Hale Hōʻikeʻike at the Bailey House (House of Display at Old Bailey House, formerly and commonly the Bailey House Museum) is a museum of Hawaiian history and art located in Wailuku, on the island of Maui, in Hawaii. It is owned and operated ...

(Wailuku, Hawaii) and the

Lyman House Memorial Museum The Lyman House Memorial Museum, also known as the Lyman Museum and Lyman House, is a Hilo, Hawaii-based natural history museum founded in 1931 in the Lyman family mission house, originally built in 1838. The main collections were moved to an ad ...

(Hilo, Hawaii) are among the public collections holding works by Edward Bailey.Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog
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References

* Forbes, David W., ''Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941'', Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, pp. 86–7, 95, 160-1. *, p. 56 * Severson, Don R., ''Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections'', University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp. 74–5, 138.

External links

The Bailey House Museum

Edward Bailey in AskArt.com

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog

Footnotes

1814 births 1903 deaths Artists from Hawaii Painters from Hawaii People from Holden, Massachusetts 19th-century American painters American male painters People from Wailuku, Hawaii Congregationalist missionaries in Hawaii 19th-century American male artists {{Congregationalism-stub