Set Of 3 Vintage Hawaiian Ted Mundorff Art Botancials Signed And Framed
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:444737 | Date of Creation: 1939-1955 |
• Set of three gorgeous vintage botanicals by Ted Mundorff. • 18 x 15.5
• These are original airbrush technique pieces, signed by the artist. • Created between the early 1940s to 1950s. • Beautifully framed and matted by a high-end framer in Saint Paul MN. • Condition is excellent. Colors are as if new. The mats are beautiful green. Please disregard reflection in photos. If you would like us to photograph from any other angle, please let us know. • Insurance wil...l be included in shipping. We are leaving glass on the items to ship.
About the artist from his obituary: Born in Pennsylvania in 1910, Ted Mundorff traveled as a child to Hawaii, where he was educated at the prestigious private school of Punaho in Honolulu. Upon graduation, he returned to the mainland and painted cars for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, before moving to Los Angeles, where he designed greeting cards for Hallmark.
Returning to Hawaii in 1936, he started a career as painter, illustrator, and cartoonist, eventually opening his "Hawaiian Pallet" studio in Honolulu.
Mundorff earned respect as an artist whose interpretations of local tropical flowers are as popular today as they were at the time of their creation. Like so many talents of the time, he employed the then new and revolutionary airbrush technique to achieve the soft blends and beautiful tonal shading that medium affords, and he perfected it as his own.
Ted Mundorff died in November 1969, leaving a legacy of romantic botanical studies that are eagerly sought after today by a new generation of collectors. About the technique: Between the late 1930's and the 1950's, several Hawaii artists practiced the technique of stencil airbrush. This allowed them to produce "serialized" editions of the same image. Stencils were cut through which they airbrushed onto poster board. In many cases the colors differed from image to image using the same stencil. This method allowed for some variety in colors, but not in shape. A flourish with the paint brush would add some finishing touches. Alas, during the war years good quality materials were hard to come by and consequently only a handful of these images have been preserved.
