Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 5, Number 4, 1 April 1988 — Museum Features Gurrey Collection [ARTICLE]

Museum Features Gurrey Collection

T urn of the century portraits of Hawaiian youth, taken by an early woman photographer in Hawaii, are featured through June 30 in a new exhibit at Bishop Museum's Photograph Collection. "Hawaiian Portraits by C. H. Gurrey," features some of the best-known prints of Caroline Haskins Gurrey, a Honolulu portrait photographer. The exhibition is in the Photograph Collection of Paki Hall on the third floor. It is open free to the public, Tuesday through Thursday from 1 to 4 p. m. and Saturday, 9 a. m. to noon, except for holiday week-

ends. For more information eall 848-4182. Working from her Manoa home studio in the early 1900s, Mrs. Gurrey soon became famous for her soft, artistic portraits of Hawaiian youth, some of whom were students from Kamehameha Schools and Mid-Pacific Institute. A show of her "Hawaiian types" received a gold award in 1909 at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Wash.

Caroline Haskins arrived in Hawaii in December, 1898, leaving behind a Berkeley, California, photo gallery whieh she partially owned. She soon began work at popular photo studios in Honolulu, first at the studio of J. J. Williams and later at the King Brothers store. In 1903 she married Alfred R. Gurrey, an art supply shop owner, whose photographs of Hawaiians in settings also were published. The exhibition features photos recently donated to the Museum by Alexander Cooke Waterhouse and his daughter, Sue Anna Wells. Other prints were donated by the Gurreys' daughter, Gwendolyn Williams, who lives on the Big Island with her husband.

He hana maka 'ena'ena. A work that causes red, hot eyes. — Mary Kawena Pukui.