Tahiti

 

Hal Steward Wilcox

  1892 - 1982 (biography)

1936  

hand-colored linocut 

11 9/16 x 14 1/8" image and paper size (collaged to larger sheet) 

signed in lower left under aliases "Siska/Stuart" (Piko Siska and Michelle Stuart) 

not stated, presumed small 

pencil titled 

 

delicate fibrous wove paper, collaged to sheet of smooth, delicate fibrous laid paper 

proof 

artist 

18944 

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The American artist Hal Wilcox often worked under two aliases, Piko Siska and Michel Stuart. Though he lived and worked primarily in Laurel Canyon, California, he is best remembered for his images of the Tahiti and and the South Seas, where he traveled in the 1930s.