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HELEN CASSIDY Nu‘uanu Pali, from Ke'ehi Lagoon, O'ahu, Hawai'i.
Oil on canvas, circa 1960. 460x670 mm; 18 1/4x26 1/2 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. With the artist's typed label adhered on the stretcher verso.
Provenance: Private collection, Chicago.
Cassidy (circa 1900-1995) was born in Hilo, Hawai'i and attended the Punahou School in Honolulu. She was a competitive swimmer and in 1920 qualified for the U.S. Olympic Swim Team and traveled to Antwerp, Belgium, as Hawai'i's first female Olympian. She did not begin work as an artist until the 1940s, when she started to take lessons, with Lloyd Sexton, among others, in an effort to interest her daughter in art. Following the death of her husband, Charles E. Cassidy (1901-1972), a hall of fame athlete at Cornell University and later an Associate Justice of the Hawai'i Supreme Court, she moved to Waimea on Hawai'i Island where she continued to paint and show her works at the Kona Arts Center in Waimea. Cassidy was instrumental in establishing the Waimea Arts Council and they have an annual Memorial Juried Art Show in her name.
