Rare MING'S Honolulu Isami Doi JADE "DRAGON" Belt Hook 14k Gold Brooch Pin Penda

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Rare MING'S Honolulu Isami Doi JADE "DRAGON" Belt Hook 14k Gold Brooch Pin Pendant
14K Gold BROOCH PIN PENDANT
2 7/8" tall X 1 1/8" at widest
Stamped: MING'S 14K
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Isami Doi (1903–1965) was an American printmaker and painter. He was born on the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands in 1903. He moved with his family to the island of Kauai, and he thereafter considered Kalaheo, Kauai his home.
Doi studied for two years at the University of Hawaii, went on to Columbia University for five years, and then continued his studies for a year in Paris. He stayed in New York until 1938, when he returned to the Hawaiian Islands. Doi taught printmaking, drawing, and metal work, as well as designing jewelry for the S. and S. Gumps store, a San Francisco firm that had opened a store in Honolulu in 1929, and later for Mings jewelers.
His first solo show at the Honolulu Museum of Art took place in April 1929, and featured painted landscapes of the mountains of Kauai as well as fifteen prints. His early works are painted in muted tans and browns, and have a discreet erotic quality. Mid-way in his career, he included symbols inherited from Greece and Rome, such as Centaurs, broken columns, and sphinxes (such as Caucasian-Hawaiian in the collection of the Hawaii State Art Museum). As his spirituality deepened, his works became closer to pure abstraction, with orange and vermilion signifying flames and light. A simplified Buddha shape is Dois hieroglyph for meditation. In his last works in the 1960s, he set aside all symbols, returning to painting the cliffs of Kauai, which he had come to view as spiritual entities. Early Spring, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is an example of these later abstract paintings. Doi died in Kalaheo, Hawaii in 1965.
The Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Smithsonian American Art Museum(Washington, D. C.) and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, Michigan) are among the public collections holding works by Isami Doi
"Ming's of Honolulu (Hawaii)- "THE TIFFANY'S of the PACIFIC" was a fine jewelry company that sold high-quality jewelry (both gold and silver), often using pearls, jade, onyx and coral. The designs often reflected Hawaiian and Asian motifs. Ming's also produced hand-carved figurals depicting exotic leaves (like banana leaves), flowers (like hibiscus, anthurium, pikake, bird of paradise, and orchids) and other natural objects. The artist Wook Moon began Ming's in 1940 and the store soon expanded over the Hawaiian Islands, and to San Francisco, New York City, Miami, Houston, Ft. Lauderdale, and Atlanta. The last of the Ming's stores (in Honolulu) closed in October, 1999.
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