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Edward Bailey (1814-1903) Road to Wailuku, Maui 18 x 27 3/4 in. (45.7 x 70.5 cm) (Painted circa 1868.) image 1
Edward Bailey (1814-1903) Road to Wailuku, Maui 18 x 27 3/4 in. (45.7 x 70.5 cm) (Painted circa 1868.) image 2
Edward Bailey (1814-1903) Road to Wailuku, Maui 18 x 27 3/4 in. (45.7 x 70.5 cm) (Painted circa 1868.) image 3
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Edward Bailey
(1814-1903)
Road to Wailuku, Maui 18 x 27 3/4 in. (45.7 x 70.5 cm)

6 August 2025, 12:00 PDT
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Edward Bailey (1814-1903)

Road to Wailuku, Maui
signed and dated indistinctly 'E. Bailey 186...' (lower right)
oil on linen
18 x 27 3/4 in. (45.7 x 70.5 cm)
Painted circa 1868.

Footnotes

Edward Bailey (1814–1903) was the most accomplished of the Hawaiian missionary period artists in Hawaiʻi. Along with his wife Caroline Hubbard, Bailey arrived in Hawaiʻi as a missionary-teacher in 1837 on the ship Mary Frazier. He worked at the Wailuku Female Seminary in Maui from 1840 until its closure in 1849. After the seminary closed, he helped build the still standing Ka'ahumanu Church in Wailuku and operated a small sugar cane plantation that eventually became part of the Wailuku Sugar Company. Bailey's early works were sketches and drawings which were engraved by students at the Lahainaluna Seminary between 1833 and 1843. He began painting about 1865, at the age of 51, without any formal instruction. 1

The present work depicts a view looking westward from near Puʻunēnē. Just out of view to the right would be Kahului Harbor. The road depicted is Kaʻahumanu Avenue which was the major route from the harbor and growing industrial district into the business and civic center of Wailuku. This view spans approximately 12 miles from the vantage point up to what is now the Hawaiʻi State Park in Iao Valley.

1 David W. Forbes, Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, pp. 86–7, 95, 160-1.

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