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Lloyd Sexton, Jr. (1912-1990) Puakō Ponds, Hawaiʻi 29 x 40 in. (73.7 x 101.6 cm) In a koa wood frame. (Painted in 1968.) image 1
Lloyd Sexton, Jr. (1912-1990) Puakō Ponds, Hawaiʻi 29 x 40 in. (73.7 x 101.6 cm) In a koa wood frame. (Painted in 1968.) image 2
Lot 54

Lloyd Sexton, Jr.
(1912-1990)
Puakō Ponds, Hawaiʻi 29 x 40 in. (73.7 x 101.6 cm) In a koa wood frame.

6 August 2025, 12:00 PDT
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Lloyd Sexton, Jr. (1912-1990)

Puakō Ponds, Hawaiʻi
signed and dated 'Lloyd Sexton '68' (lower right)
oil on canvas
29 x 40 in. (73.7 x 101.6 cm)
In a koa wood frame.
Painted in 1968.

Footnotes

Provenance
Isaacs Art Center, Waimea, Hawaiʻi.
Private collection, Hawaiʻi, acquired from the above.

Lloyd Sexton was a kamaʻāina artist and Rice family descendant born in Hilo. He was the great-grandson of the Boston missionary William Harrison Rice (1813-1862) who arrived in Hawaiʻi in 1841, and the grandson of William Hyde Rice (1846-1924) who was a rancher and the last governor of Kaua'i under Queen Lili'uokalani. 1

Sexton showed artistic promise from a young age. Helen Thomas Dranga (1865-1928) was his earliest painting teacher, and he developed as a draftsman and oil painter during his time at Punahou. After graduation, Sexton attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa before enrolling at The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1931 to study commercial design.2

Sexton was still a student when his Hawaiian work attracted the attention of The Vose Galleries of Boston who gave him his first one-man show. Accolades followed with a one-man show at the Honolulu Museum of Art and his first commercial foray in textile design with the New-York based fabric distributors Arthur Lee & Sons in 1933. 3

After graduating from the SMFA, Boston, he enrolled at the Slade School in London in 1935. He spent the latter half of the 1930s touring Europe's greatest museums and becoming more influenced by Impressionism. 4

Sexton returned to the Island of Hawaiʻi shortly after the start of World War II where he remained for the rest of his life. He achieved commercial success from the 1950s onward with intimately detailed landscapes of the Islands such as the present work, exhibiting widely in Honolulu.

1 'Sexton Paintings Set for Waimea Exhibition,' Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 8 November 1991, p. 11.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.

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