Matteo Sandona

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'Gertrude and Boots', painting by Matteo Sandona
'Gertrude and Boots', painting by Matteo Sandona

Matteo Sandonà (1881-1964) was a painter born in Schio, Italy and raised in the Alps. He immigrated with his family to the United States in the early 1890s and settled in San Francisco. Sandonà co-founded the California Society of Artists in 1901. In 1903, he made the first of several trips to Hawaii, where he painted portraits of the territory’s elite.

Sandonà is best known for his luxurious thickly impastoed society portraits. The Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, California) and the Springville Museum of Art (Springville, Utah) are among the public collections holding work by Matteo Sandonà.

[edit] References

  • Editoriale, Silvana, Marignoli Ratti and Marzia Ratti, Matteo Sandonà and Hawaiʻi: A Capital Ambition, Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2007.
  • Forbes, David W., Encounters with Paradise, Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 205-206.