South Pacific Route Map - Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand - Matson Line - Vintage Map by Ernest Hamlin Baker c.1935 - Master Art Print - 12 x 18in

Enjoy a taste of Aloha with these beautiful Hawaiian Fine Art Prints by Pacifica Island Art. This print will look wonderful framed in the home, office or restaurant and is perfect for the Hawaiian art collector. Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889-1975) was an American artist and illustrator from Poughkeepsie, New York. As a teenager Ernest Hamlin Baker took a fifteen dollar correspondence course in drawing and studied the drawings of the famous nineteenth century American cartoonist Thomas Nast. A local Democratic newspaper in Baker's hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York, offered him a job as a cartoonist during a hotly contested election for county sheriff, paying three dollars a piece. His unflattering cartoons of the incumbents paid off, and the Democrats won the election. As an artist, he was largely self-taught, but had the ability to work his way into the illustration field. After college at Colgate University, Baker was eventually contracted to do a series of covers, portraits and maps for Fortune magazine. Baker is often described as the "father" of Time magazine portraiture, where he developed a style known as "facial reporting." Baker's first cover portrait for Time appeared in 1939. Some of his more popular portraits included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl Warren and Richard M. Nixon. He illustrated more than 300 covers for Time magazine. He also made posters for the American Legion. He drew political cartoons for Poughkeepsie's Evening Star newspaper.