Tyree, Artist,South Pacific, Book Signed,Tiki, Black Velvet, Nudes, not Leeteg

Description: Tyree, Artist of the South Pacific By CJ Cook (These books are directly from the publisher. If you would like the book inscribed by CJ Cook, please send a note promptly) Shipping by Media Mail: USA only; If you are overseas order the eBook from SouthPacificDreams.com ($9.99)Received from Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) in April 2018 Two Gold Awards for: 1. Biography and 2. Cover Design This is a biography of Ralph Burke Tyree (1921-1979) was published July, 2017. It is brand new and protected in shrink wrap.Ralph Burke Tyree (June 30, 1921 – January 15, 1979) was an American artist of the 20th century who had a prolific career painting scenes from the South Pacific. His love of the islands was sparked as a U.S. Marine during World War II when he was posted to Samoa. After the war, he split his years between California and the Pacific, capturing the exoticism of island people and landscapes in oil on board and black velvet.Career Tyree was born in Irvine, Kentucky, and moved to Delhi, California as an infant. He was awarded a scholarship to the College Of Arts (Oakland) for a portrait he painted of his future wife, Margo Almeida and also studied at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts. Seven weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Tyree joined the Marines. He trained at the base in San Diego before being shipped off to Samoa in 1942. Private Tyree became the Marine-based artist in Samoa. His portrait art career began by painting the officers and their loved ones while composing art-infused love letters to his girlfriend Margo back home in Turlock, California. He returned to San Diego in April 1944. On June 27, 1945, Tyree married Margo. He was discharged from the service on January 24, 1946. Soon after, Tyree started his family and began his professional art career in central California. He and his family (Margo and eventually, seven children) traveled back to the South Pacific to live for years in places such as Guam (1952–55), Oahu (1956–58), Maui (1964–65), and the Big Island of Hawaii (1968-1971).Often, from there, he would travel to other island paradises: Palau, Fiji, Tahiti, Samoa, and the Solomon Islands over his thirty-year career. He is best known for his nude and semi-nude paintings of women of the Pacific islands. Most of his first works were sensual island wahines in island beach and jungle settings. He painted primarily with oils on board but also occasionally on canvas and with pastels. He switched in mid-career (1960) to painting with oils on fine, French silk, black velvet to add depth and texture. In the 1970s, he started painting endangered animals to call attention to their limited numbers. Burke Tyree died at age 57 of a heart attack at his home in Crows Landing, California. During his career, it is estimated that he painted more than 3-4000 different pieces. 224 pages and over 300 illustrations ISBN: 978-0-9984224-0-4 Hardback Shipping by Media Mail (to Hawaii or Alaska if you would like the book faster, postage will be $15)also available by CJ Cook- Leeteg, Babes, Bars, Beaches, and Black Velvet Artsign up on SouthPacificDreams.com

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Book Title: Tyree : Artist of the South Pacific

Original Language: English

Item Length: 11in.

Vintage: No

Personalize: No

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 9 in

Personalized: No

Topic: Individual Artists / General, Military / World War II, Subjects & Themes / Portraits, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, American / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, African

Subjects: Biographies & True Stories

Item Width: 8.5in.

Ex Libris: No

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Age Level: Adults

Publisher: South Pacific Dreams Publishing

Intended Audience: Adults

Inscribed: No

Subject: Biography, Art, Hawaii

Publication Year: 2017

Type: Biography

Era: 1950s