South Pacific Route Map - Hawaii Samoa Fiji Australia New Zealand - Vintage Pictorial Map by Ernest Hamlin Baker c.1935 - Japanese Unryu Rice Paper Art Print (Unframed) 18 x 24 in

Pacifica Island Art uses an environmentally-friendly Unryu Japanese rice paper made by the Awagami Factory in Tokushima, Japan. Unryu, which translates to 'cloud dragon paper' in Japanese, features long strands of kozo fiber and is made from natural mulberry and hemp fibers using traditional Japanese Washi techniques - ABOUT THE ARTIST - Ernest Hamlin Baker - 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.