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To her many artist friends she represented a youthful and indomitable vitality in art, which was supported by a capacity for grueling hard work in her chosen field of true fresco and sculptured bas-relief in
Hawaiian wood and stone. She was, by almost any way of thinking, too young to die. But the
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strangely wonderful thing is this, that she has in her sadly short young life, left more important works of art which have been placed where everybody may enjoy them, than any other island artist.
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in wood and stone. Her depictions were usually sinuous in contour with simplified anatomy. During the
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artist and filled many commissions for architectural panels.
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