Dream Your Own Adventure
Artist Biographies & Paintings from the South Pacific
South Pacific Dreams is a publisher of artists’ biographies and paintings whose primary works are from the South Pacific.
It will provide you with ideas and dreams in your quest to read and partake on your own South Pacific adventures.
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BEAUTY IN THE BEAST
Beauty in the Beast: Flora, Fauna, and Endangered Species of Artist Ralph Burke Tyree is the story of Tyree’s creative genius in painting flora and fauna, including colorful and exotic animals from around the world. Published to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, Beauty in the Beast explores the works of the last ten years of Tyree’s life when animals became his focus.
LEETEG: BABES, BARS, BEACHES, BLACK VELVET ART
Edgar Leeteg once described himself as a “fornicating, gin-soaked, dope-head.” As the father of black velvet art and party man of Tahiti, Leeteg painted sumptuous vahines in his tropical paradise Villa Velour on the island of Moorea, between 1933-1953.
TYREE: ARTIST OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
Ralph Burke Tyree was an American artist of the mid-twentieth century who had a prolific career painting scenes from the South Pacific, capturing the quiet exoticism of the island people and the landscapes in oil on board and black velvet.