Local artist works to restore Ortquist painting at the museum
Sun, 04/28/2019 - 6:26am
By
Samoa News staff
reporters@samoanews.com
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Local artist Reggie Meredith-Fitiao, with help from a group of volunteers, is in the midst of restoring a painting at the Jean P. Hayden Museum, which is currently undergoing expansion.
Meredith-Fitiao told Samoa News last week that it was during the ongoing Museum construction/expansion project that the painting — done by legendary artist-carver-sculptor Sven Ortquist — was painted over.
Sven Orgquist in an L.A. Times photo [from their website]
The artwork, which depicts the legend of Tagaloa and Pava, is on the exterior wall of the Museum. Samoa News drove by the site this past weekend and saw Meredith-Fitiao hard at work with her paintbrush.