1) Helen Thomas Dranga, aka Carrie Helen Dranga, born in Oxford, England on December 28, 1866 to 1927 (aged 61), was a British/American painter who made paintings of Hawaii.
2) She studied art at the Kensington Art Academy (Royal College of Art). She came to the U.S. in 1892 & married on 1895 to a merchant. They have 2 kids: a son in 1901 & an adopted daughter born in 1902.
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3) In 1927, they lived in Honolulu and she worked there as an artist. She painted the Hawaiian landscape with a “remarkably sensitive touch”. She also painted portraits and skyscrapers.
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4) Her paintings regularly appeared on the cover of Paradise of the Pacific magazine in the 1920s and 1930s, such as the Golden Shower Tree published in a 1927 edition.
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5) The Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art & the Lyman Museum are among the public collections holding her work, including ‘Encounters with paradise: views of Hawaii & its people’ in 1992.
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6) Her paintings were said to “seem to reflect the romantic view of Hawaii” at a show at the Hawaii State Art Museum in 2014 of early 20th century paintings of Hawaii.
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