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Helen Thomas Dranga

Helen Thomas Dranga (1865 - 1928) was active/lived in California, Hawaii.  Helen Dranga is known for Landscape, skyscape and portrait painting.

A painter primarily known for her landscapes of Hawaii and portrait depictions of Hawaiians and Chinese, Carrie Helen Thomas (or Tufts?) was born in Oxford, England. She married Theodore Dranga, and they lived in Oakland, California from 1894 to 1900 and then moved to Hawaii.

Details regarding her maiden name are at times conflicting, but it is known that she did paint in Hawaii for about twenty-five years.  For example, some references list her as having been born in Oxford, England as 'Carrie Helen Thomas', (Forbes and Kunichika, from Hilo 1825-1925 A Century of Painting and Drawings, the catalogue of an exhibit held at the Lyman House Museum, Hilo in 1983-84) while others give her birth name as 'Tufts' (in Finding Paradise written by Don Severson in association with the Honolulu Academy of Art).

With watercolor and oil, Helen Dranga painted numerous scenes around her home in Hilo, on the island of Hawaii, and her palette included the violet grays   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5366 characters.]  Artist bio

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