‘40s or ‘50s cartoon map of San Juan Islands
This piece lives at our family cabin on Orcas Island in the San Juan islands in Washington state. It is a painting on plywood, probably purchased by my great-grandfather who was a doctor in Bellingham, WA. It’s mounted to the wall, so I’m unable to take a picture of the back. It’s approximately 4 feet tall.
I’d like to track down more information on the presumably local artist, who signed it “Eide”. They include themselves painting over Chuckanut Bay.
The piece is primarily a map of the San Juans, but is covered in cartoon characters engaged in things like drunken boating, drowning, inner tubing, and a whale whistling at a woman in a nudist colony on Waldron Island.
I can say with certainty that it’s newer than the 1930s, as it includes the WPA-built tower on Mt Constitution on Orcas Island. Our family bought the cabin in the 1940s. The artwork is in a 1940s era “airplane nose” style.