Frank Macintosh was commisioned during Hawaii's Golden Years of the 1930’s by the Matson Shipping Company to produce several highly stylized art deco covers for the menus used aboard the company’s popular ocean liners. Later, MacIntosh’s art would find additional use in print material produced to promote Hawaii as a travel destination. Perhaps more than that of any other artist MacIntosh’s work is collected and treasured as exceptionally typical of Hawaii’s romantic lure during the period when may undertook voyage on Matson Line's S.S. Matsonia or S.S. Lurline.

The keepsake Matson menus with Frank Macintosh covers have over time found their way into the hands of collectors and antique dealers and while originally printed by the thousands have become harder and harder to find. Their clean lines and flowing blends of color still make artists and collectors wonder if Macintosh used a brush or the just-invented airbrush, or perhaps both, to apply his vibrant colors, but no matter what technique he used, his creations continue to enchant generation upon generation that discover his lovely art.

Macintosh's highly stylized art has been mimicked plenty, and products from trays to coffee mugs were adorned with his designs or derivatives thereof. Alas, in modern times one can not have a greater tribute than being copied and exploited ad infinitum. Therefore, Frank Macintosh's designs may very well still be around when the next Millenium comes!

Story of Hawaii offers of this artist several specially priced sets