American Museum of Natural History Research Library
author: American Museum of Natural History

Paintings by Captain Brett Hilder (Exhibition)
birth: 1951 December 3
death: unknown
Exhibition. Opened December 3, 1951. Located in the Corner Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. The "Black Orloff" Diamond exhibition presented the world's largest black diamond.
Summary
"Paintings by Captain Brett Hilder" featured watercolor portraits of peoples of the South Pacific and the East Indies. Captain Hilder, master of the passenger steamer Morinda, painted the portraits of the peoples from various cultural and geographical backgrounds with whom he came in contact: Hindu, Buddhist, Javanese, Micronesian and Polynesian. The portraits were on view in the Corner Gallery of the American Museum of Natural History starting December 3, 1951.