Alexander Samuel MacLeod

After moving to San Francisco, he continued his artistic training at the California School of Design under Frank Van Sloun.

In 1921, MacLeod arrived in Hawaii, where he worked in the art departments of the magazine Paradise of the Pacific and the local papers, The Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Again in Hawaii, MacLeod became the director of the graphic art department for the United States Army in the Pacific.

In 1943, he published a book of his Hawaiian prints, The Spirit of Hawaii, Before and After Pearl Harbor.

MacLeod is best known for his Hawaiian landscapes (such as Fishpond, Kahaluu) and sympathetic representations of rural Hawaii's native population (such as Surfing Waikiki).