Victor Bruno Contini was an Italian born artist who immigrated to Cleveland where he lived in Little Italy and was offered a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art, but was drafted before he could attend. The gift of over 40 works includes student work and scenes from his service in Texas and the Pacific theater. He was killed in the battle of Saipan in 1944.
Framed watercolor painting of Watch Tower, Hilo, Hawaii showing an elevated square crude building with stairs viewed from a low perspective. A figure with binoculars is perched in an open window of the tower.