１９９７年に "Keoni of Hawaii: Aloha Shirt Designs 1938-1951" と題して the Graphic Arts Gallery of the Honolulu Academy of Arts にて彼のvintage hawaiian shirt が展示された。
John Meigs, Keoni, Eugene macmillan これらの名前はいろいろな雑誌で紹介されているがすべて同一人物である。英語の勉強もかねて、辞書片手に以下の説明も読んでもらいたい。複雑な彼の歴史が読みとれる。
John Liggett Meigs (aka John Eugene MacMillan) was born May 10, 1916 to John Liggett Meigs, Sr. and Margaret Mary Cookly at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, Il. He died August 29, 2003 in Ruidoso, NM near his home in San Patricio, NM. John Meigs was an artist, interior designer, art collector, photographer and writer. He was noted for his Hawaiian shirt creations, "Keoni designs", his work with renowned artist Peter Hurd and Hurd's wife, Henriette Wyeth, his design of seven renowned New Mexico restaurants, including Mesilla's Double Eagle, Tinnie's Silver Dollar, Albuquerque's Maria Theresa, and his association with artisans of his time, including Paul Horgan, Georgia O'Keefe, Witter Bynner, Helen Hays and many others. When John was six months old, his father and nurse kidnapped him from his mother. He was raised as John Eugene MacMillan, and lived throughout the United States. When John wished to enlist in the US Navy in WWII, requiring a birth certificate, he was told the true story of his birth mother. Works by John prior to WWII are signed "John MacMillan."
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