Pink Panther is an artwork by Katherine Bernhardt. She began painting the Pink Panther after arriving at the Pink Palace Hotel (also known as the Royal Hawai’ian Hotel), located on a sandy beach in Waikiki, Oahu, not far from an eighteen foot high bronze sculpture of King Kamehameha I, the greatest Hawaiian warrior leader. The sculpture is usually decorated with tons of giant lei, created from eight species of bright pink orchids. The pink journey continued after checking into the hotel, which was furnished with pink bath towels, pink sheets, pink eye masks for sleeping, pink carpets, pink beach chairs, pink beach towels, pink stationery, pink sunsets, pink pancakes for breakfast, and the Pink Panther on the television screens. After Bernhardt had repeatedly watched videos of the Panther – lying on a huge pink bed and during a walk around the hotel grounds, her son, Khalifa, continued to watch pink panther videos from a cell phone – she decided that the Panther could look great on large-format canvas and large-format lithographs.